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WATCH - Actual VIDEO of Lord Monckton saying, "Obama poised to Cede Sovereignty in Copenhagen"
Christopher Monckton, the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and the science adviser to the most famous British PM of the last 50 years, is quite an amazing character. He is one of the aristocratic treasures of the British empire.
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He has also decided to dedicate a lot of time to a widely discussed "scientific problem" and to look at the evidence behind the popular theory of the so-called "global warming" a bit more carefully. The results of his work were reported in The Telegraph:
* The Sun is warmer now... (11/5/2006) - originally called "Climate chaos? Don't believe it"
* Apocalypse cancelled (40-page-long PDF supplement of the above article)
* Wrong problem, wrong solution (11/12/2006)
* Responses of the readers (77-page-long PDF file with positive responses of the readers to the first article; you will find "It isn't even wrong" there, too)
* Gore Gored (29-page-long reply to Al Gore)
* Monckton to Rockefeller and Snowe, U.S. senators (full)
* Lord Monckton's reply to IPCC
* Lord Monckton invites Al Gore for an international debate
* Monckton: the fingerprint is absent (wrong altitude/latitude dependence)
* 35 errors in Gore's movie
* A seminar by Monckton (video)
* 23 Trenberth's errors
* Climate sensitivity reconsidered (July 2008, discussion at the American Physical Society; now includes a red disclaimer by an Inquisition-like "council" that undermines the work of the APS from within)
His conclusions more or less mimic the conclusions of a vast majority of those people whom I know and whose IQ exceeds 120, who are able to think critically and apolitically, and who have looked at the technical aspects of this whole set of ideas: the "global warming" paradigm is based on roughly 10 hypotheses about the climate and its interaction with the humankind. For the policies derived from these hypotheses to be wise, more or less all of these hypotheses must be simultaneously satisfied.
However, one half of these hypotheses are almost certainly untrue, one third of them is very unlikely, and the rest is unproven. The "global warming paradigm" is supported by downright false statements about the scientific opinions of the actual scientists; unjustified negligence of the natural variability in comparison with the recent trends; negligence of the influence of solar dynamics, cosmic rays, and other effects; unrealistic estimates about the influence of higher temperatures on life and humanity and the sign of this effect; overestimates of the capability of the recently proposed regulating mechanisms to change the overall climate dynamics; wrong calculations of the costs and benefits; unjustifiable application of the so-called precautionary principle.
In other words, the whole framework known as "global warming" is not holding too much water.
Monckton's article "Apocalypse cancelled" is filled with a lot of graphs - current temperature graphs, temperature reconstructions, calculations of the sensitivity etc. - references, and analyses of the scientific work. Some minor errors probably occured in his text and some of them were pointed out by the readers: for example, Lord Monckton chose the units of "Watts per squared meter and second" for the flux. ;-) Nevertheless, they can hardly change anything about Monckton's qualitative conclusions: it is incredibly unlikely that the whole ideology behind the recently proposed international policies can be supported by a comprehensive rational or even scientific justification. And incidentally, the dominant motivation behind these policies is probably the dream of certain people to create a world government.
