Comments on: Irony-gate: Viscount Monckton, a British peer, says his paper was peer-reviewed by a scientist.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:51:52 +0000

My first thought was that you made this up, but apparently it is true. Well, TVMOB, did go to the Bali conference you know. Surely that must count?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:00:36 +0000

Oh, and from the link in my previous comment, you can also download his presentation which, among other interesting things, has a theme apparently home made by the guy himself.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:38:54 +0000

If this event were not so serious, I’d be laughing like the episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil is infatuated with the so-called peer who shows up and doesn’t realize until too late he’s a con man. It’s pretty obvious that our current peer — TVMOB — is a con man about climate science, and the denial community is our Basil Fawlty. Will our Basils please open up the suitcase of “valuables” and examine the bricks inside?

TVMOB’s “research” has been thoroughly reviewed by real scientists whose own research has been reviewed by scientific peers (not hereditary ones).

By: roger

roger — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:18:47 +0000

That was a good one, Dennis

By: Gary Herstein

Gary Herstein — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:49:02 +0000

I don’t know, I think Monckton is more like the Black Knight: “Come back here you pansy! I’ll bite your legs off!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

(Bugger, now I’ll be humming “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” all day.)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:31:27 +0000

Gary, I’m not as well-versed on the subject of British titles: is a knight a peer?

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:55:57 +0000

Dennis — I don’t think so, if you are referring to the Britsh peerage. Just barons and up.

By: Bud

Bud — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:16:42 +0000

A knight is not a peer, no. Just a plain old sir…

Monckton never fails to crack me up. I trust the APS will politely ‘peer-review’ his request for an apology and offer constructive suggestions on where he can shove it.

By: RP

RP — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:17:56 +0000

I think it was mis-transcribed. That was a PIER review.

By: Michael Hoexter

Michael Hoexter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:10:15 +0000

Maybe Monckton will come up with a theory about dinosaurs next…

[That’s another Monty Python reference]

By: scruss

scruss — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:52:43 +0000

It’s not as if the title of Viscount of Brenchley is particularly old - it was created in 1957. As Christopher Monckton was about 5 at that time, it doesn’t mean that they have much history to protect …

By: Gary Herstein

Gary Herstein — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:48:53 +0000

My reference was to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, of course.

A knight is not a peer, but a scientist is usually a doc’.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:31:34 +0000

I think you should all stop making fun of the The Fourth and Final Discount Monk’s Tongue Lord Chrysalis Murmurer of Peter Benchley.

By: Umlud

Umlud — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:01:47 +0000

I don’t know why his knickers are all in a twist about how “offensive” the wording was at the top of his article. I mean, if you take a look at the other one, “A Tutorial on the Basic Physics of Climate Change”, you’ll see the same disclaimer as on TVMOB’s. And what is that offensive heading?

The following article has not undergone any scientific peer review, since that is not normal procedure for American Physical Society newsletters. The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007: “Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth’s climate.”

By: Shyster

Shyster — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:03:40 +0000

I notice you don’t begin to refute the assertations of Monckton, just his claimed “whining”.

As usual, another snot who declares, “Don’t confuse me with the facts! I know what I know!”

What a sad, sad, individual…