Lords of climate change skepticism

When Lord Christopher Monckton, the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, spoke to the Economic Club of Canada this week, the event felt more like a support group than a landmark address. Less than a dozen people attended, so few that they comfortably sat around a single conference table at a Toronto hotel, nibbling chocolate chip cookies as Lord Monckton held forth on his chosen topic: the “Overheated Hype Behind Global Warming.” Participants — some dressed in suits with BlackBerrys close at hand, others in golf shirts and slacks — murmured in agreement as Lord Monckton, a former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher, argued that the threat of climate change is grossly overstated by Al Gore and his ilk

James Cowan