Lord Monckton ejected from UN climate talks for denouncing protocol

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British peer ejected from UN climate talks for denouncing protocol

Lord Monckton of Brenchley was thrown out of the United Nations climate change talks in Doha last night.

The hereditary peer and former advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is not a sitting member of the House of Lords, took the chair of Myanmar and spoke into the microphone against UN climate change protocols.

After a short speech, in which he was booed, he was escorted out of the meeting by UN guards.

He is understood to have claimed there is no global warming in the last sixteen years, and therefore the science needs to be reviewed.

Claiming to represent Asian coastal nations, he is understood to have said: "In the 16 years we have been coming to these events there has been no global warming at all."

He added: "Even if we were to take action to prevent global warming the cost would be many times greater than cost of making adaptive measures later. Our recommendation is that we should initiate very quickly a review of the science to make sure that we are all on the right track."

He has been banned for life from UN climate talks.

Speaking afterwards, he said he was acting on the "spur of the moment".

“I don't think it was my turn to talk, but the opportunity presented itself and I took it,” he said.

"I was very bad – I pressed the button and made a short statement.”

"I know it was bad of me, but I got some brief points across which the delegates probably didn't expect.

“They have now taken my badge, but it's not the end of the world.”

The UN said Lord Monckton was escorted out for “violating the UN code of conduct" and "impersonating a party”.

He has been ‘de-badged’, meaning he no longer has a visa to stay in Qatar and had 24 hours to leave the country.

The UKIP Scotland Leader, who tours the world speaking on global warming, said it was not a problem as he was flying out of the country that day.

Earlier in the week he appeared in a video promoted by US lobby group the Committee on a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) riding a camel to promote a "different perspective" of the talks.

The UN talks are in danger of collapsing as anger grows at the lack of progress towards a global deal to cut emissions.

Earlier in the day Lord Monckton gave a press conference in which he claimed that global warming is happening much more slowly than scientists predicted.

He said that achieving targets to cut carbon emissions will be far more expensive than leaving the world to deal with the consequences of climate change.

“CO2 mitigation strategies that are inexpensive enough to be affordable will be ineffective. Strategies costly enough to be effective will be unaffordable,” he said.

Lord Monckton was heckled by a member of the small audience who left, shouting “shame on you”.

Some scientists predict that more than 2C of warming could cause devastation in small island states and vulnerable countries, as well as driving many species into extinction.

I met Lord Monckton back in November at the north west conference for UKIP, clever chap who knows his stuff - videos on YouTube with him on talking about climate change are well worth a watch for those who are interested. But although it's not surprising he was thrown out for pretending to be Burma, it's still refreshing to see some common sense and difference of opinion at what is essentilly a holiday conference for politicians all over the world who fly in - ironically to then talk about 'global warming'.

I think these best rated comments on the article sum it up best,

It must have been disconcerting for the "delegates" to have their cosy groupthink session disrupted like that!

No mention of this on the BBC's award winning "news" site including their Disneyworld Science pages?

I note that the BBC makes strenous efforts to stifle Monckton's voice, as they know he would tear their favourite warmist propagandists to shreds.

However you can hear his words of wisdom on foreign channels including Russia Today.

Once again, your enforced licence fee hard at work.

Well said that man. I have never believed in global warming being man made, as I think that it is cyclical. Millions of years ago northern Europe was a desert with searing temperatures, then 10,000 years ago this country was covered in ice: eventually that melted and since then we have had highs and lows, temperature wise. Climate change is a complete con, designed to make money for rich individuals and firms. I believe that I am correct in saying that China is bringing three coal fired power stations on line every month, as is India; so the little that we are forced to do will make not the slightest difference, except for an enormous financial cost which we cannot afford.

It's also worth noting that Russia, China and Canada have pulled out of the (pointless) talks.

Thoughts?