Controversial climate change skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton will share his views with Dunedin next week as part of a nationwide speaking tour. His Dunedin visit is being organised by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
Lord Monckton is a British journalist, politician, former newspaper editor, and public speaker, and is well known for describing global warming as the “largest fraud of all time.” Taking place on 23 April, Lord Monckton’s speech will question whether we are being told the truth about climate change, and what really lies behind the United Nations’ Agenda 21.
Some may be skeptical of Lord Monckton’s views on climate change simply because Britain has the world’s dreariest climate. However, Monckton has presented his views to many audiences including the United States Congress, where he encouraged members to ignore President Barack Obama’s plan to limit carbon emissions in 2009. Lord Monckton told Congress that “climate change is not real,” and that “the right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.”
In addition to his activism, Lord Monckton is also known for his invention of the mathematical puzzle “Eternity”, which was marketed as impossible to solve and carried a one-million-pound prize offer for anyone who could conquer it within four years. Unsurprisingly, the puzzle took less than an eternity to be solved –two mathematicians from Cambridge completed the feat in October 2000. Lord Monckton claimed he was forced to sell his 67-room house in order to pay the prize money, but this was subsequently revealed to be a publicity stunt.
Monckton was also an advisor to the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
For those of you keen for a cynical take on highly topical events, Lord Monckton promises that the evening will be a “fact-filled, family-friendly presentation.” The event will commence at 7:30pm in Burns 1, with door sales available at $20 per adult. Critic will be sending reporters from both sides of the debate to cover the event.
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