Christopher Walter, Third Viscount
Monckton of Brenchley, (+44 1882 632341; monckton@mail.com)
is a former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher during her years as Prime
Minister of the
Margaret Thatcher thereupon
gave a speech alerting the Royal Society,
However, after careful study
of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed scientific research since that time,
Lord Monckton has concluded that the research demonstrates the threat posed by
anthropogenic climate change to be more imaginary than real, and that what had
initially been a serious scientific enquiry into our effects on the climate has
been captured by alarmist and extremist political and environmental
lobby-groups pursuing an agenda that is not only dangerously contrary to the
public interest, but also potentially gravely damaging to the welfare of the
poor, who would be the first to suffer from the prodigious misallocation of global
economic resources which the alarmists unjustifiably advocate.
In November 2006, Lord
Monckton wrote two major articles in the
The Library of the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History was the setting for the famous debate on
30 June 1860 between the natural scientist T.H. Huxley and Bishop “Soapy Sam” Wilberforce
on the theory of evolution following the publication of
The
The statue of Charles Darwin,
who was too ill to take part in the Great Debate of 1860
