Climate sceptic Christopher Monckton to 'prove Rudd wrong'
The Australian
January 25, 2010
CLIMATE sceptic Christopher Monckton says he has evidence climate change is not a problem and that Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme is unnecessary.
Lord Monckton said today he had come to Australia to prove the Prime Minister wrong.
The former adviser to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher said Mr Rudd carried out “a 45-minute sustained personal attack” on him last November claiming he had no evidence on the effects of climate change.
“I'm going to say to the people of Australia, when your prime minister said I don't have any evidence, here I am, here is my evidence, here is where I got it from,” Lord Monckton said in Sydney today.
The climate change sceptic will carry out an extensive 13-day lecture tour of Australia at an estimated cost of $100,000.
The cost is being covered by two semi-retired Queensland engineers, John Smeed and Case Smit.
Lord Monckton claims climate change isn't a problem for the planet and carbon dioxide emissions don't contribute significantly to global warming.
He claims world temperatures will rise by just half a degree (Celsius) by the end of the decade, compared with UN scientists' prediction of a 3.5 degree rise.
He said millions of dollars were being made by “climate change profiteers”. “The ETS which I understand your government is proposing to introduce is unnecessary,” he said.
“It will simply be the largest tax increase in the history of Australia.
“All that will happen is that bankers and politicians will become even richer than they are.”
Lord Monckton said his evidence against climate change included the fact tropical cyclones in Australian are at a 40-year low, Greenland's ice cover is increasing 5cm a year and polar bear numbers are on the rise.
Lord Monckton speaks to Brian Wilshire on Radio 2gb.com
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CHANGE OF SCHEDUAL to January 25 2010 11pm. Australian Sydney Time.
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