James Delingpole's Blog, page 60

Pachauri: it's all a terrible conspiracy

Ignore anything remotely untoward you may have read about Dr Rajendra Pachauri – distinguished, much-respected and not at all troll-like head of the IPCC – here, here, here or here. Turns out, it's all complete lies: part of an evil conspiracy by various powerful but (unspecified) vested interests desperate to make the AGW industry look like a crooks' charter when in fact AGW is totally true and real and even more dangerous than we had hitherto ever imagined. (Hat tip: Plato Says)

How do we...

Build-a-bear: the sinister green plot to turn our kids into eco-fascist Manchurian candidates

Do Al Gore or Dr Rajendra Pachauri own shares in the international toy franchise Build-A-Bear? Here is a video – one of a series of three – that the company's impressionable young customers are being directed to watch via its website www.buildabearville.com. (Hat tip: Plato Says)

You can watch the other two here and here.

America's parents aren't happy at this kind of eco-indoctrination. Here's a taste from Big Government.

Every year we take the kids to Build-A-Bear, but we have now gone for...

Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia

If you want to know the truth about Climategate, definitely don't use Wikipedia. "Climatic Research Unit e-mail controversy", is its preferred, mealy-mouthed euphemism to describe the greatest scientific scandal of the modern age. Not that you'd ever guess it was a scandal from  the accompanying article. It reads more like a damage-limitation press release put out by concerned friends and sympathisers of the lying, cheating, data-rigging scientists

Which funnily enough, is pretty much what it ...

Records Of The Year

This is terrible: for the first time in as long as I can remember the Sunday Telegraph hasn't found space to run my records of the year. So here they are anyway. My taste is immaculate: you cannot go wrong. They're in only rough order of preference, though the top five probably are my favourite top five. Enjoy!

The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love (Rough Trade) *****

Whaaaat? Can I really have given it just a miserly four stars when this came out? The Hazards Of Love is so totally my album o...

A drop of claret never hurt my little darlings

The latest health fatwa is aimed at the wrong target, as usual, says James Delingpole.

This weekend I shall sit down to Sunday lunch with my children, splash their glasses with a drop of claret, and drink a hearty toast to the departure of the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson. My children are nine and 11, so I know Sir Liam would disapprove – indeed, he told us as much in his latest fatwa. "Children under 15 should not drink alcohol at all," declared his new health guidelines on...

Copenhagen: the sweet sound of exploding watermelons

I take it all back. Copenhagen was worth it, after all – if only for the sphincter-bursting rage its supposed failure has caused among our libtard watermelon chums. (That's watermelon, as in: green on the outside, red on the inside).

As Damian reports, on Twitter they're all planning to cleanse Mother Gaia of their polluting presence Jonestown-style.

The Great Moonbat is sounding more unhinged than ever:

Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and...

Copenhagen: an utter waste of everyone's time, energy and money with a carbon footprint the size of Texas

Breaking news: Barack Obama has thrashed out a Copenhagen deal "not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change" which has left no country "entirely satisfied."

No surprise there, then. Why did they bother?

Climategate: James Randi forced to recant by Warmist thugs for showing wrong kind of scepticism

You all know James Randi. He's the world famous Psychic Investigator whose rigorous scepticism has been the undoing of many a fraudulent spoonbender, dodgy faith-healer and ouija-board-wobbling spiritualist.

Randi is the expert magician and escape artist who is offering $1 million in his Paranormal Challenge "to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event." No one has yet come close to claiming it because that's...

Climategate: peak oil, the CRU and the Oman connection

This is a guest post by contributor Andrew30 (whose full name I'll give you when he reminds me via email). He put it up in comments but it's so interesting it really deserves a blog all to itself).

Why would a Middle Eastern kingdom be funding a British Climate research business?

Oman has just completed a massive investment in LNG, and developed and installed new CO2 removal technology in their process; this lowers the carbon footprint of their gas. So using their gas to drive electricity...

Climategate: we won the battle, but at Copenhagen we just lost the war

Copenhagen has been a disaster for the free world and hardly anyone seems to have noticed.

We have been distracted by the sweet schadenfreude as the event was overshadowed by the Climategate scandal at the beginning, and the Russian bombshell at the end.

And by our delight in seeing the many business interests of the IPCC 's jet-setting chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri cruelly exposed.

And by the told-you-so satisfaction of seeing it proved beyond all reasonable doubt that the "scientific" process ...