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During the autumn of 2009, Monckton embarked on a tour of North America to campaign against the December 2009 [[United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009|United Nations Climate Change Conference]]. His warning that US President [[Barack Obama]] intended to sign a treaty at the conference which would "impose a communist world government on the world" was picked up by numerous commentators on the American right and "rocketed around the fringe" of right-wing websites, prompting Glenn Beck to invite him on his radio show again. Writing in ''Salon'', Alex Koppelman criticized Monckton's assertions about the conference's framework for negotiation as being "woefully inaccurate. And that's a nice way of putting it." <ref>{{cite news|last=Koppelman|first=Alex|title=Warming treaty to usher in one-world government?|url=http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/19/monckton/|date=2009-10-19|work=Salon.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hickman|first=Leo|title=Monckton's circus of climate change denial arrives in cloud cuckoo land|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/oct/20/climate-change-denial-monckton|date=2009-10-20|work=The Guardian}}</ref> The [[St. Petersburg Times]]'s ''PolitiFact.com'' described his assertions as "not only unsupported but preposterous" and awarded him a special rating of "britches on fire".<ref>{{cite news|title=British climate-change skeptic says Copenhagen treaty threatens "democracy," "freedom"|url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/oct/20/christopher-monckton/british-climate-skeptic-says-copenhagen-treaty-thr/|date=2009-10-14|work=The St. Petersburg Times}}</ref> Ethan Baron of the Canadian newspaper ''[[The Province]]'' criticized Monckton's assertions as the product of a "whacked-out, far-right ideology, combined with an ego the size of the Antarctic ice sheet."<ref>{{cite news|last=Baron|first=Ethan|title=Difficult to warm to climate-change denier|url=http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Difficult+warm+climate+change+denier/2080348/story.html|date=2009-10-07}}</ref>
During the autumn of 2009, Monckton embarked on a tour of North America to campaign against the December 2009 [[United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009|United Nations Climate Change Conference]]. His warning that US President [[Barack Obama]] intended to sign a treaty at the conference which would "impose a communist world government on the world" was picked up by numerous commentators on the American right and "rocketed around the fringe" of right-wing websites, prompting Glenn Beck to invite him on his radio show again. Writing in ''Salon'', Alex Koppelman criticized Monckton's assertions about the conference's framework for negotiation as being "woefully inaccurate. And that's a nice way of putting it." <ref>{{cite news|last=Koppelman|first=Alex|title=Warming treaty to usher in one-world government?|url=http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/19/monckton/|date=2009-10-19|work=Salon.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hickman|first=Leo|title=Monckton's circus of climate change denial arrives in cloud cuckoo land|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/oct/20/climate-change-denial-monckton|date=2009-10-20|work=The Guardian}}</ref> The [[St. Petersburg Times]]'s ''PolitiFact.com'' described his assertions as "not only unsupported but preposterous" and awarded him a special rating of "britches on fire".<ref>{{cite news|title=British climate-change skeptic says Copenhagen treaty threatens "democracy," "freedom"|url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/oct/20/christopher-monckton/british-climate-skeptic-says-copenhagen-treaty-thr/|date=2009-10-14|work=The St. Petersburg Times}}</ref> Ethan Baron of the Canadian newspaper ''[[The Province]]'' criticized Monckton's assertions as the product of a "whacked-out, far-right ideology, combined with an ego the size of the Antarctic ice sheet."<ref>{{cite news|last=Baron|first=Ethan|title=Difficult to warm to climate-change denier|url=http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Difficult+warm+climate+change+denier/2080348/story.html|date=2009-10-07}}</ref>

Later in November 2009, after the [[Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident|Climategate]] story had broken to expose the connivances of the [[Climatic Research Unit|CRU]] correspondents responsible for the [[Global warming|AGW]] fraud, Monckton began to publish calls for action against the climatology professionals complicit in the actions thereby revealed, writing on 23 November:<ref>{{cite web | author=Monckton, Christopher | http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscount-monckton-on-global-warminggate-they-are-criminals-pjm-exclusive/?print=1 | title=Viscount Monckton on Climategate: 'They Are Criminals' |date=23 November 2009}}</ref>
: 'The tiny, close-knit clique of [[Climatology|climate]] scientists who invented and now drive the "[[global warming]]" fraud — for [[fraud]] is what we [http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/global-warminggate-what-does-it-mean/ now know it to be] — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a [[whistleblower]] at the [[University of East Anglia]], where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant "global warming" for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.

