James Delingpole - Page 50

“Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” Remember that statement, a while back, from some bloke on Twitter? What we now know with more than 97 per cent certainty that this guy – or whoever

This was the week when global warming jumped the shark. Just like it did last week. And the one before… 1. Soon children will have forgotten what outdoors looks like, claims HuffPo Doctors at a Washington, D.C. paediatric clinic are

All right, so we’re slightly premature. By one measure – according to Bishop Hill – we’re still a month away before “no global warming” achieves its coming of age. But by other measurements, as Matt Ridley notes in the Wall

Professor Brian Cox is almost certainly the prettiest physicist ever to have appeared on television. A crowded field, I know. But even I would, I suspect, happily married man though I am (and happily married man though he is too),

Andrew Norfolk is the heroic, crusading Times chief investigative reporter who broke the Rotherham child sex story. But admirable though he surely is, does anyone else find something a bit disturbing about this statement he made this week? “I didn’t

“Now I believe for the first time there will not be war”. This was an English diarist in September 28, 1938, slightly less than a year before the Second World War broke out, writing on the eve of the Munich

All right, so it was only a straw poll conducted among viewers of yesterday’s BBC Sunday Morning Live debate programme: 95 per cent of Britons think multiculturalism has been a failure. But as majority verdicts go, it was a pretty

Among the more nauseating spectacles of the Rotherham child rape scandal has been the squirming evasion and shameless attempts at face-saving by the various authority figures whose job it supposedly was to prevent such horrors happening. One of them is

First they showed us the melting ice caps. But we just said: “Yeah. It’s what ice does in summer.” Then they showed us the drowning polar bears. But we just said: “Proves nothing. And anyway the polar bear population has

There are two main reasons why President Obama stands a polar bear’s chance in hell of imposing a binding carbon emissions reduction treaty on the US in the name of combating catastrophic, unprecedented man-made global warming. 1. It will kill

Wives: dissatisfied with your husband’s performance in bed? Worried that even with the advent of cheap Viagra you’re never going to get the full orgasmic satisfaction you know you deserve? Depressed that, for all the uptown apartment, the beachside villa,

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has been caught red-handed manipulating temperature data to show “global warming” where none actually exists. At Amberley, Queensland, for example, the data at a weather station showing 1 degree Celsius cooling per century was “homogenized”

Climate change is a serious problem because… Ferguson. So says environmental activist Deirdre Smith of left-wing pressure group 350.org. In an editorial written for Common Dreams (“Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community”), she claims that it “isn’t hard” to

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has declared war on Western industrial civilisation by funding and narrating a series of short eco documentaries urging us all to leave fossil fuels in the ground, cripple our economies with carbon taxes and embrace bird-frying, bat-chomping

“Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great Climate War?” “Well, son. I voyaged up to the Arctic Circle in a nice big boat with a bunch of installation artists, mime practitioners, YouTube cat short specialists and climate scientists on

Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the new manifesto from UKIP – Britain’s Tea Party – is the debt it owes to its most bitter ideological opponents, David Cameron and Nick Clegg. From the simperingly centrist, faux-Tory Prime Minister, it

What exactly is a “moderate jihadist”? Is it someone who tweets photographs of severed heads but fights shy of getting his hands bloody? Someone who inclines towards enslaving captured women and children rather than burying them alive? One who only

Maybe it was Wikileaks, the evil blond rat in South Park, that did it – but suddenly no one seems to care about the fate of Julian Assange. I remember when I first broached the subject in 2010 feeling rather

Britain’s “obesity epidemic” is mainly caused by the fact that its population are lazy slobs and not because they eat too much, a shock new study called The Fat Lie has found. The only reason the study – produced by

Do you care as little as I do about the paucity of Asian players at high levels in English football? I care about this issue even less than I care about what happens to my nose hairs after I’ve trimmed

Mark Steyn has published his latest brief in his protracted court case with discredited climate scientist Michael Mann (who is suing him for libel) and it’s a corker. Here’s a sample: The audacity of the falsehoods in Mann’s court pleadings

While President Obama works on his golf swing, British Prime Minister David Cameron has cut his summer holiday short to preside over an emergency crisis meeting about the Islamic State in Iraq. Perhaps Cameron’s mind has been concentrated by stories

Tom Steyer, the fossil-fuel powered hedge funder has suffered further setbacks on his $100 million mission to save the world from ‘global warming’ by destroying the US economy. He is hoping to raise $50 million from left-wing environmentalist billionaire donors

Did you know that domestic abuse is the most common cause of morbidity [sickness] in women aged 19 to 44, more than war, cancer or motor vehicle accidents? No, very probably, you didn’t because it’s just not true. Rather it’s

Robin Williams is dead and I can’t remember when I felt quite so cut up about the premature death of a Hollywood star. This is particularly odd given that I never could stand a single one of his movies I

The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Gina McCarthy has said in an interview that she believes “climate science” ought to be included in the school curriculum. “Very much so,” she says. “I think part of the challenge

“Eton is a four letter word.” I can’t remember which massively successful Old Etonian actor said that – there are so many: Eddie Redmayne, Harry Lloyd, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Damian Lewis – but whichever of the gazillions it was

The Telegraph’s resident enviro loon Geoffrey Lean has come up with some new terrifying evidence for the existence of “global warming.” No. Not surface air temperatures. They became totally irrelevant to the global warming debate when they stopped doing what

There was one part of Baroness Warsi’s resignation letter I admired: that was when, just after she’d condemned the Coalition’s inaction over Gaza, she brought the full weight of her righteous indignation to bear on Britain’s abject failure to stop

Saaeda Warsi – aka Baroness Warsi; aka Baroness Token – has announced her resignation from the Cabinet in a style entirely becoming her class, intelligence and sophistication: on Twitter. With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime

Did you see the photograph of the Middle Eastern boy blown apart in an explosion? I did, unfortunately. Someone insisted on posting it in my Twitter timeline. For my education, presumably. The boy – no older than five – was

“NHS to fund sperm bank for lesbians,” reports the Mail On Sunday. Or, as someone put it on Twitter: The people must be allowed to have their cake and eat it or they’ll sulk….. There are lots of things that

An enterprising blogger’s diligent spadework has revealed the truth behind an Israeli ‘massacre’ that never was. (H/T Jonathan Foreman) According to the Hamas version of events – widely promulgated in the media by ITN, the Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph

Green MP Caroline Lucas has written to Labour leader Ed Miliband to protest that one of his MPs, Graham Stringer, has been telling the truth about climate change. The letter, an apparent attempt to get Stringer sacked from his position

From the Facebook page of Israeli filmmaker Michael Grynszpan: I met today with a Spanish journalist who just came back from Gaza. We talked about the situation there. He was very friendly. I asked him how comes we never see