Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute and expert for the Heartland Institute, joined Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot Radio.
The Economist called the Heartland Institute âthe worldâs most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change.â
Monckton has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office in the UK, and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcherâs policy advisor.
In 1986, Monckton was among the first to advise the prime minister that âglobal warmingâ caused by carbon dioxide should be investigated. Monckton has since become a vocal advocate that global warming â subsequently called climate change, most recently camouflaged by the term âsustainable development,â doesnât exist.
Lord Monckton told BNS co-hosts Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow that, judging by Hillary Clintonâs re-launch speech on Saturday in New York, he doesnât expect her to give much attention to climate changein her 2016 presidential run.
The topic of climate change is âbeginning to smell like a Kipper that went behind the radiator and has been there too long,â Monckton jibed. âI donât think theyâre going to play this very big. Obamaâs done it because everything else heâs touched has failed.â
Monckton believes the Obama administration is spending vast amounts of money on âtrashing their own economy by driving every steelworks and aluminum works overseas, by not allowing the development of the XL pipeline, interfering with fracking, and establishing a war on coal.â He contends thatall of this has had âcatastrophic effects on the jobs of the very people that will be foolishly voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016.â
Bannon asked Monckton why does he believe Pope Francis is getting involved in the climate change movement, which he is about to justify in a Vatican encyclical this week.
Monckton explained that if one looks at the book of Genesis (âwith dominion over the earth comes responsibilityâ) and heroes of the church like St. Francis of Assisi, taking care of the earth has always been âpart of established Catholic social teachings. Nothing new in any of that. But what happened was a communist managed to get control of the pontifical academies of sciences and social sciencesâBishop Marcelo SĂĄnchez Sorondo.â
According to Monckton, Sorondo is an âout and out marxist who decided that climate change was useful to marxism.â Monckton said that Sorondo could care less whether climate change is true or not. He ignored information from the Vaticanâs most influential scientists demonstrating that global warming was more theoretical than empirical.
Francis, who was brought up in the Communist tradition of liberation theology in Latin America, encourages Sorondo. Previous popes like John Paul II and Benedict believed you have to let skeptics have their say. Pope Francis, Monckton argues, lets Sorondo dominate his head exclusively.
Monckton further explained that Francis is influenced by extremist Professor John Schnellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who said in 2009 at a climate conference in Copenhagen that if we let global warming continue, six billion of the seven billion people on earth will be killed by it.
Monckton said that Schnellnhuber will be standing by the side of Pope Francis when they announce the encyclical next week. âThe fact that Schnellnhuber is going to be there is an extremely bad sign,â he declared.
The influence that Schnellnhuber may have had over the papal letter worries Monckton. The fact that he will be there next to the pope suggests to Monckton that Francis is thanking him for having written the climate portion of the encyclical.