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Subject:

Monckton article

From:

Malcolm Levitt <[log in to unmask]>

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Malcolm Levitt <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:03:55 +0000

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Is there anyone out there who is preparing a detailed analysis/criticism of the Monckton articles?

I, for one, would like to see a decent climate scientist address his points one by one. He has done 
a thorough job and deserves a detailed response, based on scientifically proved and sourced facts. 
It may be a laborious piece of work, but it should be done. 

The criticisms I have seen so far rely too much on who he is (a rich aristocrat who used to advise 
Margaret Thatcher), where it is published (the Daily Telegraph instead of Nature), and a few 
obvious blunders he has made (1421, for example), which are not really of great importance. If his 
work is that flawed, it should not be difficult for someone who knows these things to disprove it 
beyond reasonable doubt. 

Personally, my mind is still open. I think it is unlikely that the scientific community and parts of 
the political world could be convinced of anthropogenic global warming out of some sort of mass 
hysteria, but I cannot exclude it either. I'm a scientist on the "hard" physical end, and I know that it 
can be quite easy to misinterpret even reproducible experimental data, never mind statistical 
analyses of past climate. It is not impossible that Monckton, as a climate outsider, has really made 
a valuable contribution, and so far I'm not convinced by the criticisms I've read. The George 
Monbiot one in the Guardian this week is disappointing, making much out of the fact that 
Monckton does not have a science degree (this is not so different from dismissing critics of the 
Iraq invasion on the grounds that they are not military or political professionals).  

Unfortunately I'm not sufficiently qualified in the field to judge most of Monckton's arguments 
myself. Is anyone aware of a good-quality science criticism, that concentrates on the facts? Like 
them or not, Monckton's articles are really bugging me. 

all the best
malcolm

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