Gareth Renowden notices that Monckton has corrected the misattribution on his graph. Unfortunately, Monckton has preserved the number of errors in his graph by replacing that error with another one. (And yes this graph appeared in his presentation to the Heartland conference.
I also see that Monckton has now written an 18 page document on the commie plot against him.
The villain in Monckton's fantasy is Lawrence Krauss. I imagine that Monckton thinks Krauss looks like the picture on the right. Some highlights:
First, [Krauss] approached The Guardian, which reliably supports every Leftist
cause, however half-baked, and is particularly unquestioning in its
lickspittle endorsement of the most extreme version of the "global
warming" notion. Yet even The Guardian would not touch the story. The
paper was not anxious to tangle with me again, for it had been compelled
to publish a humiliating and very strongly-worded correction by me after
one of its correspondents, a zoologist of no particular eminence, had
erroneously and scathingly criticized me for misunderstanding the
fundamental equation of radiative transfer ... Next, Krauss tried The Independent, another Left-leaning true-believer in the new religion, and notorious for the series of very silly stories about the
imagined future effects of "global warming" that it has been running on its
front page. ... Krauss, by now frantic, was more successful with New Scientist, once a
good journal of science for the layman, but now a mere craven, Lysenkoist-Marxist toady to whatever the current scientific party line happens to be.
Of course, "compelled to publish" just means The Guardian's normal right of reply. And far from being afraid of Monckton, The Guardian has just published this. And, of course, Monckton's gives us no reason to believe his story about Krauss contacting The Guardian and The Independent.
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Uh-oh, nobody mention to Monckton that Krauss and I have personally met and conspired on the Lysenkoist-Marxist takeover of science science activism :)
wow... I hadn't read the details and had no idea the delusions were so extreme. Needless to say I didn't contact anyone at the guardian or independent.. I write a biweekly column for the new scientist and wrote about the episode there.
lawrence krauss
Any chance we could collect enough donations to get Moncton a ticket to the Maldives? One way of course...
Mr Monckton? Joe McCarthy called, and he says...Good Job! These guys are going to eliminate the need fo comedians. How can you parody that?
Monbiot is a zoologist? Monckton forgot to add that he was still wrong; whilst I don't expect Monbiot to get some tricky physics right, and oddly enough he did admit that he had gotten it wrong, Monckton continues to lie by claiming that he has it right...
Moncktons whole way of writing appears designed to make you want to punch his lights out.
(Stand by for misquoting 3,..2...1..)
OK, so thats another question for Monckton, assuming he ever shows up anywhere again- where did he get the idea Krauss approached the Guardian?
In his mind the world revolves around Monckton, doesn't it? And when people point out when he's talking nonsense, it's all part of some great plot against him.
As Krauss is a regular contributor to NS, I'd expect the article to appear there. I suspect Monckton found the idea that Krauss tried newspapers first in the same place that he pulls his other "facts" from.
There's nothing like a little 19th century prose from the quill of the dashing Monckton to give one a hearty chortle. His tales of derring-do adventures and heroic vanquishment of assorted fiendish foes that stalk him day and night are simply riveting, what!
Next month, I hear, he begins a journey to the very centre of the earth!
Monckton ho!
Well,Monbiot's playing cards are rather stupid and may reflect his 'eminence', especially as he pinched the idea from none other than George Bush and Iraq. Sure sign George M is on a downward slope.
If Mr Monckton genuinely believes that Saperstein's review is a peer review then he is a greater fool than I believed him to be. He is either being 'mendacious' or has never seen a genuine peer review.
Not only did the potty peer show his now infamous slide during his "keynote" on the final afternoon, but it came early on, as he announced:
If only he would...
> Next month, I hear, he begins a journey to the very centre of the earth!
You mean Monckton can decode runic cryptograms from Iceland? (I say: Eternity!)
> Unfortunately, Monckton has preserved the number of errors in his graph by replacing that error with another one.
The Law of Conservation of Climate Inactivist Errors.
A Google News search for '"Heartland Institute" climate' yields 152 hits in the last week. A search for 'Copenhagen climate' yields 5241 hits. Clearly the communist plot has extended right through the media now.
A search for 'Monckton climate' yields a massive 17 hits, some of which are not very sympathetic.
Awww,d'ya think so,Dave A? Pinched the idea from George Bush? And thought he'd get away with it!...
The playing cards used after Saddam's downfall were not a GWB idea. They were
People do card decks for all sorts of things, and this topic offers some interesting new possibilities.
1) For example, I'm only in one deck as 10 of Hearts.
But, maybe Monckton has his own deck of Really Bad People, in which it would be an honor to appear. I'm sure Tim Lambert and Lawrence Krauss would be there.
2) But on the other side, maybe there should be a deck of denier's cards. Heartland has a good list of "experts" to start.
Taking his cue from W. Dembski is he? That figures.
There must be a "How to Deny Anything and Everything in 10 Easy Steps" handbook out there somewhere, sitting right next to the "How to Make Your Paper Sound All Sciency With Just a Few Nonsense Words" handbook.
P Lewis,
Thanks for that, but as far as the left/environmentalists here in Britain are concerned everything bad about the US (and to them that means almost everything about the US) emanated from George Bush.
They have a very limited world view!
Dave A the inactivist: The playing cards idea came from Bush!
Us: No.
Dave A: I blame my factoid on the eco-leftists! Haha!
Us: Idiot.
Hard to believe, isn't it? Lord Munchkin is a known liar and coward. He claimed that 'The Guardian' paid him damages because of something that Monbiot wrote. He even tried to insert this fiction into his Wikipedia entry but it was spotted and removed. He failed to reply to questions about this.
He's threatened to sue people for defamation but when challenged has mysteriously backed down or slunk off every time.
Munchkin, please sue me. I'd love to see your lying spineless carcass in court!
> biweekly column for the new scientist and
> wrote about the episode there.
Column yet to appear? Found some older mentions of M.
bi--IJI,
And we are supposed to take seriously someone whose blogs have a background of scantily clad women?
Grow up!
I think mr. krauss only tells all these awful lies supporting al gore and so on to get back at lubos motl for some imagined slight. i watched the big bang theory on tv and they had a girl just like him only a girl.
before i heard of mr krauss i thought of lord monckton as the smartest man in the world but after that i felt his credibility was weak so and i blame mr krauss also.
i think this is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Scantily clad women?
Oh dear...
But I'll bet a certain web site is getting a surge of traffic.
Way to go Dave....um, did you bother reading anything?
Dave A = still an idiot.
Also, remind me to put up more pictures of scantily clad women in the future.
Maybe he's objecting to the "clad" part, not the "scanitly". Testing this notion might increase your blog traffic ...
Didn't most US citizens think that everything bad about the US emanated from George [W] Bush?
" remind me to put up more pictures of scantily clad women in the future.
How juvenile. Grow up
"And we are supposed to take seriously someone whose blogs have a background of scantily clad women?"
Why yes - satire is serious stuff.
Adults will recognize that.
The tongue-in-cheek International Journal of Inactivism deserves and gets more respect that you do, DaveA. I suspect that is why you have a problem.
Lee,
It may well get more respect than you do Lee also. But who really cares? It isn't satirical to be juvenile, just juvenile.
That's why you both need to Grow up
Sorry, Dave A, you are still an idiot.
sounds like Dave A perhaps has a long and deep personal issue with scantly clad woman. I wouldn let it drop or he might completely flip out.