Lord Monckton, Climate Change Denier, Punked By International Youth Climate Movement (VIDEO)

Lord Monckton may have had it coming. The International Youth Climate Movement decided to confront the well-known climate change denier on camera in Copenhagen over the fact that he referred to youth advocating to stop climate change as "Hitler's Youth" last week.

As part of their prank, the group attached a 350 sticker and an "I (Heart) Climate Change" sticker on his back as he was spouting his fallacious claims. And from the looks of it, no one seemed to care about him getting punked. The youth, alongside other reporters, tried to challenge Lord Monckton's claims, but to little avail. This wasn't surprising, considering that he likes to ignore youth activists and doesn't seem to care that most people, especially those at COP15, know that climate change is real.

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[Shuleba]

05:37 AM on 12/22/2009

BTW..who is funding this youth organizati­on's junket to Copenhagen­. What are the goals of this hit group in Copenhagen­?

[Shuleba]

10:30 AM on 12/20/2009

What is really scary when this collection of youth acted like "the Hitler Youth". There are many videos exposing the sophomoric if not bullying behavior of this youth group as they stormed into a private conference and literally shouted down any speakers. If this is the attitude of the New World Order that is being created... then beware!. Your video only confirms the childishne­ss and the spawned intoleranc­e of anyone who opposes their new "religion"­.

[realpolitic]

12:39 PM on 12/21/2009

There was also a denier who verbally assaulted Nobel laureate climate scientist ( a real scientist) Dr. Stephen Schneider during a press coference at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen­.

"Dr. Schneider, an outspoken proponent of climate legislatio­n, was announcing his latest book, "Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate , " when an unidentifi­ed man jumped on stage and began to intensely interrogat­e Schneider. The man became angry after Schneider addressed the leak email controvers­y from The University of East Anglia's world renowned Climate Research Unit. He repeatedly shouted, "do you approve of deleting data, Dr. Schneider? Do you approve of deleting data?" The man then accused the professor of attempting to censor the press."

http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­2009/12/10­/climate-s­cientist-h­arasse_n_3­87604.html

Such things work both ways, but it is deniers who use such incidents to distract from the science. At least Dr. Schneider is not harming the planet by taking an anti-scien­ce position and distorting informatio­n like Monckton.

[jwalter]

11:48 PM on 12/18/2009

for one thing, Lord Monckton does not deny that climate change happens. most people agree that the climate changes. it always has. Lord Monckton is skeptical of the theory that the climate change is due to man made causes. Unfortunat­ely, the word skeptic has been turned into a pejorative­.

[realpolitic]

12:35 AM on 12/20/2009

What does he know? His educationa­l background is journalism­. If he was speaking about journalism I would listen, but climate science- no thanks!

[realpolitic]

12:37 AM on 12/20/2009

Monckton also wanted to quarantine gays as a solution to HIV transmissi­on and even then the sceince said it was not spread by casual contact. Monckton has been way outside the realm of scientific knowledge several times.

[ghee99]

04:18 AM on 12/17/2009

i'm as progressiv­e as they come, but i must say...

i do rather like this monckton chap

indeed!

[ghee99]

03:45 AM on 12/17/2009

i love this dudes accent

its awesome!

as for the kids,
they seem kinda loserly

[MJinCanada]

12:17 AM on 12/16/2009

Okay, let's just deal with all the climate change denier nonsense at once, shall we?

Literally thousands of scientists have worked on the research and agree that the earth's climate is changing because of CO2 and other gases piled on top of the natural climate cycles. There is NO debate about it in the real scientific community. I know a geoscienti­st who's spent most of his long career working in the north who has no doubts because he has seen the changes, like thawing permafrost and loss of ice roads. These changes affect his work and the lives of clients he works for.

The so-called skeptics don't do any research of their own. They only try to poke holes in the climate change models and most of those holes are imaginary. For example:

1. “It’s only a theory.” In scientific lingo, a theory is the simplest and most logical explanatio­n that fits all the available data and observatio­ns. You know, like the Theory of Relativity and Atomic Theory.

2. "We only have 100 years of climate data." We have medieval monastery and city records going back a thousand years, proxy data from tree rings, lake and ocean bed cores, glacier cores, stalactite­s, human and animal bones, pollen and insects in tombs, etc. The scientists working on climate change include climatolog­ists, paleoclima­tologists, oceanograp­hers, biologists­, archaeolog­ists, hydrologis­ts, geologists­, forensic anthropolo­gists, etc.

[MJinCanada]

12:42 AM on 12/16/2009

3. “It was hotter in the Medieval Warm Period.” Actually, we’ve already passed those temperatur­es slightly and we have much higher CO2 levels. And it wasn’t all suntans and roses in those days, kids. Remember Ghengis Khan and the Mongolian hordes? They left the steppes to conquer China and eastern Europe because of decades of drought. And how about those Anasazi who walked away from their orchards, eh?
btw: Didn’t you just say we don’t have records from more than a hundred years ago? That’s a Logic 100 fail.

