UPDATE: Monckton is being deported from Qatar. Such a show of tolerance from the “tolerant left” who do these sorts of stunts all the time (sometimes illegally). Monckton has been ‘de-badged’, meaning he no longer has a visa to stay in Qatar and had 24 hours to leave the country.
UPDATE2: Monckton says “I was very bad” see below. We now have video. There doesn’t seem to be any “booing” after his statement as asserted by the press reports, and his statement was more than a sentence as reported.
UPDATE3: Monckton gives his account here
An excerpt from an E &E Newswire story
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After the news conference, and as diplomats gathered for the climate conference president’s assessment of how close countries are to agreement, Monckton quietly slipped into the seat reserved for the delegation of Myanmar and clicked the button to speak.
“In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming,” Monckton said as confused murmurs filled the hall and then turned into a chorus of boos.
The stunt infuriated negotiators and activists here who gather every year to address what they believe is one of the world’s top threats, the steady rise of man-made global warming.
As Monckton was escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his U.N. credentials, several people noted that just a few hours earlier a group of young activists had been thrown out of the convention center and deported. Their crime: unfurling an unauthorized banner calling for the Qatari hosts to lead the negotiations to a strong conclusion.
By late today, several activists attending the conference had posted calls to “deport Monckton” on their Twitter feeds
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Full story:
Inhofe, Monckton crash U.N. talks with gusto
Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2012/12/06/2
h/t Marc Morano
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Lord Monckton claims victory over climate change scare stories – Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthvideo/9728622/Lord-Monckton-claims-victory-over-climate-change-scare-stories.html
Excerpt:
Earlier in the week he appeared in a video promoted by US lobby group the Committee on a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) riding a camel to promote a “different perspective” of the talks.
The two-week meeting, due to end on Friday is deadlocked on modest goals such as aid and an extension of an existing UN-led plan to combat climate change into 2013.
The European Union, Australia, Ukraine, Norway, Switzerland are the main backers of Kyoto who are willing to extend legally binding cuts in emissions beyond 2012 until 2020.
But they account for less than 15 per cent of world emissions.
Russia, Japan and Canada have pulled out, saying it makes no sense to continue when big emerging nations led by China and India have no binding goals.
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[Monckton] has been banned for life from UN climate talks.
Speaking afterwards, he said he was acting on the “spur of the moment”.
“I don’t think it was my turn to talk, but the opportunity presented itself and I took it,” he said.
“I was very bad – I pressed the button and made a short statement.”
“I know it was bad of me, but I got some brief points across which the delegates probably didn’t expect.
“They have now taken my badge, but it’s not the end of the world.”
VIDEO:
reality is as reality does
I decided to watch the Jesse Ventura’s show on global warming from 2009 last night. It was very entertaining and followed the money to some of the power brokers behind carbon trading . Lord Monckton was interviewed to explain what is going on. I like him. He is good at grabbing people’s attention.
The boos from the delegates were SO loud, weren’t they? I could hardly hear a word that Monckton said!
From the video, it doesn’t look like Monckton was ‘booed’ like the warmist biased websites have asserted.
The debate was ended in Nazi Germany also.
If would have just worn one of those idiotic Guy Fawkes masks he probably would have been cheered, cause you know, they are so cool and hip.
Monkton was extremely respectful in tone and content, yet pointed in his comment. The removal and exclusion shows how the ecototalitarian yearly grand mass has no room for dissent, or democratic speech.
This > “[Monckton] has been banned for life from UN climate talks” is the most telling of their agenda.
Monckton was on Sydney 2GB Radio with Andrew Bolt and Steve Price
here’s the interview
http://www.2gb.com/audioplayer/6356
Hat tip to Monckton.
It starts at 7.10
Trust the BBC not to give Christopher Monckton’s intervention one mention. Not one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20639215
They really are a total and utter disgrace to truth in journalism – none more hardline than comrade Harribin.
You may have been naughty, Christopher, but you were eloquent while you were naughty.
john byatt says:
December 7, 2012 at 2:56 am
Richard, another problem I have with your answer is that it was only in june last year when Phil Jones declared that the warming since 1995 was now statistically significant,
WE cannot confuse people to going from significant to not significant in just twelve months, it is not something that i would find convincing and again it would make it hard to convince others.
