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Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors Kindle Edition

by James Delingpole (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005BE0S02
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Publius Books (July 6, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2011
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George E. Dawson
5.0 out of 5 stars A FIVE-STAR FART IN A WINDSTORM.
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2012
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“Evil men don’t get up in the morning saying ‘I’m going to do evil.’ They say: ‘I’m going to make the world a better place’.” [Christopher Booker]—loc 2940

In a time of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) and PNS (post-normal science), I’m still stuck, back there in antiquity, wrestling with the idea of ‘post-nasal drip’. When I’ve resolved that, perhaps I can move on to grappling with ‘Science for a Post Normal Age’. But, then, perhaps I really won’t want to. I kind of liked the ‘Normal Age’ science, myself.

But thank-you, James Delingpole, for the credible and virulent flatulence of your excellent, enlightening, amusing, discursive book: ‘Watermelons: the Green Movement’s True Colors’. I can only hope that many, better, younger, and smarter than me, will also read it—and, better still, that they get it.

Thank-you, big time, for your fortitude and fortissimo in farting into the Green movement’s windstorm. Perhaps you’re only tilting at windfarms, but I could still wish to be counted as, at least, one more, grateful, ‘beneficent presence’. It’s books like ‘Watermelons’ that keep me hoping the ‘Stygian void’ can still be put off a while longer. Maybe.

Recommended to all for whom thinking trumps feelings, and other cockeyed optimists.

“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience” [C.S. Lewis] loc 2940

Kindle Edition, 6,593 locs. (is there a Kindle reader out there who can tell me what a ‘loc’ is? What is it equal to? It doesn’t seem to be a ‘page’, a ‘paragraph’, or a ‘screen’. I can’t figure out just what it ‘is’.)"
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B. Hutchins
5.0 out of 5 stars An Explanation of the Recalcitrance
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2011
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Admittedly the AGW "alarmists" (at all skill levels of intellect and education), are having some bad times. For one thing, any warming at all was never unprecedented (and it has recently slowed and probably reversed). Then there was "climategate". In recent years, the public at large has lost nearly all interest in the AGW claims, and places it last among their listing of personal concerns. Endless problems in the AGW camp.

And clearly the scientific evidence for dangerous, CO2-caused, AGW has declined (not even a correlation for one thing). This fact would cause most honest observers to revise their conclusions. But clearly a core of the official (paid) "climate scientists" - i.e., the co-called consensus - and their less esteemed myrmidons remain recalcitrant, in specter if no longer in numbers, out of all proportion. Why?

In opposition to the AGW agenda we have those persons who may be called "climate rationalists" ("deniers" by their detractors), who have come to wonder about the thinking processes (or lack thereof) of the alarmists. Why are some of the alarmists NOT modifying their views - ever, for any reason? Why is there not at least some measure of joy in the news that the disaster they were fervently anticipating is apparently not going to happen? From whence comes their apparent disappointment?

Sure, there will always be hard-core hangers-on to lost causes such as "911 truth" and "cold fusion". And clearly many professionals have a vested interest in, or at least a subsurface attraction to, AGW for reasons of employment or financial opportunity - regardless of realities and practicalities. And there are some people with no expertise who are merely incorrigible, and have no capability for independent thoughts anyway. But - does anyone WANT a climate disaster? I bet not many. So likewise, are we willing to bet that few if any people would want a political agenda that would bankrupt and starve the people and nations of the world?

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Here James Delingpole has written what is really two books, or so it seems to me. The first, Chapters 1-6 seems to be the Delingpole of the Telegraph Blog. It is all excellent stuff and well presented and documented. Perhaps he wanted to establish his bona fides for those who have not already been reading him.

