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Back in July last year in a boardroom of a western Australian free-market think tank, the extrovert British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton was holding court.
The topic for discussion? How to better capture the Australian media to help push a right-wing, free-market and climate sceptic agenda.
At the time, Lord Monckton was in Australia at the behest of a mining association to deliver a series of talks on climate change and spread his conspiracy theories that human-caused climate change is a left-wing plot to bring down the West.
At one point during the tour, Monckton told a boisterous partisan crowd:
"So to the bogus scientists who have produced the bogus science that invented this bogus scare I say, we are coming after you. We are going to prosecute you, and we are going to lock you up."Back in July last year in a boardroom of a western Australian free-market think tank,... more
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Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, testified before the House as an equal alongside four expert climate scientists. However, his written testimony was filled with misunderstandings, errors, and distortions of the scientific record. 21 expert climate scientists rebutted his testimony and have submitted their rebuttal to Congress in an effort to correct Monckton's fictions and to shine a light on how some in Congress are mishandling climate science.Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, testified before the House as an equal... more
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Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has denied that climate disruption is occurring, denied that human beings are causing the (unchanging) climate to change, denied that polar ice is declining, and repeatedly misrepresented published scientific papers on multiple subjects. He's also labeled peaceful climate protesters "Hitler Youth" and said that NASA crashed their own CO2-monitoring satellite. As a result of a systematic demolition of nearly every claim Monckton made in one of his presentations by John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas, Monckton has asked the readers of the denial website Watts Up With That to help him censor Abraham's work via an email intimidation campaign.Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has denied that climate disruption is... more
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It's hard to listen when your emotions are...heated (couldn't resist). Just ask Christopher Monckton who, in a heated moment, called the young activists who protested The Americans for Prosperity meeting in Copenhagen yesterday. (Monckton heads up an organization called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group known for it's opposition to scientific consensus on climate change.)
Ok~ So that's old news. The saga continued today when Monckton was confronted by a group of young activists he approached to discuss his perspective on climate science.
Ya know~ I REALLY wanted that last statement to be true. Discuss has a certain association with dialogue and deliberation, that would make people assume that there is a dialogue~ and when I hear the word dialogue, I assume that there is communication that involves both speaking and listening.
But when the youth activists featured in the video below confronted Mockton about being compared to Hilter Youth, he went on to talk over them and threaten, "Now you know what will happen if you invade a private meeting and start shrieking."
There are several points about that statement that are fascinating. The first, it was not a private meeting. It appears in the video that it was a live webcast that was open to the public, and when you watch the video, it looks like the room is only filled with activists...and then there's that nod at the end. The next day Monckton bragged that his team was responsible for putting that video on youtube moments after the event occurred, it it begs one to question:
Was the event staged? Was Monckton looking for an opportunity to provoke young activists so they could get the term "Hitler Youth" into the media?
Hook. Line. And Sinker. Well done.
You got my attention.
I'm going to listen to what Lord Monckton has to say.
Not because he has demonstrated the same kind of thoughtful consideration to the young people he was lecturing;
Not because it doesn't make my stomach turn when I hear about his views about Aids (he believes every member of the population should be blood tested and quarantined);
Not because I am not appalled by his repeated statements denying climate science;
Not because I'm not awed by his New World Order/global government conspiracy that climate disruption is a tool for the UN to create a global government (it's akin to my personal favorite conspiracy theory: which is that the governments keep aliens a secret because it would create an outer enemy that would cause all the nations in the world to work together and crash the world economy).
I'm going to listen to Monckton because in the big scheme of things, it's just the right thing to do.
Ok, no angel wings growing yet~ so the real reason reason I want to listen is because I smell the language of fear.
Monckton is afraid.
While many people are out there calling him crazy, I think he's scary. It appears he is deliberately and strategically spreading a message of fear. And no matter what you think about climate science and global warming~ that feels dangerous.
The one thing history has proven time and time again, people do outrageous things when they act from a place of fear.
Lord Monckton is saying he is scared that world food prices have doubled. He is stating that millions are dying in third world countries because of the global warming scare because people who are working to reduce global warming don't care. (I'm not following that logic). He said, "Until you start caring..I will continue to call you Hitler Youth." (Lost me on that one too. Most people I know who give over their lives to activism and working on climate change issues are intensely aware of the amount of climate refugees and the amount of death and destruction that is happening on the planet. It's safe to say they deeply care). Monckton says, "Now you know what it looks like when you do robotic things like the Hitler youth did when they occupied Copenhagen...you do as much damage to the poor as they Hitler youth did." Hmmm. Hate crimes against Jews compared to being responsible for children dying in developing countries. I dunno, not to sound harsh, but I grew up on commercials showing me starving children in Africa. I'm not making the connection between the recent surge toward climate protection and starving people in developing countries.
