James Delingpole's Blog, page 57

Monbiot: an apology

George Monbiot is cwoss. Weally, WEALLY cwoss. And I don't blame him one bit. God it must be an awful thing when you've squandered half your career acting as cheerleader for a cause which, on closer examination, turns out to have been a complete load of cobblers. Hugh Trevor-Roper's humiliation after the Hitler Diaries is surely as nothing to what poor George – Britain's second-most-famous Old Stoic after Perry Worsthorne  – must be experiencing now.

I'm afraid I don't read his Guardian...

Why Pachauri MUST stay as chairman of the IPCC

Dr Rajendra K Pachauri

TROLL IMPERSONATOR

(can also do, by special request, SARUMAN THE EVIL WIZARD; ROY WOOD; the COVER OF JETHRO TULL'S AQUALUNG ALBUM; or OSAMA BIN LADEN'S SCARIER OLDER BROTHER)

Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, Children's Parties.

Contact: RK Pachauri, No. 1 Carbon Heights, Millionaires' Row, Delhi, India

Now I know that one or two of you might disagree, but the above business card – which I designed myself, though if he wants a professional job doing I can highly recommend my...

Global Warming: is it even happening?

Check out this magisterial report by our old friends Joseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts and judge for yourself. In brief: the surface temperature records are such a mess that they simply can't be trusted.

Enjoy!

WTF? Prince of Wales tells disgraced CRU: 'Well done, all of you!'

The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia is under government investigation for fraud, data manipulation and withholding or destroying scientific data in defiance of freedom of information requests. Many of the disgraced scientists working at the CRU were closely involved in putting together the now ferociously suspect Fourth Assessment Report for the notoriously unreliable Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) headed by the lethally compromised Dr Rajendra...

More integrity from the robust, peer-reviewed IPCC. Not.

Yesterday I got the blogospherical equivalent of a Legion d'Honneur – a generous, name-checking post and a mention on the blogroll of one of my favourite sites, Watts Up With That.

The readers of WUWT – not unlike those of Telegraph blogs – are ferociously well-informed and very brainy, especially to do with matters scientific. I'm guessing there are probably more PhDs among its readership than contributed to all four of the IPCC's assessment reports put together. And this is what makes them s...

After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate

AGW theory is toast. So's Dr Rajendra Pachauri. So's the Stern Review. So's the credibility of the IPCC. But if you think I'm cheered by this you're very much mistaken. I'm trying to write a Climategate book but the way things are going by the time I'm finished there won't be anything left to say: the battle will already have been won and the only people left who still believe in Man Made Global Warming will be the eco-loon equivalents of those wartime Japanese soldiers left abandoned and...

Lord Stern's dodgy dossier exposed

Lord Stern was responsible for the 2006 Stern Review (Photo: EPA)

Apart from Al Gore, NASA's Dr James Hansen, and the soon-to-be-much-missed head of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, no one on earth has been a more voluble and extravagantly hysterical harbinger of Man-Made Eco Doom than Lord Stern of Brentford. (hat tip: Climategate.com and others)

The former Sir Nicholas Stern, you'll remember, is the funny little World Banker with the accountant's voice responsible for the 2006 Stern Review...

Wow! UK parliamentary investigation into Climategate may not be a whitewash

The Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into "the unauthorised publication of data, emails and documents relating to the work of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA)" – ie Climategate. (hat tip R. Campbell; Platosays).

On 1 December 2009 Phil Willis, Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, wrote to Professor Edward Acton, Vice-Chancellor of UEA following the considerable press coverage of the data, emails and documents...

James Hansen: Would you buy a used temperature data set from THIS man?

Before we get too worried about NASA's latest stamping-its-little-feet claims that the world is getting hotter it is it is it IS, let us first remind ourselves why we should trust their temperature records slightly less far than we can spit.

Then let's have a closer look at the character and motives of the man in charge of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Dr James Hansen. Last year, he was described by his former course supervisor at NASA, Dr John Theon, as an "activist" and...

Texting is so last year

My 11-year-old son, like all 11-year-old sons, thinks his Dad is incredibly, risibly out-of-touch. He mocks me for using words like "video" when I mean "DVD", for preferring CDs to free downloads, for watching TV on the television instead of on the laptop, and for wearing my shirt with one top button undone when obviously it should be two.

But what the poor boy doesn't yet realise is that the last laugh will be on me. Whereas it took me three decades to become the embarrassing fuddy-duddy I...