James Delingpole's Blog, page 38

Ceci n'est pas un bonhomme de neige!

Some of you may be looking out of your windows right now and think that the white stuff floating down from the sky is snow. It is not, of course.

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'Mass suicide now the only option left' say Cancun scientists

As the latest round of UN-sponsored climate talks opened in Cancun today, 'scientists' had a stark message on the threat posed by Man Made Global Warming. It is now so severe that only by exterminating ourselves like the vile parasite we are can we hope to leave a planet fit for habitation by generations as yet unborn, 'scientists' say.

The radical measures being proposed by 'scientists' include…

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Wikileaks: Old Gray Lady invokes the harlot's prerogative

"The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here." Andrew Revkin, Environment Editor, New York Times Nov 20, 2009.

"The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousands of United States embassy cables, the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington. The New York Times and a number of publications in Europe were given access to the material several weeks ago and agreed to begin publication of articles based on the cables online on Sunday. The Times believes that the documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in a way that other accounts cannot match." New York Times editorial 29/11/2010

Can you spot the difference between these two statements of high moral principle? Scott at the Powerline blog can. (H/T Bishop Hill/WUWT) He notes…

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Allen West: America's next black president?

Here's a guy for whom all red-blooded Americans should be truly grateful. Allen West might just be the black president to save the US in 2012 from the ruins created by the previous one.

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How many drowning polar bears can dance on the head of a pin?

Cancun is coming and as my Indian pal Rajan has rightly noted belief in the great myth of "Man Made Global Warming" has reached such a low ebb that even greenie NGOs such as Greenpeace and the WWF are dropping the topic like a hot potato.

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Peak energy? What peak energy?

One of the other lies told by Watermelons – when they're not bleating about the fast-fading 'crisis' of "Man-Made Global Warming" – is that the earth is fast running out of scarce resources. "Even if AGW isn't quite as true as we pretended it was a few years ago, that's still no excuse for not taking radical action to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels," they claim.

Isn't it?

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On the anniversary of Climategate the Watermelons show their true colours

Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside. This is the theme of my forthcoming book on the controlling,  poisonously misanthropic and aggressively socialistic instincts of the modern environmental movement. So how very generous that two of that movement's leading lights should have chosen the anniversary of Climategate to prove my point entirely.

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Rallying cry

Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story (Channel 4, Thursday) was unquestionably the most important programme that will appear on British television this year. Yes, even more important than Downton Abbey.

The thing that really drove home just how important was the point, quite early on, where the Fawn turned to me and said, 'Ohmygod! Where do we emigrate to?' And it's not as though the Fawn has ever been one of those irksome left-liberal wives who keeps undermining her husband's thought-through right-wing wisdom with prissy right-on inanities based on nothing more solid than hormones. No, sirree.

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I'd take Lord Curzon over Gandhi – and so would many Indians

In India last week I found myself thinking about Mohandas Gandhi and his famous quote when asked what he thought about western civilisation. 'I think it would be a good idea,' he replied.

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How the Climategate weasels wriggled free

This week marks the anniversary of Climategate but even though I helped break and name the story I'm certainly not celebrating. That's because, despite the marked shift it effected in public opinion, its effect on public policy-making has been close to zilch.

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