The Observer had a nice, relaxed interview with Christopher Monckton, the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley printed yesterday, under the title "Monckton saves the day !" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2073267,00.html The interviewer was fazed, dazzled and confused by what some call Monckton's "famous pork pies" about Global Warming science. You know commentators are only joking when they say things like this, and they don't mean to be libellous. I was left with the impression that overall the interviewer was not really sympathetic to the poor man's illness and general position. Anyway, you do really need to read the whole interview in its entirety to get the full and complete overview in depth. Here's just a couple of snippets to whet your never-failing appetite for "famous pork pies", oops, I mean top class news and views (especially from the Hello! class echelons of knowledgeable society) :- ================================================================== "Some of Monckton's argument is familiar - medieval warming, sun spots, the presence of graveyards in Greenland under permafrost - some less so - the reminder that in the 1970s, the panic was 'global cooling'. He suggests I read all manner of arcane papers, which I subsequently do, and end up not much wiser. His major gripe with Al Gore's film - a fair one - is that it ignores the 'developing nations'. While Gore insists we should turn off our TV stand-bys, China plans to open a coal-fired power plant every five days. This, Monckton says, proves that Gore is not serious about the science." ================================================================== He ponders for a long moment. 'Not on the big ones, no!' So what will happen, does he imagine, to the current 'big one'? 'Well,' he says, breezily, 'for a few years, the temperature will continue to rise, but nowhere near as fast as the alarmists would wish it to rise. Then solar physicists suggest that in the next solar cycle but one, and a solar cycle is about 10.6 years, there will be a considerable cooling of the Sun. And the panic will disappear.' Hey presto. Before I go, he insists, by way of mathematical humiliation, that he gives me a little test based on Mandelbrot's fractals, by which slight variations in x and y co-ordinates can produce infinite geometrical variety. He smiles at my fumbling with figures and then runs the equation deftly through his computer to produce a vivid graphic demonstration that lights up his face. As I drive back along the bonny banks of Loch Lomond, Monckton's voice is still in my head. He seems made for cartoons, somehow. In one, I picture him alone, shivering in Scotland, 20 years from now, merrily barking: 'I told you so!' to a gang of white-coated professors; in another, he is up to his neck in water, in his tweeds, still arguing that he was right all along." |
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