The American Physical Society Owes Lord Monckton an Immediate Apology

American Thinker ^ | July 19, 2008 | Marc Sheppard

[nina0113]

That’s exactly the letter Lord Peter Wimsey would have written, had he taken a First in Physics, rather than History, at Oxford. I have not yet looked at the Viscount’s educational background, but I’m about to.

[nina0113]

Classics at Cambridge, followed by journalism at Univeristy of Cardiff. Interesting family - his grandfather was one of Edward the VIII’s advisors during the abdication.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Tax-chick]

I simply don’t believe this. Scientists never engage in politically-motivated slugfests. They always pursue the absolute, verifiable Truth, through repeated experimental testing of hypotheses and rigorously honest evaluation of empirical data. When a scientist makes a pronouncement, we know that it owes nothing to the fashions of the time, to his political or philosophical beliefs, or to the source of his research grant.

[Tax-chick]

I love this man’s sentence structure ... so few can use multiple semicolons correctly. Is he cute? Is he married?

[nina0113]

Is he married?

Yes he is, and YOU are too, as am I. But damn! can he write or what?

There's probably something wrong with us if we think well-written paragraphs are hot.

[Tax-chick]

There's probably something wrong with us if we think well-written paragraphs are hot.

Excellent grammar is a sign of genetic superiority :-).

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[AFPhys]

Thanks for posting this demand by Monckton.

I’m glad he is getting tough and active about this.

His paper a tremendous refutation of the IPCC. I am amazed that the APS is getting themselves so politically involved in this issue. They have clearly strayed outside of their mandate to report hard science. This issue has caused this physicist to lose respect for the organization. It is going to take a long time for me to recover that respect.

[Don W]

It’s a radio recording, so there is no visual component other than MS media player “video noise”.

[tarheelswamprat]

There's probably something wrong with us if we think well-written paragraphs are hot.

Excellent grammar is a sign of genetic superiority :-).

You two are just suckers for well-hung punctuation... /gd&r*

(*grinnin', duckin' & runnin')

[aruanan]

There's probably something wrong with us if we think well-written paragraphs are hot.

No, because a well-written paragraph is like an intelligent, beautiful woman of high moral quality: both are exceedingly rare and show everything else up for the dross that it is. Monckton's writing makes Algore's bloviating look like one of the John Kerry in drag pictures from 2004.

[Tax-chick]

It’s all in how the commas are placed.

[Tax-chick]

Lord Monckton is Catholic, and he seems like a lot of fun. However, based on the one picture I could find of him (on a Czech blog), he is not cute, even for a 56-year-old Britisher. On the other hand, he would probably say the same about me based on my pictures available online :-).

[nina0113]

If you google-image him, you get a lot more. He looks a bit like Rowan Atkinson, who’s attractive without being particularly handsome. The humor and intelligence in the eyes are big selling points.

[Tax-chick]

I must have used the wrong search. On a second try, I got more pictures. Quirky, and probably appealing in real life, in a way ... but not cute, exactly.

[supercat]

Both Al Gore and Rachel Carson should be tried for crimes against humanity or genocide...IMO that is the least that should be done. The Enviro Nazi’s need to be laughed at and ridiculed for their idiotcy and criminal results just like the Stalin & Mao democides...100’s of millions murdered by tyrants!

Beyond the difficulty imposed by the fact that Rachael Carson is dead, I doubt that a fair jury could convict either of them. One essential principle of justice is that a person cannot justly be convicted of any crime beyond the level of a civil infraction if one could not reasonably have known the action was unlawful. For what particular actions should Al Gore have been convicted? Bear in mind that if a substantial portion of the population would believe an action to be legal, it would be hard to prove that Al Gore could not reasonably have believed it so.

[TChad]

There must be a pony in here somewhere.

AGW debates by non-scientists quickly degenerate into "Your beliefs suck!", "No, your beliefs suck!" Not informative. AGW debates by scientists degenerate into "My equations are better than your equations," but those equations are informative only to the few people with the background, time, intelligence, energy, and interest to evaluate them.

I dislike the smug AGW true believers and their anti-capitalist solutions, but I still want to know if AGW is occurring, and if it poses a significant threat to humanity. If the answer to both questions is yes, then I want to know what solutions are most practical.

Monckton has repeatedly offered to debate Algore, but I bet I would learn more by watching him debate Andrew Dessler. Algore is an idiot, Dessler is not, and at this point I don't know what to make of Monckton.