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Warmists overwhelmed by fear, panic and deranged hatred as their 'science' collapses

A sharp-eyed viewer has noticed that when I was debating George Monbiot on TV yesterday and I mentioned that his cherished "peer-reviewed science" had been discredited by Climategate he bared his teeth like a cornered cur. Says my body language expert John Lish:

"It was a quite aggressive and defensive gesture which was noticeable when he was attempting to dismiss you (talking about peer review). A definite body-language sign of being rattled. He's definitely uncomfortable about what's...

Missing Maggie

The closer we get to the Great Disappointment — aka the forthcoming Heath administration — the more I miss Margaret Thatcher. Just how much I was reminded by Michael Cockerell's new series The Great Offices of State (BBC4, Thursday). This particular episode was about Surrender Monkey Central — aka the Foreign Office — and featured Maggie in her pomp, eyes ablaze, holding forth on the only way to deal with jumped-up foreigners like Galtieri.

'I'm not in the business of appeasement. It is not...

'Post-normal science' is perfect for climate demagogues — it isn't science at all

No it's OK, I didn't mind one teeny tiny bit that Matt Ridley wrote an entire Spectator cover story on Climategate and the blogosphere last week without once mentioning the name of the brilliant Spectator journalist who broke the story on his Telegraph blog, and popularised the name Climategate, and got 1.5 million hits in one week, and whose anti-eco-fascist bulletins now have a massive following from readers all around the world who keep sending him emails like 'Thank you for saving us...

'Compassionate' Conservatism isn't Conservatism

There's only one thing I fear more than a small Conservative majority in the coming General Election and that's a large Conservative majority.

This is what I shall be explaining at the annual parliamentary rally of the Young Britons Foundation in the Commons this afternoon. They'll probably be quite shocked, as they were by my similarly robust take on "compassionate Conservatism" last year. That's because, even though the YBF is "notionally a non-partisan, not-for-profit research and...

What the liberal elite feel you should know about 'Climate Change'

Bishop Hill has a summary – at once fascinating, deeply revealing and rather chilling – of a recent workshop staged at Oxford University to discuss the role of the media in reporting Climate Change. (hat tip: Barry Woods)

It shows that EVEN NOW as far as the liberal elite is concerned, all public doubts about AGW are merely a question of "false consciousness" in need of correction rather than the result of evidence-based scepticism.

Here is the BBC's Richard Black:

I'm not surprised at the...

I hate to say this but Cameron's speech has just won him the election

Cameron addressed the Tory Spring Forum this afternoon (Photo: Getty)

I'll be honest, when I saw the headline this morning that Gordon Brown was on course to win the next election I felt a small twinge of ecstatic joy. I loathe Gordon Brown as I loathed Tony Blair. I loathe everything New Labour stands for. I think in 13 years they have done more damage to Britain in shorter space than perhaps any government in history. Which speaks volumes for just how little I think of David Cameron's...

Welcome to the New World Order

Climategates, Glaciergates, Amazongates, Pachaurigates and Africagates may come and go, but as far as the UN is concerned the caravan must roll on regardless. (Hat tip: Will8Ace)

Just have a look at this terrifying document unearthed by George Russell at Fox News – the one which paves the way for the New World Order destined to be imposed on us in the name of ecological righteousness.

It talks – as, inter alia, does Dave Cameron – of green jobs and green investment and the marvellous benefits ...

AGW: It's not about 'the science'

And it never was about the science, as Sam at Climatequotes.com ("remembering what they will want us to forget") reminds us with this useful little delve into the Government archives. He shows how in 2003 the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) deliberately set out to mislead the public about the dangers of "Climate Change". Among the "experts" DEFRA invited to help talk up the threat were our old friends at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU).

What...

'Global warming': time to get angry

Heroic, monotesticular UKIP MEP Nigel Farage was bumped off the BBC Question Time panel at the last minute last week. Shame. That particular edition was broadcast from Middlesbrough and it would have been fascinating to hear the audience's response to the choice things he was planning to say about the closure of their local steelworks.

Here is how he describes it in a letter:

Sir

Corus' steelworks at Redcar, near Middlesbrough, "Teesside Cast Products", is to be closed ("mothballed" is the...

A message from Spectator and Times columnist Hugo Rifkind: you're all scum.

The Spectator's resident whimsyist Hugo Rifkind has written many silly pieces in the last few months, mostly on climate change, but his latest surely takes the soggy biscuit.

"I'm not saying anyone who ever posts an internet comment is nuts…." it's titled. Rifkind spends the rest of his essay, of course, saying pretty much exactly that.

It is, I think I can safely promise, one of the most deliciously annoying and wrong-in-every-way pieces you will read all year.

There is snobbery and arrogance, ...