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More on the potty peer, Christopher Monckton
April 11th, 2010“Lord” Monckton continues to be reality challenged
February 9th, 2010Media Watch made its welcome return to ABC1 last night, and they devoted some time to the visit to Australia by the potty peer Christopher Monckton. He’s true to form, lying about the IPCC and about the Great Barrier Reef. Check out Media Watch’s website for details and video.
Mike Carlton on “Lord” Monckton
February 6th, 2010The Age is carrying a rather nice smack down of “Lord” Christopher Monckton, who is peddling his climate change denialist crap in Australia at the moment. An excerpt:
Monckton is a mathematician. Baloney. He has a Cambridge degree in Classics, ie Latin and Ancient Greek, and a diploma in journalism (whatever that means) from Cardiff. He can blather mathsy stuff in TV interviews, but that doesn’t mean he’s a mathematician. I know every song the Rolling Stones ever wrote, but that doesn’t make me Mick Jagger.
Monckton was a science adviser to Margaret Thatcher. Wrong. Thatcher has a science degree herself; she hardly needed a science adviser who didn’t. Monckton was hired in 1982 as a low-level drone in her policy unit, working on public housing and the like.
Read the rest at the Age. The cartoon is particularly nice.
