Climate change sceptic to speak

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By Rebecca Fox on Thu, 21 Mar 2013
University of Otago | News: Dunedin | Climate change | Hot Topics

A leading global warming sceptic, Lord Christopher Monckton, will speak in Dunedin next month. His visit is part of a national ''Climate Freedom Tour'' and will include a lunch and an evening function on April 23.

Lord Monckton is a British politician, public speaker, hereditary peer and former newspaper editor.

Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, he worked for Margaret Thatcher's Number 10 Policy Unit during the 1980s.

In recent years, he has received publicity for holding sceptical views about man-made climate change and has authored more than 100 papers on the climate issue. Dunedin organiser Jock Allison, of the New Zealand Science Coalition, said Lord Monckton was an entertaining speaker with different views from the mainstream on climate change.

He would speak on why the many claims of human-induced climate change were inaccurate and why there was no reason to be concerned about global warming and sea-level rise. The lack of effect of carbon taxes and emission trading schemes and international climate agendas would also be discussed.

Dr Allison hoped about 400 people would attend the combined events at the Savoy Reception and Conference Centre and University of Otago Burns theatre A.

- rebecca.fox@odt.co.nz

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Submitted by Samson on Mon, 25/03/2013 - 7:10am.

Mr Monckton is misguided.  Though living in England with its pathetic weather could lead to inappropriate thinking on Global Warming.  He should have grown up in Dunedin during the 40s, 50s and sixties and then he'd know that a global weather change is happening right now!  We've gone from long sunny summer days to short cloudy summer days brought about by nor-easters, something I never saw as a kid in Dunedin.  He should be banned from New Zealand; let him take his crazy ideas somewhere else!

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Monckton's other stories

Submitted by cindyb on Fri, 22/03/2013 - 11:25am.

Prepare for a dance of conspiracy theories verging on hysteria. 

-  the anodyne Agenda 21 will lead to "UN-run concentration camps" 

- Obama's birth certificate was faked.  

- the world hasn't warmed in 16 years. Wrong - see here.  

Monckton has also been in Australia supporting the Rise Up Australia Party, a new political party whose leader said that the awful 2009 Black Saturday Fires were god's retribution for the state of Victoria's abortion laws.

And no, he hasn't published a single peer reviewed paper on climate change.    

 

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Monkton's 100 papers

Submitted by Rob Fischer on Thu, 21/03/2013 - 9:22pm.

He may well have published 100 papers but only one of them is in a recognised scientific journal. A search of the Web of Knowledge, Scopus and JSTOR databases reveals one 2007 paper on "Free speech about climate change" ... that's assuming he's not the C. Monckton who wrote "HIV transmitted by kissing" in 1987. Attend by all means, but don't expect to be scientifically informed.

 

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