Saturday, February 8, 2014

Collin Maessen vs. Lord Monckton 2013

One of the most astounding and frightening aspects of the "Republican" attitude towards learning about and understanding climate science is the GOP's willingness to embrace serial lies in order to support their political agenda.  

As though having wealth and power makes them superior to our planet's natural forces.  Yet, even though human history is filled with stories of the hubris of greed and power destroying its own civilizations, they remain hostile to rational information.  Why does it seem like the GOP hasn't learned anything in these information rich and supposedly enlighten times?

I've been thinking about it because of the recent farce where one serial liar Lord Monckton has come to the rescue of another deception artist Dr. Richard Lindzen the scientist who loves misrepresenting his colleagues. (also see: “A disservice to the scientific method”: climate scientists take on Richard Lindzen )


It's become the cause du jour in the echo chamber, thus making this sharing of the research done by Collin Maessen timely. To be sure his is not the first serious exposure of the lies Lord Monckton feels comfortable repeating and that his audience love him for.  For example:
    
John Abraham's excellent review of a 2010 Monckton presentation
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Another worthy science-based take-down is at:
Lord Monckton’s Rap Sheet
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I'll share more links at the end of Collin's list of videos, each one exposing another deception - the deceptions that some unskeptical accept as the final word on this critical issue - of what we are doing to our climate system.

But, it is the most recent and up to date.  I thank Collin for giving me permission to share and now it's time to hand it over to Collin:

ventures into scepticism

Climate Changes, But Facts Don’t
13th March 2013

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Climate Changes, But Facts Don't: Debunking Monckton

On the 19th of July in 2011 the National Press Club of Australia held a debate on climate change. In this video I analysed the claims Monckton made during the debate and if they are correct or not. 
The reason I’m doing this is that Monckton challenges his critics to check his sources, or like he put it in this debate “to do your homework”. I’ve taken him up on this to see if the scientific literature, and other available sources, corroborate what he said. 
You will find the full transcript for this video on the pages for each individual segment. On the page for each segment you will also find a full listing of all the sources I used for that particular section of the video. 
If you find any inaccuracies in the transcript, media listing, source listing, or in statements made by me, please do not hesitate to contact me and I’ll correct them as soon as possible.
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Climate Changes, But Facts Don't

01: Introduction
02: The IPCC Can't Predict Future Climates
03: Royal Society Doesn't Know How Much The Planet Will Warm
04: Climate Science Is Done By Consensus
05: Medieval Warm Period And Fraudulent Science
06: The 1995 IPCC Report Was Written By One Man
07: The 2007 IPCC Report Uses A Statistical Fraudulent Technique
08: The World Will Only Warm By One Celsius Degree
09: CO2 Measures In A Single Country Don't Make A Difference
10: It Is Cheaper To Do Nothing Than To Prevent Global Warming
11: The Australian Carbon Tax Will Cause Job Losses
12: The Increase In Global Temperatures Cannot Accelerate
13: Australia Is Now Considered A Sovereign Risk
14: Credential Claims
15: Greenpeace And The Marxist Takeover
16: GM Miracle Rice
17: The Communist Economic Agenda Of Environmentalists
18: The Polarisation Of The Climate Debate
19: There Is No Consensus On Climate Sensitivity
20: Calculating Climate Sensitivity
21: Monckton Has Published In The Peer-reviewed Literature
22: Other Countries Are No Longer Pursuing Climate Measures
23: Lindzen And Choi 2011
24: Spencer And Braswell 2010
25: The Likelihood Of A High Climate Sensitivity Is Small
26: Monckton Is A Member Of The House Of Lords
27: Feedback Loop Gain From Process Engineering Shows Low Climate Sensitivity
28: CO2 Is Plant Food
29: Conclusion 
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A sampling of what others have written:


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Monckton Testimony at US Congress: Ignorance or Perjury?
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The Church of Monckton
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The Monckton Files: Bickmore’s First and Second Laws of Monckton
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Monckton Myths: A one-stop-shop for debunking The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
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Hoity Toity Christopher Monckton sez the Earth is losing energy and other silliness at WUWT
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Climate Misinformer: Christopher Monckton
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How Richard Lindzen Screws Up Climate Science
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Climate Misinformer: Richard Lindzen
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Dr. Richard Lindzen, scientist as fiction writer

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I almost overlooked Peter Hadfield (Potholer54) and Peter Sinclair's (Greenman3610) many examinations of Monckton's nonsense:

Coughlan000 has collected a complete series by Potholer54 into one long video: 
"Potholer54 vs Monckton" 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okJXxWBsulk
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Monckton Bunkum Part 1 - Global cooling and melting ice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM
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Monckton responds (part 1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K74fzNAUq4
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Potholer54/Greenman3610 - The Search for Lord Monckton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZKzJwMOWAI

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Lord Monckton: "I've discovered a cure for HIV!"

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Debunking Lord Monckton Part 1

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Debunking Monckton Part 2 (updated)

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And you can do a search for "Monckton" here at CC and find that Monckton and I had a short correspondence honeymoon in 2010, before he got angry that I didn't buy his lies and ran off to hide.

The list could go on and on. 

But will the Republicans, who need to learn these lessons the most, ever develop enough rational skepticism to learn about what real climatologists are actually tell us?
Lord knows our children are depending on it.


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