Thin skinned anti-science idiot Chrisopher Monckton has a big sad that a bunch of actually smart people called out his errant nonsense as nonsense so he’s naturally doing what real intellectuals do when their ideas are challenged: Defend them, I mean complain to authorities and try to have the critics
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Autonomy For All: New Zealand Sets the Gold Standard For Monckton Journalism
This is how every article about one of Christopher Monckton’s revivalist evangelical bamboozlement roadshow sessions should go: Lord Monckton, who once argued for the quarantine of AIDS patients in internment camp-like facilities, is a vocal leader of the climate change-denying movement. In Copenhagen in 2009, the member of the right-wing
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Christopher Monckton Knows Nothing About Economics Too
Christopher Monkcton has taken time out of his busy schedule of being completely wrong about climate change to be completely wrong about economics too, in the pages of the Obama-birther and general conspiracist World News Daily: BANKRUPT: CYPRUS TODAY, AMERICA TOMORROWExclusive: Lord Monckton has action plan to protect your wealth
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Viscount Monckton is on another one of his highly lucrative climate denial evangelism tours of Australia. I caught this great piece from a Tasmanian newspaper called “The Mercury”, Monckton’s Hot Air: At a public lecture in Hobart this week, he said there had been no global warming for at least
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Chrisopher Monckton, Climate Skeptic Hero
This post provides the sources of a series of claims I am making over Twitter. My main points are two: 1) Christopher Monckton is the leading climate “skeptic” and is held in extremely high regard by climate skeptics. 2) Monckton is singularly unreliable, dishonest, deceitful, preposterous and possibly some kind
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Chris Of Arabia
Climate change denier Christopher Monckton, adding to the gaiety of nations.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Andrew Bolt Cuts Ties With Climate Science Denying Galileo Movement Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theory
galileo.jpg ANDREW Bolt is Australia's loudest and most popular climate science doubt-spreader who just loves to stoke the fires of environmental conspiracy theorists with his daily splurge of blog posts and his weekly radio and TV shows. The blogger and columnist in the Murdoch-owned News Ltd press describes climate change as
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Climate Science Denier Debunks Greenhouse Theory With Two Fish Cooler Boxes And A Roll Of Cling Film
IMG_0761.jpg SOMETIMES in the world of climate science "scepticism", things can become a little surreal. A bit odd, if you will, to the point where you need to inflict a sharp pain upon your person to confirm you've not drifted off into an alternate reality. Like the time, for example, when Australian mainstream
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: What The World’s Richest Woman Gina Rinehart Thinks About Climate Change
gina1.jpg SHE is the richest woman on the planet with a personal fortune approaching $30 billion thanks to her coal and iron ore businesses. But when it comes to arguably the planet's most pressing problem – human-caused climate change – the Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart dismisses out of hand not
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Christopher Monckton Described as "Loose Cannon" "17th Century Pamphleteer" By UKIP, Party Cuts Ties With Him
Christopher-Monckton-.jpg The Guardian reports that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has distanced itself from "Lord" Christopher Monckton, the crazypants climate denier who thinks President Obama's birth certificate is fake, compared youth climate activists to "Hitler Youth" and a litany of other crazy stunts well-documented here at DeSmog over the years.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Bids For Editorial Control Of Australia’s Fairfax Newspapers
getup_ad_mining_media.jpg WHEN you think the news stories just aren't going your way – when parts of the media just refuse to tow your particular ideological line – what are your options? For most people, the choices are limited. You could perhaps write a letter to the editor or maybe even pen
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: When Chris Met Ezra
I’m surprised that the entire Universe did not disintegrate in a flash of pure dorkiness as soon as their elbows touched. More pics here.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Who Are The Australian Backers Of Heartland’s Climate Denial?
heartland.jpg ANY conference worth its salt needs a nice long list of sponsors to give the impression of widespread diverse support for whatever the conference organisers are advocating. In the case of the Heartland Institute and their advocacy for the denial of the risks of human-caused climate change, their just-started conference
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax
heartland.png Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals. Tobacco anti-science is strangely entangled with climate anti-science, as the attached report shows in detail involving Fred Singer's SEPP, Joseph Bast's Heartland, and more.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: A Curious Tale of Monckton, Rinehart and Blaming God For Bushfire Deaths
getup_ad_mining_media.jpg IT was an extraordinary response, but then it was an extraordinary video revealing some extraordinary alliances. Two weeks ago I posted a story on my blog about a YouTube video featuring one of the world’s least media-shy deniers of human-caused climate change – British hereditary peer Lord Christopher Monckton, the third Viscount
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Australian Meteorology Bureau Corrects Record On Former Research Head William Kininmonth’s Actual Climate Change Experience
bom_logo.jpg WHEN it comes to climate change science, as with most things in life, it pays to listen to actual experts with a solid background in their field. On Monday the Wall Street Journal and, later, The Australian newspaper, ran an editorial from a group of climate science contrarians which claimed
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Monckton Pitches ‘Fox News Australia’ Idea To Mining Magnate, Seeks ‘Super-Rich’ Backers
monckton_boardroom.jpg BACK in July last year in a boardroom of a western Australian free-market think tank, the extrovert British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton was holding court. The topic for discussion? How to better capture the Australian media to help push a right wing, free-market and climate sceptic agenda. At the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Monckton Reaches New Heights of Anti-Environmentalism
daily_caller_screenshot.jpg CLIMATE science denial think-tank the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow is flying a four-strong delegation to next week’s UN climate conference in South Africa, with a promise to engage in a “balanced, civil and genuine” dialogue. But the chances of much civility appear to be somewhere between zero and naught,
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Commonwealth Business Council Picks In-house Denier To Chair Climate Forum
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IF you were going to have a serious high-level discussion about, say, improving science teaching in schools, then who would you invite to chair the meeting?
How about an astrologer? …
350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
“Lord” Christopher Monckton, climate skeptic and scientific ignoramus, shown up to be the pompous idiot that he is by the British comedy show “The Hamster Wheel”:
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