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:
[My] guess is that Lord Monckton had accomplished pretty much all he intended to at Doha and decided to go out in a blaze of glory. At least this was pure civil disobedience with damage only to bureaucratic egos, not painting powerplant smokestacks.
Revolution! Truth to Power!
Does anybody make a Che Monckton tshirt?
Whatever he said and did was probably the only watchable and rational thing said or done at Doha. The whole thing and the awful little eco creeps who seem to thrive at these things are just the most almighty yawn as far as I am concerned.
Phil M says:
December 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
“Fantastic news that he was thrown out and booed. It was a forum for the grown up … There is a place for nutters pushing private agendas, just not in science.”
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Which science is that, Phil?
Gamecock @ur momisugly December 6, 2012 at 12:15 pm.
Look, I love cherries too. I used to love going down the up escalator when I was a kid too. Sensible people don’t buy into Monkton argument. It hasnt warmed in 16 years? OMG, you mean its got that high and stayed there? Yikes!
Robert Clemenzi says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Standards of civil behavior?
Do you accept the UN’s attempt at perpetrating their taxation and control over the earth’s population (which has already caused the deaths of untold millions) as “civil behavior”?
Do you think activism has no impact (now that a great many “Warmistas” have heard about the 16-year pause in temperature rise for the first time because of Monckton’s uninvited announcement)?
And do you really believe anybody attending COP18 would read ANYTHING written by Monckton?
Those people don’t care about the science; they only care about tax and control and having big parties at their government’s expense.
Time the clowns attending COP18 got a dose of reality–otherwise it simply continues to be one big repetitive circus–at our expense and to our demise.
Pussy Riot upsets one overbearing establishment by protesting in the heart of their Church, Monckton upsets another by protesting in the heart of theirs. Good for him!
(Er, I’m not sure he would approve of this analogy.)
Robert Clemenzi said:
December 6, 2012 at 12:11 pm
What a jerk. There are standards of civil behavior.
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Civil disobedience IS a standard of civil behavior.
Maybe we should adopt the tactics of the left and occupy COP18. Well maybe not; the UN and their attack squads would not be as gentle as the US police were with our “occupiers”.
Phil M,
The temperature is “high” only because you are cherry-picking by measuring the recovery from the Little Ice Age — one of the coldest episodes of the entire 10,000 year Holocene. But the planet has been quite a bit warmer over the past 10,000 years, when CO2 levels were very low. How does that fit into your “carbon” belief system?
Lord Monckton is right. Global warming stopped in the 1990’s. That pretty much destroys your alarmist narrative, doesn’t it? The truth is your enemy, and it is the enemy of the Doha cult.
Were WUWT to need a more in-your-face icon, one of Colonel Nathan Jessup (A Few Good Men), red faced with spittle flying, while shouting “You can’t handle the truth!” would be spot on, not least for suggesting the skeptics posting here are of the Few Good Men.
I fear we have lost sight of the fact that this is “CoP”, which means ‘Conference of Parties’.
They gather each year to party, on someone else’s dime.
We just CAN’T have anyone messing up the party with triffles, like actual “facts”, now, can we?
Mark H.
Well done to Christopher Monckton! I salute you, sir!
Of course the good Viscount was fully-aware he’d get thrown out of the meeting – and I rather suspect that that was indeed the entire point. What better way to illustrate, with absolute clarity, how closed-minded and intolerant the ‘Conference of the Parties’ (CoP) actually is? Do they want to hear some awkward climate truth? No thanks! Just eject him from the building, preferably under armed guard. You honestly couldn’t make it up.
@ur momisugly climatetruthinitiative
You bring up an interesting analogy with transubstantiation which like CAGW is not falsifiable. The blood and wine is supposedly changed but the change is not detectable through the senses. CAGW has the similar issue of not being observable.
Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
Why wasn’t the delegation from Myanmar in its seat to hear the president’s assessment?
I think we should be told.
