Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing
Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret ...
Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing
Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.
The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face, Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. They are cowards.
According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had chickened out and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The "celebrity" witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats' "celebrity" with an unnamed "celebrity" of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.
[ Update: 1:55 PM EST: A GOP House source told Climate Depot that the Democrats on the Committee said absolutely not to allowing Monckton to appear during today's Gore hearing. The GOP committee pushed at multiple levels to bring Monckton in to testify but the Democrats refused, according to the GOP source. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was called in to testify after Monckton was rejected by the committee Democrats, according to the Congressional source.]
The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman's (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore's sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear, Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening.
Waxman knows there has been no 'global warming' for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years' global cooling. Waxman knows that, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore's mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, 'the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view,' Monckton explained. Monckton has previously testified before the House Committee in March. (See: Monckton: Have the courage to do nothing...US Congress told climate change is not real ) Monckton has also publicly challenged Gore to a debate. (See: Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming By Lord Monckton - March 19, 2007 )
A call to the Democratic office of the House Energy and Commerce Committee seeking comment was not immediately returned Thursday night.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 By Marc Morano, Climatedepot.com
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Al the con man Gore needs to be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity. This is one of the biggest ponzi schemes in the history of planet Earth.
we are not capable of "destroying" the planet but only capable of making it inhabitable for us. if we all died today a million years later our existence would be erased. there would be new species walking the earth and swimming the seas.
im not against trying to clean up our act but lets get some real solutions instead of the first crappy ideas that pop in our head.
i understand the point your making but we are not at any critical point in our earths health. and this is the argument that the green movement wants to hear, coming from you. this movement is completely about money. almost every solution we have come up with, when looked at more closely, turns out to be a bad idea. examples: ethanol-food prices go up and creates a bigger carbon footprint than worth making
flourescent bulbs: mercury and must be disposed of properly.
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im not against trying to clean up our act but lets get some real solutions instead of the first crappy ideas that pop in our head.
almost every solution we have come up with, when looked at more closely, turns out to be a bad idea.
examples:
ethanol-food prices go up and creates a bigger carbon footprint than worth making
flourescent bulbs: mercury and must be disposed of properly.
look where the $ flows to