1999 CHAPTER 34

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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1.Exclusion of hereditary peers.
2.Exception from section 1.
3.Removal of disqualifications in relation to the House of Commons.
4.Amendments and repeals.
5.Commencement and transitional provision.
6.Interpretation and short title.
SCHEDULES:
Schedule 1Amendments.
Schedule 2Repeals.
An Act to restrict membership of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage; to make related provision about disqualifications for voting at elections to, and for membership of, the House of Commons; and for connected purposes.
[11th November 1999]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1Exclusion of hereditary peersNo-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

’nuff said.

Amazing that people want to attack Monckton for his title rather than challenge his points on global warming policy. Lord Monckton is a Viscount, a title he inherited from his father. In the U.K. a duke, marquess, earl, viscount, or baron is addressed by titles such as Lord, hence Lord Monckton. While many noblemen no longer enjoy a vote in the parliament, they still have titles. Similarly there are any number of princes, counts, etc. in countries like Germany and France who no longer rule principalities or estates, but still use their title as a form of address. This may seem novel to Americans who decided to do away with hereditary titles in the 18th century. Yet despite our egalitarian ways we’ve always managed to respect the traditions of other countries and use titles courteously when addressing those who hold them.
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“Five ranks of peer exist in the United Kingdom, in descending order, these are: duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. The title ‘Lord’ is used most often by barons who are rarely addressed with any other. The style of this address is ‘Lord (X)’, for example, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, is commonly known as ‘Lord Tennyson’. The ranks of marquess, earl and viscounts commonly use lord as well, with viscounts using the same style as used for baron. However, marquesses and earls have a slightly different form of address where they can be called either the ‘Marquess/Earl of (X)’ or ‘Lord (X)’. Dukes also use the style, ‘Duke of (X)’, but it is not acceptable to refer to them as ‘Lord (X)’. Dukes are formally addressed as ‘Your Grace’, rather than ‘My Lord’. In the Peerage of Scotland, the members of the lowest level of the peerage have the title ‘Lord of Parliament’ rather than baron.

For senior members of the peerage, the title lord also applies by courtesy to some or all of their children; for example the younger sons of dukes and marquesses can use the style ‘Lord (first name) (surname)’. The titles are courtesy titles in that the holder does not hold a peerage, and is, according to British law, a commoner.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount

His faux Lordship a smart dude and an engaging speaker. Whether he believes his claptrap or not is, in my opinion, an open question but the depth of the errors he propagates is not.

In summary. Monctons claims have been shown over the years to be verifyable as opposed to a significant number of claims made by the so called Climate Science community.

Richard Littlemore also made the very insulting and ignorant mistake of telling the listeners that Monckton didn’t believe in global climate change. First of all, Monckton doesn’t see this issue as religion, secondly any grown-up person knows that climate is ever changing and will continue to do so long after the human race is extinct. The issue here is that the IR optical transparency has been unchanged the last 50 years despite increase in CO2 and other assumed greenhouse gases, there is no hot-spot detected, the human activity only provide 5% of CO2, the temperature goes up and down as it pleases before CO2 does and the oceans + the Sun are the major players here.

I am impressed that Monckton takes time to talk to a man like Richard Littlemore, who appears to think as maturely as a young teenager. Some of us are doing development of machinery used in real life, we would be without a job if we worked the way Richard Littlemore did in the interview and his pathetic letters to Monckton.