Lord Monckton: Net Zero Emissions — The Costliest Error of Physics and of Economics in History

Talk given by Lord Monckton at a meeting of the Oxford Mises Society.

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office, and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor. He was educated at Harrow School and Churchill College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. (Classics, 1974, now M.A.), and at University College, Cardiff, where he obtained a diploma in journalism studies.

Monckton joined the Yorkshire Post in 1974 at the age of 22, where he worked as a reporter and leader-writer. From 1977 to 1978, he worked at Conservative Central Office as a press officer, becoming the editor of the Catholic newspaper The Universe in 1979, then managing editor of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine in 1981. He joined the London Evening Standard newspaper as a leader-writer in 1982. After a hiatus in his career as a journalist Monckton became assistant editor of the newly established, and now defunct, tabloid newspaper Today in 1986. He was a consulting editor for the Evening Standard from 1987 to 1992 and was its chief leader-writer from 1990 to 1992.

He was Special Advisor to Margaret Thatcher from 1982 to 1986, and he has served as Secretary for the Centre for Policy Studies's economic, forward strategy, health and employment study groups; Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP); and as UKIP's President in Scotland. On leaving 10 Downing Street, he established a successful specialist consultancy company, giving technical advice to corporations and governments.

He has travelled the world giving speeches about climate change and appearing on national radio and television. His 2010/2011 speaking tours to Australia attracted a lot of media attention and he was invited to give a personal briefing to Tony Abbott, who at the time was leader of the Opposition and then subsequently prime minister.

He has testified four times before the U.S. Congress and has spoken at United Nations climate conferences in Bali, Bonn, Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, Rio, and Qatar.

His lecture to undergraduates at the Cambridge Union Society on climate change was released as a feature-length film, called Apocalypse? NO! He has triumphed in debate at St Andrews University, where undergraduates voted against climate alarm for the first time at any British university, and at the Oxford Union, where undergraduates voted against climate alarm for the first time at any English university.

His scholarly articles on climate issues have appeared in numerous books as well as such journals as Science Bulletin, Energy and Environment, Journal of the Marine Navigation Industry, UK Quarterly Economic Bulletin, Physics and Society, Science & Education, and AIG News.

For his work on the climate, Lord Monckton, who was Nerenberg Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 2013, has been presented with numerous honours, including the Meese-Noble Award for Freedom, the Valiant-for-Truth Award of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, the Santhigiri Ashram Award, and the Intelligence Medal of the Army of Colombia.

In 1999, Monckton created and published the Eternity puzzle, a geometric puzzle that involved tiling a dodecagon with 209 irregularly shaped polygons called "polydrafters". A £1 million prize was won after 18 months by two Cambridge mathematicians. By that time, 500,000 puzzles had been sold. Monckton launched the Eternity II puzzle in 2007, but, after the four-year prize period, no winner came forward to claim the $2 million prize.

Monckton is a liveryman 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. He is also a qualified Day Skipper with the Royal Yachting Association, and has been a trustee of the Hales Trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic since 1986.

Recorded at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 12th October 2022.

0:00 The case against net zero emissions
1:03:16 Historical background to the net zero agenda

[MichaelHarrisIreland]

The Post Office scandal which is growing further proves why we should not believe the establishment concensus

[__lancaster]

Can we educate someone from Oxford on the very basic manual focus control of a camera lens?

[colin_a]

Could you imagine the impact this would have on people if it was put into a 3 or 4-part documentary that was shown on the BBC, or indeed one of the other mainstream broadcasters? Millions and millions of people would start to wake up and realise the scale of nonsense we are being told. So many people's lives would be made better as we could then spend the people's hard-earned money on better housing, better roads, better medical care, better legal systems etc. With the latter, we could pursue the people who instigated a certain medical intervention that happened a few years back too.. The lid is starting to come off.., but sadly I fear that documentary will never get made.. 😑

[paigeconn]

Listening to this lecture is one hour and thirty minutes of time well spent. Thank you.

[captchaos]

Brilliant. Helps with my own fight. Was roped into the 'sustainability' committee at work. This will help me give the other side of the argument. Boy, will they hate me.

[Wicanrede]

He needs to stand on the WEF stage and tell them what for!

[moopius]

1000 view after a month compared to 16 million views for puglie pig and a pringles pack animation.... shows where we are going.

[freddyfriesen]

I had forgotten how eloquent Lord Monckton can be. Thank you.

[tom]

Whenever someone says the science is settled I instantly assume that person is not a scientist. Particularly when the prediction is based on a computer model.

[WheelieStu]

Who realised it would cost so much money to make the planet ever so slightly worse off?

[martinpeacocke]

Sacrificing the poor middle class and jobs for a dishonest agenda. A great video!

[JoeBlowUK]

I hope some of our up and coming young graduates went off and did their own research with an open mind after witnessing this brilliant lecture.

[fivish]

NetZero tries to address the 3% of man made CO2 which is included in the 0.04% of CO2 in the atmosphere. The man made contribution is irrelevant and even if zero would not affect the climate one iota. But the damage being done by NetZero and climate alarmists is huge.

[anthonymorris]

Net zero is about as reasonable as a perpetual motion machine.

[JohnWilliams-iwoq]

Only 2K views? This is one of the greatest eye openers I've ever seen.

[alisongray]

I am playing this in the car for my son to hear.. he is the generation that has been brainwashed into thinking we are heading for a climate catastrophe. I recommend all parents play this talk to their children and grandchildren

[davidjames]

Someone in the audience doesn't even know the difference between the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream. Shocking for someone at Oxford University.

[jameshein]

I weep for the Western World when our elite universities can't work out when to turn auto-focus off. Lord Monckton as usual was at his best.

[DrMichael-T-]

Remarkable mental clarity and coherent chain of thoughts, backed by figures and science.

[philipclemoes]

Well said Lord Monkton , it's long overdue time to debunk the global warming myth and the hatred of CO2.