Greedy Lying Bastards

Featuring the Kochtopus and I am not a Lord, Monckton.

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I am not a Lord, Monckton

With the un-Lord back in Australia preaching his peculiar brand of 'socialists are leading us into climate change tyranny' to audiences of, well about 50 actually, let's take a quick look at I am not a Lord, Monckton's errr...unusual history.

Sure, we know I am not a Time Lord, Monckton's claims about global warming are easily debunked as raving nonsense, and the House of Lords' is none-too-pleased about his Lordship's claims concerning them, but that's just the tip of the iceberg! Scientist Barry Bickmore has compiled a long, looong list of I am not a Law Lord, Monckton's doings in Lord Monckton's Rap Sheet... such as:

• he won the Falkland's War for Britain! I kid you not!
• Monckton claimed that he has developed a cure for Graves’ Disease, AIDS, Multiple Schlerosis, the flu, and the common cold
• Monckton lied about his personal circumstances to sell more of his Eternity puzzle, and admitted it.  Later, he tried to talk his way out of the lie
• Monckton claimed to be a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and the IPCC because he supposedly sent the IPCC a letter pointing out something that needed to be corrected in a draft report
• Monckton cites scientific literature that actually refutes his points, or refers to papers in such a misleading way that the authors of the papers say that Monckton has misinterpreted their results
• he really wants the Medieval Warm Period to have been warmer than today, and will latch onto any piece of “evidence” that seems to support this.  For example, he wrote that “There was little ice at the North Pole: a Chinese naval squadron sailed right round the Arctic in 1421 and found none.”  He apparently got this claim from Gavin Menzies, but it has been shown to be complete garbage
• he made up data on atmospheric CO2 concentration and global mean temperature that he claimed were IPCC predictions
• he threatens to instigate academic misconduct investigations against professors who have exposed his misrepresentations
• He accused NASA of crashing its own satellite so it wouldn’t have to deal with more data that contradicts the scientific consensus about climate change
• On the Michael Coren show, Monckton butchered the history of the DDT ban so badly that he claimed JFK did things after he was dead
• In 1987 he suggested rounding up all AIDS-sufferers and isolating them for life
• Monckton suggested it might be a good idea to require scientists to have some kind of religious certification before being allowed to practice in a field like climatology
• Lord Monckton has repeatedly accused scientists and others of lies, fraud, and conspiracy to impose a Communist world government.  He routinely calls people who disagree with him “bed-wetters,” “zombies,” and “Hitler Youth”

Goodness it just goes on and on and on....and it was written back in 2010 so there's even more now!

Oh, I am not a War Lord, Monckton; you make a sane world that little bit crazy...

Dealing with deniers

Graham Readfearn (see link to the right) has done a brilliant piece on how journalists like Fairfax's Ben Cubby deal with the utterly inane drivel being pushed out by deniers like the Galileo Movement's Malcolm Roberts. It's a lead everyone should follow.

The whole thing can be summed up in one beautifully succinct sentence: “how does one critically analyse a pile of horse shit?”

For those who haven't heard of the gloriously mis-named Galileo Movement you haven't missed much. Here's a small sample:

Roberts wraps this whole global conspiracy theory neatly into a heading for one section: “The objective is global control through global socialist governance by international bankers hiding control behind environmentalism”.

“The core problem is massive over-government through international bankers seeking to control,” writes Roberts. “We now know WHY they push climate fraud. They’re pushing global control.”

At one point, Roberts claims that “it’s likely that during John Howard’s prime ministership socialist bureaucrats pulled the strings” which leaves you wondering why these evil socialist puppet masters failed to get Howard to sign the United Nations’ Kyoto protocol?

Oh how Galileo would spin in his grave if he knew these clowns had taken his name to promote their "scientific" denier agenda.

Even Andrew Bolt thinks GM are too crazy for him.

Funnily enough though, Gina Reinhardt and Alan Jones are still supporters of GM. No surprises there.

More blizzards, less snow overall - Climate changes northern winter?

And the problem is...?

The Keystone XL Tar Sands Climate Threat

Obama is undoubtedly a great orator - certainly one of the greatest in the modern era.

But when he recently said that action had to be taken to deal with global warming, did he actually mean it? The first great test he has to pass is to stop this monstrosity. No ifs, no buts; it has to be stopped.