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Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future Kindle Edition

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If global warming isn't real then how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all the world's top scientists lie to us? What exactly is so wrong with biofuels, wind farms, carbon taxes, sustainability and preserving scarce resources for future generations? And what about Bangladesh, the drowning Maldives and all those endangered polar bears? James Delingpole has all the answers - and they're not the ones Al Gore would like you to hear. In Watermelons, Delingpole tells the shocking true story of how a handful of political activists, green campaigners and voodoo scientists engineered the world's biggest, most expensive and destructive outbreak of mass hysteria - one that threatens the very fabric of Western Civilisation.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Biteback Publishing (September 11, 2012)
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I just love the easy way he can dismantle the looniness of ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018

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When you start reading anything by Delingpole, you are destined to become a fan of his writing. I just love the easy way he can dismantle the looniness of these eco-fascists and their totally wacky statements about "the human assault on the planet." His characterization of them as watermelons (green on the outside, red (Marxist) on the inside)) is spot on. It often surprises me that Delingpole is a Brit, yet his writing style is so American. This book will stay in my personal library of climate/environment books. You will learn a lot of facts after reading this book, as well as a lot of the lies and distortions of the watermelon propaganda. Whatever your politics, challenge yourself to read this.

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Elisabeth Hall

It’s not about fruit

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020

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I loved this book. Tells the background for people pushing global warming catastrophe. People who want less humans on the planet for example. They want the earth to be natural, not human useful. Very interesting. Watermelons are green on the outside and red on the inside. Like many of the global warming folk who are red, communist. Interesting.

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Paul Burtwistle

Blows the whole anthropogenic global warming argument to pieces

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2013

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I really liked this book as I've been well aware of the flaws in the whole of the AGW discussion and the politics that surround it for some time now and like reading about this. However, for anyone less passionate about this subject Watermelons might be hard going. Although it has a wealth of information about AGW and the environmentalist movement, it could seem a little drawn out.
I think that people will either love this book and can't put it down or they will find that James Delingpole tends to "go on a bit" and have too many rants about the commie lefty greenies.
Overall, a good read though and an important book that helps raise the awareness of the flawed science and underlying motives of the whole environmentalist movement.

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Diana Brown

This changed my mind on many issues

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019

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A fun read. I really enjoyed his humour. Well researched arguments that challenge so many taken for granted opinions. Hard to put down.

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Duncan Thomson

A humorous destruction of the Greens lies

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2012

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Extremely readable, clinical, deadly but funny dissection of the deceit practiced by the Alarmists about AGW. He even has found quotes from the Greens saying that they deliberately exaggerate to deceive and produce an emotional response about climate change. Once it becomes emotional, rational thought goes out the window. No one with any interest in the subject should miss this book.

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Charlie Martella

GREEN POWER GRAB

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2014

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James Delingpole has given a great insight as to haw the green movement and the IPCC have complety escaped any scrutiny by governments and the wider community. Anyone who legitimatly questions anything they say is considered a sceptic and risks loosing all credibility and any say.

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barbara johnsen

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018

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I enjoy looking at both sides of 'the issues'...... Delingpole states his facts with humor which I also enjoy.

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Nancy Beattie

Can we earthlings save our planet????

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2013

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How refreshing it is to hear the TRUTH OF NATURE instead of being continually bombarded with emotional nonsense espoused by the media at the hands of religious entities and BIG money ( and the influence it has on politicians ).
Three cheers for James for telling the world (hopefully) some basic home truths about our very existance on this planet,it appears we are doing our best to stuff it up,. The question remains can we see the light before it is to late.

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Watermelons suck

Reviewed in Australia on November 2, 2016

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Very entertaining and informative.

nicholas moat

Excellent book highly recommended

Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2015

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This book is a brilliantly witty expose of environmental malfeasance. Delingpole's language is certainly not academic; it struck me as an extended monologue, with a common man as narrator. However, it is well researched, well argued and utterly sincere, with some surprising revelations, at least for this reader. While I was well aware previously of the corruption of science practised by the IPPC and the UN, I had not understood the significance of the Club of Rome, nor heard of the UN's Agenda 21, until reading this.

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Watermelons - Environmentalists are Killing the Planet!

Reviewed in Germany on December 27, 2013

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Es ist eine wohltuende Darstellung von Sachverhalten über die Entwicklung der Klimahysterie, die immer mehr um sich greift und in oberflächlicher Weise unlogische Schlüsse aus verdrehten Sachverhalten zieht. Auch halbe tendenziöse Darstellungen stellen sich als ganze Unwahrheiten dar. Man muss kein über den Dingen stehender Klimatologe sein, sondern nur sein kritisch-logisches Denkvermögen behalten haben, um die klare Sichtweise der Dinge um das Klima zu bekommen. Diese Darstellung ist durchaus zu empfehlen!

