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:
Here’s another idea for Josh:
A cartoon of a quack doctor’s office. Mr. Globe is standing by while a wacky, weird-beard Far Side doc squints at an oral thermometer under a magnifying glass that is (unbeknownst to him) focusing the rays from his head-mounted lamp onto the thermometer’s bulb, saying, “You have a fever.” On the shelf (or Mr. Globe’s head) is an ice pack with a price tag of $1 trillion.
tallbloke says, December 6, 2012 at 3:44 pm: “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/“
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My version: “Please, cuff me up, before I do something stupid!”
Thanks to Christopher Monckton there is voice for sanity out there. Thank The Lord!
Jolly farmer says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:57 pm
“Am I alone in my surprise at the level of obtuseness reached by Mike and Phil M?”
Not really. It is “de rigueur” for a troll or to to show up in any post by or about Christopher Monkton. They hate him intensely simply because of his intelligence, his orator skills and his devotion the service of CAGW skepticism. Is Monkton always right? No. But he is mostly right and he makes the equivalent force on the warmist side, namely Al Gore, look like he just fell off the turnip truck.
Bravo, Christopher Monkton.
Why does the climate skeptic community hold up Monckton as a hero ?
They should have let him chunter on at the conference because he is a reliable source of hyperbole, with the occasional barking nugget thrown in.
If he had said there had been a temperature standstill for about the last 10 years he would have sounded more credible, but he cannot help himself.
The Clerk of the Parliaments had to write to Monckton in July 2011 (again) to tell him to stop claiming he was a member of the House of Lords.
This is man who claimed in 2009 that
“They (all those concerned about climate change) are about to impose a communist world government on the world”
tallbloke says, December 6, 2012 at 3:44 pm: “We have a winner in the Monckton of Arabia caption competition”
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Another one: “Why did nobody tell me that Halloween is over???” (I know, it is too late)
This could actualy backfire a bit. Until now, no one in the entire world even knew that there was a climat summit in Doha. But this story is hitting the MSM, and people may take notice. Also, doesn’t really help his credibility.
Agreed. He didn’t accomplish anything except look rather immature. If you’re a skeptic, you add to the knowledge base of greenhouse gas and it’s effect on the global climate by presenting facts in an appropriate fashion. This does little to further the skeptics side of the argument.
James Abbott says:
December 6, 2012 at 4:25 pm
This is man who claimed in 2009 that
“They (all those concerned about climate change) are about to impose a communist world government on the world”
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Well, Monckton was right, and it’s happening here in the U.S.
What other form of government (other than communism) seeks to impose bans, taxes, and onerous regulations on the people, all because of a harmless trace gas?
In any case, tonight I’m brewing a cup of tea in honor of Lord Monckton…
Max Hugoson:
According to Australian so-called ‘climate scientists’, your post at December 6, 2012 at 1:07 pm is a death threat. I suggest that you ask the Moderators for its withdrawal.
Richard
Richard, what a wonderful observation. Particularily in that I choose that video, as it clearly illustrated a STUNT MAN, being immolated, who walks away “unscathed”. I thought that would be rather equivalent to what would happen to Lord M. when they try to burn him at the stake!
It was a wasted opportunity. He should sought a pledge from delegates not to use any fuel burning transport to get to the next DOHA. The next DOHA would have no delegates in attendance.
Frank K says (in response to Monckton’s comment that
“They (all those concerned about climate change) are about to impose a communist world government on the world”
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Well, Monckton was right, and it’s happening here in the U.S.
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Seriously ? The US Government is Communist ? Do you (or Monckton) actually know what a Communist Government looks like ?
Also, whats the harmless trace gas you are referring to ? Is it the same one (CO2) that keeps the planet from being in a permanent ice age ?
James Abbott,
You will begin to accumulate some credibility when you start to criticize James “Coal Trains of Death” Hansen for his shameless climate alarmism. Until then, you’re just a shill.
IMHO too much is being made of this 16 year period.
This approach relies heavily on the assumption there is not another spate of warming in the near future.
The real issue is how much mankind might be contributing to recent warming, and what may be the ongoing and future effects of mankind’s future contributions. (IMHO again, respectively, I think very minor, and the system seems to be remarkably self regulating….)
Chris B says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:01 pm
climatetruthinitiative says:
December 6, 2012 at 11:49 am
The Doha conference and all the previous conferences are like a conflab of a church. Roman Catholics would not be happy……..
I’m not aware that Roman Catholics are interested in a Global Taxation of CO2 emissions or any other inducement or imposition on non-members. Bad analogy based on bigotry.
