It seems that the opposition to the global warming hoax has even
reached to the British House of Lords.
LORD MONCKTON OF BRENCHLEY CHALLENGES AL GORE TO A DEBATE ON
MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE in an ad taken out in the April 3
{Washington Post}. The challenge was first made on March 14,
2007. The background to the challenge is this: In November 2006,
Lord Monckton issued a 40-page research paper on the fraud of
global warming, titled "Apocalypse Cancelled." In it, Monckton
says: "Last Week Gordon Brown and his chief economist both said
global warming was the worst market failure ever. That loaded
sound-bite suggests the climate change scare is less about saving
the planet than, in Jacques Chirac's chilling phrase, creating
world government."
Lord Monckton also said that the environmentalists'
"precautionary principle" is killing people. He gives the example
of the banning of DDT, noting that just this year, after 30
million people died of malaria, the World Health Organization has
agreed to use DDT for indoor spraying.
Lord Monckton also calls for the UK to start building--not
merely designing, or having a ten-year planning inquiry about--12
nuclear power stations. (gbm)
[Source: Source Reports and various media]
A BACKGROUND TIMELINE ON THE FIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON
THE SUBJECT OF GLOBAL WARMING.
* During the first term of the Thatcher government, Lord
Monckton was Prime Minister Thatcher's science policy advisor.
When the first talk of global warming started to come out,
Monckton advised Thatcher to OK research on the subject and see
if there were a real problem or not. Thatcher would go into
Cabinet meetings waving Monckton's articles, saying that her
policy people said that the research had to be done right away.
* In 1988, Monckton went on the talk show circuit, talking
about the government's research into global warming.
* In 1988-89, Lord Lawson of Blaby was Chancellor of the
Exchequer in the Margaret Thatcher government, and he issued the
first funds to set up the Hadley Center Meterological Office.
* In 1992 Lord Monckton gave a lecture at the Royal Society,
in which he said that there were major problems with the science
of global warming and there was no reason to panic.
* During the 1990s Lord Lawson started to doubt the science
of global warming as he heard more reports on the science.
* In 2005, the House of Lords started an inquiry into the
science of global warming and the role of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change and held hearings taking statements from
scientists against global warming, like Dr. Paul Reiter and
Richard Lindzen of MIT. The House of Lords also took testimony
from Sir John Houghton.
