Brian, I was also at the meeting by Lord Monckton and your summary fits the bill completely. However, you are not the first to comment 'Global warming has been cancelled due to lack of interest”as is shown below in my website related to the item by Jim Hopkins in the 'NZ Herald” on December 16, 2011.
As a climate scientist of some 60 years standing it is good that at least some in the media see the whole picture and realise that we are just ants on the surface in which Nature is in control.
Keep up your good work.

John Maunder, Tauranga.
https://sites.google.com/site/theweatherclimateeye/