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Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future Paperback – January 1, 2012

by James Delingpole (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
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British author James Delingpole tells the shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest - and most expensive - outbreak of mass hysteria in history.

In Watermelons, Delingpole explains the Climategate scandal, the cast of characters involved, their motives and methods. He delves into the background of the organizations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda, showing that beneath their cloak of green lurks a heart of red.

Watermelons shows how the scientific method has been sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism. Delingpole mocks the green movement's pathetic record of apocalyptic predictions, from the "population bomb" to global cooling, which failed to materialize. He reveals the fundamental misanthropy of green ideology, "rooted in hatred of the human species, hell bent on destroying almost everything man has achieved".

Delingpole gives a refreshing voice to widespread public skepticism over global warming, emphasising that the "crisis" has been engineered by people seeking to control our lives by imposing new taxes and regulations. "Your taxes will be raised, your liberties curtailed and your money squandered to deal with this 'crisis'", he writes.

At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating "watermelons" of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.

Delingpole is the bestselling British writer who helped expose the Climategate scandal in his Daily Telegraph blog. He also writes a column for The Spectator . His other books include 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy (Regnery, 2010) and Welcome to Obamaland (Regnery, 2009).
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  1. Print length
    312 pages
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    Biteback Publishing
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6.02 x 0.94 x 8.27 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1849542171
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    978-1849542173
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Biteback Publishing (January 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849542171
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849542173
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.02 x 0.94 x 8.27 inches
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Customers find the book a great read that reinforces their belief that global warming is a scam. They also describe the writing quality as well-written, well-researched, and informative. Readers also appreciate the good analysis and content as important.

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Customers find the book a great read that reinforces their belief that global warming is a scam.

"...Overall, a good read though and an important book that helps raise the awareness of the flawed science and underlying motives of the whole..." Read more

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

"Extremely readable, clinical, deadly but funny dissection of the deceit practiced by the Alarmists about AGW...." Read more

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Customers find the writing quality of the book well written, well researched, and informative. They also say the author presents his argument in a clear and understandable way. Readers also appreciate the good analysis and upbeat style.

"...It often surprises me that Delingpole is a Brit, yet his writing style is so American...." Read more

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

"...His style is upbeat and conversational and presents his argument in a clear and understandable way without inundating the reader with endless quotes..." Read more

"Very good analysis - not just about the man-made global warming scam but the inexorable march of socialism. Not for the loony Left." Read more

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"...They want the earth to be natural, not human useful. Very interesting. Watermelons are green on the outside and red on the inside...." Read more

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Kindle format very hard to read
The font size for quotes is much smaller than the body copy - setting a normal body copy size (say, 12pt) makes the quotes too tiny to read; increasing the font size so the quotes are readable (into at least 9pt) makes the body copy ridiculously large. If it was only a few occurrences it wouldn't be such a drag but Mr. Delingpole uses a lot of quotes... so, sorry to only give 2 stars, it's just very hard to read on a Kindle.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
4.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
4.0 out of 5 stars 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Watermelons suck
Reviewed in Australia on November 2, 2016
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Very entertaining and informative.
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nicholas moat
5.0 out of 5 stars 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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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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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5.0 out of 5 stars 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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