CONTROVERSIAL climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton has told a Werribee audience the carbon tax will run the economy into the ground, urging Australians to “sit back, enjoy the sun and have a surf” instead.
The Brit wooed a crowd of 50 people at Wyndham Park Community Centre last Friday, with a 90-minute presentation and almost 100 slides of graphs and charts aimed at poking holes in the credibility of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s annual reports.
Lord Monckton estimated it was about 36 times more expensive to try to eradicate global warming via a carbon tax, than simply to sit back, let nature take its course and then pay the cost of adapting to a few adverse consequences.
Western Region Environment Centre director Harry van Moorst said Lord Monckton had been shown around the world to be ignorant of the science, comparing his presentations to how the smoking lobby once argued tobacco didn’t cause cancer.
