Real Sceptic

Monckton Debunked By Monckton – What, MORE Errors, My Lord?

Potholer54 has released another excellent video researching the claims made by Monckton and why they are wrong.

Although this time with an added twist. As Potholer54 is getting tired of correcting these mistakes, and correcting them all would take at least another 3 videos, he issued a challenge to Monckton fans:

Find something he [Monckton] actually managed to get right. It has to be something that contradicts the conclusion that CO2 is largely responsible for recent global warming. Now here’s the scary part: You won’t be able to simply repeat a Monckton claim and tell me it must be true, you have to check Monckton’s source and verify it.

I’m intrigued by this challenge and am looking forward to what his fans can find in his defence.

Drill, Baby Drill, Revisited

Steven Crowder has released a video where he makes fun of the current petrol prices and of the policies Obama has on it. And in it he makes a case for more drilling in the United States to lower oil prices.

This does sound a lot, 163 billion barrels of oil. But lets take a look at how they got this number.

The amount of proved reserves the United States has is mostly pegged around 20.6 billion barrels of oil. Crowder got the number of 163 billion barrels from the report “U.S. Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Reporting, and Summary” released by the Congressional Research Service. Read more