I'm for clean air, water, etc. but when the "Green Movement" is accompanied by hysterical cries of impending global disasters if we don't do something RIGHT NOW, it is identical to a shill on TV or in a sales presentation claiming that if you don't buy it right now, you will never get such a great deal again! I remember the screams of disaster in the '70's of global cooling. When that did not work, except to sell a lot of books, magazines and newspapers, the same people switched to global warming. Delingpole does a great job of summarizing all the hysteria and pseudo science behind the GW crowd and in identifying their political agenda of control of our lives while they live in elite luxury. He includes pages and pages of supporting documents that cannot be disputed.
For those that rate his book one star, mostly because he has an English degree instead of a science degree, remember your chief spokesman, Al Gore, flunked out of the 3 Universities/colleges that he tried, in the first couple of semesters. In reality, Delingpole's credentials are impeccable. He reminds of the movie "Three Days of the Condor", a spy thriller. Robert Redford is the actor that played the part of a "reader" in a CIA literary unit. It was a small group whose jobs where to read anything and everything in the world that could be a threat when you "connect the dots" to use a modern phrase. They would then write a report to headquarters on what they found. Instead of headquarters written feedback, an assassin shows up to murder the unit. He misses Redford because he used an unauthorized back door to get lunch for the unit. This precipitates a massive manhunt to find him. A memorable scene is a powerful politician complaining to Redford's boss over the fact that Redford is running circles around his pursuers with unexpected skill. He complains, "Who trained him?" The boss replies in a voice tone that clearly implies, how can you be so stupid, while saying, "He's a reader, he reads stuff and knows more than any of us!"
That statement is an exact description of James Delingpole. He is a READER and knows history including Tertullis writing about the disaster of global over population in the 3rd century, where the population was only 250 million compared to 7 Billion today.
I also have personal experience to verify Delingpole's position. As an engineer, I have funded and managed my company's support of university studies. I was stunned to learn that "scientists" can be so focused on verifying their assumptions that they totally miss data, information, or other possibilities to the point of making wrong conclusions. In fact, in one incident, a large body of data pointed completely in another direction while one small data set that might have supported the assumption, was easily proven to be insignificant. Then it dawned on me, we were concluding our funding and he was trying to cast doubt to get us to continue or to have a data set to give to our competitor to get funding from them to prove a false position that would discredit our data. Coincidentally, a trade magazine wrote a piece on how universities studies should be taken with a 'grain of salt' because the conclusions were always vague if not false in an effort to 'sell' the need for more funding to study the issue. BINGO! Global Warming! Global Cooling funding had dried up!
Finally, if man is just a puny destroyer of the planet including the wonderful cute animals like "Spotted Owls" or "Polar Bears", how can he possibly control the Earth's temperature? Assuming we could, do we get a chance to vote on the temperature that we like? Delingpole did not consider a vote but he did cite history, where warming periods greatly increased the quality of life, availability of food, less disease, etc.
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Top reviews from other countries
Dr R W LIDDELL
It was with a sense of relief that I found this book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2014
A-E Moutet
True, pithy and funny - Delingpole is one of Orwell's children
Reviewed in France on April 18, 2012