Former Science Adviser To British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Lord Christopher Monckton Gives Sound Fact About Climate Change
October 16th, 2009 | 
Author: Minnesota Free Market Institute
Last night, climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton spoke to an audience of over 700 at Bethel University in St. Paul. The event also featured the national premiere of a new documentary from the Cascade Policy Institute titled “Climate Chains.” The event was an enormous success. Thank you for all who came!
Note: For those interested, Monckton’s slide show can be found here. The video below is best viewed while following along with the presentation.
Information on the treaty that Lord Christopher Monckton is referencing can be found here. The actual proposed treaty language can be found here.
Here is an excerpt from his speech:
Here is why the truth matters. It was all very well for jesting Pilate to ask that question and then not to tarry for an answer. But that question that he asked, “what is the truth?” is the question which underlies every question and in the end it is the only question that really matters. When you ask that question what you are really asking is “what is the truth about the matter?” And we are now going to see why it matters morally, socially, and politically, as well as economically and scientifically. That the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth should inform public policy on this question. Now, 40 years ago, DDT, the only effective agent against the malaria mosquito was banned. And you saw in that film [Cascade Policy Institute film "Climate Chains" was shown prior --ed] what the effect of that ban was. Before the ban, the inventor of DDT got the Nobel Peace Prize because he had saved more lives than anyone else in the history of the planet. Malaria, one of the greatest killers of children in the Third World had all but been eradicated. There were still 50,000 deaths per year. But when DDT was banned by exactly the same faction, that is now trying to tell us we must close down five sixths of the United States economy that figure is actually in the Waxman- Markey bill. That same faction banned DDT worldwide. The consequences are on the slide there. The number of deaths went up from 50,000 to a million a year and stayed there. For 40 years. 40 million people, nearly all of them children, died of malaria solely and simply because DDT had been banned for no good scientific reason or environmental reason whatsoever. And it was only after every single one of the people responsible for that dismal, murderous decision had retired or died that on September the 15th 2006, Dr. Arata Kochi of the World Health Organization said “Normally in this field, science comes second and politics comes first. But we will now take a stand on the science and the data, and he ended that ban on DDT and made it once again the front line of defense against the malaria mosquito. After pressure from me, among others.
The left, the environmental left, the intolerant, communistic narrow minded faction that does not care how many children it kills it is campaigning once again for DDT to be banned. Because they do not want children to be born in the Third World. They want as much of humanity as possible, it sometimes seems to me, to be wiped off the face of the planet. And there is a better way to control population than to withdraw the one effective agent against one of the worlds biggest killers and that is to raise the standard of living of the poorest. That has long been a moral imperative since the time of Our Blessed Lord himself it has been a moral imperative that we help Our Lord’s the sick and Our Lord’s the poor. And we work for them and we raise them up and we make them healthy and we make them wealthy, because if we make them wealthy, then their populations will stabilize. This is something that every demographer knows perfectly well . Make the population wealthy and it stabilizes. Keep it poor and it will continue to increase. Make it poor if it was wealthy, and it will start to increase again. And if the environmental left were really serious about saving the planet from a huge CO2 footprint (which I will show doesn’t matter at all) then the first thing they would do is pursue policies that would not, as the extinction of five sixths of your economy would do, make you poor. They would be trying to make everybody rich
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When is Monckton not telling the truth? Are his lips moving?
A few of the problems here:
1. Muller won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, not Peace. That was because DDT was an innovative killer — in 1948 it hadn’t “saved more lives” than anyone on the planet. Nor if that were true would it matter a whit — the National Academy of Sciences wrote in 1980 that DDT needed to be banned because, despite its good qualities, its dangers outweigh the benefits. Recent studies show it may kill by birth defect and other problems any life it “saved.”
2. DDT was never the only effective means to fight mosquitoes, nor is it today.
3. Malaria came roaring back in Africa when the pharmaceuticals used to treat it in humans ceased to work, because the parasites developed resistance and immunity to the drugs.
