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The Australian’s War on Science 57: the Monckton Gallop
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 30, 2011 The 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…
Monckton’s “selective quotation and misrepresentation”
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 11, 2011 Mike 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…
Rachel Pinker on Monckton’s testimony to Congress
Posted by Tim Lambert on September 24, 2010 On 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,…
Monckton’s testimony to Congress debunked some more
Posted by Tim Lambert on September 21, 2010 I 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.
Temperatures and Projections
Posted by Tim Lambert on September 9, 2010 Alden Griffiths has another excellent presentation, this time dissecting Christopher Monckton’s claim that temperatures are below the IPCC’s projections.
The Church of Monckton
Posted by Tim Lambert on August 22, 2010 Barry 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”.
The “CO2 is Plant Food” Crock
Posted by Tim Lambert on August 19, 2010 Peter Sinclair’s latest video is on the “CO2 is plant food” crock.
Monckton vs House of Lords
Posted by Tim Lambert on August 11, 2010 Monckton’s fight with the House of Lords continues, with The Guardian reporting Last month, Michael Pownall, clerk of the parliaments, wrote to Lord Monckton, a hereditary peer, stressing that he should not refer to himself as a member of the House of Lords, and nor should he use any emblem representing the portcullis. … Buckingham…
Monckton vs Scott Mandia
Posted by Tim Lambert on August 4, 2010 Christopher Monckton is now threatening to sue Scott Mandia as well: I also note that you have publicly accused me of “fraud”, and have widely circulated that accusation on the internet, and have expressed the intention to invite the mass media to repeat it. Since this is a serious charge, do you have any evidence…
Monckton vs The House of Lords
Posted by Tim Lambert on July 16, 2010 Brian Angliss has a useful summary of Monckton’s attempt to intimidate John Abraham while Eli Rabett looks at Monckton’s correspondence with University of St. Thomas. The best bit is where Monckton professes to be unaware of any “disparaging”, “outrageous”, or “defamatory” comments he has made about the University of St. Thomas and Father Dease on…