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

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

James Delingpole
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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. As the world stands on the brink of a new Great Depression, Delingpole’s message could not be more timely or urgent. In order to save our planet must we really surrender to the green movement’s misanthropic tyranny? Or might there be a better way?

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james delingpole is the British writer who helped expose the Climategate scandal in his the Daily Telegraph blog. He also writes a column for The Spectator. His books include 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy and Welcome to Obamaland.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As someone who is concerned about climate change and reasonably well informed about it, but genuinely interested in what sceptics have to say, I read this book hoping to learn more. Some hope. To say that Delingpole is cavalier with the evidence is an understatement. Whenever I came across anything I already knew something about, it was clear that he had either ignored crucial evidence, misunderstood it, or interpreted it in a totally biassed way.

To critics who say he doesn't understand the science, he replies he doesn't need to, because his reading enables him to make connections (between climate science and "a neo-Marxist plot to takeover the world") which elude lesser mortals. All one can say is that his reading has been extremely selective, and doesn't seem to include climate scientists (or "neo-Marxists", for that matter).

To take just one example of Delingpole's approach, he argues at different points in the book that global warming isn't happening, that it is happening but it's not due to human activity, and that it is happening and it's a good thing (because we would all like to live in a warmer climate). I suppose consistency is not a requirement if all you're interested in is exposing a supposed plot to justify more state controls over the pursuit of individual freedom.

I laughed out loud when he claimed, towards the end of the book, that having absorbed his wisdom, you are "now better informed than almost anyone you know" about climate science! All that I had learnt by the end was about the fantasy world that conservative libertarian conspiracy theorists inhabit.

Read this book if you want your prejudices confirmed (whether these are that global warming is a myth, that climate science is part of a socialist plot to takeover the world, or, indeed, that all climate sceptics are cranks). Don't expect to learn anything of value, though.
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40 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Excellent read 16 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback
I wasn't a hardened climate change sceptic before I read this book - but now I am! Not only does Delingpole write beautifully, he methodically takes apart the "scientific" case for anthropogenic global warning and exposes the hidden Left-wing agenda behind the climate change rhetoric.

When I last appeared on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions it was in Caroline Lucas's constituency in Brighton, Lucas being Britain's only Green Member of Parliament. The audience were far to the left of the Labour Party on almost every issue - the European Union, UK fiscal policy, public service reform, you name it. It puzzled me at the time, but now I know why. Thoroughly recommended.
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47 of 66 people found the following review helpful
A palpable hit. 16 Feb 2012
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A very well written and insightful book about the dangers of blindly conforming to a spurious consensus in matters concerning science and it's process.

Pointing out the absurdity of employing the fallacy of simple enumeration when it comes to judging the worth of a hypothesis that hasn't yet risen to the status of a theory is a worthwhile public service.

It is worth noting that Ian Keith Shaw's deceit in failing to acknowledge Nurse's complete ignorance concerning one of the fundamentals in this area, ignorance which was compounded by Dr Bindschadler and the failure of the BBC's supposedly professional editing process is typical of those with an axe to grind. I should add that least Dr Bindschadler had the integrity to acquire a DT account so that he could visit the authors blog and make an apology, something Paul Nurse has manifestly failed to do.

Further I would point out that Martin Lack's somewhat whimsical habit of denigrating books he has not actually read is infamous on Amazon and has led to much well deserved derision.

Irrespective of all that I would suggest you read the book for yourself and make up your own mind. After all being sceptical and educating yourself is not something to be ashamed of but rather something to be encouraged.
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Entertaining and persuasive
Excellent counterbalance to the fashionable "wisdom". He argues that the left, having failed to destroy capitalism by socialism or communism, has now turned to the environment to... Read more
Published 4 days ago by Dr. Graham J. Cresswell
A great dissapointment
I am rather sceptical of the green agenda so thought this book would be a good read.

Alas I was severely mistaken. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Joe Firth
Tosh
As Martin Lack put it
"There is simply no evidence for a left-wing conspiracy to over-tax and over-regulate people (so as to make everyone poorer). Read more
Published 18 days ago by Don
Read this book. Get both sides of the argument.
As ever there are two sides to every argument. It's a shame those from people such as Delingpole are not heard more often.
Published 22 days ago by M.C.
Anyone who values our progress and cherishes our freedoms should read...
Sea levels have been rising steadily for hundreds of years. Are the ice caps fatally melting? No. The climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years. That's what it does. Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. Realist
I can't rate it "zero"...
If you sell tin-foil hats, you need this guy to live near you.

If you know *anything* about anthropogenic global warming, you don't need to read past the title to know... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kiteman
An Excellent Investigation
Delingpole does not contest that there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there was 40yrs ago. Nor does he contest that the planet's climate can and does change. Read more
Published 1 month ago by James Walker
Entertaining, informative and right up to date.
Looking for the truth? Find it here - this book is bursting with it. Covering every significant aspect of the subject, digging below the surface to uncover what is really... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dr Jonathan H Berber
Reality at last
This is a great book if you are looking for the truth in the Global warming/climate change scam. It picks through the history and provides details on how things have come to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. McLaren
Give me all of your money and I promise I'll use it to save the world.
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... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lance Grundy
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