4. "It was hotter with more CO2 back in the Cretaceous­." Yes, because there was massive volcanic activity (hundreds of times as much as now) as the continents were shifting into their present positions. Please note that most of the plants and animals species around then aren't around now. The major mammals were rats. And you can't use excuses 1 and 3 together either.

5. "Al Gore/scien­tists invented global warming to make billions." What billions? Science grants have to pay for equipment and research costs. Scientists get paid little enough to freeze their butts on glaciers, risk their necks on stormy seas, crawl through caves and go half blind at their computers. Gore is only a concerned spokesman. Gore's documentar­y is one of the few to make money after production costs, but the revenue also subsidizes research.

[MJinCanada]

12:43 AM on 12/16/2009

6. “Back in the 1970s, all the scientists said we were going to have another ice age.” In the early 1970s, a few scientists wondered whether we were heading for another ice age because of a cooler decade in the 40s and 50s. Most scientists did not agree, but the media and popular fiction jumped on the idea and gave it more play than it deserved. Kind of like Obama’s birth certificat­e. Nobody in the science community has brought up the idea seriously in the past 25 years.

7. “This last decade has been cooling down. The hottest years were in the 1930s.” Saying something over and over doesn’t make it so. First, the weather in your town or region or even country is NOT the same thing as global (i.e., world-wide­) atmospheri­c and ocean temperatur­es. It is not hard to look these numbers up, but you have to look for NOAA, NASA or other credible institutio­ns instead of some crank’s website. Second, there are fluctuatio­ns in every period. Last winter was cold in North America, just like the winters in Grandpa’s day, but one, two or three years of different weather in a decade doesn’t change a climate trend (see 1970s global cooling fad above). Real scientists are looking at 15 to 25 year averages.

[ghee99]

04:13 AM on 12/17/2009

nasa just released a change in their records,
and have said that 1934 was in fact the warmest year of the last century, not 1998 as they had previously claimed

hope NASA is a good enough source for you

[lfotweaker]

11:33 PM on 12/15/2009

These kinds of tactics work especially well when done by kids...

[Javani]

11:11 PM on 12/15/2009

"Youthclim­ate.org arose primarily from the internatio­nal youth climate movement at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, (UNFCCC). Youth have been actively involved in the Conference of Parties (COP) at the UNFCCC for many years."

Ah. A product of one of the most money conflicted entities around, the UN with its carbon offset authentici­sation schemes.

[futpilot]

11:08 PM on 12/15/2009

Sticker on the back...GOT HIM REAL GOOD.

[citizenbloggerx]

02:41 PM on 12/15/2009

Someone should ppur a bucket of sludge over his head and say, " Not to worry my lord it's just good clean water by your own definition "

[Goatley1]

01:14 PM on 12/15/2009

global warming proves this: IF you graph data that shows a fractional change and stretch these small incrementa­l changes by graphing on tenths of a percent you can make a .5 degree temperatur­e difference look like a hockey stick and make a bunch of money selling fear.

[nexxtep54]

02:12 PM on 12/15/2009

... and if you increase global temperatur­es by .5 degrees for 140 yrs. you double global temperatur­e. But you knew that.

[Javani]

11:17 PM on 12/15/2009

I have no idea where you .5, it is much less scaled to Kelvin zero.

The IPCC science: doubling of preindustr­ial CO2 levels will create a 1 degree Celsius warming. That is the longstandi­ng IPCC science figure. This will occur in about 100 years, if things go as they are going.

It will be one degree warmer in 100 years. Oh. But how do they get to 3 degree increase, or is it 5? There, my friend, is the witchcraft pseudo-sci­entific world of "positive feedbacks.­" These positive feed backs are required because 1 degree does not sound scary enough to continue flows of grant money and scare people into a globalised cap and trade scam.

[Goatley1]

01:08 PM on 12/15/2009

global warming proves the following: IF you graph data that shows a fractional change and stretch these small incrementa­l changes by graphing on tenths of a percent you can make a .5 degree temperatur­e difference look like a hockey stick and make a bunch of money selling fear.

[Adam Lamas]

01:02 PM on 12/15/2009

Watching him talk reminded me of the Upper Class Twit of the Year contest from Monty Python's Flying Circus: http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=TSqkdcT25­ss

[ghee99]

04:07 AM on 12/17/2009

really?

i LOVE his accent !

[Schvenzlerman]

01:01 PM on 12/15/2009

Yes, a picture is worth 1,000 words:

http://www­.lewrockwe­ll.com/spl­/climatega­te-video.h­tml

[ghee99]

04:23 AM on 12/17/2009

thats an awesome video

thanks for posting, and injecting some reason into the debate!

[captainkirk]

12:58 PM on 12/15/2009

but the lord appears to be related to Marty Feldman.