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Climate Misinformation by Source: Christopher Monckton

Christopher Monckton is a British consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and hereditary peer. While not formally trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.

For a comprehensive rebuttal of many of Christopher Monckton's arguments, check out this presentation by Professor John Abraham. Abraham has compiled many examples where Monckton misrepresents the very scientists whose work he cites. Check out this PDF of Monckton quotes versus the scientists who in their own words explain how Monckton misrepresents their research.

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Senator Stabenow: 'Global Warming causes more hurricanes and tornadoes'

URL: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/sen_...
Date: 14 August 2009

Arguments by Monckton	vs	What the Science Says
"CO2 limits will harm the economy"		The benefits of a price on carbon outweigh the costs several times over.
"Hockey stick is broken"		Recent studies agree that recent global temperatures are unprecedented in the last 1000 years.
"Hurricanes aren't linked to global warming"		There is increasing evidence that hurricanes are getting stronger due to global warming.
"It warmed just as fast in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940"		The warming trend over 1970 to 2001 is greater than warming from both 1860 to 1880 and 1910 to 1940.
"It's cooling"		All the indicators show that global warming is still happening.
"Medieval Warm Period was warmer"		Globally averaged temperature now is higher than global temperature in medieval times.
"Most of the last 10,000 years were warmer"		This argument uses regional temperature data that ends in 1855, long before modern global warming began.
"Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995"		Phil Jones was misquoted.

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