A Climate Conversation Podcast 15 with Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Benchley
September 6, 2024
Hosts: Kim Monson & Dave O’Rourke
Guests: Christopher Monckton, Deputy Leader of the UK Independece Party, Member, House of Lords, and former Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Walter E. Johnson, Geophysicist and Executive Producer of the documentary A Climate Conversation
A Climate Conversation Podcast
Welcome to our podcast in support of A Climate Conversation, a documentary that seeks to foster an honest dialogue on the subject of climate change—its causes, its impact, and a science-based cost/benefit analysis of its potential solutions.
Welcome to a very special edition of the A Climate Conversation podcast. We are joined by Christopher Monckton, journalist, political advisor and candidate, and puzzle master. Lord Monckton is quite well known for his views on the European Union, climate change and social policy.
Lord Monckton will share his views on a wide range of subjects related to climate change policy. There will be a significant conversation about the models used to promote alarmism, and an insider’s look at the political nature of the larger debate. We believe you will be as charmed by his wit and wisdom as we were.
Lord Monckton is joined by Walt Johnson, brainchild and executive producer of A Climate Conversation. A son of the West, Walt is a geophysicist and fifth-generation Coloradan and is keenly interested in bringing realism and the scientific method to the debate about climate. Walt is particularly interested in bringing the scientific method to the discussion about human-caused climate change, its potential impact and proposed solutions, and, crucially, the potential benefits and real costs to replace natural fuel sources.
This podcast continues our conversation about the cost/benefit equation of climate policy. Those costs go far beyond the hundreds of trillions of dollars that will be required to meet the demands of the alarmist’s policy prescriptions, while the benefit appears to be trivial at best, and may actually do more harm than good.
Topics include:
Lord Monckton’s journey to client skeptic
Anecdotes about his long career in British and European politics
A deep dive into fundamental errors in the IPCC’s modeling
The cynicism of leaders and politicians
We hear realists derided as “deniers,” but that slur is a poor substitute for a scientific argument. The science of climate is anything but settled, and models in use by the UN IPCC continue to prove deeply flawed. Before engaging in a multi-hundred trillion dollar energy transition, we should make sure the costs and benefits are much more well understood.
The video below is Lord Monckton's presentation, Net Zero Emissions — The Costliest Error of Physics and of Economics in History, to the Oxford University Mises Society.