Call to indict world's top global-warming guy

'Abolish U.N. climate panel, indict chief'

Former Thatcher adviser documents fraud by global body

CHICAGO – Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called for the abolishment of the United Nations climate committee and the indictment of the U.N.'s chief climate scientist for financial fraud.

Monckton was the featured speaker yesterday at the closing luncheon of the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago.

"While we are on the subject of the IPCC," Monckton told the conference, referring to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "my policy for the future of that body is that it should be abolished."

Monckton objected to the IPCC misrepresenting scientific data to advance Penn State climatologist Michael Mann's "hockey stick" chart to argue that human activity is responsible for global warming, the core thesis of the IPCC-advanced theory of anthropogenic global warming, or AGW.

Utilizing a series of charts, Monckton objected to the statistical manipulations employed by the U.N. to make it appear human activity was the cause of global warming in the last decades of the 20th century.