Lord of the Sceptics, Christopher Monckton Attends Newcastle and Points Finger At China
By Kate Ausburn
Photo by Right Winger.
No one was safe from the scathing accusations of non-scientist and radical climate denier, Christopher Monckton, when he attended Newcastle, home to the world's largest coal export port, to lecture on global warming.
Monckton was invited to Australia by two Queensland retirees at an estimated cost of $100,000, including a $20,000 fee, in order to address the lack of understanding around the governments proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) and give voice to the sceptic's argument against the consequences of man-made climate change.
Professor Ian Plimer, who failed to disclose his ongoing involvement in the mining industry, introduced Monckton but not before dismissing the environmental movement as one driven by fears, not facts.
Monckton began presentation by explaining that he was "not a scientist" and that he was going to address his audience in plain English "..because it's all got too complicated". He then launched into an his hour long attack on the United Nations (UN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the Australian government and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the entire Australian COP15 delegation, the scientists at the University of East Anglia, the British Parliament, China, the media and of course "appallingly misinformed" environmental lobbying groups.
Monckton dismissed climate science as fraudulent and "bogus", referring to the emails leaked from scientists at the University of East Anglia in Britain. Monckton went further to dismiss global warming as a conspiracy coordinated by the United Nations to earn a misappropriated profit and act as a front to form a world government.
The most rapturous applause of the presentation came when Monckton rallied fellow sceptics in the audience against the current governments proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), telling them the proposal would send their jobs overseas and asking them to chant if they were proud Australians. A few environmentalists in the audience responded "Not right now", against the cheers and cries of "yes!" amongst the rest of the predominately 55yrs and over crowd. Monckton failed to acknowledge that the majority of environmental lobbying groups agreed that an ETS is not the way to effectively combat climate change.
"If government sets price high enough to deter people [from consuming fossil fuel based energy]..will bankrupt the Hunter Region..you will all lose your jobs" said Monckton.
Monckton explained that climate change was part of a natural cycle and while admitting that humans omitted CO2 and that CO2 could cause warming, that the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere and oceans, as a result of human emissions, was of inconsequential levels and would not cause any environmental change.
In what was the most striking allegation of Monckton's performance, his Novocastrian audience were told that, despite the region's multibillion-dollar coal industry, blame should be shifted instead to China, "Whatever we do is not going to make any different at all..you're going to have to persuade China".
Labels: australia, christopher monckton, climate change, environmentalism, green energy, newcastle, united kingdom
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