CLIMATE change critics are back on the front foot, announcing a national tour of two of the most prominent climate change sceptics on the world stage. Lord Christopher Monckton, columnist, business consultant and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, will be joined by Australian Professor Ian Plimer, author of Heaven and Earth on a tour that will take in Perth, Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Noosa, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Both speakers have argued in print, television and online media that human-produced carbon emissions have a negligible impact on temperature and that warming and cooling are instead part of larger historical trends; claims that run counter to findings of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Two Queensland men, engineer John Smeed and retiree Case Smit, organised the tour at an estimated cost of $100,000 after contacting Prof Plimer while he was accompanying Lord Monckton at last year’s Copenhagen summit, according to Perth Now.
The tour was timed to take place during what is expected to be the rekindling of the climate change debate in Australia as the government seeks to reintroduce its twice defeated emissions trading legislation. Lord Monckton and Prof Plimer will speak at the Parmelia Hilton on Monday, 8 February, beginning at 5.30pm.
Perth Now reported that the Perth event was being hosted by Gina Rinehart, chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting.
According to promotional material, more information on the event can be obtained from Daphne Dhimitri on 9429 8248 or at daphne_dhimitri@hancockprospecting.com.au.