Christopher Walter Monckton
3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Full name
Christopher Walter Monckton
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Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Born	14 February 1952 (1952-02-14) (age 56)
Occupation	Politician Business consultant

Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British politician and business consultant, policy advisor, writer, and inventor. Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, of Brenchley in the County of Kent is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He served as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher's policy unit and has attracted controversy for his public opposition to the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming and climate change. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 2.1 Media 2.2 Politics 3 Associations 4 Political views 4.1 Social policy 4.2 Business consultancy 4.3 Views on AIDS 4.4 European integration 4.5 Global warming 5 Published works 6 See also 7 Notes 8 External links

Biography

Monckton was born on 14 February 1952, the eldest son of the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Major General Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley CB, OBE, MC ( 3 November 1915 &ndash He was educated at Harrow School, Churchill College, Cambridge where he read classics and University College, Cardiff, where he obtained a diploma in journalism. Churchill College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and was founded in 1958 as the national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd is a leading University located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom ^[1] On 19 May 1990, he married Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe Jensen. Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships 110 men and Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) He inherited his father's hereditary peerage upon his father's death in 2006. Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom.

Career

Media

In 1974 at the age of 22, Monckton joined the Yorkshire Post, where he worked as a reporter and leader-writer. The Yorkshire Post is a daily Broadsheet Newspaper, published in Leeds, England by Yorkshire Post Newspapers, a company From 1977 to 1978, he worked at Conservative Central Office as a press officer, becoming the editor of the Roman Catholic newspaper The Universe in 1979, then managing editor of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine in 1981. Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ formerly known as Conservative Central Office (CCO is the headquarters of the British Conservative Party A press secretary or press officer is a senior advisor who provides advice on how to deal with the News media and using News management techniques helps The Universe is a Newspaper for Roman Catholics in Britain and Ireland. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. He joined the English tabloid newspaper, Evening Standard, as a leader-writer in 1982. The London Evening Standard is an English Tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast ^[1]

Politics

He returned to Conservative Central Office in late 1982, this time as a policy advisor for Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 ^[2] In 1986, he became assistant editor of the newly established, and now defunct, newspaper Today. Today was a national Newspaper in the United Kingdom, which existed for less than a decade ( 1986 - 95) He was a consulting editor for the Evening Standard from 1987 to 1992 and was its chief leader-writer from 1990 to 1992. The London Evening Standard is an English Tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast ^[1]

Although he has in the past stated that he is "a member of the Upper House of the United Kingdom legislature,"^[3] Monckton has never been a member of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords The 1997 reform of the House of Lords, culminating in the 1999 House of Lords Act ended the right of all but 92 hereditary peers to sit in Parliament, with most of the remaining 92 being elected by fellow peers within their party caucus. For almost a century governments in the United Kingdom have attempted to find a way to undertake a comprehensive reform of the House of Lords, which is the Upper house The House of Lords Act 1999 (1999 c 34 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999 Monckton was an unsuccessful candidate for a Conservative seat in the House of Lords in a March 2007 by-election caused by the death of Lord Mowbray and Stourton. A by-election or bye-election (called special election in the United States) is an Election held to fill a political office that has become vacant Charles Edward Stourton 26th Baron Mowbray 27th Baron Segrave and 23rd Baron Stourton CBE ( 11 March 1923 - 12 December 2006) was He had been highly critical of the way that the Lords has been reformed, describing the by-election procedure, with 43 candidates and 47 electors, as "a bizarre constitutional abortion. " ^[4]

Associations

Monckton is a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, an Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and a member of the Roman Catholic Mass Media Commission. The Worshipful Company of Broderers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem or Order of St John is a British -based royal order of Chivalry, and is The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta ( SMOM) Order of Malta He is also a qualified Day Skipper with the Royal Yacht Association, and has been a Trustee of the Hales Trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic since 1986. ^[1]

