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PROFESSOR Ross Garnaut has been labelled an eco-fascist by climate-change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton in a speech in the US.
The Scottish peer, who is scheduled to speak at the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies conference in Perth next week, said Prof Garnaut, the government's chief climate-change adviser, held fascist views.
Footage of Lord Monckton aired on the Seven Network showed him variously describing Prof Ross Garnaut as having "a fascist point of view", as someone who expected people to "accept authority without question".
"Heil Hitler, on we go," said Lord Monckton in discussing Prof Garnaut, as a quote was displayed beside a swastika.
Lord Monckton also said other climate change scientists were "eco-fascists".
His comments followed those by Prof Garnaut, who has said the tone of discourse surrounding the carbon tax debate was less civilised than in other debates.
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who met with Lord Monckton last year, will also address the AMEC conference, along with independent MP Rob Oakeshott and Liberal senator Mathias Cormann.
Lord Monckton, a one-time adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is known around the world for his argument that humans are not damaging the climate.
Last year he told a Canberra audience that proponents of climate change wanted to establish a "world government ... that would have shut down democracy worldwide".
This new government would have policing powers, impose taxes, and take control over all formerly free markets, he told the National Press Club.
His speech - entitled How many beans make five? Math lessons for climate - will be presented ahead of a presentation by Fortescue Metals Group boss Andrew Forrest, who has expressed his doubts about the government's carbon tax.
The CSIRO pulled its sponsorship of the conference because of Lord Monckton's presence at the forum, which examines scientific issues around exploration and mining, according to the Seven Network.
