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:
Jeff in Calgary says:
December 6, 2012 at 11:34 am
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We do here in the UK. Our government who cannot get agrips with bringing down the structural deficit have just pledged to give £2 billion to tackle climate change in Africa!
Mike says: December 6, 2012 at 11:29 am
Phil M says: December 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
vasper85 says: December 6, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Others I may have missed or are just lurking,
Lord Monckton speaks for me. I don’t know him from Adam’s off ox but I thank God that there are men like him willing to take on the big CAGW monster and act. It isn’t about science anymore, if it ever was, it’s about a global mob bastardizing science to achieve a political and social end.
For some reason your reactions to this news brought to mind the following essay that I’m inclind to share in part because to me it defines you:
The psychologist Carl Jung in his examination of the rise of violent fascism in Germany as well as the collectivist surveillance state in communist Russia theorized that there is in fact a certain percentage of people in any given epoch that carry within them a latent ability to abandon conscience. That is to say, there is always hidden within a portion of the multitude an inborn potential for sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies. These tendencies remain dormant for many under most circumstances, but every once in a while a society falters to the point where such diseases of the soul are encouraged, and the monsters in millions are allowed to come out and play.
Is it possible that some men are more apt towards truth and freedom while others take more naturally to dominance and deceit? Perhaps. I find that under certain circumstances even the best human beings can make catastrophic errors in judgment. However, there is a difference between those who misstep in life, and those who savor destruction. For these people I reserve the label of the “statist thug”; a ghoul in common man’s drag just waiting for the opportunity to scrape out a spoonful of petty authority and assert his will over others. These folks are the day’s damned. And what’s worse; though they may have been born with a predisposition towards despotism, they still had a choice, and they chose villainy. They deserve no special treatment and no quarter from us.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1171-statist-thugs-and-the-rocks-they-crawl-out-from-under
Yes. In this politically correct and progressively socialist world, a declaration of verifiable fact is cause for mob furor and forceful ejection from any forum they control. As the brown shirts drag the offender of settled dogma from the scene, the block watchers like Mike and Phil M cheer their overt censorship of the reality.
“You wascally Wiscount, you! Heh, heh, heh.” (Best Elmer Fudd voice.)
Read this when it was first posted. [Big Grin]
Came back to catch up on comments. [Still Grinning]
Will check back in again later. [See ,no reason to stop Grinning]
DavidLHagen tweeted: #cop18 16 yrs NO warming; ALL 10 yr projects too high; 0.2C/decade IPCC mean higher than 97% of 32 year trends = systematically biased high!
Evidence: Lucia Liljegren shows ALL the climate models predicted warming trends higher than the actual 16 year flat global warming temperature. See: Trends Relative to Models: (Ending September 2012) at The Blackboard. See Graph
The IPCC mean of 0.2C/decade is ~ 97% higher (2 sigma above mean) the actual 32 year global temperature trend. See: How are Models Tracking: GISTemp
This evidence indicates a systematic bias hot – i.e., indicating missing physics and models tuned to sensitive to CO2.
Well done m’lord!
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell:
Glaxx Zontar says:
December 6, 2012 at 1:23 pm
He is lucky to not be charged with a crime of intentionally disrupting a religeous service or worse.
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Haha, true, fortunately the AGW pussies didn’t actually riot.
Turning the air-conditioning up beforehand would have put him over the top.
All right Chris, we’re not going to let you hang around with that Jim Hansen boy any more if your going to keep acting like him; getting thrown out is bad enough, but don’t you dare get arrested. If you don’t straighten up people are going to think you work for NASA.
Let’s not forget that those boos cost each and everyone of us a lot of money. Freebie alarmists venting their wrath at anyone who states the facts is to be expected, but why do we have to pay for it?
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
December 6, 2012 at 2:10 pm
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That shouldn’t be allowed. Why am I still laughing?
I have an idea for Christopher: he should buy a hockey stick and burn it.
Sorry, I meant “buy”.
@chris B December 6, 2012 at 12:01 pm
My choice of the Roman Catholic church was based on the fact that they have the biggest (or best covered by news media) conferences and I chose trans-substantiation because it is a debatable bit of dogma that is well known even by non-Catholics. If other religions had such well-known beliefs I might well have chosen one of them instead. The fact remains, nevertheless, that AGW has so many earmarks of being a religion, and they do have the practice of large and regular gatherings.
IanM
Phil M says:
December 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
“There is a place for nutters pushing private agendas”
Let me see… Copenhagen, Cacun….This year it was Doha, wonder where it will be next year.
At last, its becoming respectable to be British again, and to stand up for what you believe in.
well done “M”
Didn’t an activist stand up within the past week at an interview of an Obama administration official and demand that more be done regarding climate change–and get her to make some concession? This isn’t worse than that.
(I think there was a story about it on Bloomberg–or maybe it was here.)
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Monckton should maybe have worn a chicken Little suit under his arab robe, unzipped his robe, put on a chicken head, and squawked, “The seas are rising, the seas are rising, puck, puck. (Don’t mind me, I’m crazy.)” The photo of him being escorted out in his chicken suit would have been printed worldwide.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
@ur momisugly vasper85
The objective is not to “kill action”. The main objective is to rescue the truth. The false paradigm must be destroyed. Also if you think we’ve only “killed action” for a generation you misunderstand the situation. Hopefully we’ve “killed action” forever. The more time passes the more obvious an dramatic the failure of the predictions of the models is going to become. After a whole generation has passed no amount of adjustment of data is going to be enough to start the scam up again.
Ian H says ”
After a whole generation has passed no amount of adjustment of data is going to be enough to start the scam up again.”
Part of the reason for the leveling off of the temperature is because they ran of thing to adjust.
They keep trying though, but now, too many people are watching. 🙂
Those guys should not have picked a fight with Christopher, I am telling you! I look forward to the next conference, and then I would like to have a video, too.
We have a winner in the Monckton of Arabia caption competition
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/caption-competition-monckton-at-the-doh-ha-climate-circus/
The quickest way to make someone angry is to be right.
Well done my Lord. I would like to buy you a pint.
That reminds me of a suggestion I’ve made here before:
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I have an idea for a powerful and aggressive visual image: a pair of upraised hands decisively snapping a hockey stick (with its blade upturned at the right). It is based on the well-known (to warmists) logo of the War Resisters League, in which the hands are snapping a rifle.
It’s a clear, clever “grabber.” It’s a way for people on our side to identify themselves and give a Bronx cheer to the climate consensus. It would be a great conversation-starter.
I donate this idea free to WUWT and Josh, who could split the revenue. I think WUWT could sell a million of ‘em, metaphorically speaking. (It would work for lapel pins, coffee cups, book covers, web-site medallions, and T-shirts too.)
A preliminary but unsatisfactory-to-me version of this image, drawn at my request by S. Weasel, can be seen on my page on Photobucket at http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/RogerKni/Misc/87a659ba.png (I hope the MODS will post it here as an image—I don’t have posting privileges.)
It needs the following changes, which I hope Josh will make:
1. The legend around the perimeter should be larger and changed to “Gore Resisters’ League.” (This quip ought to irritate any warmists who see it.)
2. The hands should be redrawn so they don’t exactly copy the hands in the WRL’s logo.
3. The wrists should be shackled to each other, indicating our defiance despite our suppressed and marginalized status.
An alternative legend might be, “Get the puck outta here!”
Richdo says:
December 6, 2012 at 2:43 pm
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Brilliantly put, Richdo! You’ve totally nailed it.