Lord Christopher Monckton, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and former policy advisor to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is one of the UK's most outspoken critics of the global warming agenda. He was in Vancouver on Tuesday to lay out the cold hard facts about climate change (such as no global warming for the past seven years). He highlighted the convenient lies used in Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth. The High Court in the UK identified scientific errors in that film and ruled that showing Mr. Gore's film in UK schools, and misleading students into believing it accurately represented climate science, was in violation of the political indoctrination section of the country's Education Act of 1996.

Lord Monckton discussed a few of the film's eleven inaccuracies that form some of its more outrageous claims. The film claims polar bears are drowning due to disappearing ice. But the study Mr. Gore cites clearly shows the polar bears he's talking about died because of a storm. In fact, the polar bear population is increasing. The film also claims the snows on Mt. Kilimanjaro are disappearing because of global warming. The court's expert admitted this was incorrect. In fact, the glacier on Mnt. Kilimanjaro has been receding since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1880. When Ernest Hemingway wrote, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in 1936, the mountain had already lost half its glacial surface area.

But the big question is, why should we care whether scientists, politicians and lobbyists tell the truth?  That's because, according to Lord Monckton, the wrong decision means that millions of people may die. Has that panned out during the global warming crusade?  Yes it has.

Lord Monckton says the biofuel craze has taken one-third of US agricultural land out of food production and led to a doubling of world food prices. That may not matter to us here, but it creates starvation and death in poverty stricken populations of the third world.

So, Lord Monckton says the right response to the non-problem of “global warming” is to have the courage to do nothing.