Christopher Monckton

Lord Christopher Monckton

Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born February 14, 1952) is a British politician and chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute. He spent a career in journalism, working as an editor for the Catholic newspaper, The Universe, and then a managing editor for The Sunday Telegraph’s Magazine. Monckton served as a policy advisor for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1982 to 1986. After serving as a consulting editor for the Evening Standard, he became a business consultant, launching his own specialist consultancy company. In 1999, Monckton invented the eternity puzzle, a geometric puzzle, enormously difficult jigsaw of 209 pieces made from equilateral triangles and half-triangles. In 2006, he inherited his peerage title through the death of his father.

Monckton has received attention for his scepticism of man-made global warming, and has published articles criticizing climate change opinions. After U.S. Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia 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 called on them to reverse their position or resign.