{"id":581982,"date":"2010-05-27T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=26195"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:43:01","slug":"mn-professor-eviscerates-monckton-in-must-see-video-tvmobs-talk-proves-how-easy-it-is-to-fabricate-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581982","title":{"rendered":"MN professor eviscerates Monckton in must-see video &#8211; TVMOB&#8217;s talk proves &#8220;how easy it is to fabricate data.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stthomas.edu\/engineering\/jpabraham\/\"><strong>&#8220;The number of errors Chris Monckton makes is so enormous it would take a  thesis to go through every single one of them.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (TVMOB) is a shameless purveyor of hate speech and anti-science disinformation (see links below).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, you rarely sees such a thorough debunking of an anti-science disinformer as this <a href=\"http:\/\/courseweb.stthomas.edu\/jpabraham\/global_warming\/Monckton\/index.htm\">astonishing point-by-point evisceration<\/a> put together by John Abraham, an engineering professor  at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, MN.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-26195\"><\/span>One of the two reasons you rarely see this is because few people are willing to put in the time and effort that Prof. Abraham has &#8212; not merely looking up just about every reference TVMOB uses but actually e-mailing the authors of those scientific papers and asking them if TVMOB has accurately represented their work.<\/p>\n<p>The second reason you rarely see this kind of thorough dismantlement is that few people make stuff up with the relentlessness of TVMOB or push the kind of hate speech that make people want to debunk them entirely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Lord Monckton meltdown: \u201cI\u2019m  not going   to shake the hands of Hitler youth.\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/12\/17\/lord-monckton-meltdown-im-not-going-to-shake-the-hands-of-hitler-youth\/\">Lord   Monckton meltdown:  \u201cI\u2019m not going to shake the hands of Hitler  youth.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to TVMOB hate speech shocker:   Lord   Monckton repeats and expands on his charge that those who embrace    climate science are \u201cHitler youth\u201d and fascists.\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/12\/12\/tvmob-hate-speech-lord-monckton-hitler-youth-fascist-climate-activists\/\">TVMOB   hate speech  shocker:  Lord Monckton repeats and expands on his charge   that those who  embrace climate science are \u201cHitler youth\u201d and  fascists.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to TVMOB shocker:  Activists  decried as   \u201cHitler Youth\u201d for crashing Americans For Prosperity\u2019s global  warming   event in Copenhagen\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/12\/10\/lord-monckton-hitler-youth-for-crashing-americans-for-prosperity%e2%80%99s-global-warming-event-in-copenhagen\/\">TVMOB   shocker:  Activists decried as  \u201cHitler Youth\u201d for crashing Americans   For Prosperity\u2019s global warming  event in Copenhagen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to How to diss-a-peer: Real  Climate   Scientists take on TVMOB\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2008\/07\/24\/how-to-diss-a-peer-real-climate-scientists-take-on-tvmob\/\">How   to diss-a-peer: Real Climate  Scientists take on TVMOB<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Deltoid at ScienceBlogs: <a id=\"a082182\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2008\/07\/moncktons_triple_counting.php\">Monckton\u2019s    triple counting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/duoquartuncia.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/aps-and-global-warming-what-were-they.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Irony-gate 2:  Modern day Tea  Partiers  outsource denial to Lord Monckton \u2014 a British peer!\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/04\/06\/tea-partiers-to-hear-from-climate-disinformer-lord-monckton-freedomworks\/\">Irony-gate   2:  Modern day Tea Partiers outsource denial to Lord Monckton \u2014 a   British peer!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Climate Crock takes on Lord  Monckton aka  TVMOB\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/04\/12\/debunking-lord-monckton-aka-tvmob\/\">Climate  Crock takes on Lord Monckton aka TVMOB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Climate Crock takes on Lord  Monckton, Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/04\/16\/climate-crock-takes-on-lord-monckton-part-2\/\">Climate Crock takes on Lord Monckton, Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Kudo to Abraham for this masterful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stthomas.edu\/engineering\/jpabraham\/\">debunking<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The number of errors Chris Monckton makes is so enormous it would take a thesis to go through every single one of them.&#8221; The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (TVMOB) is a shameless purveyor of hate speech and anti-science disinformation (see links below). Nonetheless, you rarely sees such a thorough debunking of an anti-science disinformer as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}