In a Heartland Climate Conference stemwinder almost as funny as Ἀλέξανδρος Ψευδομάντis , Lucian's the-snake-has-all-the-lines original, MAGA-hatted and self-shirted Viscount Monckton, soi disant psephologist, Hydrodynamics Advisor to the Prime Minister, "Chairman of the Atlantic Blue Riband Commission"" Editor of Britain's largest Catholic Newspaper", "Lede Writer" and" Soduku Editor" of a London Daily, wholesale shirtmaker , and Cricket Club President, declared that his peculiar views on climate sensitivity & feedbacks were superior to those of the IPCC because:
"I'm a classical architect by training, and I was given training in the mathematics of what are called the conic sections, and in particular this graph, the rectangular form of the hyperbola, where the axes of the hyperbola are orthogonal to one another, and therefore can be used as rectangular coordinates in effect. This was first used by Menaechmus of Alopeconnesus in Asia Minor (and you can see where that is) in 340 BC. "
In a related classroom development, minor public school boy turned Spectator dropout James Delingpole reports to Breitbart readers unable to find a copy of Science in a library, or locate Asia Minor on a map that: