James Delingpole and WUWT are inextricably linked in climate history. I broke the climategate story here at WUWT from my laptop at Dulles airport, Delingpole was the first in the MSM to pick it up. From there the story spread and the rest is history. The irony is that just hours before I had met James in person for the first time at a conference in Belgium, but I couldn’t say anything then because nobody was sure if what we had was real. In this video interview from reason.tv, Delingpole acknowledges WUWT’s role in getting it started. He also talks about his new book Watermelons, which I’d been given a copy of and have read. It is entertaining, sad, and funny all at once. Here’s what they say bout him in the YouTube description, and the video is well worth watching.
James Delingpole is a bestselling British author and blogger who helped expose the Climategate scandal back in 2009. Reason.tv caught up with Delingpole in Los Angeles recently to learn more about his entertaining and provocative new book Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. In other words, it’s green on the outside and red on the inside. At the end of the day, according to Delingpole, the “watermelons” of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.
Approximately 10 minutes.
Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.
h/t to Dr. Ryan Maue for the link
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LOL…..
Political from the beginning… and we knew this all along… but still they work feverishly to rebuild the facade.. Al Gore… King and high priest…
At the end of the day, according to Delingpole, the “watermelons” of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.
Celebrities like Gore sure do spend a lot of time going around telling other folks how they should live their lives. As though he was any sort of example one would want to copy. Huge carbon footprint, self righteous to a fault. Condemning others for daring to commit just a fraction of his sins. Do as I say, not as I do.
I remember the intro of the climategate fiasco. Doubt the fearmongers will ever recover.
All you need to do is ask any environmentalist what they think of Laissez-faire capitalism or the free market. You will get your answers.
What a refreshing look at the motives behind those who would try to control our lives!
That guy is cool. Tempted to buy the book.
A friend of mine has been saying this for years about the hardcore environmentalists: They aren’t pro environment, they are anti people.
You see it in the climate debate with the AGW proponents claiming the evil oil companies are funding the “deniers”. A label they use specifically as a pejorative as recently discussed here on WUWT.
For some it certainly has become a religion. And as with religious beliefs, it’s almost impossible to change someone’s beliefs using rational arguments and logic.
I look forward to reading Watermelons. I am a relative newbie to seriously examining the issue of AGW. I really woke up when ClimateGate happened. Thanks for the pointer.
As a mining engineer, I’ve cleaned up more environmental messes left from mining during the 1800’s than 10,000 environmentalists put together–with the added benefit that these “cleanups” netted $millions and $millions in gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, coal, diamonds, etc. Now the environmental movement in the US has just about destroyed an entire industry–the only worthwhile government bureau eliminated over the past several decades was the Bureau of Mines.
Apparently none of these environmentalists realize how horribly deprived their lives would be if we banned mining altogether–they’d have to do without transportation, without housing, and without food. That’s a pretty sparse existence. And at the end of the day, they’re to be absolute rulers and we’re to have nothing. I’m wondering how they’ll cope with being king of nothing.
Took better than an hour over the connection to that Russian server to download the WHOLE thing … did this while carrying the Cisco-issued Lenovo (IBM) laptop around the lab (second) floor hoping the connection (and the in-bldg WiFi) wouldn’t drop til all the file xferred … surprised to this day the ‘firewalling’ there (CSCO) allowed a connection like that to take place …
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I saved the 10/10 comments on youtube just as they were deleted. Enjoy!
http://climate-catastrophe.blogspot.com/
BTW, kudos Anthony for your part in this.
Quite unfortunately Amazon Japan doesn’t sell his “Watermelons.”
So I’m taking a watermelon as a dessert this evening.
It is the Green Movement that will introduce Soylent Green – for real.
Bill H says:
September 27, 2011 at 8:46 pm
“Al Gore… King and high priest…”
Sorry Bill, Al’s the puppet on the throne, the real power-mongers hide behind the scenes so if it all falls apart they can start again with out the inconvenience of being known and watched.
Amazon seems to have pulled it off their sales list… check the link. Censorship?
Good to bring No Pressure back to public attention in the week when we learn of the children burnt to death in the name of ‘climate change’.
Zorro says:
September 27, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I saved the 10/10 comments on youtube just as they were deleted. Enjoy!
http://climate-catastrophe.blogspot.com/
Marvellous set of comments. The video is private now. Not that I want to watch splattering
deniersskeptics, but it needs to be made public.Dr. Ryan Maue’s website won’t work anymore.
Whty can I not buy a paperback edition of Dellers’s book from Amazon in UK? There seems to be a Kindle edition.
REPLY: Only in hardback so far that I know of, the copy I have is HB – Anthony
Congratulations to James Delingpole on an excellent video. I will be buying the book.
The tide is beginning to turn wrt climate change. I have yet to speak to anyone who believes that not only is AGW not happening, neither is GW. Anecdotal evidence on the other hand is not enough to stop the politicians spending our money on futile “green” projects and raising more money through taxation on the pretence of saving the planet. What we need is more evidence of this scam and I think that if the US legal system can force the University of Virginia to make public the data used by Michael Mann to invent, I mean create, his hockey stick graph then I think the lies will be exposed. Even if Mann does prevent release of the data his credibility will be questioned. The other factor which will influence people’s thinking on climate is the weather. Two or three more cold winters in the UK and US will certainly make people question the politicians, who then must question the scientists, although I think the politicians already know the answers.
James Delingpole is a great guy. That interview pretty much sums it all up. I have basically lost all my illusions regarding journalism. But hey, there is a bright star here and there in the darkness after all !
There is no conspiracy. Just read what the the UN and the Club of Rome writes. Conspiracy?
Not unless you call the policy of the UN a conspiracy.
This video just reminds me what a wake up call Climategate was for me.
I have no dog in this hunt. I am a mechanical engineer and I own a couple of fabrication facilities and I stay plenty busy and I have plenty of problems as a businessman and as an engineer and certainly don’t need to be concerned with some phony-baloney nonsense like Man-Made Global Warming. But to see how much money has been spent on this fools-errand is just nauseating. This entire debate/issue should never have been elevated any further than some back-water academic squabble.
It is nonsense and foolishness elevated to a mass-movement cult-like status. That politicians and governments world-wide actually take it seriously and are implementing policy based on zero evidence is quite frightening and holds my interest far more than the so-called settled science of Climate Science.
Now, let me also say that study and observation of our atmosphere is both interesting and important – but I also say let’s keep it in the realm of science. And until we are certain, and until we realize the danger in exaggerating our certainty and exaggerating our certainty of negative outcomes from Man-Made warming we should exercise the ultimate in the precautionary principle and do nothing so as to do no harm.
Delingpole is a good man and an honest dealer. And I say that as an aging soft leftie who condemns equally the watermelons and the greedy free-marketeers, both of whom are authoritarians who want to rule us as they see fit. I wish him the best of luck with the book sales, and look forward to reading many more of his columns.
http://jamesdelingpole.com/buy-watermelons/
If you’re not yet into Kindle, buy the paperback from James’s website. Obviously it saves on delivery costs from USA if you order more than one.