: 'Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the [[Climate Research Unit]] shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the [[Goddard Institute for Space Studies|GISS]]/[[National Climatic Data Center|NCDC]] dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.

: 'Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and "global warming" [[Profiteering (business)|profiteers]] — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the [[Freedom of Information Act 2000|Freedom of Information Act]] in the {{United Kingdom|UK]] by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a [[Crime|criminal offense]]. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.'


====American Physical Society article on climate sensitivity====
====American Physical Society article on climate sensitivity====

Revision as of 06:16, 30 November 2009

Not to be confused with Christopher J. Monckton.
Christopher Walter Monckton
3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Names
Christopher Walter Monckton
OccupationBusiness consultant

Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British politician, business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, inventor and hereditary peer. He served as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher's policy unit in the 1980s and invented the Eternity puzzle at the end of the 1990s. More recently, he has attracted controversy for his public opposition to the mainstream scientific consensus on climate change. He also announced a sequel to his original puzzle called Eternity II in 2007, which is still unsolved.

Biography

Monckton was born on 14 February 1952, the eldest son of the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. He was educated at Harrow School, Churchill College, Cambridge where he read classics and University College, Cardiff, where he obtained a diploma in journalism.[1] On 19 May 1990, he married Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe Jensen. He inherited his father's peerage upon his father's death in 2006.

Career

Media and politics

Monckton joined the Yorkshire Post in 1974 at the age of 22, where he worked as a reporter and leader-writer. From 1977 to 1978, he worked at Conservative Central Office as a press officer, becoming the editor of the Roman Catholic newspaper The Universe in 1979, then managing editor of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine in 1981. He joined the London Evening Standard newspaper as a leader-writer in 1982.[1]

In 1979 Monckton met Alfred Sherman, who co-founded the pro-Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies with Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph in 1974. Sherman asked Monckton to take the minutes at the CPS's study group meetings.[2] Monckton subsequently became the secretary for the centre's economic, forward strategy, health and employment study groups.[3] He wrote a paper on the privatisation of council housing by means of a rent-to-mortgages scheme that brought him to the attention of Downing Street.[2] Ferdinand Mount, the head of the Number 10 Policy Unit and a former CPS director, brought Monckton into the Policy Unit in 1982, where he worked until 1986 as a special advisor on economic matters.[3][4]

He left the Policy Unit to become assistant editor of the newly established, and now defunct, tabloid newspaper Today. He was a consulting editor for the Evening Standard from 1987 to 1992 and was its chief leader-writer from 1990 to 1992.[1]

Monckton has referred to himself as a "peer of the House of Lords" but is not a member of that body.[5] Monckton was an unsuccessful candidate for a Conservative seat in the House of Lords in a March 2007 by-election caused by the death of Lord Mowbray and Stourton. He received no votes in the election.[6] He was highly critical of the way that the Lords had been reformed, describing the by-election procedure, with 43 candidates and 47 electors, as "a bizarre constitutional abortion."[7]

Associations

Monckton is a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, an Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and a member of the Roman Catholic Mass Media Commission. He is also a qualified Day Skipper with the Royal Yachting Association, and has been a Trustee of the Hales Trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic since 1986.[1]

Political views

Climate change

Monckton is critical of the theory of anthropogenic causes for climate change and the stated scope of it, which he regards as a controversy catalyzed by "the need of the international left for a new flag to rally round" following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.[8] He has expressed doubt about the reality of global warming in a number of newspaper articles and papers. He has been described in some quarters as a "former science adviser to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and a world-renowned scholar."[9] However, his credentials as a commentator on climate change have been questioned by some commentators. James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore note in their book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming that Monckton has "no training whatsoever in science", and criticize his asserted credentials as "unfounded self-promotion."[10] The Daily Telegraph has described him as "a former economic adviser".[4]

In two Sunday Telegraph articles published in November 2006, Monckton disputed whether global warming is man-made, suggested that it is unlikely to prove catastrophic, and criticized the science presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In particular, he has criticized the IPCC's interpretation of the Medieval Warm Period, cited the "hockey stick" controversy as evidence of faulty science, argued that the science in the IPCC reports has misapplied the Stefan–Boltzmann law, and supported the solar variation theory as a possible explanation of global warming. In an apparent reference to claims made by Gavin Menzies, he further stated "There was little ice at the North Pole: a Chinese naval squadron sailed right round the Arctic in 1421 and found none."[11]

