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:
De-badged by the UN, now that’s an honour to be proud of.
Amazing stuff!
We live in unprecedented times. Finding the truth is inevitable.
We should thank Lord Monckton for helping it happen >
Reminds me of a story from long ago 🙂
“Monckton is being deported from Qatar.”
They take their blasphemy seriously in that part of the world.
Lordy Lordy.
We are seeing a ramp-up to AR5 Circus ding-a-ling-a-ding-ding for sure.
😀
Va Va Vooooom Baby.
Freedom of Speech, leftie-style: You have complete freedom to say anything you like. But if we disagree with you then we will shoot you.
AndyG55 says: December 6, 2012 at 6:54 pm
“…..way, way too much is made of the coincidence of rising CO2 with manipulated urban land temperatures over the period from 1980-1998. Many, many $billions too much….”
I agree entirely with you there, Andy. Another indication that hanging your hat on one particular point in a debate about this chaotic climate of ours is not usually a wise approach.
Well, I’ve said my bit. I’ll leave you to it.
Phil M says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Sorry I’m so late to your party.
Phil, you’re in for a come-uppins over the next two solar cycles. They will not be in your style of most active sun, and it will be colder. So strut your “high” (laughable) flat line stuff today, because the flat line demonstrates a transition to 30 years of colder weather. That’s Nature Phil. Wear your fleece, you’ll need it.
Cheer up, for a change you are getting some good advice by stopping by this blog. Think for a moment, when the LIA happened (forget Mann’s manipulated stick) and glaciers advanced over European villages, they didn’t have fleeces and it was very bad. See how lucky you are?
I cannot be doing it correctly, where do I start from to show that Monckton is correct and that there has been no warming for sixteen years.
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp/from:1997/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1997/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1997.67
Hats off to the Lord!
Wonderful work – as by that one act nobody there can claim they were not told that nothing is happenning. Their ‘innocence’ in terms of operating in a bubble has been completely destroyed. Be interesting to see who works out the significance of that one act.
The good thing is this is now spread across the Internet far and wide as the AGW crowd foam at the mouth over the his actions and spout the usual out the other end – or it is the other way around? hard to tell these days…
Tom J says:
December 6, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I must respectfully request that you, Phil, provide your definition of ‘grown up’ to me.
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Someone who sues people just passing by? He considers Michael Mann to be his elder.
If they put this one up do we just say that Hansen fiddled with the data?
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/509796main_GISS_annual_temperature_anomalies_running.pdf
Max Hugoson says:
December 6, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Again I’m late and others may have commented, but you appear to be a sadistic sort. The clip resolves well for all participants as a well thought out and performed dramatic fire event skit. But that’s not the way you portrayed it in your comment. Your comment implied that this result was the next step. I don’t know anyone other than you that believes in self immolation.
If I have this wrong and this was a sarc comment, please set the record straight. But I personally read your comment as offensive and I’m surprised it survived moderation .
[Reply: As it is a stunt man, and nobody is hurt, and it looks like a sarc at the wishes of the Doha “luminaries” it ought to fall under a “political comment about a public person” exemption IMHO. -ModE]
@John Byatt:
Yes.
The man himself, speaking truth to power!
Wow. we got an entire tribe of warmist fanatics applauding kicking out Monckton for stating what is the OBJECTIVE TRUTH.
You guys know who you are. You can’t let go of ripping off the taxpayer for your fantasy. Your livelihood depends on ongoing robbery.
john byatt says:
December 6, 2012 at 7:58 pm
“If they put this one up do we just say that Hansen fiddled with the data?”
So you post a link to a temperature graph with no attribution, did you draw that yourself?
You could just as well have linked to
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/
where everyone can compare temperature indexes.
But that wouldn’t fir your agenda, I know.
Coke says:
December 6, 2012 at 5:30 pm
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?
I’m a warmist????? Really???? I love it when people make assumptions based on no real evidence what-so-ever.
john byatt says:
December 6, 2012 at 7:53 pm
“I cannot be doing it correctly, where do I start from to show that Monckton is correct and that there has been no warming for sixteen years.”
