Monckton bashing "left" and "right"

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Christopher Walter, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, attracts some pretty colorful criticism, but itโ€™s a bit stunning to see someone at the climate-skeptical Telegraph* call Monckton โ€œa fantasist, a blethering popinjay useful only forย amusement.โ€

Unfortunately, you canโ€™t read that quote on the Telegraph* website where blogger Tom Chivers wrote it in the first place. After a complaint from Moncktonโ€™s own noble self, his allies in self-delusion have had it deleted. But the original piece is still available to all at Tenney Naumerโ€™s blog, Climate Change – the Next Generation. (Thank you,ย Tenney.)

Chiverโ€™s position, convincingly rendered, is that Monckton has made himself a goof, a paragon of โ€œutter scientific illiteracy,โ€ and, as such, has become an embarrassment to the denierย community.

That accords perfectly with the stuff that George Monbiot has been writing at the Guardian. Monbiot says,

โ€œLord Monckton is digging his hole ever deeper, and dragging down into it everyone stupid enough to follow him. Those of us who do battle with climate change deniers canโ€™t inflict one tenth as much damage to their cause that Monckton wreaks every time he opens hisย mouth.โ€

This agreement, across what we usually think of as the full spectrum of journalistic opinion in the U.K., is attributable to University of St. Thomas Engineering Professor John Abraham, whose devastating deconstruction of Moncktonโ€™s silliness has been the subject of a couple of previous posts, 1, 2.

In pulling down Chiverโ€™s post, the Telegraph* has done the only merciful thing that it could in the circumstance: it has looked away. Itโ€™s a good start. The only thing better than a bunch of people all criticizing Monckton at the same time, would be an even larger group ignoring him entirely. Hurry theย day.

*This reference corrected – with apologies to the Independent.

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