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

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:21:57 +0000

Did you notice that there is a new commentary at the APS from a member decrying the APS’s “policy statement” on AGW? They point out that advocacy and exclusion of continuing discovery and collaboration violates the “openess principle” of scientific research.

Here’s the article:
http://www.aps.org/ units/ fps/ newsletters/ 200901/ levine.cfm

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…

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: RP

RP — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:17:56 +0000

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

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: 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.