(not satire – believe it or not)
Pity more people don’t read the Met’ Office’s news blog.
Because then a lot more people would have seen their excellent blog post today taking apart yet another nutty article by Daily Mail leading mentalist and David Cameron university friend James Delingpole in which he attempted to deny climate change.
The problem is that this time he chose as his main target the Met’ Office – who tend to have plenty of facts at their fingertips and like to use them – unlike Delingpole who clearly prefers the usual Daily Mail journalistic approach of inventing the facts to fit the theory and ignoring any that don’t.
Here’s the Met’ Office’s statement:
Addressing the Daily Mail and James Delingpole’s ‘crazy climate change obsession’ article
By the way, in case you didn’t know, Delingpole’s the guy in ‘When Boris Met Dave’ who was so embarrassingly desperate to be invited to join the Bullingdon Club he nearly wet himself at the thought.
Delingpole is also the guy who argued for a British version of the tea party and got into trouble in Australia for writing an article comparing wind farms to paedophilia.
So , yeah , he’s batshit crazy.
Just like the Mail.
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Dellingpole is worse than the Daily Mail crew, simply because he writes for the Telegraph, a paper which a lot of people still believe is respectable and trustworthy.
The Met Office, however, are brilliant.
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Who can deny climate change? It has, and always will happen. However global warming has stopped for the last 16 years. Despite the inexorable rise in that dastardly stuff C02, which makes plants grow.
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Thankfully I have never sullied my mind by buying or reading the Daily Mail, but my knowledge of Delingpole, which has been gleaned from various reports in the media, convinces me that his views are of no importance because as you so eloquently stated ‘he’s bat-shit crazy’.
Whilst I have thought for a long time that the views of some of the Daily Mail’s reporters would not be out of place in the pages of ‘Der Sturmer’, what I fail to understand is why, in the case of Delingpole, the likes of the Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Spectator entertain the views of this arrogant, self-opinionated buffoon.
If anyone wishes to see how this fool reacts when he is confronted by someone who actually knows what he is talking about, I would refer them to the Guardian’s Environment Blog dated 24/01/11 ‘The TV interview that tied James Delingpole’s tongue’.
I think the best approach to Delingpole is to ‘deny him the oxygen of publicity’, preferably by smothering or strangulation.
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Oh dear. You failed to watch the pea under the cup here Tom.
The MET Office retort says their FIVE day (ie, normal) forecasting picked up on the events.
The problem is, the Delingpole article is talking about their LONG RANGE forecasting skills.
Never mind, back to the satire.
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The name “Delingpole” is crying out to be redefined, as Dan Savage did with “Santorum” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_(sexual_neologism))
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I can see that Delingpole is a not exactly popular with the liberal-left. I think I can honestly say I have never read anything by him – though I do buy and read the Daily Mail from time to time.
Let us look at the most damming criticism of him – the link between windfarms and paedophilia. I have noted in my life time that goverment has shifted throughout most of the democratic world from trying to meet our hopes to try to meet our fears. this was the central thesis of an interesting left-wing documentary about terrorism, called The Sum of All Our Fears. Terrorism has been one of the tools used by western goverments to justify legislation that might otherwise be unnacceptable to the public. But goverment has latched onto two other subjects which justifies exercising controll over its citizens. The one is paedophilia, the other global warming. The first justifies goverment taking a wide range of actions ostenisively to protect our children, but when analised it is difficult to see why the actions proposed will have this effect. However it is very difficult to argue against any goverment proposal to protect our children, no matter how contentious. The most obvious example was the removal of the right of reasonable corporal punishment of a child, as a defence in court, which was tacked onto a meaningless and incredibly bureaucratic act, the Children Act 2004. Over night, and without either public debate, even in the social care field, an objective of the liberal left was imposed upon the citizenry.
Global warming is even more useful to goverment – it not only justifies controlling the citizenry, it also justifies increasing their taxes. Goverment has becomne increasingly skillfull at linking increases in taxes to environmental issues. It is easy, if perhaps self-interested, to object to tax rises, it is much more difficult to argue against saving the planet from global disaster. While the met office never says a specific weather event is the result of global warming, it also never says, this is just the weather.
Now I have an interest in history, and I have a particular interest in catastrophism; which of course is closely associated with the climate of the planet. Human history, that is written history goes back at the most five thousand years. Archaeological history goes back to the earliest human species, say about 4,000,000 years ago. Geology tells us something about the climate from the formation of the first rocks. All three tell us that there is climate change, not just on a small scale, but on an enormous, sometimes slow, sometimes rapid scale. If Mr Delingpole is saying climate has never changed he is wrong. If on the other hand he is stating that in historic time the climate of the planet has been hotter than it is now, he is right – Roman Britain had a climate 3 degrees warmer than the present climate, and that is as hot as global warming is supposed to get in the next 100 years or so. There have been hotter periods, and there has been much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on many occassions during the span of the human race. It is now apparent that Amazonia, the lungs of the earth, without which all life will cease in the next 100 or so years, is to a great extent the creation of man, and that much of it was agricultural land, some of it up to 500 years ago. A very good book, Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer covers the history of climate, including the evidence I am aware of from history.
I am not suggesting we should be reckless with energy sources, I would like to keep my bills down, including the climatic taxing component if at all possible. I am stating that human beings have changed every eco-system they have entered from Hawai to the Artic, and that some of the pre-industrial changes, the removal of the North European rain forest, the farming of the prairies, the deliberate turning of the much of the Siberian steps and some of north Africa to land fit for nomads, resulted in climate change which may still be with us. Not all current climate change is the consequence of European industrialisation and nothing will stop China, India or south America taking the same course. If global warmers really believe what they say, ( while being unable to come to the obvious conclusion, based on their own predicates), which is that no one else should industrialise, then by their own logic the planet will come to end very soon.
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It’s unfair to call him crazy. Many of my friends are mentally ill and are intelligent enough to recognise the existence of climate change and that Barack Obama is not a socialist. What you have here is a fucking cretin.
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Absoloutely correct Matthew, Delingpole presumably is thought of as a respectably journalist in mainstream Conservertive circles, but he recently appeared on the Alex Jones show(prisonplanet.com) I would not count that as anything other than nutty “libertarian” right wing conspiracy bull, yet it was not it seeams his first appearance on the show, I think he can just be written off
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