The British writer and environmentalist George Monbiot has criticized Monckton's arguments, labelling them "cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation and pseudo-scientific gibberish."[12] In response, Monckton argued that he "got the science right", claiming that Monbiot got "too many facts wrong" and had shown "ignorance of the elementary physics".[13]

In response to the U.K. government's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, he has argued that the review's recommendation to invest 1% of global GDP in climate change mitigation would be ineffective, as would the introduction of carbon taxes and emissions trading as a means of curbing carbon emissions. He has proposed instead that the best solution should be to "go nuclear and reverse 20th-century deforestation."[14]

In February 2007, he published a critique of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change.[15] His calculations of climate sensitivity to increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have been published in the Quarterly Economic Bulletin.[16]

Monckton played a key role in a legal challenge heard in the High Court of Justice in October 2007 in a bid to prevent An Inconvenient Truth from being shown in English schools. In an interview with the conservative American talk radio host Glenn Beck, Monckton stated that he had prompted an unnamed friend to fund the case "to fight back against this tide of unscientific freedom-destroying nonsense" and had played a direct role in the litigation against the British government.[17] He was also reported to have funded the distribution to schools of the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle as a riposte to Gore's film.[18]

In March 2007, Monckton ran a series of advertisements in The New York Times and Washington Post challenging Al Gore to an internationally televised debate on climate change. The former U.S. Vice President did not respond.[8][19] The Science and Public Policy Institute provided funding for Monckton to produce a response to An Inconvenient Truth, titled Apocalypse?, No!, described as "showing Monckton presenting a slide show in a vitriolic attack on climate change science."[18] The film includes footage of Monckton giving a Gore-style presentation given on 8 October 2007 at the Cambridge Union in which he asserted that Gore and the IPCC had systematically falsified and exaggerated the evidence for global warming.[18][20]

During the autumn of 2009, Monckton embarked on a tour of North America to campaign against the December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. His warning that US President Barack Obama intended to sign a treaty at the conference which would "impose a communist world government on the world" was picked up by numerous commentators on the American right and "rocketed around the fringe" of right-wing websites, prompting Glenn Beck to invite him on his radio show again. Writing in Salon, Alex Koppelman criticized Monckton's assertions about the conference's framework for negotiation as being "woefully inaccurate. And that's a nice way of putting it." [21][22] The St. Petersburg Times's PolitiFact.com described his assertions as "not only unsupported but preposterous" and awarded him a special rating of "britches on fire".[23] Ethan Baron of the Canadian newspaper The Province criticized Monckton's assertions as the product of a "whacked-out, far-right ideology, combined with an ego the size of the Antarctic ice sheet."[24]

Later in November 2009, after the Climategate story had broken to expose the connivances of the CRU correspondents responsible for the AGW fraud, Monckton began to publish calls for action against the climatology professionals complicit in the actions thereby revealed, writing on 23 November:[25]

'The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the "global warming" fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant "global warming" for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.
'Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.
'Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and "global warming" profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the {{United Kingdom|UK]] by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.'

American Physical Society article on climate sensitivity

In July 2008 Monckton wrote an article about climate sensitivity for the American Physical Society's Forum on Physics and Society.[26][27], concluding: "it is very likely that in response to a doubling of pre-industrial carbon dioxide concentration [surface temperature] will rise not by the 3.26 °K [sic] suggested by the IPCC, but by <1 °K."

Some media commentators interpreted the publication of his paper as a sign that the American Physical Society had abandoned its earlier support for the scientific consensus on climate change.[28] In response, the APS reaffirmed its unchanged position on climate change and pointed out that the newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society "carries the statement that 'Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum.' This newsletter is not a journal of the APS and it is not peer reviewed."[29] The APS further added a disclaimer to the top of Monckton's article stating: "...Its conclusions are in disagreement with the overwhelming opinion of the world scientific community. The Council of the American Physical Society disagrees with this article's conclusions."[30] In a response[31], Monckton called the APS "red flag" "discourteous" and claimed his paper had been "scientifically reviewed in meticulous detail". Notwithstanding, Arthur Smith, long-time member at the APS Forum, has identified 125 errors, irrelevancies, and contradictions in the article.[32][33]

Social policy

Eddy Shah: Today and the Newspaper Revolution describes him as "a fervent, forthright and opinionated Roman Catholic Tory"[34] who has been closely associated with the "New Right" faction of the Conservative Party.[35] As one of Margaret Thatcher's policy advisors, he has been credited with being "the brains behind the Thatcherite policy of giving council tenants (public housing) the right to buy their homes."[36] In more recent years, he has been associated with the Referendum Party, advising its founder Sir James Goldsmith, and in 2003 he helped a Scottish Tory breakaway group, the People's Alliance.[36]

