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Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a former British journalist.

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The eldest son of the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Monckton was educated at Harrow School, Churchill College, Cambridge and University College, Cardiff. He joined the Yorkshire Post in 1974 and then worked as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office from 1977–79. In 1979, he became the editor of the Catholic newspaper, The Universe, and then as managing editor of The Sunday Telegraph's Magazine in 1981.

In 1983 he returned to the Conservative offices again, this time as Margaret Thatcher's policy advisor. Three years later, he became assistant editor of the newly-formed newspaper, Today. His final job in journalism was as a consulting editor of the Evening Standard from 1987–92.

Monckton was a director of the international consultancy company, Christopher Monckton Ltd, since its founding in 1987. He is also a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, an Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

In 1999, he created the Eternity Puzzle, a geometric puzzle which involved tiling a dodecagon with 209 irregularly shaped polygons called polydrafters. A £1m prize was won after 18 months. By that time, 500,000 puzzles had been sold. A second puzzle, Eternity II, is to be launched in July 2007, with a prize of $2 million.

Upon the death of his father in 2006, Monckton inherited his title.

Monckton has been in the news in recent months due to his climate change researches. In November 2006, he published in the The Daily Telegraph a widely-cited article critical of extremist climate change opinions. After U.S. Senators Rockefeller and Snowe wrote a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil asking him to stop funding scientists who reject global warming, Lord Monckton wrote a letter to the senators reminding them of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and calling on them to reverse their position or resign. In February 2007, he published an analysis and summary of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change.

Monckton's researches about climate change have been challenged by climate scientists, but, unlike his calculations, the challenges have not been subjected to peer review. For instance Gavin Schmidt of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a noted climate alarmist, having incorrectly suggested that Monckton's calculations had treated the Earth as a blackbody, failed to correct his mistake when it was drawn to his attention, and Dr. Stephen Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Exeter and Senior Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, made similar elementary errors that would not have survived peer review.

In March 2007 Monckton challenged Al Gore to an internationally televised debate on climate change. Al Gore has not dared to take up the challenge . In May 2007 Monckton circulated among climate scientists calculations based on data and methods in the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, demonstrating that the IPCC had overstated the temperature effect of additional CO2 in the atmosphere by a factor of two. The calculations were peer-reviewed by one of the IPCC's own reviewers, and are in line with results by other climate researchers.

External links

• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report 2007 Analysis and Summary
• Apocalypse Cancelled
• Climate Chaos? Don't believe it, The Daily Telegraph, Nov 5th 2006.
• Uphold Free Speech or Resign

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