Monckton & Morano @ Vatican To Scold Pope On Climate; Results Approach Performance Art

[hatrack]

PACKING IN the reporters for Heartland Institute's presentation!

The clowns of the climate denial travelling circus pitched their tent in Vatican City today to demand Pope Francis ignore the dangers of global warming. The increasingly eccentric Lord Monckton played ringmaster to Dr Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance and Marc Morano from CFACT in a curious performance hosted by the Heartland Institute.

These groups have all been funded by “dark money” from the secretive Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund , which have in turn been funded by the oil billionaire Koch Brothers. The circus has arrived to catch a free media ride on the official delegation meeting the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican, including Ban Ki Moon from the United Nations and the economist Jeff Sachs.

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Monckton, when questioned by one of the nine journalists in attendance, made an unsubstantiated claim he had already met privately with Vatican officials and was privy to their thinking on climate change. He has previously attacked a climate change policy advisor and a young Jewish student as Nazis and used a swastika in a presentation to illustrate his point. He has also claimed only religious people, and preferably Christians, should conduct climate research. The one-time junior Tory party advisor attended the Conference of the Parties climate talks in Doha paid for by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), only to be permanently banned for impersonating an official UN delegate.

Morano runs Climate Depot which regularly publishes the emails of climate scientists, prompting a barrage of hate mail and death threats. He has said of climate scientists: “I seriously believe we should kick them while they're down - they deserve to be publicly flogged.” Climate Depot is a project of CFACT, which has received more than $4.1million in funds from the Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund in the decade to 2011 - and a further $582,000 directly from ExxonMobil during a similar period. Beisner, who has a Phd in Scottish history, fears environmentalists are “the greatest threat to Western civilisation” as it unites “the utopian vision of Marxism, the scientific facade of secular humanism, and the religious fanaticism of jihad.”

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http://desmog.uk/2015/04/27/pope-francis-should-answer-exxonmobil-rather-god-imply-climate-deniers

[happyslug]

1. When I first read that headline, I thought it was an attack on the Pope for ignoring Climate Change.

When you read the article it is an attack on the Pope for saying Climate Change is real. I hate to say this, this headline is what these climate deniers want. A quick read that indicates there is more opposition to dealing with Climate Change then there really is.

[Nihil]

3. When the headline includes "Monckton" then it is obvious which direction the "attack" is going.

That useless deranged PoS has never done a thing for the good of anyone other than himself in his life.

[MisterP]

2. so it's a conspiracy between the Papists, the Ethical-Culture Mechanics' Institutes, Commies,

and jihadis, eh?