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StephanieVanbryce

07/12/09 10:03 AM

#434593 RE: benzdealeror2 #434572

I can always count on you for 'finding' an author who has been proven to be an IDIOT .. ! ......

Nine of diamonds
Christopher Monckton
Former adviser to Margaret Thatcher



Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, whose academic qualification is a classics degree, maintains that "politicians, scientists and bureaucrats contrived a threat of Biblical floods, droughts, plagues, and extinctions worthier of St John the Divine than of science." He came to public notice with a long paper published on the website of the Sunday Telegraph, accusing the UN of scientific fraud. His paper was filled with sciencey equations and calculations, which were rapidly dismissed as bunkum by real scientists. -

Cuckoo Science
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/11/cuckoo-science/

He has threatened several of those who have challenged his scientific claims with libel suits, but they have not yet materialised. Though he has never held a seat in the Lords, he maintained in a threatening letter to two US senators that he was "a member of the Upper House of the United Kingdom legislature".

He has also claimed that, among other unlikely feats, he was responsible for winning the Falklands war. His grand statements about climate science and his own credentials have earned him the nickname among some environmentalists of Viscount Monckhausen.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/mar/06/climate-change-deniers-top-10



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hap0206

07/12/09 12:54 PM

#434607 RE: benzdealeror2 #434572

just makes a person wonder -- how do we accelerate the cooling of this thing we call earth ? Obviously, stop breathing would help.
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The Earth, the Sun, and the rest of the solar system, was formed 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from a rotating disk of dust and gas. The immense amount of heat energy released from gravitational energy and from the decay of radioactive elements melted the entire planet, and it is still cooling off today. Denser materials like iron (Fe) sank into the core of the Earth, while lighter silicates (Si), other oxygen (O) compounds, and water rose near the surface.



The earth is divided into four main layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The core is composed mostly of iron (Fe) and is so hot that the outer core is molten, with about 10% sulphur (S). The inner core is under such extreme pressure that it remains solid. Most of the Earth's mass is in the mantle, which is composed of iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), and oxygen (O) silicate compounds. At over 1000 degrees C, the mantle is solid but can deform slowly in a plastic manner. The crust is much thinner than any of the other layers, and is composed of the least dense calcium (Ca) and sodium (Na) aluminum-silicate minerals. Being relatively cold, the crust is rocky and brittle, so it can fracture in earthquakes
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fuagf

07/12/09 9:11 PM

#434627 RE: benzdealeror2 #434572

benz, man does contribute to some despoiling .. all agree on that .. then
all agree long term trends are the consideration so why make the
unworthy suggestion that one year means anything in the debate
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even dickheads act decently occasionally.