4. DDT use by WHO malaria fighters in Africa and Asia was stopped when the mosquitoes became resistant to the DDT, largely due to DDT overuse by other groups, especially Big Agriculture.
5. During the period DDT was used to fight malaria, malaria killed between 2 million and 3 million annually. Over the past 15 years, the annual death toll has been about a million a year. Malaria deaths have never been so low as 500,000 a year, let alone 50,000 a year. You’d think for the sake of the 700,000 African kids who die from malaria annually, Monckton would tell the truth. They need better pharmaceuticals, and better health care to accurately diagnose malaria and treat it. They need bed nets, and they need education on how to drain mosquito breeding areas around homes. During every speech Monckton gives denying those claims, another 25 African kids die from malaria. (Of course, they’d die anyway, but were he to talk truth to nature and policy makers, something might be done to reduce the death toll.)
6. DDT has never been banned worldwide. DDT is still used extensively in Asia and India, and is still manufactured in those nations. Some African nations used DDT constantly between 1946 and 1996, and experienced exactly the same problems everyone else did with malaria.
7. Monckton played no role in getting WHO to put out a press release in 2005 noting that WHO still uses DDT to fight malaria. Since 2005, however, WHO has reduced reliance on DDT, because Africans fear it, and there are other, more effective and less dangerous chemicals to use.
It’s a wonder that God didn’t strike that man with lightning for those claims.
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Source your material. I cannot place anymore credence with you than I can Monckton. You remind me of Soros saying to an interviewer that he was going to sell all of his (named country) currency….spent nothing….cost him nothing….but people heard him and scrambled and devalued the country’s currency. Just source your info.
You can watch the 22 min documentary Climate Chains online at http://www.climatechains.com
Climate Chains exposes extreme environmentalism and the misguided pursuit of cap-and-trade legislation.
Monckton has been fighting the good fight for some time now against the politically directed IPCC and its wild and nefarious claims all the while not including data which would cut it off at the knees, elbows and neck.
Didn’t everyone already know about how effective DDT was in the fight on pestilence overall? Didn’t everyone know that one of the largest outbreaks of malaria ever recorded was in NORTHERN RUSSIA!
Here is where Monckton and I part ways. Obama cannot sign us into loss of sovreignity all by his lonesome self. The Senate would have to ratify it, just like they ratified L.O.S.T. which puts any U.S. flagged ship under International Jurisdiction. It is also why we are not bound by the Kyoto Accords which Clinton signed, after very heavy lobbying by Gore and ENRON but the Senate did not ratify.
To be vigilant and cautious is one thing but Monckton is wrong on the power of the “not my” president.
Monckton didn’t.
C’mon over to Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub, on the DDT search, and start reading. Especially note the science claims, which to the extent possible are sourced back to the original documents.
It’s also contrary to the UN Charter. There would be no one to sign away the sovereignty to.
Lord Monkton did tell the truth. The question is why you are not? Perhaps you have been hood winked by the same junk science about global warming/sustainablity et al as you have with DDT. See below one of the many factual pieces of information on why it was really banned.
As for global warming. 32 year ago a conference took plance in North Carolina at the Fogerty Centre which was sponsored by the US government sources. It was at this conference that virtually every scenario on the climate hoax took root from. Scientists were charged with coming up with the sciense to back the scares. I suggest you peel back the layers of deception and look deeper. There is much more than can put here and it can be back it up.
http://www.matrixbookstore.biz/ddt.htm
highly effective chlorinated hydrocarbon (insecticide) developed during World War II, the usage of DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) began in 1943 and became the most widely used pesticide on American farms until it was banned in 1972. Yet… it was safe-to-use, had a broad range of applications and was a proven savior for many crops.
