Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing

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Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.

According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The "celebrity" witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats' "celebrity" with an unnamed "celebrity" of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.

[ Update: 1:55 PM EST: A GOP House source told Climate Depot that the Democrats on the Committee said “absolutely not” to allowing Monckton to appear during today's Gore hearing. The GOP committee “pushed at multiple levels” to bring Monckton in to testify but the Democrats “refused,” according to the GOP source. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was called in to testify after Monckton was rejected by the committee Democrats, according to the Congressional source.]

“The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman's (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore's sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening.

“Waxman knows there has been no 'global warming' for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years' global cooling. Waxman knows that, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore's mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, 'the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view,'” Monckton explained. Monckton has previously testified before the House Committee in March. (See: Monckton: Have the courage to do nothing...US Congress told climate change is not real ) Monckton has also publicly challenged Gore to a debate. (See: Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming By Lord Monckton - March 19, 2007 )

A call to the Democratic office of the House Energy and Commerce Committee seeking comment was not immediately returned Thursday night.

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-D...ssional-Hearing

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[Ban Hammer 13,366]

why am i not surprised?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

why am i not surprised?

they want a one sided argument.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The tree huggers have no idea how much moola Gore is making off his global warming BS. They finance his multiple mansion warmings.

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Could only wonder if the producers of that new James Bond movie, the Quantum of Solace, had Gore in mind as the bad guy.

[Nagishkaw 510]

why am i not surprised?

they want a one sided argument.

Seems logical to me.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

The tree huggers have no idea how much moola Gore is making off his global warming BS. They finance his multiple mansion warmings.

More money for planes and SUVs.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I already referred to this (see my post in the thread below) earlier.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=193314

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I smell hear-say.

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Incidentally - Monckton has no science qualifications. Neither, I believe, does Gore.

Personally I'm wondering why such people are constantly quoted on this issue - as if their opinions on the work of the scientific community actually carry some weight.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Incidentally - Monckton has no science qualifications. Neither, I believe, does Gore.

Personally I'm wondering why such people are constantly quoted on this issue - as if their opinions on the work of the scientific community actually carry some weight.

The whole title of this thread is misleading. The Republicans can invite whoever they want to testify - such as Gingrich. Gore refused to testify in tandem with Monckton because he knows the focus would have been on trying to debunk Global Warming rather than talking about the merits of Cap and Trade. This hearing isn't about the merits of Global Warming as our own EPA recognizes it as real.

Now as far as trying to silence actual climate scientists...

Published: January 29, 2006

The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/...imate.html?_r=1

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I already referred to this (see my post in the thread below) earlier.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=193314

I saw that. It deserved it's own thread.

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Incidentally - Monckton has no science qualifications. Neither, I believe, does Gore.

Personally I'm wondering why such people are constantly quoted on this issue - as if their opinions on the work of the scientific community actually carry some weight.

The whole title of this thread is misleading. The Republicans can invite whoever they want to testify - such as Gingrich. Gore refused to testify in tandem with Monckton because he knows the focus would have been on trying to debunk Global Warming rather than talking about the merits of Cap and Trade. This hearing isn't about the merits of Global Warming as our own EPA recognizes it as real.

Now as far as trying to silence actual climate scientists...

Published: January 29, 2006

The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/...imate.html?_r=1

No, no ,no, Guano. Its the left wing librals that want to restrict the freedom of speech.

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Worth mentioning...

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. 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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_M...on_of_Brenchley

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The man is a hack.