Lord Christopher Monckton in San Diego
I went to see the Americans Protecting Private Property Rights presentation by Lord Christopher Monckton about the economic and scientific fallacies of the anthropogenic global warming movement last night. It was mostly stuff I’ve seen before, mainly from the climategate emails and software leak.
I mainly went because I keep hearing his name come up on sites like Watts Up With That? He is definitely an engaging speaker, so I recommend seeing him if you get the chance.
A lot of it was about California’s AB32 and how much money it is going to cost us for how little benefit—even assuming the most drastic predictions, despite such predictions uniformly failing in the past.
The IPCC credibility gap.
Settled and unsettled science.
The medieval warm period. “Now you see it, now you don’t.”
California’s CO2 tax compared to its best-case scenario.
If AB32 succeeds as well as it is claimed to by California’s politicians, this is what we save.
In response to 2012 in photos: For photos and perhaps other quick notes sent from my mobile device or written on the fly during 2012.
- March 29, 2012: Doo Doo Economics: Lord Monckton Battles Global Warming Mad Men
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Doo Doo Economics comments on the economic issues that Monckton talked about:
Lord Christopher Monckton gave a real Reason Rally at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Theater at the University of San Diego. The crowd rose to their feet on several occasions as Lord Monckton presented the truth about global warming “science” and the consequences to human freedom. The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley mixed good humor and good information for an terrific presentation.
“The impact on the economy is apparent. The impact on the environment is not.”
- CFACT SoCal | Southern Californian's for the Environment
- On a day opening with bad news concerning the “Jobs Report” and the DOW reporting it was opening150points down, Stu Varney welcomed Duffy on his program for a quick interview concerning California “green jobs”.
- Coal in their stockings: climategate Christmas
- If unknown data tracks known bad data, it’s a good guess there’s something wrong with the unknowns as well.
- Watts Up With That?
- “Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news.”
More Climategate
- Coal in their stockings: climategate Christmas
- If unknown data tracks known bad data, it’s a good guess there’s something wrong with the unknowns as well.
- Climategate crashes Google?
- Google is claiming that, in order to provide the most relevant, objective results in Google News, they need to toss ones that people want to read and comment on. What?
- Google responds to Climategate-gate
- I’m guessing Google got a lot of questions about this; their response didn’t answer my question.
- The (para)psychology of climate change research
- The “they meant well” circling of the wagons reminds me of a branch of scientific research popular when I was in college: parapsychology. Failure to create a falsifiable model ultimately led to an almost religious belief that even cheating proved the existence of psi.
More global warming
- Climate priests cry wolf one more time?
- In science, if your theory’s predictions don’t happen, you need a new theory. In religion, if your beliefs predict something that doesn’t happen, you just keep moving that prediction further into the future.
- Can Californians drink a train?
- The meme goes that even if we’re wrong about global warming, the money spent will still make the world a better place. That is only true if you can drink a high-speed train.
- Cargo cult climate science
- When your real-world evidence contradicts your theory, that isn’t a boon for deniers; that’s a boon for you, because, if you are a scientist, that is how your scientific knowledge advances. Real scientists are embarrassed when they ignore real-world evidence in favor of a mere theory.
- Republican President must keep Roosevelt’s word
- Even if a future conservative president doesn’t believe Americans of Japanese descent are disloyal, says Irwin Stelzer, he should think twice before rescinding President Roosevelt’s Executive Orders. The President’s honor—and the nation’s—is more important than politics.
- Another victim of climate change: science reporting
- The needs of religious reporting are completely different from the needs of science reporting. Treating climate change as a religion is killing science reporting. If we’re not careful, it will kill science as well.
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