Al Gore and Lord Monckton go head-to-head over climate in spoof video rap battle

Leo Hickman: Brilliantly rapped spoof news report for YouTube channel TheJuiceMedia pits Al Gore against Lord Monckton in a war of words over climate change

It's what the world has been waiting for. We've had the Rumble in the Jungle. And the Thriller in Manilla. But now – following years of trying to get it on– we're proud to bring you news of The Storming of the Warming.
Finally, Al Gore and Lord Monckton have come together to "rap battle" over climate change. Well, sort of.
Hugo Farrant, "an MC/spoken word performer from the UK now based in Melbourne", has put together a brilliantly rapped "news report" for TheJuiceMedia, a YouTube channel which describes itself as "an independent media source for events taking place in Australia relating to indigenous people, history, law and the environment". Farrant, who has clearly done his homework, plays the role of anchorman Robert Foster, as well as the parts of well-known climate combatants Al Gore and Lord Monckton. Neither Gore nor Monckton come out of it too well. Here's a snippet of their rap battle …
Monckton: The IPCC are Marxist trapeze artists, bleeding the free market. We're the target! They'll keep us herded in corners: one currency, one government, a new world order.
Gore: Better than the coroner, Let this fact just sink in: World. Unite, or face the sixth mass extinction, a feedback cycle, the death of the Gulf Stream. We need 'clean coal' or it's the end of the Holocene.
Monckton: That's just postulated, we've got to collate it. Secretly these people want the earth depopulated, a communist dictatorship, a way station, good Christians killed by UN troops and Aids patients.
Gore: You strain my patience, you scaremonger.
Monckton: It's freedom they're plundering, and you're the scaremonger king!
Gore: I got my Nobel prize, I was nearly the president.
Monckton: I share that prize for revealing this evidence.
Gore: You got a pin melted down from a physics experiment.
Monckton: You're a pin melted down from a physics experiment.
Foster: Lord Monckton! Let me hear from you. Have any of your articles been peer-reviewed?
Monckton: Well, no, but the SPPI has published a few.
Foster: The Science and Public Policy Institute. Their chief policy adviser happens to be who?
Monckton: Well, me.
Foster: You? So you publish you. I think we've heard enough from you. People, please, research the truth. Nowadays it isn't tough to do. Mr Gore.
Gore: Robert, we need global governance: A new world order to replace local governments.
Foster: And I suppose who better to comprise it than the very same people who altered the climate.
Gore: Sure, who else?
Hugo Farrant is a name to watch, it seems. Last year, he helped to put together another spoof rap that went viral called Branksome, which was about life on the mean streets of Branksome, a middle-class suburb of Poole in Dorset. It went as far as catching the attention of the Daily Telegraph and the Sun.