Once again, I think the entire sceptic universe must feel like reverse Cassandra’s when talking to warmists….we can say that the world is not going to end and repeat it over and over again complete with proof, and yet we are not believed. It does not matter how many times we point out how the warming slowed down and stopped recently and how that is impossible in the warmist land where CO2 drives everything…But in any event, for daring to speak the truth expect Monckton to be ostracized and insulted.
Ironically, I did meet a warmist who thought of himself as like Cassandra….
Bravo Lord Monckton!
The Emperor has no clothes!
Phil M:
In your post at December 6, 2012 at 12:33 pm you say
Yes, it “stayed there” while atmospheric CO2 concentration continued its exponential rise.
And the “committed warming” the IPCC predicted (n.b. predicted, not projected) as a result of greenhouse gases already in the system has not happened. That “committed warming” was predicted to 0.2deg.C per decade (+/-20%) averaged over the two decades from year 2000.
If you were to remove your head from out of your nether regions then even you would be able to see what that says about the AGW-hypothesis.
Richard
And he was so well-dressed for the occasion too.
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/caption-competition-monckton-at-the-doh-ha-climate-circus/
Phil M: “…not in science”
What on earth do YOU think science is? Science I learned about was an opportunity to listen to alternative explanations and opinions as to what is going on. To propose ideas, theories, and to make progress in knowledge. I was taught that progress via the scientific method depends upon the proposal of falsifiable theories. That is to say the only way of ensuring you are not going to be stuck down a dead-end blind alley is to hold to theories lightly, to embrace the idea that every theory may be found to be false, with new data, or updated analysis.
Given that it only takes one contrary observation to place a theory in doubt, and a second independent observation to start nailing the lid on the coffin, every scientist worth the name must retain extreme humility to all who have differing opinions or experience.
Imagine if you work in science and you miss that all important paper or article presenting evidence that disproves your theory, or you accidentally kick out the “nutter” who disagrees with you out from your back slapping conference. The cost of missing it will be devoting your life to a lost cause.
This mistake has been made so many times it is not funny, even the greats are not immune to shooting themselves in the foot. Lord Kelvin used his prominent position in the Royal Society to slam down the notion that the Sun had any connection to the Earth, and in doing so hindered progress by 40 years. This began to be resolved when Maunder had to fight expected boos from his audience to present 20 years worth of carefully collated data. Sound familiar?
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/4/mistakes-were-made
In conclusion, Phil M, I have had my views challenged and radically overturned at least 3 times in my life, when confronted with evidence, why should you expect immunity from challenge by blindly following the consensus view. History shows that the consensus is overturned every hundred years or so, what are the chances of you actually being right?
From my own experience I can tell you that more than 95% of what you believe to be scientifically true is actually bunkum, there are more blind alleys out there than you can imagine. It is only a matter of time before the actual truth will prevai. What Monckton said was true and nothing you can say will change that. Perhaps learn to handle challenges to your entrenched position with little bit more grace.
Bloody awesome – THANKYOU Lord Monckton! I distinctly remember a little interchange between L.M and radio broadcaster Alan Jones over here in Sydney some years ago:
A.J: You have to keep a sense of humour in all of this don’t you.
L.M: Yes, well, I’m having a blast Alan because the other side hasn’t got one.
Indeed!
He should have announced that the usual oil for food vouchers (or whatever we call the personal UN bribes these days, carbon credits perhaps) would not be slipped under their doors, owing to the lack of warming. That would have induced mass hysteria.
This was expected. But in the final analysis it won’t matter. I have long been a contrarian, stating without equivocation that the Sun is responsible for global warming since 1980. The global warming regime will come to an end, according to my astrometeorological calculations, in 2017 and usher in a new, and very threatening climate change – Global Cooling.
Doha 2012 is all about one thing and one thing only – MONEY.
Even the United Nations former climate leader, Yvo de Boer, said that it was “completely unrealistic” for developing nations to ask and receive $60 billion in funding for ‘global warming climate adaptation.’ which is bogus from start to finish.
De Boer, who was the leader the UN’s climate negotiations (2006-2010) recently told the Guardian newspaper about the $60 billion, – “It’s not going to happen, with developed countries in the financial state they’re in. We need to be realistic.”
