Monckton
gregladen | August 28, 2013Climate science denialist Christopher Monckton wrote a post at WUWT blog in which he describes the non-existent stall in global warming. At the end of the post he writes:
Meanwhile, enjoy what warmth you can get. A math geek with a track-record of getting stuff right tells me we are in for 0.5 Cº of global cooling. It could happen in two years, but is very likely by 2020. His prediction is based on the behavior of the most obvious culprit in temperature change here on Earth – the Sun.
My friend and Colleague, John Abraham of St. Thomas University (he blogs here) wrote the following letter:…
tlambert | February 8, 2012Over at the Monthly, Robert Manne writes about Monckton's plan for a super-rich person to establish a Fox News for Australia. I thought we already had that in the Australian.
tlambert | December 11, 2011Peter Hadfield dissects Monckton's response to Hadfield's demolition of Monckton's claims about climate science. Hadfield coins the term "Monckton maneuver" to describe Monckton's tactic of changing his position when shown to be wrong and pretending that his position hasn't changed.
In other Monckton news, he is still claiming to be a member of the House of Lords, despite what the courts and the House of Lords say. This time he's got a lawyer to argue the case for him. If we assume that Monckton's lawyer is competent, this would be the best case that can be made for Monckton, so it is…
tlambert | October 19, 2011Here it is -- the interview that Monckton declared showed that the ABC supported fascism.
tlambert | August 9, 2011Monckton sure didn't like it when the reporter brought John Abraham's dissection. Monckton yet again claimed that he is about to sue Abraham.
tlambert | July 21, 2011Graham Readfearn writes about how Monckton is threatening the sue the ABC because he didn't like Wendy Carlisle's Background Briefing episode. This isn't really that interesting, Monckton has also threatened to sue Al Gore, John Abraham, Scott Mandia, The Guardian, as well threatening to jail Rajendra Pachauri for fraud. None of these threats materialised.
No, what interests me is this:
"I have written to the chairman of the ABC who is a shrimp-like wet little individual and I have said to him, right mate, I warned you about this woman (Wendy Carlisle) orally over breakfast"
ABC Chairman…
tlambert | July 18, 2011Check out Wendy Carlisle's Background Briefing episode on Monckton and the Galileo Movement
I'd like to highlight a couple of things. Monckton denied that he compared Garnaut to a fascist (at 15:20):
Monckton: You said that it's been reported that I compared Ross Garnaut to a fascist?
Carlisle: Correct.
Monckton: I did no such thing. I suggest you listen to the tape and think again.
You see, Monckton's exact words about Garnaut while standing in front of a swastika:
that again is a fascist point of view that you merely accept authority without question. Heil Hitler, on we go.
Of course, a…
tlambert | July 18, 2011After The House of Lords wrote to Monckton telling him that he should not claim to be a member, Monckton kept doing it. So now The House of Lords has written an open letter to Monckton:
My predecessor, Sir Michael Pownall, wrote to you on 21 July 2010, and again on 30 July 2010, asking that you cease claiming to be a Member of the House of Lords, either directly or by implication. It has been drawn to my attention that you continue to make such claims.
In particular, I have listened to your recent interview with Mr Adam Spencer on Australian radio. In response to the direct question, whether…
tlambert | July 9, 2011Christopher Monckton was so annoying when interviewed by Adam Spencer that Spencer hung up on him before finishing the interview later on. The Australian was so impressed by Monckton's performance that they posted a partial transcript. Moth at New Anthropocene corrects many of Monckton's misrepresentations, so I'll just cover what was in the transcript posted by The Australian -- presumably they think those are his strongest points.
Spencer: Can I just clarify sir, are you a member of the House of Lords?
Monckton: Yes, but without the right to sit or vote.
Spencer: Because the House of…
tlambert | June 21, 2011Here a screen shot from his talk. His comment on Garnaut's words is "Heil Hitler".
Graeme Readfearn has the details.
Update: Bolt throws Monckton under the proverbial bus.
tlambert | May 1, 2011
The Climate Science Rapid Response Team received a verbose query from Abu Ali Al-Hussain who oddly enough, sounded exactly like Christopher Monckton.
I liked this bit from Monckton's sock:
The IPCC has been making long-term predictions of future climate states on the basis of modeling: yet its 2001 Third Assessment Report says that the climate is a complex, non-linear, chaotic object, so that the prediction of future climate states is not possible.
The Third Assessment Report did not say that predication of climate was not possible, but rather:
A complex, non-linear system may display what…
tlambert | February 20, 2011This video by potholer54 demolishing Monckton's claims about climate sensitivity is very good, and not just because I'm in it.
Also worth a look is his video where Monckton is refuted by ... Monckton himself.
Update:
Update 2:
tlambert | February 1, 2011
Christopher Monckton is notable for the way he gets the science wrong over and over again. So the folks at Skeptical Science have created a handy resource listing the arguments he commonly uses and the refutations.
Monckton is in the news again, going to court to try to get prevent a documentary about him from being shown. As usual with Monckton. he lost:
Jo Abbess was (perhaps accidently) CC'd on an email from Monckton where he wrote:
Actually it's a boorish hatchet job of the traditional BBC kind, but I sued them and made them cut it by half an hour and alter or remove some 16 downright…
tlambert | January 30, 2011The Australian continues to express institutional contempt for science, scientists and the scientific method with a piece by Christopher Monckton
Graham Readfern has already commented on some of the errors in Monckton's piece, but there are plenty more.
Cap-and-tax in Europe has been a wickedly costly fiasco. ... Result: electricity prices have doubled. In the name of preventing global warming, many Britons are dying because they cannot afford to heat their homes.
It's not hard to check this. The average annual bill for electricity in the UK increased from £285 in 2005 (when the EU ETS…
tlambert | January 11, 2011Mike Steketee bucks the groupthink at The Australian with an article on why it is necessary to adapt to the coming global warming. Christopher Monckton responds with a Gish gallop of 24 points where he alleges Steketee got it wrong. Steketee's response is devasting: again and again and again he shows that Monckton misrepresented what Steketee wrote. Even Andrew "confirmation bias" Bolt, after at first being convinced that Monckton had shown Steketee to be wrong, was compelled to concede that Monckton had verballed Steketee. Though I'm sure Bolt will believe with all his heart and all his…
tlambert | September 24, 2010On top of the 21 climate scientists correcting the numerous errors in Christopher Monckton testimony to Congress, we also have Rachel Pinker and Ellsworth Dutton correcting Monckton's misunderstanding of Pinker, Zhang and Dutton (2005):
1 Viscount Monckton attempts to directly link the change in surface solar radiation to a change in temperature. He states:
"What, then, caused the third period of warming? Most of that third and most
recent period of rapid warming fell within the satellite era, and the satellites
confirmed measurements from ground stations showing a considerable, and
naturally…
tlambert | September 21, 2010I detailed a couple of the serious factual errors in Monckton's testimony to Congress back in May. Now John Abraham and others have organised a comprehensive rebuttal to Monckton, with corrections to Monckton's many errors from 21 climate scientists. Leo Hickman summarises in this story in the Guardian.
tlambert | September 9, 2010Alden Griffiths has another excellent presentation, this time dissecting Christopher Monckton's claim that temperatures are below the IPCC's projections.
tlambert | August 22, 2010Barry Bickmore is compiling a list of the politicians, journalists etc who have damaged their credibility by relying on Christopher Monckton as a source of infomration about climate science.
Also well worth a look is Alden Griffith's lucid explanation of what is wrong with Monckton's claim that "Arctic sea ice is just fine".