Business consultancy

In 1987, Monckton founded a consultancy company, Christopher Monckton Ltd., where he served as a director until he retired because of ill health in 2006. In 1999, he created and published the Eternity puzzle, a geometric puzzle which involved tiling a dodecagon with 209 irregularly shaped polygons called Polydrafters. A £1m prize was won after 18 months by two Cambridge mathematicians.[37] By that time, 500,000 puzzles had been sold. Monckton claimed that he had to sell his home, Crimonmogate, to pay the prize;[37] he later said the story was a publicity stunt.[38][39] A second puzzle, Eternity II, was launched on 28 July 2007, with a prize of $2 million.

Views on AIDS

Monckton's views on how the AIDS epidemic should be tackled have been the subject of some controversy. In an article for The American Spectator entitled "AIDS: A British View",[40] written for the January 1987 issue of The American Spectator, he argued that "there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month ... all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently." This would involve isolating between 1.5 and 3 million people in the United States ("not altogether impossible") and another 30,000 people in the UK ("not insuperably difficult"). The article was highly controversial, with The American Spectator's then assistant managing editor, Andrew Ferguson, denouncing it in the letters column of the same issue.[41] Monckton appeared on the BBC's Panorama programme in February 1987 to discuss his views and present the results of an opinion poll that found public support for his position.[35]

In 1999 the British gay rights group OutRage! launched a campaign to force the manufacturer of Monckton's Eternity Puzzle to disassociate itself from him because of his views.[42] Monckton has since clarified his views on AIDS, stating that "the article was written at the very outset of the AIDS epidemic, and with 33 million people around the world now infected, the possibility of [quarantine] is laughable. It couldn't work."

European integration

Monckton has been an advocate of Euroscepticism for many years; as he put it in a 2007 interview, he would "leave the European Union, close down 90 per cent of government services and shift power away from the atheistic, humanistic government and into the hands of families and individuals."[43] In 1994, he sued the Conservative government of John Major for agreeing to contribute to the costs of the Protocol on Social Policy agreed in the 1993 Maastricht Treaty, although the UK had an opt-out from the protocol. The case was heard in the Scottish Court of Session in May 1994. His petition for judicial review was dismissed by the court for want of relevancy.[44]

Published works

  • The Laker Story (with Ivan Fallon). Christensen, 1982. ISBN 0950800708
  • Anglican Orders: null and void?. Family History Books, 1986.
  • The AIDS Report. 1987
  • European Monetary Union: opportunities and dangers. University of St. Andrews, Department of Economics. 1997
  • Sudoku X. Headline Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 0755315014
  • Sudoku X-mas. Headline Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 0755315022
  • Sudoku Xpert. Headline Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0755315294
  • Junior Sudoku X. Headline Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0755315286
  • Sudoku Xtreme. Headline Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0755315308
  • "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered". Forum on Physics and Society, American Physical Society. 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

