Monckton responds (part 1/2)

Monckton has responded to my catelogue of his errors, on the website wattsupwiththat.com
It includes an extraordinary reversal of position on most of them, including an outright denial of what he said (needless to say, I have video tape of him saying it.)

SOURCES:
Monckton response at:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/18/monckton-answers-a-troll/#more-47641

Monckton's non-peer-reviewed opinion piece on Forum on Physics and Society discussed in:
Monckton Bunkum 1 -- Global cooling and melting ice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM

Monckton's global cooling graphs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM

2:35 -- Monckton Refutes Abraham: Part 10: NCDC Graphs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57L7ujF5RvY

Melting of Greenland ice cap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM

Arctic ice loss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM

Snowball Earth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF48b6Lsbo

No correlation between CO2 and temp:
"Monckton Bunkum 3 -- CORRELATION AND HIMALAYAN GLACIERS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF48b6Lsbo

Monckton's claim on no retreat of glaciers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF48b6Lsbo

Monckton's claims about forcing:
MONCKTON BUNKUM 2 -- SENSITIVITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTY3FnsFZ7Q

Monckton's claim about Dr. Pinker's paper:
"Monckton Bunkum 3 -- CORRELATION AND HIMALAYAN GLACIERS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF48b6Lsbo

Monckton's misquotes:
"Monckton Bunkum 4 -- QUOTES AND MISQUOTES"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3giRaGNTMA

Instances of Monckton getting peer-reviewed papers wrong:
Scafetta and West: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCyctTvuCo
Johannessen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM
Sami Solanki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCyctTvuCo

Monckton's claim that warming planets point to sun:
"Apocalypse No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007

Quotes attributed to International Astronomical Union:
16:27 "Monckton Bunkum 5-- WHAT MORE ERRORS MY LORD?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCyctTvuCo
16:40 "Apocalypse No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Monckton
• climate
• change
• gore
• global
• warming

[Bernadotte01]

Where can we see the devastating effects of warming in the real world? Why did Arctic ice rebound in 2008 instead of precipitously declining through positive feedback? What happened to the permanent Aussie drought forecast by the doomsayers? Why is snow no longer a thing of the past, but a double-plus predictable feature of change-warming today? Why must we fund false prophets with our taxes?

I don't fund Monckton with my taxes. But my taxes fund false-prophet Flannery.

Why must it so? :(

[potholer54]

@Bernadotte01 =Why is snow no longer a thing of the past, but a double-plus predictable feature of change-warming today?= Thanks for all the questions. Please message me and I'll be happy to answer, because even for a non-expert like me they're not too taxing. On the "snow a thing of the past" I have done a video on this misconception, so take a look. You'll be glad to know that snow will always be with us, despite rumors to the contrary.

[philosophicalreason]

My science knowledge compared to you is zero as this question may be one of the simplistic questions you get.Isn't the earth planet cooling and warming perfectly normal dinosaurs went extinct because of climate change,I know there are other theories but sticking with climate change isn't that well just normal?

[potholer54]

@philosophicalreason =Isn't the earth planet cooling and warming perfectly normal= Yes, it certainly is. The Earth's climate has changed from a snowball to a hothouse and back again several times, depending on the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. A high concentration of CO2 can bake it, and a low concentration of CO2 can freeze it. I don't know how this reassures us, however.

[potholer54]

@Llamehtdos2 =Monckton destroys your twisted garbage at WUWTm end off!= Sadly, Monckton just repeats his claims and doesn't address any of the evidence I produced -- mostly from his own misread sources. I would love to have a debate with him, and am trying to do just that. Please urge Anthony Watts on WUWT to allow me equal space for a reply. I would urge Monckton to respond to the evidence, and will happily give him space on this channel also. Let's see if he dares.

[potholer54]

@iglwy =who cares if he was or wasn't thatcher's adviser= You're preaching to the choir. It is Monckton's supporters who are claiming he was Thatcher's science advisor. And they care very much, because it gives his scientific opinion some legitimacy. So I suggest you talk to them.

[TheSkunkCat]

Is this Monckton a retard or something?

I ask that because he doesn't seem to realize he lives in the age of modern media. Where if he says something that's on record it can EASILY be found again. So that if he claims he 'never said that' he can EASILY been shown that he DID say that.

And if this Monckton kook doesn't realize that, that makes me take him even LESS seriously. Which is to say that he'd get all the respect I reserve for creationists: None.

[jonnosferatu]

@potholer54 This was a while ago, but I THINK I was referring to the stuff following the highlighted text and not the audio comment - it seems like the argument in his response was more the "Temperature first, then CO2" part, and I'm guessing I thought that that statement deserved some reference (though I'm fairly sure you addressed the issues that raises in an older video). At the time, it probably seemed like an unfair omission, though looking at it now I'm not so sure.

[thefrockdoctrine]

This video is a tour de force, thank you for putting in the work.

[chica476]

@potholer54

is there a set amount of CO2 which does one or the other?

[ShalomYal]

Keep em coming!!!!!!!!!

[atheistcommonsense]

@KidMeatball water aides in snow development, thats y buffalo gets hammered yearly. i have no clue where u get ur info or what point youre trying to make, sorry

[StunnedByStupidity]

@potholer54 I would LOVE to see you debate Monckton - really love to see you make him eat his words - I hope it can be arranged - with a little luck that WUWT debate just stared might expand...

[KidMeatball]

@atheistcommonsense Cypress Mountain shipped in snow for the olympics. Its proximity to the water and relatively low elevation make it common for snow to be fleeting in the best of years. The winter of 2010 was especially mild leading up to the olympics and became milder still for the duration of the competition.

Whistler had no trouble with snow for the alpine events.

[GtheMVP]

@iglwy He's not a science advisor, nor is he a "Lord", FFS man, stop giving this fraud so much credit, he's a conman!

[winston2015]

Monckton is a hack.. worse, an idiot/

Your videos make that clear. Thank you for making them!