Money is the essential matter issue at Doha, scheduled to end on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. The main problem is that the developing nations disagree over how to cut greenhouse gas emissions to meet the bogus “scientific warnings” of the threat of global warming. The poorer nations want major industrialized countries to agree to give them $60 billion at Doha, saying that it’s “interim” financing.
They claim that they need the $60 billion because the poor nations have already pledged about $30 billion of what’s called “fast-start money” by year’s end. They add that they have also agreed to guarantee flows of $100 billion a year by 2020 despite the fact that there is zilch agreement (or logic for that matter) on just how to reach that $100 billion.
Here’s what I say: It’s all a LIE. You see, despite all the high and mighty talk of throwing around tens of billions to poorer nations to cap their carbon emissions; asking these billions from industrialized nations – in a major global economic crisis – is NOT going to happen.
Doha will turn out to be a bust – promises made – but none kept.
Sure, there will be promises, promises, but it’s all a load of crap anyhow. Just like ‘man-made global warming.’ A total lie that has been and remains a global ponzi scheme from start to finish.
Here’s the truth for those who are interested:
Climate science has been restricted to just a few schools of thought: – 1) climate statistical trends 2) atmospheric circulation (short-range/near-term meteorology) and 3) global thermal energy distribution.
Most people don’t know that the study of climate change impact on world populations began only relatively recently between historians, social scientists and climatologists.
For instance, classical climatology was mainly concerned with the mere achieving of climate evidence. It really was not until 1968 when questions were seriously taken into account to define climate casual relationships.
Yet, nearly 45 years later, climatologists are no nearer to provide even seasonal forecasting; so the debate on what causes ‘global warming’ has been relegated to a ideological economic/political cadre that has poisoned climate science with their madness.
As a astrometeorologist I know that astronomic forces are the causes of all climate activity, change and weather on Earth. I forecasted numerous storms by astronomic climate and weather methodology, among them, the 2009-2011 ENSO with both El Nino and La Nina; the Fukushima earthquake; the 2012 Drought and the full moon superstorm Sandy to name just a few.
I have also forecasted the coming arrival of a new climate regime – global cooling – which is much WORSE than global warming could ever be.
One of the baffling things to me is how those who attempt to forecast and explain the mechanisms that force our world’s climate can blatantly discount the Sun and planets – all which live in space – including our Earth.
Anyhow, what really has happened is that a only finite number of people are truly involved in honest climate research.
The great remaining majority – including those attending Doha – are ideological careerists and ‘activists’ who do not and cannot forecast the weather, much less the longer-range climate.
The U.S., the major leading scientific nation on our planet, still has but limited capability to accurately predict climate change conditions in advance – this, despite huge amounts of money that has been given to careerists and consumed over the last 20-30 years by outlandish ideologues who are unable to forecast even seasonal climate, much less the climate of the next 30 years.
Anthony Watts and many members here have been sounding the alarm over the AGW bullshit.
We know that those AGW careerists and the political hacks in governments are in it only for ego – and most of all – the free money. They have bought into the lie of man-made climate change: which simply CANNOT occur on Earth because of the laws of physics say so.
That means anthropogenic global warming is an impossibility.
But don’t let the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics stop the liars, cheats and AGW whores who have wasted resources and very valuable years spent on multi-million dollar super-computers and that model climate fantasies but cannot accurate forecast next month’s weather while the AGW careerist ideologues fly around the world to exotic and expensive locations getting fat off the general public’s hard-earned money spouting the lie of anthropogenic global warming.
Those scientists who bought, hook, line and sinker in denying the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics while being complicit in propagating to the general public, governments, students and schoolchildren the outright lie of anthropogenic global warming are criminals. These are crimes worth punishing with outright dismissal and investigations into stealing money and falsifying scientific data for personal and professional gain.
The AGW propaganda within your precious scientific community has caused a serious loss of credibility to climate science.