The second book, Chapters 7-11, which begins with the "watermelons" chapter, is disquieting, as it presents the case (as others have done before, but perhaps not as declaratively) that the answer to my question just above the line of stars is: DON'T MAKE THAT BET. There is a green agenda that supersedes all other issues, particularly scientific truths. Among the proponents of AGW, Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, or other OSTENSIBLY environmental issues are those for whom these issues are merely tools to a leftist program. And these are not just preferences, but desires felt to the bone. Regardless of truth or consequences, the issues are either useful tools to be brandished, or inconvenient distractions to be ignored. The agenda is anti-industrial, even misanthropic to an extreme. Delingpole makes a strong and convincing case. And he says it outright as he does everything he writes. Warning taken.

Those persons in the AGW and related camps, who are of a more benevolent persuasion with regard to the human race as a whole, would be wise to look around and see with whom they are in bed.
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Doug
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well worth the read
Reviewed in Australia on December 25, 2018
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A lot of good info easily, even entertainingly, read. Thoroughly recommended.
Perhaps slightly of the conspiracy agenda but the facts are there. Suss it out for yourself.
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Melzerich
5.0 out of 5 stars Energiewende revisited
Reviewed in Germany on July 21, 2014
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Nach Lektüre diese sBuches fällt es einem sehr schwer eine normale Nachrichtensendung oder eine Fernsehdiskussion zum Thema Energiewende oder zur vom Menschen verursachte Klimakatastrophe zu sehen. Die Faktenlage ist leider eine andere, als die, die uns von Politikern und Medien immer präsentiert wird. Wer da was, in welchem Interesse auch immer postuliert, wird von Delingpole detailreich seziert, so daß ich glaube, daß wir alle einem Riesenschwindel unterworfen werden, der in erster Linie unseren Strom unbezahlbar werden lässt.Warum? Wahrscheinlich weil Grüne doch im Kern rote Umerziehungssozialisten sind.
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Dr R W LIDDELL
5.0 out of 5 stars It was with a sense of relief that I found this book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2014
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Several years ago I was sitting round a dinner table with friends. We started to talk about global warming, and I said that I had an open mind on whether man made global warming was happening. The reaction was extraordinary. These were great people who I loved dearly, but one,a science teacher,looked at me with horror and said that I "mustn't say that". A science teacher was telling me I should not have an open mind! Another said that I would not say that if I had grandchildren...
At that point I understood that I was dealing not with science but with a belief system akin to religion.
My doubts about the idea of global warming came from three pieces of knowledge
1 I knew it had been warmer in the past , when grapes were grown in the north of England.
2 I knew there had been a long period of cold called the little ice age
3 it did not seem so long since a new ice age was being predicted with a similar degree of certainty and panic.
I thought there had been plenty of natural climate variation in the past. Why was this modest period of warming any different?

I started to look for more information, and at last found it in this book. It provided a great starting point for further research.
If you want to read one book which will balance the hysterical media coverage of this subject, this is the one. It's well written and amusing while treating the subject seriously.
Thank you, James for your courageous work. It's much easier to be a "warmist" these days.
Bob Liddell
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A-E Moutet
5.0 out of 5 stars True, pithy and funny - Delingpole is one of Orwell's children
Reviewed in France on April 18, 2012
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You need talent and anger to take on one of the century's most egregious scams, and James Delingpole has both, with a healthy leavening of humour. "Watermelons" are today's Greens - red inside, they are the same people who a quarter century ago protested across Europe in support of the Soviet regime. Then as now, they posed as the self-evident voices of the Good and the True, and with their fellow-travellers in the media, they belittled their opponents rather than answer their arguments. Today's climate change high priests and tricksters (hockey-stick graph, anyone?) are trying to pull the same number again. This book shows them up, which is why they hate it. It exposes them well, lucidly, and amusingly, too. No wonder they are foaming at the mouth when it is brought up. A great read.
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Andrushka
4.0 out of 5 stars Bon à savoir
Reviewed in France on February 28, 2013
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Bon à savoir combiern nous sommes "enfumés" par les escrologues de tous poils. Cette lecture venait à point car le GIEC vient finalement de reconnaître que le "réchauffement climatique" n'existe pas et que les chiffres avancés étaient erronés. Evidemment, les escrologues ont trouvé un autre terme, c'est maintenant un "déréglement" climatique. Pour continuner à nous enfumer.
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