How about trying UAH or RSS, which suffer less from violation of the Shannon theorem than HadCRUT? But you know what you’re doing and what you want to make people believe.
Lord Monckton.
Expertly done with great suave and without exceptional fanfare. You said what needed to be said to the whole conference at a time they could all hear you, in a very precise statement of value for scientific measurements across various systems. Great cheer is deserved and sent by me and many others.
Incidentally we met last in Sacramento, last year. You have it nailed. Please keep it up!
I look forward to talking again.
Berényi Péter says:
December 6, 2012 at 6:19 pm
” Being deported from Qatar is not a great loss. It is in fact a shame a UN conference is held in such an ugly dictatorship at all. Kinda unbelievable.”
In what kind of fantasy world do you live? Please look at the UN. Iran is heading the Human Rights commission. What do you think the UN is? Nice uncles?
He’s kicked out? For uttering one sentence? Seventeen unwanted words at a conference and he’s KICKED OUT? Who decided that? Which authority had the right?
Actually, if I were Lord Christopher Monckton, I’d be grinning from ear to ear – those dang fools have given him a most powerful weapon. They’ve shown the world a fine display! Of complete intolerance. Oh yes, wouldn’t be a joy if the Greens ruled the world! I can’t see anyone wanting that now if they are promised such treatment for just speaking out. I would say these hotheads have lost a few more from the middle ground (if they ever had any to begin with). No matter which way you look at it, this whole shebang is backfiring on them.
Raise your glasses high, folks. A toast to Lord Monckton! Cheers from Australia!
@ur momisugly john byatt
Let’s just say that if you put that curve against the GISS “adjustments”, they match incredibly well !!
James Abbott says:
December 6, 2012 at 5:18 pm
By the way, whats a shill ?
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One pence short of a shilling.
john byatt says:
December 6, 2012 at 7:53 pm
I cannot be doing it correctly, where do I start from to show that Monckton is correct and that there has been no warming for sixteen years.
You raise an excellent point!
To the nearest year, there has been no warming at all for 16 years, statistical or otherwise, on several data sets.
Data sets with a o slope for at least 15 years:
1. HadCrut3: since April 1997 or 15 years, 7 months (goes to October)
2. Sea surface temperatures: since March 1997 or 15 years, 8 months (goes to October)
3. RSS: since January 1997 or 15 years, 11 months (goes to November)
See the graph below to show it all.
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
However we can go back 18 years to show no statistical warming, even on data sets not mentioned above, and no cherry picking of dates is needed either as another blogger has shown on a different blog, parts of which I will copy below. Thanks!
spvincent says:
December 2, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Taking the Hadcrut4 dataset, here are the trend values in degrees C/decade over five closely-related time periods.
1995-2012 +0.109 +/- 0.129
1996-2012 +0.107 +/- 0.129
1997-2012 +0.058 +/- 0.142
1998-2012 +0.052 +/- 0.153
1999-2012 +0.095 +/- 0.162
Let’s look at a satellite-derived dataset (UAH)
1995-2012 +0.139 +/- 0.203
1996-2012 +0.138 +/- 0.227
1997-2012 +0.106 +/- 0.252
1998-2012 +0.063 +/- 0.153
1999-2012 +0.179 +/- 0.262
However I would like to elaborate on RSS. If you hate nit picky stuff, just ignore this part. The slope for 15 years and 11 months from January 1997 on RSS is -4.1 x 10^-4. But the slope for 16 years and 0 months from December 1996 is +1.3 x 10^-4. So since the magnitude of the negative slope since January 1997 is 3 times than the magnitude of the positive slope since December 1996, I believe I can say that since a quarter of the way through December 1996, in other words from December 8, 1996 to December 7, 2012, the slope is 0. This is 16 years.
Michael,
I assumed that you were a warmist after interpreting your post as being an attack on Monckton’s character. As I’m sure you are aware, this is something that is highly characteristic of the warmists that frequent WUWT from time to time, so I hope that you can appreciate why I came to the conclusion that I did, and I sincerely apologise.