Now, much of the public, thanks to those here on WUWT seriously have begin to question ‘man-made global warming.’ Of course Climategate 1 and Climategate 2 didn’t hurt opening up those dark dank AGW basement doors to more sunshine either.
Scientists who have been engaged in personal/professional warfare in order to discredit those who do not fall into their AGW ideological-propaganda line are not to be trusted. What they are practicing is not Science.
Any no amount of ‘credentials’ or journal ‘peer-reviewed’ ideological papers posing as ‘science’ will alter the laws of physics that govern our world.
I will now tell you what will happen next and it is the truth according to my astrometeorological analysis of the climate years and decades to come. Please bear with me:
As we approach the end of the 36-year (1980-2016) solar-caused phase of global warming (which was a good thing) we are nearing the beginning of a new climate regime – Global Cooling (a bad thing.)
All the attention trying to make global warming a bad thing was nothing but a lie.
Global warming has always been good for the Earth but global cooling never has been. The demise of many former empires have come about, not from invading armies but from climate change to global cooling. That is the truth.
Under global cooling, which I have forecasted to begin at the end of this decade, last through the 2020s and peak in the 2030s; we will see the arrival of a new kind of neo-boreal age, that’s a ‘ice age.”
The worst of this era is a span of 36-years in length more or less (2017-2053) and means cooler temperatures, less retained sunlight because of reflection of radiated sunlight to Earth’s ice/snow covered surface back out into space; cold, wet blasting storms, also, extending drought with major crop losses, flooding, famine and ill public health leading to rising mortality rates.
It is not a pretty picture, global cooling.
The social, political and geopolitical impacts of solar-forced climate change is real, but the lies of ‘man-made climate change’ has wasted many years and resources to ideological bullshit rather than toward significant infrastructure buildup and preparation for global cooling.
This preparation is cost-effective. Even if I were wrong (and I am 110% certain that I am right) but even if global cooling did not arrive, the adjustments would be cost-effective because it is a far easier thing to deal with the shift to global cooling infrastructure than it is to believe in ‘global warming forever’ by gambling on the lie of AGW and then have a global cooling regime strike.
It will be the precious AGW conventional scientific community and their ideological AGW cadres and activists who are to blame, but something tells me that they will not say they are sorry but will stick their heads into the sand and pretend (just as they continue to do with the laws of physics now) that global cooling doesn’t exist.
But here’s the thing, the cold and wetter climate of global cooling will bite their AGW asses so hard, so blue and blue, that they will have no problem whatsoever in the years and decades to come in burning as much carbon sources as they possibly can to stay warm. Those poorer nations now trying to get their $60 billion at Doha will be screwed too. And you can’t eat money.
They will come to see, experience and know – that in the final analysis – when the very dangerous climate change to global cooling makes our global atmosphere wetter and colder and when they are hungry, getting sick and shivering from the biting cold – that the very last thing on their minds will be saving the world from anthropogenic global warming.
Here’s what they will do:
They will light up those precious carbon-emitting coals of their as quickly as they can, so that they are able to cook up their small meals, heat up their water and coffee to keep their behinds warm. They will not have any trouble whatsoever in burning as much carbon sources as possible, because they will know – and certainly feel – that it is essential to their very survival.
And they will pray – and pray very hard – for the return of global warming.
-Theodore White, astrometeorologist.Sci
Am I alone in my surprise at the level of obtuseness reached by Mike and Phil M?
Why did he pick Myanmar? As far as I know, they are not threatened by any imminent AGW-induced climate disaster. Was there no empty seat in the Maldives delegation section? Before they threw him out he also could have said:
“In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no acceleration in sea-level rise and nobody is at risk of becoming submerged anytime in the foreseeable future”.
See here.
So of course before I posted this and made a fool of myself I decided to Google “Myanmar global warming threat” and got tons of hits — “About 5,810,000 results (0.21 seconds) “. See here .
Has anyone calculated the carbon footprint to run all those Google data centers storing petabytes of Web information on “global warming threat” from human CO2 emissions? Is this like a positive feedback loop?