Enviro-Nutters Mud slinging is so typical of the approach of warm-mongers
| 02 February 2010
LORD Monckton has, sadly for him, proved one of the strangest truths about people who think they're more moral.
You know, like global warming believers and Islamist terrorists.
That truth, as philosophers such as C. S. Lewis have suggested, is that idealists are often disguised haters and totalitarians, and feel excused by their faith to be cruel to their evil opponents.
That's why nice communists killed so many millions. For their own good.
But you need a more today example? Well, Christopher Monckton, a gifted mathematician and one-time adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is on a speaking tour of Australia, funded by two retired businessmen from Queensland. He's accompanied by Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist who last year published an instant bestseller, Heaven and Earth, denouncing the global warming scare.
Monckton has long caused havoc among global warming believers, questioning their maths and wilder claims. It was he who also first warned that the United Nations had a mad draft treaty for last year's failed Copenhagen summit, which would have had Australia pay $7 billion a year to a new world body to "stop" global warming.
I cannot say if Monckton's maths add up, but I can plainly see that the UN predictions that the world would heat fast because of our gases have for a decade not come true. Their figures must be wrong.
I can also see that on this tour, during which Monckton will speak directly to more than 60,000 Australians, and countless more through radio chats, that the few warmists who debated him looked very short of material. But here's what most tells me that right, or at least a better world, lies on his side.
In a debate in Brisbane, the ever-polite Monckton was abused repeatedly by one of the two sceptics on the panel until the moderator told him to behave.
In Sydney, in two columns for the Sydney Morning Herald, columnist and radio host Mike Carlton skipped the science and instead mocked Monckton as "barmy" and a reminder of the "mad excesses of the British aristocracy", and even singled out his "poached egg eyes" and "performing eyeballs" - a symptom of the terrible Graves disease he's battled for 20 years.
On the ABC on Monday, Lateline had two warmists - a professor and a WWF activist - to defend the latest scandals engulfing the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, accused of rigging data and including any scary material it could find in its influential 2007 report, including extracts from a tourist group's shoe-cleaning advice and a student's essay.
Monckton was allowed near the end to make a short comment, which the WWF man promptly rebutted by abusing him as "absolutely eccentric".
Melbourne 774 radio host Jon Faine did allow Monckton into his studio for a "debate", but not without asking in a regular guest, Rupert Posner from the well-funded Climate Group of warming activists, to help knock him down.
Every caller put to air then attacked Monckton, many abusively, and Posner agreed he was a "lunatic". Faine called Monckton a "denier" and demanded to know who'd paid him.
It's this too-typical abuse of a sceptic, as much as the science, that tells me where civilisation lies in this debate, and where the totalitarians and bullies are this time gathering.
No wonder Osama bin Laden last week declared he was a warming worrier, too. He knows this crowd well.
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