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Lance Grundy

Give me all of your money and I promise I'll use it to save the world.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2012

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If you only read one book this year then this should be it.

On 16 October 2008 to combat something called "climate change", Ed Miliband, the Labour government's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, announced that by 2050 Britain - uniquely in the world - would be required to reduce its CO2 emissions by 80%. He did this because, we are told, there is a 'consensus' among scientists that man-made CO2 emissions are causing global warming and global warming is going to destroy the world. The cost of meeting Miliband's target is estimated to be over £18 billion every year for the next forty years. At a total cost of over £700 billion it is the most costly piece of legislation ever enacted in Britain and it is people like you and me who are going to have to find the money to pay for it. Higher household energy bills, higher petrol taxes, increased vehicle duties, higher holiday taxes and numerous other green taxes are on the way. In fact, as energy costs feed into the price of almost everything we buy, our cost of living is set to soar as firms are forced to pass the multi-billion pound cost of complying with Labour's legislation on to us consumers. It also threatens to drive many industries overseas taking hundreds of thousands of jobs with them. Labour's Climate Change Act 2008 has been described as an economic suicide note.

Before we spend all this money though and destroy our economy in the process, are we absolutely certain that man-made CO2 emissions are what is causing climate change? James Delingpole certainly isn't and this well-argued, meticulously researched and often funny book is his attempt to counter the kind of non-stop, 24/7 'man-made-CO2-emissions-are-destroying-the-world' propaganda being pumped out by Western governments, their friends in the MSM and some of the most powerful, well-funded NGOs in the world such as Greenpeace, WWF and Friends of the Earth.

Delingpole takes as his starting point the so-called "Climategate" scandal when thousands of e-mails which had been sent to and from leading figures in the global warming scam were made public. What these e-mails showed was that for years the 'experts' had been lying, cheating, twisting the evidence, abusing scientific process, altering data and falsifying information to 'prove' that climate change was been caused by man-made CO2 emissions. They also showed how these same people had tried to destroy the careers and reputations of any scientist who dared to disagree with them or challenge the rationale behind their quack theories. As Delingpole points out, this kind of irrational behaviour is not science at all but something more akin to political activism. That's because the people pushing this scam are what he describes as "Watermelons", political ideologues who are green on the outside and red on the inside. People determined to force their neo-Marxist worldview on the rest of us at any cost. Backed by hundreds of billions of pounds, dollars and euros, these people are using the excuse of climate change to impose the kind of misanthropic, anti-growth policies which will make us all much poorer and a lot less free. Their long-term aim is to deindustrialise and depopulate the world. Politicians of left and right are only too happy to go along with this because it is yet another excuse to put up our taxes and control our behaviour under the guise of saving the world - and who could possibly argue with having their household budgets dipped for a couple of extra thousand pounds a year to save the world? Big corporations like the scam because their smaller competitors won't be able to afford to comply with all the extra environmental legislation and so will be driven out of business leaving the market to the big boys.

Unfortunately for the Watermelons though there hasn't actually been any global warming since 1997 and more and more people and increasing numbers of scientists are beginning top question the idea of man-made global warming. Yes we know that temperatures could start rising again tomorrow. Yes there may be a connection between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect. Yes human activity could be impacting on climate. Delingpole doesn't discount any of these possibilities but asks only that we consider there may be alternative explanations for climate change [some of which, such as increased/decreased sun spot activity, we can do absolutely nothing about anyway] and we should openly consider and debate them before we set about returning our economy to the Stone Age and impoverish ourselves while simultaneously enriching the Watermelon elite.

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Philip M

A passionate exposee of the dangerous ignorance and intolerance of Climate Change alarmists.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2018

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A serious look at the hypocrisies of the left and environmental activists, demonstrating throughout the book their lack of real knowledge and willingness to distort or ignore the true science in order to further their extreme and alarmist views. James describes time and again their outrageous, intolerant and rude behaviour in the face of rational scientific evidence, even examples of so-called “climate scientists” repeating the same lies and distortions years after they have been totally discredited. And he warns us all that behind the green faces are Red Facists (hence the title Watermelons) who use so-called Anthropogenic Global Warming as a means to global control.

All this is written is a feisty and often very amusing style. He recounts numerous examples of ignorance, lies and corruption throughout the Climate Change Industry – leading one to wonder how he hasn’t been sued, but of course the reason is that he is right and has the evidence to prove it. And to counter the accusations of “Big Oil” funding the sceptics, he must have relished demonstrating with stark evidence how the green activists have received over 3,000 times more funding than all the climate change sceptics put together.

This is a thoroughly researched book with hundreds of references. It is informative, accurate, passionate, often emotional – and above all written in a relaxed, easy to read and amusing style. Highly recommended

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