Showing posts with label Christopher Monckton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Monckton. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

They really hate Vaclav Klaus, don't they? (5)

Christina Speight alerted me to The Grauniad's editorial of yesterday, entitled The Dud Czech, the highlight of which is probably this:

Faced with growing evidence that scientists have understated climate change, Mr Klaus told a conference of climate change deniers at the weekend that Europe was being too alarmist. If this is leadership, the EU's rotating chair cannot swivel fast enough. Better still, let us have a permanent EU president. Mr Klaus could not be making a more persuasive case for one.

Cool. We're democrats, and we'll abide by the pre-agreed rules unless we're unhappy with the outcome, in which case we'll keep changing the rules in favour of an ever smaller number of True Believers until one day one of us can run the show single-handedly, just like dictators of yore. While skim-reading this diatribe, my eye chanced upon this:

Monbiot's royal flush: Top 10 climate change deniers.

... which is well worth a read. Apart from Sarah Palin, I have no idea what the Yanks on the list may have done to merit inclusion, and while I applaud Melanie Phillips' rabid Zionism, she would appear to be motivated primarily by bitterness, but as it happens, I have awarded four of the other five "rocks" for services to MMGW-Myth debunking (click labels below) and have often referred to Christopher Booker's countless - and so far futile - attempts to explain the difference between white asbestos (relatively harmless, once in situ) and blue or brown asbestos (nasty stuff that was banned over twenty years ago). So clearly these people have managed to really get under The Establishment's skin, and here's hoping that they keep up the good work in future.

Thursday, 18 September 2008

Unlikely heroes (6)

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley.

His name is familiar to me, as he wrote a cracking article back in 1993 (page 5 of this) on replacing the Welfare State with a Citizen's Income scheme. In brief, he worked in Thatcher's policy unit and put the idea forward, but The Powers That Be miserably failed to understand the merits of the scheme.

It now turns out that he has been ruffling a few feathers with a rabidly climate-change-skeptic article.

Via Marksany's Blogroll.