You are correct that as of December 31, 2009 there was NO significant warming for 15 years and as of December 31, 2010, there WAS significant warming for 16 years. That is because 2010 was a very hot year. But here is what happened on Hadcrut3 and 4 this year:
With the Hadcrut3 anomaly for October at 0.486, the average for the first ten months of the year is (0.217 + 0.193 + 0.305 + 0.481 + 0.475 + 0.477 + 0.448 + 0.512+ 0.515 + 0.486)/10 = 0.411. This would rank 9th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.548. The highest ever monthly anomaly was in February of 1998 when it reached 0.756. One has to back to the 1940s to find the previous time that a Hadcrut3 record was not beaten in 10 years or less.
With the Hadcrut4 anomaly for October at 0.518, the average for the first ten months of the year is (0.288 + 0.209 + 0.339 + 0.526 + 0.531 + 0.501 + 0.469 + 0.529 + 0.516 + 0.518)/10 = 0.443. This would rank 9th if it stayed this way. 2010 was the warmest at 0.54. The highest ever monthly anomaly was in January of 2007 when it reached 0.818. The 2011 anomaly at 0.399 puts 2011 in 12th place and the 2008 anomaly of 0.383 puts 2008 in 14th place.
Furthermore, for 2011, Hadcrut3 will come in 13th and 2011 will come in 12th on Hadcrut4. So at the present time, the warming is NOT significant on either set for the last 18 years since January, 1995. For the proof, see below.
Go to http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php
Then punch in 1995 for a start and 2013 for end date.
Then Hadcrut4 gives 0.097 +/- 0.113.
Hadcrut3 gives 0.073 +/- 0.123.
In both cases, the error bar is larger than the initial slope meaning Phil Jones would say there was NO statistical warming for 18 years if he were asked today.
Phil M on December 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
“It was a forum for the grown ups.”
It was certainly not a forum for children, for it took one to exclaim, ” … and the Emperor has no clothes”!
It was a stupid stunt. It was a stunt, and it was stupid.
vukcevic says:
December 7, 2012 at 6:15 am…
I think you are mistaken, as I said once before AlGorithms are what warmists feed raw data into to produce an “inconvenient truth”.
I have to disagree, Anthony. I DO hear booing starting at 0:48. The Audio is cut off from 0:49 until 0:57, but I think the booing can, briefly, be heard.
“Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety.” V Havel
Monkton has commited the ultimate sin – he’s humiliated the UN simply by speaking the truth. The shame is all theirs.
As an aside, who wants to bet this 16 year non-warming trend will be disappeared as soon as is possible? This non-warming is horribly inconvenient for alarmists.
I’m embarrassed to be an Australian with newspaper articles like this in one of our major newspapers.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/six-degrees-of-devastation-20121207-2b1d5.html
It will not be long before the UK public starts to question why they should support any global initiatives that cost the UK taxpayer. The Met Office reports that global warming would improve UK agricultural yields, however recent years have not delivered. The reason is easy to see on the Met Office website for Central England temperatures. ( http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/index.html ) . Lord Monckton just needs to show this on a slide a few times and get it into the Daily Mail and the Sun…. The problem the UK faces appears more drastic on the trend than just no warming. I have seen no official spin on this trend at all yet, so not sure what they will say.
If you’re the one claiming science is overwhelmingly on your side while forcibly shutting someone up for pointing out tthat their has been no warming in the last 16 years, it’s not the guy you shut up that has the credibility problem.
I am Lord Moncktacus!
There were most certainly some groans when his statement was finished. I would be curious to hear a clip where the audio doesn’t mysteriously shut off.
Thanks for the video link. Perhaps the booing happened after the video cut stopped but I doubt it. Everyone seemed most (PC) respectful so no reaction was really shown other than the presider’s confusion because Lord M. was is someone else’s chair.
I saw this yesterday on Drudge. I did notice in related articles a slight acknowledgment of the ‘not warming’ trend by calling it a ‘pause’.
So we’re all still gonna die, just delayed a bit (/s).