James Delingpole's Blog, page 43

Why from now on I'm flying Ryanair

Almost the best thing about Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary's denunciation of "Man-made global warming" as a load of old "$!**@&**s!" is the horror it has engendered in the Independent.

Lest any of its readers have their consciousness led in a false direction by this outspoken "Climate Change Denier", the Indie has chosen to accompany its report of O'Leary's outrageous claims with a series of rebuttals from some foxy chick from the British Antarctic Survey.

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My holiday is being ruined by global cooling. But try telling that to the 'scientists'

I'm writing this in Salcombe, Devon on a rainy, miserable summer's day which, I fear, may be all too symptomatic of the climatic rubbish we can all expect for the next 30 years as – thanks to changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation combined with a solar minimum – we enter a period of global cooling. Let's hope I'm wrong, eh?

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Battered but triumphant

Big River Man (part of More 4's 'True Stories', Tuesday) was one of the most gripping and brilliant, infuriating and disappointing documentaries I've ever seen.

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It is not drugs that cause the problems, it's the wholly unwinnable war on drugs

At a dinner party a couple of years ago I was lucky enough to be sat near one of my heroes, Roger Scruton — like being a couch away from Socrates at a symposium. But then, halfway through, the great man began sounding off on one of the two things he is completely and utterly wrong about (the other one being pop music): drugs.

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Why conservatives shouldn't believe in man made climate change

My friend and colleague Ed West has written a catch-comment piece entitled Why Shouldn't Conservatives Believe in Man Made Climate Change. I've no objection to catch-comment pieces (I really must do an anti-Obama one soon to catch up with Nile Gardiner: after all I did write the book on the subject). And I've even less objection to Ed West himself, a delightful fellow and brilliant writer who is right about almost everything.

But Ed's stance on CAGW…

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I know exactly what I want to read this summer — if only I could find it

What I thought I'd do this summer holidays is catch up with all those classics I've been meaning to read for ages: A la recherche du temps perdu, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair, everything by the Brontës, anything German, Metamorphosis, the Odyssey, the Iliad, most Balzac, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, Our Mutual Friend, Anna Karenina…

But where to start?

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How the BBC censored my monstrous, hideously offensive 'Irish joke'

On Any Questions I apparently told a joke so offensive that it had to be censored by the BBC.

I say "apparently" because I wasn't even aware I'd told a joke, let alone one worthy of censorship, till I discovered that the BBC had cut it out of the Saturday lunchtime repeat of the programme.

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CCX lay offs: You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh…

"If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW!" (hat tip: Marc Morano)

That was how I began my Climategate blog in November last year and now, it seems, the CURSE OF DELINGPOLE has come to pass…

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What the Chinese really think of 'Man Made Global Warming'.

One of the great lies told us by our political leaders in order to persuade us to accept their swingeing and pointless green taxes and their economically suicidal, environmentally vandalistic wind-farm building programmes is that if we don't do it China will. Apparently, just waiting to be grabbed out there are these glittering, golden prizes marked "Green jobs" and "Green technologies" – and if only we can get there before those scary, mysterious Chinese do, well, maybe the West will enjoy j...

'Der Krieg ist verloren!' declares confused, angry, trembly-handed Al Gore in bunker conference call

"This battle has not been successful and is pretty much over for this year," a shaken Al Gore has told his supporters, conceding that there is now next to no chance of US Congress passing a Climate Bill in 2010. (H/T Julian Morris).

As recorded by Steve Milloy at the Green Hell Blog, the bloated sex poodle was on magnificently paranoid form, lashing out in all directions at the enemies responsible for his mission's failure, up to and including the US President…

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