Here is Abraham's presentation.
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Here is Monckton's shrill response:
http://www.webcitation.org/5rEP8Y4VI
Eric c's assertion is the polar opposite of reality. Abraham's presentation attacked the argument intellectually. Note Monckton's response:
1. "John Abraham, a lecturer in fluid mechanics at a Bible college in Minnesota"
Note the attempt to belittle his credentials.
2. "So unusual is this attempt actually to meet us in argument, and so venomously ad hominem are Abraham’s artful puerilities, delivered in a nasal and irritatingly matey tone (at least we are spared his face — he looks like an overcooked prawn), that climate-extremist bloggers everywhere have circulated them and praised them to the warming skies."
That's the most thick irony I've ever seen.
3. "As usual though, none of these silly bloggers make any attempt actually to verify whether what poor Abraham is saying actually has the slightest contact with reality.
One such is George Monbiot, a scribbler for the the Guardian, the British Marxist daily propaganda sheet. What is Monbiot’s qualification to write about climate science? Well, like Abraham, he’s a “scientist.” Trouble is, he’s a fourteenth-rate zoologist, so his specialty has even less to do with climate science than that of Abraham, who nevertheless presents himself as having scientific knowledge relevant “in the area.”"
Sorry, deniers. Monckton is a clown. That's not an ad hominen. That's a fact based on observation of his rhetoric.