Political views

Social policy

Eddy Shah: Today and the Newspaper Revolution describes him as "a fervent, forthright and opinionated Roman Catholic Tory" ^[5] who has been closely associated with the "New Right" faction of the Conservative Party. New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various forms of conservative right-wing or self-proclaimed dissident oppositional movements and groups that emerged ^[6] As one of Margaret Thatcher's policy advisors, he has been credited with being "the brains behind the Thatcherite policy of giving council tenants (public housing) the right to buy their homes. Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local The Right to buy scheme is a policy in the United Kingdom which gives tenants of Council housing the right to buy the home they are living in "^[7] In more recent years, he has been associated with the Referendum Party, advising its founder Sir James Goldsmith, and in 2003 he helped a Scottish Tory breakaway group, the People's Alliance. The Referendum Party was the name of a series of Single-issue parties in the United Kingdom that called for a Referendum on aspects of the UK's relationship Sir James Michael Goldsmith ( February 26, 1933, Paris, France - July 18, 1997, Benahavis, Spain ^[7]

Business consultancy

In 1987, Monckton founded a consultancy company, Christopher Monckton Ltd. , where he served as a director until he retired because of ill health in 2006. In 1999, he created and published the Eternity puzzle, a geometric puzzle which involved tiling a dodecagon with 209 irregularly shaped polygons called Polydrafters. The eternity puzzle was a geometric puzzle with a million- pound prize created by Christopher Monckton, who put up half the money himself the other half being put Regular dodecagon It usually refers to a regular dodecagon having all sides of equal length and all angles equal to 150° In Geometry a polygon (ˈpɒlɨɡɒn ˈpɒliɡɒn is traditionally a plane figure that is bounded by a closed path or circuit In Recreational mathematics, a polydrafter is a Polyform with a Triangle as the base form A £1m prize was won after 18 months by two Cambridge mathematicians. The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England ^[8] By that time, 500,000 puzzles had been sold. Monckton claimed that he had to sell his home, Crimonmogate, to pay the prize;^[8] he later admitted the story was a publicity stunt ^[9][10]. A second puzzle, Eternity II, was launched on 28 July 2007, with a prize of $2 million. The Eternity II puzzle, aka E2 or E II is a Puzzle and connected Prize competition which was released on 28 July 2007. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

Views on AIDS

Monckton's views on how the AIDS epidemic should be tackled have been the subject of some controversy. In an article entitled "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS", written for the January 1987 issue of The American Spectator, he argued that "there is only one way to stop AIDS. The American Spectator is a conservative US monthly Magazine covering news and politics edited by R That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month . . . all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently. " This would involve isolating between 1. 5 and 3 million people in the United States ("not altogether impossible") and another 30,000 people in the UK ("not insuperably difficult"). ^[11] Monckton appeared on the BBC's Panorama programme in February 1987 to discuss his views and present the results of an opinion poll that found public support for his position. Panorama is the longest-running current affairs documentary series in the world ^[6] In 1999 the British gay rights group OutRage! launched a campaign to force the manufacturer of Monckton's Eternity Puzzle to disassociate itself from him because of his views. OutRage! is a direct action campaigning group in the United Kingdom which was formed to fight for what they saw as the rights of Lesbian, Gay and bisexual The eternity puzzle was a geometric puzzle with a million- pound prize created by Christopher Monckton, who put up half the money himself the other half being put ^[12] Monckton has since clarified his views on AIDS, stating that "the article was written at the very outset of the AIDS epidemic, and with 33 million people around the world now infected, the possibility of [quarantine] is laughable. It couldn't work. " ^[13]

European integration

Monckton has been an advocate of Euroscepticism for many years; as he put it in a 2007 interview, he would "leave the European Union, close down 90 per cent of government services and shift power away from the atheistic, humanistic government and into the hands of families and individuals. Euroscepticism Euro (disambiguation --> has become a general term for opposition to the process The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in " ^[14] In 1994, he sued the Conservative government of John Major for agreeing to contribute to the costs of the Protocol on Social Policy agreed in the 1993 Maastricht Treaty, although the UK had an opt-out from the protocol. Sir John Major KG CH ACIB (born 29 March 1943 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The Maastricht Treaty (formally the Treaty on European Union, TEU) was signed on 7 February 1992 in Maastricht, the Netherlands after final The case was heard in the Scottish Court of Session in May 1994. The Court of Session is the supreme civil court of Scotland. It is both a Court of first instance and a court of Appeal and sits exclusively His petition for judicial review was dismissed by the court for want of relevancy. Judicial review is the power of the courts to annul the acts of the executive and/or the legislative power where it finds them incompatible with a higher norm ^[15]

Global warming

Monckton is critical of the theory of anthropogenic causes for global warming and the stated scope of it, which he regards as a controversy catalyzed by "the need of the international left for a new flag to rally round" following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer was a physical barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic (GDR ( East Germany) including ^[16] Although he has acknowledged that global warming is real, he has cast doubt on its provenance and the underlying science in a number of newspaper articles and papers. Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the His views have attracted controversy and strong criticism from scientists and environmental activists, including Al Gore and George Monbiot. Albert Arnold Gore Jr (born March 31 1948 is an American environmental Activist, author Businessperson, former Politician, and former George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January, 1963) is a left-wing Journalist, Author, Academic and environmental According to Monckton, his interest in the subject was provoked by "a finance house [asking] me to look into it to see if it was anything the financial sector should worry about. The more I looked the more I thought, hang on, none of this quite adds up. " ^[16]

In two high-profile Sunday Telegraph articles published in November 2006, Monckton has disputed whether global warming is man-made, suggested that it is unlikely to prove catastrophic and criticized the science performed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Sunday Telegraph is a British Broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961 In particular, he has criticized the IPCC's interpretation of the Medieval Warm Period, cited the "hockey stick" controversy as evidence of faulty science, argued that the IPCC's scientists have misapplied the Stefan–Boltzmann law, and supported the solar variation theory as a possible explanation of global warming. The Medieval Warm Period (MWP or Medieval Climate Optimum was a time of unusually Warm Climate in the North Atlantic region lasting from about The hockey stick controversy is a dispute over the reconstructed estimates of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature changes over the past millennium,especially the particular The Stefan–Boltzmann law, also known as Stefan's law, states that the total Energy radiated per unit surface Area of a Black body in unit Solar variations are changes in the amount of Solar radiation emitted by the Sun. ^[17] In response to the U. K. government's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, he has argued that the review's recommendation to invest 1% of global GDP in climate change mitigation would be ineffective, as would the introduction of carbon taxes and emissions trading as a means of curbing carbon emissions. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released on October 30, 2006 by economist Lord Stern of Brentford for the A carbon tax is an environmental Tax on emissions of Carbon dioxide and other Greenhouse gases It is an example of a pollution tax. Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control Pollution by providing economic Incentives for He has proposed instead that the best solution should be to "go nuclear and reverse 20th-century deforestation. " ^[18]

Gavin Schmidt has criticised Monckton's analysis of climate sensitivity as "sleight-of-hand to fool the unwary" [1]. Gavin A Schmidt is a Climatologist and climate modeller at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS In Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC reports equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the equilibrium change in global mean surface temperature following Dr. Stephan Harrison criticises Moncktons' articles as "full of errors, misuse of data and cherry-picked examples" [2]. The British writer and environmentalist George Monbiot has criticized Monckton's arguments as "cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation and pseudo-scientific gibberish. George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January, 1963) is a left-wing Journalist, Author, Academic and environmental "^[19] In a response published in The Guardian, Monckton has argued that he "got the science right" and that Monbiot got "too many facts wrong" and had shown "ignorance of the elementary physics". The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ^[20] Monckton's views have also been criticized by Al Gore. In an article in The Sunday Telegraph, the former U. The Sunday Telegraph is a British Broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961 S. Vice President and environmental campaigner described Monckton's scientific assertions as "extremely misleading" and "completely wrong". ^[21] Monckton has in turn accused Gore of having "bastardised" science^[16] and having produced "a foofaraw of pseudo-science" in the form of his climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth. An Inconvenient Truth is an American Documentary film about Global warming, presented by former United States Vice President ^[22]

