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:
Phil says:
‘Fantastic news that he was thrown out and booed. It was a forum for the grown ups. Not for right wing lobbyists protecting funding for conservatives. No doubt the anti vaccers also get outraged at their chosen one getting booted out of science forums…’
I must respectfully request that you, Phil, provide your definition of ‘grown up’ to me. I’ve not yet acquired your wisdom. From your own writing, however, even someone as uninformed as myself must assume that a ‘grown up’ is certainly not a ‘right wing lobbyist protecting funding for conservatives.’ Is a ‘grown up’ then a left wing lobbyist protecting funding for liberals? Please inform me. Clearly you have learned that a political belief is the standard by which we must judge maturity. And, obviously, that political belief must be one that mirrors your own. Because you must be a grown up.
Am I getting close? Just a teensy weensy little bit? It’s hard work for me to be grown up like you. But I’m trying. Honest. Really I am.
Since “global warming” activists use extortion (e.g. lawsuits) and coercion (i.e. authority) to effect redistributive change (i.e. consolidation of wealth in the hands of a minority, who then selectively redistribute and grant favor), then disrupting their “official” gatherings is both justified and necessary.
Lance says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Heartland conducts conferences and invites ‘alarmists’, and unfortunately, most don’t accept, but i believe 1 or 2 have come, and they were treated with respect for their view.
Go to the UN and speak against it and you are tossed out….
Yes indeed, the UN stands for what?
>Utter Nuts?
Vince Causey says:
December 6, 2012 at 1:22 pm
You’d think everyone would be cheering at that news, wouldn’t you? Cheers of delight, tears of relief – “thank the lord (thank the gaia), we’re all going to live!”
What’s not to like? These guys are seriously weird. Anyone would think they actually enjoy the idea of thermageddon.
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The Inquisitor: What do you mean this woman cannot be a witch? Burn her anyway.
“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.” Havel
Lolz.
Phil M says:
December 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
There is a place for nutters pushing private agendas, just not in science.
So being a sciency sort of guy, you’ll have no problem explaining what was factually incorrect about Lord M’s statement:
“In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming,”
“It was a forum for the grown ups”
Gees, good thing that one turned up then.
Even if he did only get to say one sentence.
Another classic.
Dedicated to the rebel who outs “The Cause”…….
Thank you Lord Christopher Monckton.
The Christopher Monckton’s absolutely legitimate act of information/protest would have been even more efficient, if he had been naked. He was not naked, was he? OK, maybe next time.
Phil M:
You might care to peruse this graph and data set, which is from HADCRUT itself: that is to say it represents the data amassed by the believers in AGW for the official record. It demonstrates clearly that any warming in the last 16 years is neglibible and what little there was, flattened out early.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1997.25/trend/plot/rss/from:1997.0/trend/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1997.1/trend/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1997.25/plot/rss/from:1997.0/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1997.1
The science is on record, and the good Lord Monckton is quite correct
Phil M says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:33 pm
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!
I can not understand how someone who purports to accept a hypothesis, fails to also accept the falsification benchmarks set by the very same people who advanced the hypothesis. Are you really that ignorant of the actually theory of AGW and the expressed expectations of the theorists? Various AGW theorists including, I believe, Kevin Trenberth, have explicitly set spans of 10 to 15 years without evidence of warming as evidence of serious problems with the hypothesized mechanics of the idea. There has been no warming in 16 years and cooling for about 12 years.
Trends are fairly meaningless lines to begin with, since they are particularly sensitive to the beginning and end points of the time series specified by who ever draws the trend line. Geologically the longest term trends are all cooling trends: Phanerozoic to present, Mesozoic to present, Miocene to present, early Pleistocene to present, early Holocene to present. Are these hundred-million year, million year and 10,000 year scale trends less important than a single 60 year span during which warming occurred for about 20 years merely because that period occurred within our lifetimes? What is it that makes a trend important?
” Mike says:December 6, 2012 at 11:29 am
What an unbelievable ass. ”
I know. Can you believe the gall of the organizer called security to kick him out? What an ass is correct. I mean it is a valid question and the organizer doesn’t like it so he wets his pants like a school boy in a dark alley.
Way To Go Lord M. This is even better than parachuting in!
Gail Combs says:
December 6, 2012 at 1:14 pm
vasper85 says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:01 pm
What are you guys going on about? You’ve already won. There will be no decisive action on climate change for at least another generation. The politicians have been paralyzed. Mission accomplished.
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Don’t Bet On It. A carbon tax is a really big juicy plum that has the World Bank and the UN salivating. It is also a plum national governments hurting from the economic crises are also eying. It took decades, starting in 1972, to set-up the scam. They are not going to give up without a really nasty fight.
The politicians aren’t paralyzed, there’s no such thing. Anyway the EU will go it alone. Which is more or less like milking out the little that’s still left.
I scrolled back up to read Theo White’s long contribution (which unfortunately double posted) but both have mysteriously vanished!
[Reply: Double posted, they were both removed. One is re-posted now. — mod.]
From Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7 on December 6, 2012 at 1:00 pm:
Why did he pick Myanmar?
Theirs was the easiest delegation to get out of the room. Outside they set up a table with chairs and a placard identifying it as for the Burmese delegation. So the reps of the Myanmar government took it over.
Lars Bern says:
December 6, 2012 at 1:46 pm
“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.” Havel
Great quote Lars. We have much to learn from the velvet revolution.
Ridicule is a potent weapon which sheds no blood.
It will be interesting to compare how many sentences AR5 will end up being compared to Lord Monckton’s one.
NOT Phil M
CAGW stated out a a legitimate scientific theory, just like Phlogiston or Lysenko genetics. It has been proven wrong, just as those scintific propositions were, but it now is a religious dogma by the left so it cannot be discarded, while they are in search of religious meaning to their empty lives.
MLCross says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Revolution! Truth to Power!
Does anybody make a Che Monckton tshirt?
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Do not disrespect Monckton by either connecting to or associating him with a murderous thug.
Jolly well done Lord Monckton! Three cheers for his Lordship! Long Live Lord Monckton!
Fortunately he only got thrown out. With a roomful of Neanderthal-Level Nincompoops around him, he was surely risking even greater personal danger, I am sure.
Moncton had more of an audience at Doha than Pachuri.
it must have been the ‘voodoo’ techniques he used to grab the mike
Monckton violated the first commandment of the left: Thou shalt not speak the truth!
Greg House says: December 6, 2012 at 2:00 pm
The Christopher Monckton’s absolutely legitimate act of information/protest would have been even more efficient, if he had been naked. He was not naked, was he? ….
Might have been.
That’s what the alleged “Mike” meant when he said “What an unbelievable ass.“
“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Geroge Orwell