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GOP Chooses Lord "Hitler Youth" Monckton as Expert Witness on Climate Change Science

Seeded on Thu May 6, 2010 10:58 AM EDT
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House Republicans have chosen Lord Christopher Monckton, a non-scientist with a penchant for outrageous remarks, as its sole witness at tomorrow's hearing in front of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) called the hearing in an effort to further restore public confidence in climate science, and to set the record straight that 'Climategate' was not the scandal climate deniers and the right-wing media tried to portray in the wake of the theft of private emails from scientists at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.

A press release announcing the hearing states that the scientists "will address the claims of deniers head-on."

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Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the Ranking Minority Member of the committee, chose Monckton as the Republican’s sole witness at the hearing.
Of all the people in the world the GOP could call to testify, they chose Christopher (not-really-a-Lord) Monckton, a non-scientist with a diploma in journalism studies and a knack for trampling Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies.

Monckton called American college students advocating for clean energy the “Hitler Youth” and “Nazis” during his crazed rampage at the Americans For Prosperity event at the Copenhagen climate summit. Monckton repeated the "Hitler Youth" comments directly to me in an interview the following day, and then took it way too far when he told Jewish student Ben Wessel, whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust, “I am not going to shake the hand of Hitler youth.” Despite extensive video evidence, Monckton went on to lie to the Associated Press, claiming that he never uttered those words.

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Reply#1 - Thu May 6, 2010 11:03 AM EDT
nyghtshayde

In a 1987 article for the American Spectator titled the The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, Monckton wrote that:

.... there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month ... all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently.

With such a long record of inflammatory and baseless statements, what could the GOP possibly see in Monckton that would warrant his appearance as an expert witness on a climate science panel otherwise made up of scientists?
Watch Peter Sinclair's excellent pieces picking apart the claims made by Lord Debunkton, especially this episode of Climate Denial Crock of the Week:

ROFLMAO!! This is one of the "Deniers" experts.Lord Mockingbird is an idiot journalist,not even close to a scientist.The GOP definitely has it's share of idiots,I think they share the same brain.

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#1.1 - Thu May 6, 2010 11:11 AM EDT
Que2646

Never mind mind that Mockton is not a scientist and that his position is pure bunk, the deniers in the Senate will quote him rather than the scientists on the panel. He is just there for political cover.

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#1.2 - Thu May 6, 2010 12:49 PM EDT
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bigsaf

Holy cow...this guy's a complete loon! I just saw the video...

I think they're banking on his British accent or something, like they did with Tony Blair who now sounds more like a religious nut day by day...!

What the hell is wrong with the far right and naysayers...the stuff they're doing to block honest debates and improvements with their dishonesty and other quackery is virtually criminal and immoral.

Is it really all about the money to these guys or are they seriously that deluded and totally anti-science?!

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Reply#2 - Wed May 12, 2010 5:48 PM EDT
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