I think James Delingpole was hired due to his excellent oratory and handling of language as an artist - to advocate the global warming scepticism to the advantage of fossil fuel industry benefiting elites. Why not stash him money as the next clown and his Oxbridge education giving him a veneer of respectability? I think he offered himself to the fossil fuel industry advocacy.
He also sold himself to win the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism in New York City in 2010 by marketing himself as "online journalism sceptic" to the mainline media (and I would say science publishers).
"Why does the Bastiat Prize matter so much? Because it’s about the only prize left which celebrates those true journalistic virtues of scepticism and inquiry which our libtard MSM [mainstream media] has all but abandoned in its eagerness to suck up to whichever bunch of statist shysters currently happen to be in power. It’s about free markets, about small government, about liberty."
>> The above encapsulates the excuses in the USA how pollution is made justifiable without limits to fuel infinite increases on provision of goods and services for consumers as they wish (regardless of nature and the laws of nature)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 07:47:27 +1200
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[log in to unmask]My opinion after reading that:
Think that "Think they are enviromentalists", like greenpeace for example, should be hung by the neck for opposing ecosystem restoration, vilefying it and telling all their menbership its "evil geo-e", telling everyone the arctic will be fine if we stop the evil oil drillers, and the oceans will be fine as long as we stop the tuna poachers. They've been taking billions of dollars from their membership, telling them all that they don't have to worry about the enviroment while greenpeace is on the job, and mobilising opposition to anything that can fix the problem.
Perhaps climate scientists like James Hansen should be "hung by the neck" too for continuing to tell everyone he was right about what he was predicting in the 70's, when things have got a lot worse since, and he has to have stopped looking at the data since the 90's to still believe that a gradual reduction of CO2 emmissions is all we need to do.
Its Alpha primate syndrome all the way. give someone a position of authority and a megaphone. They start telling everyone that they are right about everything, and they start believing it themselves. Their ego stops them retesting their assumption. The system the ancient greeks had was a very good idea. pick peiople in power by ballot and only let them stay there for a short time.
Otherwise they lose all reason, forsight, their brains become predicated to bash anyone thats a threat to their credibility, posistion at the top.
The only two people who have yet to say they don't want to be on the trust board of the cloud wizadry trust, might consider whether they are playing some of these games?
Respectfully,
Aaron Franklin
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Kevin Coleman
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You have just given several reasons why I don't buy newspapers. :-)
>> I suspect that to attempt to engage in a debate with him would merely enable him to further 'bait' the debater and enhance his
>> own particular view point. After all that is what trolls attempt to achieve. They bait people into responding and then they make
>> merry at the respondents expense.
>> So your right not to engage with this fool.
>> Kev C
>>
>
>You can't even be sure he actually believes what he writes.
>
>If you look at columnists who cross the floor from one newspaper to
>another, if their new paper is for a different audience then their
>opinions will change to reflect that.
>
>Most journalists are just 'hacks' - they can write copy to suite
>whatever audience and provoke whatever reaction they want. I often
>write letters to the editor with logical fallacies in so that it
>presses the buttons of all people, rational and irrational. Much of
>what I write can be seen as inflammatory, but there is always a
>serious point behind it and they often provide debate which is what
>the newspapers want.
>
>So you might want to question Telegraph readers, who might buy the
>paper because they enjoy reading articles of the tone Delingbole wrote
>using.
>
>If the Daily Mail did not contain coverage of stories that could be
>perceived as anti-foreigner, anti-benefit claimants, then who would
>buy it? Newspapers are businesses at the end of the day, and nearly
>all have a strategy to keep their core readers by providing articles
>that agree with their worldview.
>
>> James Delingpole, Sunday Telegraph, 7 Apr 2013: "I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like
>> Christopher Booker and myself "only" have arts degrees. But actually that's our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual
>> training qualifies us better than any scientist – social or natural sciences – for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a
>>scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one."
>
>I'm convinced climate change is Man-made. But as usual we humans think
>we are so unique and so special and can reverse this natural process.
>We aren't the first evolved species to cause climate change and we
>won't be the last. In the next billion years there is likely to be at
>least another 15 intelligent beings evolve from the dusts of climate
>change to be as intelligent as us. Like us they will use up as much of
>the oil and coal that was naturally recreated by the earth as part of
>its natural cycle of evolution and ecological sustainability. My
>semi-serious policy is we should plant more trees. They will absorb
>much of the carbon we are emitting, and in 40m years time they will be
>able to be used for coal by whichever species comes after us!
>
>Jonathan
