In 2005, Al Gore said "we will face
a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and
deal with the underlying causes of global warming." According to him,
the supposed causes can be found in the current CO2-emitting energy
industry. Thus he suggests that we cap, tax, and regulate the industry
out of existence and switch to other sources of energy. President Obama
agrees: "Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil
fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are
condemning future generations to global catastrophe."
But is Al Gore right about the science of climate change? Is catastrophe
heading our way? Cheap, efficient energy from fossil fuels has been the
key to American prosperity and high standard of living. Shouldn't we be
skeptical of any policy that undermines them?
Lord Monckton challenges Gore's assertions that have become the
conventional wisdom over the past several years. Come hear a reasoned
perspective that you're unlikely to find in any classroom or mainstream
news source!
Biography:
Christopher, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, was Special Advisor
to Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister from 1982 to 1986 and gave
policy advice on technical issues. On leaving 10 Downing Street, he
established a successful specialist consultancy company, giving
technical advice to corporations and governments. His two articles in
the Sunday Telegraph late in 2006 debunking the climate-change
"consensus" received more hits to the newspaper's website than any other
in the paper's history: the volume of hits caused the link to crash. His
contribution to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 - the
correction of a table inserted by IPCC bureaucrats that had overstated
tenfold the observed contribution of the Greenland and West Antarctic
ice sheets to sea-level rise - earned him the status of Nobel Peace
Laureate. He has lectured at university physics departments on the
quantification of climate sensitivity, on which he is widely recognized
as an expert, and his limpid analysis of the climate-feedback factor was
published on the famous climate blog of Roger Pielke, Sr. His lecture to
undergraduates at the Cambridge Union Society on climate change has been
released by SPPI as Apocalypse? NO!, a full-length feature movie on
high-definition DVD (available from www.greatswindle.com). Apocalypse?
NO! been described by Professor Larry Gould of the University of
Hartford, Connecticut, as the best film ever made on climate change.
