The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, aka Lord Chris Monckton, never had much credibility. He is not a scientist, even less a climatologist, in fact he has no science background to speak of. He has not ever published any research paper in a journal, even less any on climatology. He is also a hate-monger who calls climate science supporters “Hitler Youths”. Nonetheless he goes around the world leveraging his “Lordship” and his excellent oratorial skills to give a rather convincing presentation in which he makes a lot of very surprising claims against anthropogenic global warming.
John Abraham, an engineering professor at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, MN., is certainly not someone who has a vested interest in climatology funding, but someone who knows how to search scientific papers and how to contact their authors. He thought that many of Monckton’s claims were rather outlandish so he took the time to deconstruct Monckton’s presentation slide by slide and verify the sources cited in them. This turned out to be a rather enlightening exercise that utterly discredits Monckton. He created an 84 minute long presentation of his findings showing Monckton’s slides and then the actual papers cited and/or communications he had with the paper’s authors. You can see this presentation here.
First of all, a large number of Monckton’s slides show graphs and data sets without attribution to the source, a dubious practice at best. Second, he makes many errors of math and consistency, often contradicting himself. But more importantly, in the many cases where he does cite the papers or authors he uses as the source of data to backup his claims, he is either misrepresenting, distorting, or outright lying about the papers and their conclusions and the paper’s authors have confirmed these misrepresentations.
It is really a stunning and undeniable point-by-point evisceration of Monckton’s presentation and it shows the whole thing is just a load of bull.