So when I listen, I hear that Monckton has chosen to pick one of the most triggering symbols of hate crimes the world has, tomorrow I assume he will call them the children of the KKK. At this point, he has actively chosen to put himself in front of the camera repeatedly speaking the language of hate, and by doing so he is spreading a message of fear and desperation. To me, it sounds like Mockton and the groups he represents feels threatened by the act of pursuing policy that requires nations to coordinate efforts that may result in the global economy shifting. It sounds like he is afraid of losing money. Now that makes sense to me. And that, can cause a great deal of fear.
Alright, I'm off to track down Mockton's PR team and see if they help me with some online marketing. They've got mad skillz.
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Last week, Lord Christopher Monckton accused a group of young climate activists who invaded an Americans for Prosperity (AFP) event where he was speaking of being “Hitler Youth” three times – twice caught on video (see these two posts from last week) and then at least twice on the Science and Public Policy Institute blog here and here (and he denied making the claim at an Associated Press event over the weekend). Clearly Monckton believes that the activists are behaving as the Nazis would.
Monckton is wrong. Temporarily taking over a meeting, chanting, and disturbing the organizers and invited speaker (Monckton) is not what the Nazis would have done. As someone who studied the history of Nazism and fascism in college, allow me to describe what would have happened during the meeting had it been invaded by the Nazis. Just a warning – I’m not going to go into gory detail, but I’m not going to sugar coat this either, so some of what I describe below is unpleasant.Last week, Lord Christopher Monckton accused a group of young climate activists who... more
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It’s hard to listen when your emotions are…heated (couldn’t resist). Just ask Christopher Monckton who, in a heated moment, called the young activists who protested The Americans for Prosperity meeting in Copenhagen yesterday. (Monckton heads up an organization called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group known for its opposition to scientific consensus on climate change).
Ok~ So that’s old news. The saga continued today when Monckton was confronted by a group of young activists he approached to discuss his perspective on climate science.
But when the youth activists featured in the video confronted Mockton about comparing them to Hitler Youth, he went on to talk over them and threaten, “Now you know what will happen if you invade a private meeting and start shrieking.”
There are several points about that statement that are fascinating. The first, it was not a private meeting. It appears that it was a live webcast that was open to the public, and when you watch the video, it looks like the room is only filled with activists…and then there’s that nod at the end. The next day Monckton bragged that his team was responsible for putting that video on youtube moments after the event occurred, it it begs one to question:
Was this entire event staged? Was Monckton looking for an opportunity to provoke young activists so they could get the term “Hitler Youth” into the media?
Hook. Line. And Sinker. Well done.
You got my attention.
I’m going to listen to Monckton because in the big scheme of things, it’s just the right thing to do.
Ok, no angel wings growing yet~ so the real reason reason I want to listen is because I smell the language of fear.
Monckton is afraid.
While many people are out there calling him crazy, I think he's scary because it appears he is deliberately and strategically spreading a message of fear. And no matter what you think about climate science and global warming~ that feels dangerous.
The one thing history has proven time and time again, is that people do outrageous things when they act from a place of fear.
Lord Monckton is saying he is scared. He is saying that world food prices have doubled. He is stating that millions are dying in third world countries because of the global warming scare because people who are working to reduce global warming don’t care. (I’m not following that logic). He said, “Until you start caring..I will continue to call you Hitler Youth.” (Lost me on that one too. Most people I know who give over their lives to activism and working on climate change issues are intensely aware of the amount of climate refugees and the amount of death and destruction that is happening on the planet. It’s safe to say they deeply care). Monckton says, “Now you know what it looks like when you do robotic things like the Hitler youth did when they occupied Copenhagen…you do as much damage to the poor as they Hitler youth did.” Hmmm. Hate crimes against Jews compared to being responsible for children dying in developing countries. I dunno, not to sound harsh, but I grew up on commercials showing me starving children in Africa. I’m not making the connection between the recent surge toward climate protection and starving people in developing countries.
So when I listen, I hear that Monckton has chosen to pick one of the most triggering symbols of hate crimes the world has, will he will call them the children of the KKK tomorrow? At this point, he has actively chosen to put himself in front of the camera repeatedly speaking the language of hate, and by doing so he is spreading a message of fear and desperation. To me, it sounds like Mockton and the groups he represents feels threatened by the act of pursuing policy that requires nations to coordinate efforts that may result in the global economy shifting. It sounds like he is afraid of losing money. Now that makes sense to me. And that, can cause a great deal of fear.It’s hard to listen when your emotions are…heated (couldn’t... more
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According to Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog, climate disruption denier Lord Monckton was talking with a number of youths when he was approached by a couple of other youths he recognized from the Americans for Prosperity event that was temporarily taken over by youth climate activists yesterday. When he was asked to shake one of the activists’ hand, he responded
No, no. I’m not going to shake the hand of Hitler Youth. I’m sorry.
The activist in question, Ben Wessel, is Jewish, and his grandparents escaped the Nazis. Furthermore, Monckton’s remarks yesterday could have been considered intemperate as they were made in the heat of the moment. That Monckton would repeat the charge today when he’s not being shouted over suggests that he truly believes the youth activists to be equal to the Hitler Youth.According to Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog, climate disruption denier Lord Monckton was... more
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