James Delingpole's Blog, page 47

I'd rather my wife made land mines than worked in the wind farm industry

If there's an industry in the world that deserves to be stigmatised more than any other, it's the despicable, reprehensible, money-grubbing, mendacious, taxpayer-fleecing, bird-mangling, landscape-ruining, economy-blighting wind farm business. At least you could argue that blood diamonds make nice jewellery and that land mine manufacturers are making a valuable contribution to infantry defence. But wind farms are not merely worthless but actively evil – and anyone involved in them deserves...

There's nothing greens love more than a nice, juicy oil-spill disaster

If anything is going to cause more long-term damage to the planet than the gallons of oil being spewed out by the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster, it's the toxic clouds of posturing cant and alarmist drivel billowing forth daily from environmentalists. Most especially from their cheerleader in the White House, Barack Obama.

Barack Obama's behaviour throughout this oil crisis has been a disgrace – but not for the reasons given by all those watermelons who have taxed him with not having...

Surface pleasure

I know this is going to get me into an awful lot of trouble, but I really don't think the TV adaptation of Martin Amis's Money (BBC2, Sunday, Wednesday) was that bad. Of course, though, I do see the main problem — which was neatly described in the Telegraph by Michael Deacon.

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I'd rather have Monckton in a foxhole with me than Monbiot

George Monbiot, plus some other libtard journalist I'd never even heard of before he mentioned me in his blog, has been having a go at Viscount Monckton.

They've been crowing because John Abraham a lecturer in fluid mechanics at a Minnesota Bible college has done an 83-minute Fisking of a speech Lord Monckton – or Chrissy Babes, as I prefer to call him – gave in his city last year. Apparently Monckton is totally wrong about everything and therefore, by association, this demolishes the entire ...

Just what is it that greens like George Monbiot find so offensive about prosperity, abundance, happiness?

George "Grinch of the Guardian" Monbiot has launched a bitter assault on the most lively, uplifting and downright brilliant pop science masterpiece you are likely to read this year. Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist (4th Estate).

Ridley argues a case so palpably true, so richly supported by so much evidence, that it ought not to need stating: life is getting better for almost all of us – and at an accelerating rate. The habit of exchange and specialisation, unique to the human species, has e...

Mother Gaia issues tearful plea to Al and Tipper Gore: 'I can't afford the cost of your divorce!'

Divorce is killing our planet. So claimed a 2007 study by Michigan State University which estimated that divorced couples around the world use 38 million more rooms than they would have done had they stayed together, as well as using 73 billion kilowatt-hours more of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water.

And that's just if they're normal people. Imagine how much more disastrous it would be, if they were as profligate as almost-billionaire carbon trader and creator of the ManBearPig...

The BBC: Official Voice of Ecofascism

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy. (Hat tip: DR at Bishop Hill)

When James Lovelock makes this kind of terrifying argument in books or newspaper interviews at least one can reasonably dismiss it as the potty burblings of an otherwise amiable and harmless old man.

When the BBC does it, however, I'd suggest the time has come to start tooling up and heading for the hills. Have a listen to this recent radio...

The Royal Society: too little, too late

The other night I had the great pleasure of dinner with Professor Bob Carter. He told me that when he goes on speaking tours, there's only one question he ever gets asked to which he is unable to provide a satisfactory answer. It goes something like this:

"Thank you Professor Carter, that was all very interesting. But please can you tell me why you expect us to take your opinion seriously when it is contradicted by most of the world's leading scientific organisations, including the National...

Why Man-Made Global Warming is a load of cobblers; Pt 1

Just been reading Climate: The Counter Consensus (Stacey International) the new book by Bob Carter – that's New Zealand's Professor Robert M Carter to you, mate: he's one of the world's leading palaeoclimatologists – and it's a cracker. By the end, you're left feeling rather as I did after the Heartland Conference, that the scientific case against AGW is so overwhelming that you wonder how anyone can still speak up for so discredited a theory without dying of embarrassment.

All the same, it's ...

My moment of rock-star glory at a climate change sceptics' conference in America

Wow! Finally in my life I get to experience what it's like to be a rock star and I'm loving every moment. OK, so the drugs are in pretty short supply. As too is the meaningless sex with nubile groupies. But what do I care, the crowd love me and I love them. God bless America! God bless the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change!

You'd think it would be quite dull, a conference of 700 climate sceptics (or 'realists', as we prefer to call ourselves) cooped up...