Browsing All posts tagged under »Lord Monckton«

The Heartland Institute Stumbles

May 29, 2012

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The Heartland Institute, perhaps you noticed, is stumbling and staggering a little these days.  About $1 million in corporate funding has walked. Of course, there was Heartland-gate, the leaking of nine documents by scientist Peter Gleick relating to Heartland’s climate denial activities, including a plan to teach climate denial to pre-schoolers.  But Heartland-gate, juicy as […]

21 Climate Scientists Debunk Lord Monckton’s Congressional Testimony

January 29, 2011

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DEBUNK PROMINENT CONTRARIAN CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON’S CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY A group of five scientists solicited responses from more than twenty world-class climate scientists to the May 6th testimony by Christopher Monckton to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. These climate scientists “…have thoroughly refuted all of Mr. Monckton’s […]

George Monbiot’s 4 cast iron rules of climate change denial

June 11, 2010

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Ever had a discussion on-line with a climate change denier? I have had many such discussions, and when I have them, I usually have to remind myself that there are other people reading the discussion, some of whom live in the land of logic and evidence, some of whom might actually consider the points I […]

Seven Lies from Lord Monckton

June 8, 2010

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You may remember Lord Christopher Monckton popping up in the news a short while back as the climate expert of choice for the Senate Republicans.  Monckton is in fact a professional climate change denier with no background or expertise in the field of climatology. Recently Lord Monckton resurfaced as the subject of a complete point-by-point […]

Denial Means Never Having to Turn Down the Thermostat

May 7, 2010

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... social conservatism (where climate change denial fits) is not just a difference of opinion, it is—in some aspects and manifestations—a profound moral failing.

The Iron Lady Rebuts Lord Monckton

May 6, 2010

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In order to address the issue of climate change, the Republicans in the United States Senate have recently called up as their—I suppose—rebuttal witness, a certain Lord Christopher Monckton.  He is a British hereditary lord (meaning that he gets to call himself one) an almost-candidate for the fringe, ultra-right wing, UK Independence Party, the holder […]