Australia’s mining companies sink to the Lord Monckton level of low credibility
I was amazed to read that the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) are having Lord Monckton as speaker at their conference next week. I was also amazed that Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott is to appear on the same platform. Also sadly the Independent, Rob Oakeshott – a man who seemed to have a bit of that rare quality , integrity. (Perhaps Oakeshott is simply naive?)
Don’t Tony and Rob know what sort of a person Lord Monckton is?
Monckton is the chief proponent of a very far-fetched conspiracy theory, and he has been thoroughly discredited in this, in his home country, England.
Monckton’s theory is uncannily like the extremist theories of Australia’s Eric Butler and the League of Rights, – and, yes, it has echoes of Nazi theory, too. Just as Hitler adopted the idea of the “Jewish Conspiracy” – that the Jews were plotting world domination, so Monckton also sees a shadowy group plotting world domination.
In Monckton’s belief, this evil group has managed to manipulate all the (?stupid) scientists into proposing man-made Climate Change. According to Monckton, there is no truth in man-made Climate Change, but the scientists push it, so that governments will adopt regulations and carbon taxes – and these will lead to World Government, and a global slave state for all of us.
Australia’s mining companies have apparently been quite duped into taking Monckton seriously. Surely they are not so calculatedly greedy as to use this crackpot in order to fight the government’s carbon tax. As for Abbott – well, clearly Abbott will do whatever it takes to promote Abbott. But this time, I think he’s made a wrong choice, don’t you? – Christina Macpherson
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Yeah what a roll call for AMEC. The self-proclaimed ‘rocket scientist’ David Evans and Mrs Rocket Scientist aka Jo Nova and that demented idiot, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley aka Mr Pitiful. And not a climate scientist within cooee. Monckton’s psychotic episodes are typical of symptons seen in patients suffering Graves’ Disease which he claims to have cured himself of though the disease is in fact incurable.
AMEC sure have scraped the bottom of the landfill. Pimps for polluters must be in short supply when AMEC and their whore boys have to resurrect yesteryear’s cadavers but no doubt the “Boltheads” in the media will supply us with rave reviews to dupe an unwitting public?
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