{"id":13383,"date":"2012-02-04T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13383"},"modified":"2012-02-04T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:03:45","slug":"james-delingpole-in-the-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/james-delingpole-in-the-daily-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"James Delingpole in the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2096277\/Global-warming-James-Delingpole-claims-green-zealots-destroying-planet.html\" target=\"_blank\">longer article<\/a> than his usual <em>Telegraph<\/em> pieces:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just imagine a world where you never had to worry about global warming, where the ice caps, the \u2018drowning\u2019 Maldives and the polar bears were all doing just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where CO2 was our friend, fossil fuels were a miracle we should cherish, and economic growth made the planet cleaner, healthier, happier and with more open spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, there\u2019s no need to imagine: it already exists. So why do so many people still believe otherwise?<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The turning point towards some semblance of sanity in the great climate war came in November 2009 with the leak of the notorious Climategate emails from the University of East Anglia.<\/p>\n<p>What these showed is that the so-called \u2018consensus\u2019 science behind Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) &mdash; ie the theory that man-made CO2 is causing our planet to heat up in a dangerous, unprecedented fashion &mdash; simply cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>The experts had, for years, been twisting the evidence, abusing the scientific process, breaching Freedom of Information requests (by illegally hiding or deleting emails and taxpayer-funded research) and silencing dissent in a way which removes all credibility from the scaremongering reports they write for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat longer article than his usual Telegraph pieces: Just imagine a world where you never had to worry about global warming, where the ice caps, the \u2018drowning\u2019 Maldives and the polar bears were all doing just fine. Imagine a world where CO2 was our friend, fossil fuels were a miracle we should cherish, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,53,16],"tags":[245,240,39],"class_list":["post-13383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-politics","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3tR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}