Potholer’s Open Letter To Christopher Monckton

March 23rd, 2012 No responses

A while back Monckton sort of responded tot he videos Peter Hadfield (Potholer54) made about his misrepresentations and errors on the science of climate change. This eventually did leed to Monckton responding to the videos made about him. And the actual offer for a debate on Watts Up With That.

That article is well worth a read, especially the response Peter made to the claims.

But then silence from Monckton, and he doesn’t delivers on his promise to continue the debate. For which Peter has now called him out on:

Categories: Climate Change

Monckton Responds To Peter Hadfield

December 4th, 2011 4 responses

Well Sort of…

Monckton didn’t respond directly to the videos Potholer54 (Peter Hadfield) made documenting and rebutting incorrect or dubious claims made by him.

No, he responded to a commenter who gave a simplified listing of the errors Potholer54 addressed:

This is a response by Christopher Monckton to the comment on the Nurse anti-science thread yesterday by anonymous commenter “The other Brian” who in typical troll style,tries to distract away from the post and point being made with noise.- Anthony

So instead of actually dealing with the excellent videos Potholer produced, he goes after a few lines of text. I think you can guess who made another excellent set of videos documenting how Monckton yet again contradicts himself:

Categories: Climate Change

Australia: The Next Great Hope For Our Planets Climate

September 3rd, 2011 No responses

The Australian government is about to pass a law that would cut carbon emissions and get polluters to pay. But a major climate fight is ensuing with the regulator suspects, like Lord Monckton, taking center stage. All to muddy the water and to prevent the passage of this carbon pricing law.

This carbon pricing law is a win win measure. It will push dirty businesses towards clean production and tax polluters, generating more resources for working families. If it passes, it will spur other major emitters to follow suit and could be the next best hope for our planets climate. But the megaphone of the opponents is big.

For example Murdoch, who owns Fox News, also owns seventy percent of Australia’s press. If we can drown out his campaign to crush the bill with messages of hope from across the world, we could help it pass. For a long time we have been in the majority, telling our politicians to listen to us and take the actions that are needed. In the United States alone poll after poll has shown this:

  • 71 percent of Americans say global warming should be a very high (13%), high (27%), or medium (31%) priority for the president and Congress, including 88 percent of Democrats, 66 percent of Independents, and 50 percent of Republicans
  • 91 percent of Americans say developing sources of clean energy should be a very high (32%), high (35%), or medium (24%) priority for the president and Congress, including 97 percent of Democrats, 89 percent of Independents, and 85 percent of Republicans.

In under 4 days already over 335,000 people have signed a petition from AVAAZ to show their international support for this carbon pricing law. I have signed this petition to show my support, will you?

TV Tricks Of The Trade

August 20th, 2011 No responses

On a lot of blogs a quote has been circulating that the lead IPCC author of Chapter 8 made a shocking admittance.

The latest installment of Jesse Ventura’s highly successful Conspiracy Theory show exposed millions of viewers on national TV last night to the climate change fraud, blowing a giant hole in the global warming scam by exposing how its adherents comprise wealthy industrialists making billions in profits by fearmongering about the environment.

The most damning part of the program is when Ben Santer, a climate researcher and lead IPCC author of Chapter 8 of the 1995 IPCC Working Group I Report, admits that he deleted sections of the IPCC chapter which stated that humans were not responsible for climate change.

Accusing Santer of altering opinions in the IPCC report that disagreed with the man-made thesis behind climate change, Lord Monckton told the program, “In comes Santer and re-writes it for them, after the scientists have sent in their finalized draft, and that finalized draft said at five different places, there is no discernable human effect on global temperature – I’ve seen a copy of this – Santer went through, crossed out all of those and substituted a new conclusion, and this has been the official conclusion ever since.”

“Lord Monckton points to deletions from the chapter, and there were deletions from the chapter, to be consistent with the other chapters we dropped the summary at the end,” Santer admits to the program.

Commenting on The Alex Jones Show today, Lord Monckton said that this was the first time Santer had publicly admitted to deleting the information.

Unfortunately for these people who are crying victory it is not as clear cut as you might suspect at first glance. For starters this quote goes against everything Maurice Strong has said publicly and is quite out of character. But the most telling thing is that the video where he makes this admittance has a very obvious cut in what Maurice Strong is saying. If you know what you are looking for.

The following video from Potholer54 gives a very nice rundown on the spread of this incorrect quote and why it was deliberately done by the editors:

Monckton: Bringing the Crazy to Kiwi Land

August 12th, 2011 1 response

One of the world’s most prominent, and controversial, climate change skeptics, has been in New Zealand this week. Lord Christopher Monckton, the 3rd Viscount of Brenchley, is here as part of a world lecture tour promoting climate change denial. Reporter Benedict Collins met Christopher Monckton in Auckland, and while the Viscount might not believe in global warming, it didn’t take long for the interview to heat up..

The tone from Monckton changes instantly as soon as John Abrahams is mentioned. Which is, in my opinion, quite telling.

John Abrahams published a presentation where he analyzed, and completely tore to shreds, one of Monckton’s presentations. It is truly recommended viewing for everyone that is interested in the climate debate. You can find the presentation made by John Abrahams on his page here.