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Not quite Chris B, Cardinal Pell the Australian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pell
has indicated that a tax on CO2 and carbon trading is tantamount to the “selling” of indulgences of the Catholic church in the past. Couldn’t call that bigotry!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
Hello D Böehm
No, I’m happy to criticise anyone who makes rediculous claims on both sides of the argument. Monckton happens to be one of the most extreme examples.
I commented on this site back in the summer that some of the date specific arctic ice retreat predictions made a few years ago were poor.
By the way, whats a shill ?
If I am one I better know what it is.
Furthermore (to my comment here): markx says: December 6, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Monckton was wasting his time informing theme of such a fact.
We know, he knows, and they know they are primarily there for the money they can wring out of this …. facts, science and discovery are not very high on the agenda.
James,
The Clerk of the Parliaments also wrote a report that listed all the House of Lords members with Monckton’s name clearly on that list, downloadable from the same parliamentary website that first sported the original complaint. It only took me 5 minutes to locate it after the complaint was first brought to my attention over 2 years ago.
Furthermore, the treaty draft was changed within a day of Monckton reporting its contents here at WUWT.
So in essence, Monckton did us all a great service and continues to do so, despite attempts by the likes of you to smear is reputation with the words of a proven liar.
Next time you post, try not to mindlessly parrot the claptrap that spews forth from the warmist brigade BEFORE spouting the same tired propaganda that was debunked over 2 years beforehand, and instead, research the science and economics of the warmist agenda independently and with an open mind.
You may be surprised at what you will find.
Michael J Alexander wrote, on December 6, 2012 at 4:39 pm:
He didn’t accomplish anything except look rather immature. If you’re a skeptic, you add to the knowledge base of greenhouse gas and it’s effect on the global climate by presenting facts in an appropriate fashion. This does little to further the skeptics side of the argument.
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…which is EXACTLY what he has been doing for the last 4 goddamn years, Michael.
Honestly, where do you warmist people come from?
First, yes, sixteen years is ridiculous. Let’s wait for Ben “Beat the Crap” Santer’s seventeen years, and see if the trend is statistically significant or not.
Second, theatrics are completely out of place when it comes to hard science. So, no dressing up, not even in superhero costumes, and most definitely not wearing underwear on the outside. OK, Scott?
Third, booing should only be allowed in pantomimes. Oh, wait…
A final point – a question, actually: how would any speech delivered at this bunfight be grounds for “stripping” someone of their UN credentials? Is there some clause that states that if you’re naughty or contrary, you should be told off. Somehow.
Lord Monckton does have a tendency toward the dramatic, but the response was pure Hollywood luvvy. Maybe Leonardo will pay him a visit, and stage a reprise of his role in “Titanic” as punishment? Ew.
Let me be the first to nominate Monckton as “Man of the Year”. GK
Hello Coke
[snip. Off topic. — mod.]
Don’t be so condescending as to say
“Next time you post, try not to mindlessly parrot the claptrap that spews forth from the warmist brigade BEFORE spouting the same tired propaganda that was debunked over 2 years beforehand, and instead, research the science and economics of the warmist agenda independently and with an open mind.
You may be surprised at what you will find.”
I have been researching the subject for over 30 years.
I’ve been kicked out of better joints than that. Way to go, Monckton!
James Abbott says:
“…what’s a shill?”
Since you apparently can’t use a dictionary, allow me to define shill, per my easy on-line dictionary:
an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others.
From your constant ad hominem comments, ‘shill’ defines you. You don’t criticize “both sides of the argument”, you shill for the alarmist narrative. Without posting any testable science, I might add.
And your green-eyed envy of Lord Monckton comes across loud and clear. Your pathetic ad hominem sniping from the sidelines is the best you can do. If you read this thread you will see that you are in a distinct minority. The clear ‘consensus’ shows that Lord Monckton produced a real public relations coup. The more we discuss it, the better I like it. ☺
Finally, if you have been “researching” this subject for over 30 years as you claim, how do you feel about the undeniable fact that the planet itself is debunking your catastrophic AGW nonsense? Too bad for you that the real world disagrees with your belief system.
LOL! Now THAT was an inconvenient truth.
I wish I had been there to witness it.
Lord Monckton, you are a superhero! A lone warrior behind enemy lines in the climate war.
You deserve a Noble Prize for Free Speech, Persistence and Ingenuity.
Thank you for yet another cunning and daring performance.
Alan Watt,
My gosh! You’ve found th hidden heat! And all you had to do was Goggle it – Quick someone tell Mike Mann!
Mike Bentley