The Science and Public Policy Institute has published nine papers by Monckton on climate-change science.[45]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Who's Who 2007, p. 1599
  2. ^ a b Cockett, Richard (1995). Thinking the unthinkable: think tanks and the economic counter-revolution 1931-1983. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780006375869.
  3. ^ a b Kandiah, Michael; Seldon, Anthony (1997). Ideas and think tanks in contemporary Britain, Volume 2. Routledge. p. 59, 62. ISBN 9780714647715.
  4. ^ a b Womersley, Tara (2001-06-22). "Puzzle inventor sells £1m home to Chanel model".
  5. ^ Greising, David (2007-12-16). "Global warming skeptic finds unfavorable climate in Bali". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. p. 20. Retrieved 2009-09-03. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Conservative Hereditary Peers Byelection March 2007 Result" (PDF). British Parliament. 2007-03-07. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
  7. ^ Beckett, Andy (2007-02-24). "Born to run: There are 47 voters, 43 candidates, and the race to be elected a hereditary Tory peer is on. Is this democracy at last in the House of Lords?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-04-30.
  8. ^ a b Brown, Allan. "From here to Eternity II". The Sunday Times, 22 July 2007
  9. ^ Coren, Michael (2009-10-10). "Global warming hooey". The Winnipeg Sun.
  10. ^ Hoggan, James; Littlemore, Richard (2009). Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Greystone Books. p. 85, 113. ISBN 9781553654858.
  11. ^ Monckton, Christopher. "Climate chaos? Don't believe it", The Sunday Telegraph, 5 November 2006.
  12. ^ Monbiot, George. "This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong", The Guardian, 14 November 2006
  13. ^ Monckton, Christopher. "This wasn't gibberish. I got my facts right on global warming", The Guardian, 16 November 2006
  14. ^ Monckton, Christopher. Wrong problem, wrong solution, The Sunday Telegraph, 15 November 2006.
  15. ^ Monckton, Christopher (February 2007). "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report 2007 Analysis and Summary" (PDF).
  16. ^ "Quarterly Economic Bulletin" (PDF). December 2006.
  17. ^ "Glenn talks with Lord Monckton". Glenn Beck. 2008-03-04.
  18. ^ a b c Leake, Jonathan (2007-10-14). "Please, sir - Gore's got warming wrong". The Times.
  19. ^ "Al Gore Challenged to Climate Debate". NewsMax, 19 March 2007
  20. ^ Hardie, Josh. "Global warming: fact or theory?", The Cambridge Student, 13 October 2007
  21. ^ Koppelman, Alex (2009-10-19). "Warming treaty to usher in one-world government?". Salon.com.
  22. ^ Hickman, Leo (2009-10-20). "Monckton's circus of climate change denial arrives in cloud cuckoo land". The Guardian.
  23. ^ "British climate-change skeptic says Copenhagen treaty threatens "democracy," "freedom"". The St. Petersburg Times. 2009-10-14.
  24. ^ Baron, Ethan (2009-10-07). "Difficult to warm to climate-change denier".
  25. ^ Monckton, Christopher (23 November 2009). "Viscount Monckton on Climategate: 'They Are Criminals'". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Unknown parameter |http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscount-monckton-on-global-warminggate-they-are-criminals-pjm-exclusive/?print= ignored (help)
  26. ^ Editor Jeffrey Marque, Alvin Saperstein (2008). "Editors Comments". American Physical Society. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  27. ^ Monckton, Christopher (2008). "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered". Forum on Physics and Society. American Physical Society. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  28. ^ Pruden, Wesley. "A bad day for the red-hots". Washington Times, 18 July 2008.
  29. ^ "APS Climate Change Statement: APS Position Remains Unchanged." American Physical Society, 18 July 2008
  30. ^ Wagenseil, Paul. "Newsletter Article Causes Climate-Change Kerfuffle". Fox News, 21 July 2008
  31. ^ "Lord Monckton's Letter to Dr. Bienenstock" (PDF). Science & Public Policy Institute. 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
  32. ^ {{cite web. In the aforementioned article Smith also references that "opinions expressed here are purely my own, and do not represent the views of any organization with which I may be associated". Smith's response is posted on the site for an organization he cofounded called the Alternate Energy Action Network. | url = http://altenergyaction.org/Monckton.html | title = A detailed list of the errors in Monckton's July 2008 Physics and Society article | first = Arthur | last = Smith | publisher = Alternative Energy Action Network | date = 2008-09-06 | accessdate = 2008-09-27 }}
  33. ^ "Climate Sensitivity and the Response of Temperature to CO2".
  34. ^ MacArthur, Brian. Eddy Shah: Today and the Newspaper Revolution, p. 154. David & Charles Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0715391453
  35. ^ a b Virginia Berridge. AIDS in the UK: The Making of a Policy, 1981-1994, p. 132. Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0198204736
  36. ^ a b Leppard, David. "Top Tory in a kilt hit by visa 'racket' case", The Times, 3 October 2004
  37. ^ a b "£1m Eternity jackpot scooped". BBC News Online. BBC. 2000-10-26.
  38. ^ Frank Urquhart. "Aristocrat admits tale of lost home was stunt to boost puzzle sales". The Scotsman.
  39. ^ Mackay, Neil (1999-11-28). "Aristocrat's game plan puzzle". The Sunday Herald. Retrieved 2008-05-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  40. ^ "Monckton, Christopher. "AIDS: A British View"" The American Spectator, January 1987
  41. ^ Bawer, Bruce (1993). A place at the table: the gay individual in American society. Poseidon Press. p. 75. ISBN 9780671795337.
  42. ^ "OutRage Goads ERTL re Monckton". The Advocate, 5 August 1999
  43. ^ "'I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free-thinker ' - The 5-Minute Interview", The Independent, 24 August 2007
  44. ^ "Lawful for UK to contribute to European social policy costs - Scots Law report", The Times, 12 May 1994
  45. ^ Science and Public Policy Institute - Monckton Papers
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