Christopher Monckton
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Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a former British policy advisor and journalist. He is presently a contributer to Watts Up With That?.
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[edit] IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, 2007, Analysis and Summary
Christopher Monckton (February 2007) (PDF). IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, 2007, Analysis and Summary. Center for Science and Public Policy. Retrieved on February 7, 2007.
- Figures in the final draft of the UN’s fourth five-year report on climate change show that the previous report, in 2001, had overestimated the human influence on the climate since the Industrial Revolution by at least one-third.
- p. 2
- UN scientists faced several problems their computer models had not predicted. Globally, temperature is not rising at all, and sea level is not rising anything like as fast as had been forecast. Concentrations of methane in the air are actually falling.
- p. 2
- Figures from the US National Climate Data Center show 2006 as about 0.03 degrees Celsius warmer worldwide than 2001. Since that is within the range of measurement error, global temperature has not risen in a statistically significant sense since the UN’s last report in 2001.
- p. 3
- In the current draft, the UN has cut its estimate of our net effect on climate by more than a third, to 1.6 watts per square metre. It now thinks pollutant particles reflecting sunlight back to space have a very strong cooling effect.
- p. 3
- The new report confirms the finding of the 2001 report that global warming will have little effect on the number of typhoons or hurricanes, though it may increase the intensity of some storms a little.
- p.3
- Even if a country the size of Britain were to shut down and cease using energy or cars altogether, the growth in carbon emissions in China would more than make up for our sacrifice long before the Kyoto agreement expires in 2012.
- p. 4
- Though the mass media are now well-programmed to focus on the more alarmist aspects of the report, the halving of the sea-level projection is in effect a declaration, from the heart of the 'consensus', that the consequences of warmer worldwide weather will be minor and may be beneficial, that the worst scenarios are no longer probable, and that the panic is officially over.
- p. 4
[edit] President Obama
- "I would want to make absolutely sure that he [President Obama] was born here before allowing him to be elected. And the birth certificate that he put up on that website, I don't know where he was born. But I do know that birth certificate isn't genuine."
- Interview with Dennis Miller The Daily Caller, March 2012
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- Not greatly to my surprise—indeed I predicted it—the satellite crashed on take-off because the last thing they [NASA] want is real world hard data.
- Attributed by Adam Morton, reporting in The Age, about a speaking engagement in which Lord Monckton implied NASA sabotaged a Taurus rocket in order to prevent the Orbiting Carbon Observatory from reaching space. [1]