Monckton's critics charge that "[his] science is self-taught and his paper qualifications nonexistent"^[16] and that "he is trying to take on the global scientific establishment on the strength of a classics degree from Cambridge. "^[23] For his part, Monckton takes the view that it is "a very modern notion that you need paper qualifications to pronounce on anything and it comes from the socialist idea that people need to be trained in the official, accepted, dogmatic truths. "^[16]

After the U. S. Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe wrote a bipartisan letter to the Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil asking him to stop funding think tanks that reject global warming,^[24] Monckton wrote to them, asserting that their letter to ExxonMobil violated the corporation's right of free speech and calling on them to reverse their position or resign. John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) generally known as Jay Rockefeller, has served as a Democratic U Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe McKernan (born February 21, 1947) is the senior United States Senator from Maine. The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas Corporation and a direct descendant of John D Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the ^[3] In February 2007, he published a critique of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change. ^[25] His calculations of climate sensitivity to increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have been published in the Quarterly Economic Bulletin. ^[26] A number of his writings on global warming, including his letter to Senators Snowe and Rockefeller and his IPCC critique, have been published by the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), part of Frontiers of Freedom, a conservative organization funded by ExxonMobil that has campaigned against the screening of An Inconvenient Truth in U. The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI is a United States based organization that is skeptical of human induced Climate change. An Inconvenient Truth is an American Documentary film about Global warming, presented by former United States Vice President S. schools. ^[27]

Monckton played a key role in a legal challenge heard in the High Court of Justice in October 2007 in a bid to prevent An Inconvenient Truth from being shown in English schools. Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills was a case heard in September-October 2007 in the High Court of Justice For the Cameroonian court by this name see High Court of Justice (Cameroon, for the Israeli court of this name see Supreme Court of Israel. In an interview with the conservative American talk radio host Glenn Beck, Monckton stated that he had prompted an unnamed friend to fund the case "to fight back against this tide of unscientific freedom-destroying nonsense" and had played a direct role in the litigation against the British government. Glenn Beck (born February 10, 1964) is an American radio and Television host, conservative Political commentator ^[28] He is also funding the distribution to schools of the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle as a riposte to Gore's film. The Great Global Warming Swindle is a Documentary film that argues against the scientific consensus that Global warming is "very likely ^[23]

In March 2007, Monckton ran a series of advertisements in The New York Times and Washington Post challenging Al Gore to an internationally televised debate on climate change. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The former U. S. Vice President did not respond. ^[29][16] The Science and Public Policy Institute provided funding for Monckton to produce a response to An Inconvenient Truth, to be called Apocalypse?, No!, described as "showing Monckton presenting a slide show in a vitriolic attack on climate change science. "^[23] The film includes footage of Monckton giving a Gore-style presentation given on 8 October 2007 at the Cambridge Union in which he asserted that Gore and the IPCC had systematically falsified and exaggerated the evidence for global warming. Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Cambridge Union, is a debating society in Cambridge, England and is the ^[23][30]

Published works

• The Laker Story (with Ivan Fallon). Christensen, 1982. ISBN 0950800708
• Anglican Orders: null and void?. Family History Books, 1986.
• The AIDS Report. 1987
• European Monetary Union: opportunities and dangers. University of St. Andrews, Department of Economics. 1997
• Sudoku X. Headline Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 0755315014
• Sudoku X-mas. Headline Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 0755315022
• Sudoku Xpert. Headline Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0755315294
• Junior Sudoku X. Headline Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0755315286
• Sudoku Xtreme. Headline Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0755315308

The Science and Public Policy Institute has published nine papers by Monckton on climate-change science. ^[31]

See also

• Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
• Rosa Monckton

Notes

External links

• Apocalypse Cancelled
• Greenhouse warming? What greenhouse warming? by Christopher Monckton
• Gore Gored Monckton's response to Gore
• Monckton saves the day!, The Observer, May 6, 2007
• Real Climate: Cuckoo Science - analysis of Monckton's Telegraph articles, November 9, 2006

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gilbert Monckton	Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 2006–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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NAME	Christopher Walter Monckton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Christopher Monckton
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1952
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DATE OF DEATH
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Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most Peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801 when Major General Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley CB, OBE, MC ( 3 November 1915 &ndash Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, of Brenchley in the County of Kent is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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