While the banning process was a tumultuous affair lasting several years, having met stiff resistance from the farm sector, for decades the stated reason for its banning (danger to wildlife) has remained highly questionable. Many believed (scholars included) something phony was going on… but couldn’t quite put their finger on it.
Well, as someone who once manufactured DDT, was once a licensed agricultural Pest Control Advisor and who was once a family farmer for 25 years (1973-1998), plus the fact I’m a perennial skeptic, perhaps this gives me some insight into the matter. While for several years resigned to the fact DDT was no longer available, I became interested in the mystery once again after I bought a magazine in the late 70s from a couple of hippies while awaiting a plane at LAX (airport).
The publication was called Fusion and, as the name implies, was a highly technical trade magazine produced by the Fusion Energy Foundation during the 1970-80’s which contained reams of technical information about the attempts to fuse atoms for use in nuclear reactors. If successful, the heat generated from ‘fusing’ atoms would replace the current process of ’splitting’ atoms (fission) to make steam. It was about America’s version of the Russian-built Tokamak… but this magazine was forced to close in 1987 by the U.S. Department of Justice (illegally, as it turned out).
Curiously, and featured on a fairly regular basis, were extensive articles on the politics of agriculture. Amidst the technical jargon of nuclear physics which addressed the complex problems of trying to maintain a fusion process for more than a millisecond… would be a picture of a cotton farm. It wasn’t long before I noticed Lyndon LaRouche was one of the writers, a brilliant man who understands agriculture’s economic importance as few do. He knew, and correctly so, that agriculture is the lynchpin in America’s economic system. As such, he also knew it was therefore subject to political manipulation. He ran for President of the United States several times (primaries) between 1976 and 1992 and was convicted a few years later on questionable fraud and tax conspiracy charges and received a 15 year prison term.
Each and everything Monckton said about DDT was wrong. Each one. It would be difficult to do that by error — either he’s a raving idiot, or he’s a liar, and you’ve never checked out DDT so you can be suckered in as gullible.
For example, DDT was never banned in Africa. DDT was banned for agricultural use in the U.S., but manufacturing to export to Africa was maintained. Even under the 2001 POPs Treaty, DDT is allowed under a special section.
Specifically to what you claim above:
DDT is not acutely toxic to humans, and not a powerful human carcinogen. It’s deadly to almost all other forms of life, and it bioaccumulates — which means that predators in systems where DDT is used may a dose a million times greater than applied.
That DDT was a danger to wildlife is confirmed by a lot of research — no study ever claimed otherwise — but most sensationally by the recovery of the bald eagle, America’s symbol. DDT had nearly wiped it out, making young unable to breed, and then killing the young. Today this bird is off the endangered species list.
You could look it up in any reputable publication.
Fusion was a publication of Lyndon Larouche. Nothing from that bunch should be taken without a high degree of skepticism. This guy’s gullibility is no excuse, and no refutation of the facts.
Our banning the use of DDT in Texas, in 1972, did not contribute to a rise in malaria in Africa at any time, and especially not the modest rise after 1980.
If DDT is a panacea, as Monckton claims, why is it that malaria exists today only in those nations that still use DDT, an in no nation that banned it prior to 2009?
Hoodwinked? You’ve never read anything on DDT?
Don’t take my word for it. Come to my blog, follow the citations. Read for yourself. Check out the citations offered in Fusion, if you wish. You’ll find they don’t say that DDT is safe.
Nor do they vouch for Monckton’s veracity.
Ed Darrel
you said
“1. Muller won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, ”
its not true. muler won Medicine nobel prize. Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Its easy to check so dont lia anymore
The comments of Ed Darrell should be dismissed. Consider just part of his first comment:
1. Muller won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, not Peace. That was because DDT was an innovative killer — in 1948 it hadn’t “saved more lives” than anyone on the planet…
Firstly, Muller won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
Need I go through more of the rubbish written by Ed?
Trust me… Lord Monckton is essentially right in everything he said. The same cannot be said for Ed.