Climate Crock of the Week/Debunking Lord Monckton, Part 2

[greenman3610]

Run time: 09:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duxG4lyeSlc   Posted on YouTube: April 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: greenman3610 Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: April 16, 2010 By DU Member: greenman3610 Views on DU: 918

 
A character that seems to leap right out of a Monte Python skit, Lord Monckton is the darling of those who wish desperately to beleve the fantasy of climate denial. There's way more than one video can possibly contain, so a two part series was necessary to even begin to deal with the fountain of disinformation that is Lord Christopher Monckton.

[Bobbieo]

1. If Lord Monckton is in the UK right now, he should be choking on volcanic ash.

Mother Nature does work in mysterious ways.

[starroute]

13. Unfortunately, he was at yesterday's teabagger rally in DC

So he's missed his chance to choke, at least this time.

[tabatha]

2. Very good. That was a debunking

of Lord Amokton.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. May the assholes who unrec'ed this...

...die in an Icelandic volcano.

Ignorant jerkoffs. :grr:

Are there going to be any more parts to this debunking? I love watching Monckton being made to look like a complete fool.

[graegoyle]

5. I'm happy to bring this to +1...

But these posts being rated low on this site is bothersome. I am so confident in Greenman's video's that I have rec'd them before viewing them and I have not ever been even slightly disappointed.

[greenman3610]

7. that's it for now

I could go on and on,
but there's so many more topics to focus on.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. Massey CEO Don Blankenship flew this lying Thatcherite into W.Va. last year

to rally for mountaintop removal mining and to praise massey

[greenman3610]

6. that's great information

is there any video of that?

[breadandwine]

8. I love Climate Crock reports but I have a simple question.

If the entire planet were periodically covered with snow, what happened to all the animals? Why do we have a rich diversity of animal life today that is the evolutionary offspring of earlier species? Wouldn't all the animal life have been wiped out, ending evolution of most of the animal life we see today, if the whole earth were even temporarily covered with snow?

Can someone clarify this for me?

[Progressive Cancer]

9. Here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth#Survival_of_life_through_frozen_periods

[greenman3610]

10. check out the BBC video which is linked at my blog

http://climatecrocks.com/2010/04/15/debunking-lord-monckton-part-two/#more-286


The ice events coincided with major extinctions, but set the stage for the explosion of life that
happened afterward.
there have been several, even more severe extinctions since - but, life always recovers.
It takes 5, 10, or 25 million years - so completely off the scale of human experience.

[breadandwine]

11. Thanks, Greenman 3610 and Progressive Cancer, I didn't realize that snowball periods came before

multi-cellular and animal life on earth.

(Monckton is irrelevant to me. He's obviously a quack, hack and corporate tool.)

Now I have another question, though this is really off topic. There's a scientific group called the Holocene Impact Working Group, which has studied evidence that asteroids and comets striking the earth especially out at sea produced huge tsunamis that covered much of the world, such as Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_Impact_Working_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burckle_crater

I've read a good bit about this. There are many web pages on it. An asteroid hitting the Indian Ocean of this size would have created both tsunamis AND huge vaporizations of sea water due to heat, creating torrential rains and storms around the planet, inundating even areas above the tsunami level with water flooding from the torrential rains. The tsunami itself would have been something like 600 feet high but tsunamis at the shore tend to rise up so at the shore the sea level could have been literally miles high.

This is also a similar species-affecting event. Since Burckle impact happened only in recent thousands of years, it would surely have threatened animal life. There seems no question that Burckle Crater is a recent huge asteroid impact and that it did indeed inundate the earth with flooding nearly all over the planet, temporarily. Yet I do not understand how all the diverse animal life we see today survived. There are unique ecosystems with animal species distinct from elsewhere on the earth in specific locations and for those to exist today it is hard to understand how such worldwide flooding could have taken place. There is, of course record in the myths of many cultures of great floods but that is still folklore and the fact remains that there is indeed evidence of huge oceanic impacts of asteroids and comets in the relatively recent geologic past, which would indeed have inundated ecosystems with extinction-causing floods.

So what protected all that life or much of it?

Anybody know about this?

[Turborama]

12. Rec #5

I'm surprised it took this long to get on the greatest.

Thanks Greenman. Excellent work, as always.