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James Delingpole

Credentials

• Degree in English Literature from Oxford University. 1James Delingpole. “My Moment of Rock-Star Glory at a Climate Change Sceptics’ Conference in America” (Policy Document), the Heartland Institute, May 27, 2010.

Background

James Delingpole is an English columnist and anti-windfarm activist who formerly blogged for_ The Daily Telegraph_ and now writes for The Spectator and the far-right news site, Breitbart. Delingpole has described himself as a “libertarian conservative” and climate change skeptic.2James Delingpole. “Wind farm scam a huge cover-up,” The Australian, May 3, 2012. Archived May 5, 2012 3James Delingpole. “Farewell, Knights of Delingpole — and thank you trolls,” The Telegraph, February 12, 2014. Archived February 13, 2014. 4“James Delingpole,” The Telegraph. Archived April 21, 2013. 5“James Delingpole,” The Spectator. Accessed September 26, 2016. 6“James Delingpole,” Breitbart. Accessed September 26, 2016.

According to Delingpole’s website, Jamesdelingpole.com (now Delingpoleworld.com), Delingpole’s “dislikes” include “the ‘global warming’ myth” and “The European Socialist Superstate”.7“About,” JamesDelingpole.com. Archived September 25, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/YJHg0

He was awarded the 2010 Bastiat Prize for online journalism by the free-market International Policy Network, a group that, according to public 990 forms, has received over 1millionfromthesecretive[DonorsCapitalFund](//www.desmog.com/donors−capital−fund),and1 million from the secretive Donors Capital Fund, and 1millionfromthesecretive[DonorsCapitalFund](//www.desmog.com/donors−capital−fund),and390,000 from oil giant ExxonMobil.8Damian Thompson. “Telegraph blogger James Delingpole wins Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism,” The Telegraph, November 12, 2010. Archived January 13, 2013.

Delingpole was particularly vocal during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. In an article for The Spectator Australia, he described how he had contracted COVID-19 and that he felt “bloody great” for subsequently getting “a degree of immunity”. In the same article, Delingpole explained how he did not cancel any engagements even when he believed he had the virus and wrote that he attended “various parties” after a debate at Durham University, saying: “it’s possible I infected lots of undergraduates”.9James Delingpole. “Wu flu notes,” Spectator Australia, March 28, 2020. Archived July 8, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/EyEsP

In January 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Delingpole had taken part in a streamed conversation with Colin Robertson, who the SPLC referred to as a “white nationalist influencer”.10Hannah Gais and Jason Wilson. “Former Breitbart London Boss Streamed With White Nationalist,” Southern Poverty Law Center, January 24, 2022. Archived January 27, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RHbe0

Stance on Climate Change

July 11, 2019

Delingpole wrote in Breitbart:11James Delingpole. “‘Climategate Was Fake News,’ Lies the BBC…” Breitbart, July 11, 2019. Archived July 15, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/3OMJF

“Meanwhile in the real world, no convincing evidence whatsoever has emerged to support the threadbare theory that anthropogenic CO2 is causing the planet to warm in ways which are dangerous or unprecedented. Still, the theory rests entirely on computer models which, increasingly, appear to diverge from the actual observed data.”12James Delingpole. “‘Climategate Was Fake News,’ Lies the BBC…” Breitbart, July 11, 2019. Archived July 15, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/3OMJF

March 2016

“Climate change is the biggest scam in the history of the world – a $1.5 trillion-a-year conspiracy against the taxpayer, every cent, penny and centime of which ends in the pockets of the wrong kind of people, none of which goes towards a cause remotely worth funding, all of it a complete and utter waste,” Delingpole wrote at Breitbart.13James Delingpole. “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer,” Breitbart, March 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LHmOH

July 2011

“There has been no global warming since 1998,” Delingpole claimed in an article at The Telegraph.14James Delingpole. “There has been no global warming since 1998,” The Telegraph, July 6, 2011.

Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection

James Delingpole was among dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.

He wrote a January 24, 2021 article at The Conservative Woman titled “After Trump, I’ll never trust the lying mainstream media again” (excerpt below):

Some other posts and retweets by Delingpole below:

Key Quotes

April 22, 2020

Delingpole argued that environmentalists were celebrating the coronavirus pandemic who were treating COVID-19 as a “blueprint” for a “new world order”. He wrote:15James Delingpole. “Earth Day 2020 – Greens Celebrate Coronavirus Lockdown as Blueprint for New World Order,” Breitbart, April 22, 2020. Archived July 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/ZpGvW

“The global green movement and its many celebrity/high-level political supporters are treating the chaos, fear and increased authoritarianism generated by Chinese coronavirus as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to advance the kind of green, one-world-government totalitarianism which no populace anywhere in the West would have been prepared to tolerate in normal times.”16James Delingpole. “Earth Day 2020 – Greens Celebrate Coronavirus Lockdown as Blueprint for New World Order,” Breitbart, April 22, 2020. Archived July 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/ZpGvW

He went on to write:17James Delingpole. “Earth Day 2020 – Greens Celebrate Coronavirus Lockdown as Blueprint for New World Order,” Breitbart, April 22, 2020. Archived July 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/ZpGvW

“But instead of being embarrassed at being shown up as the anti-freedom, anti-prosperity Malthusian killjoys they are, the greenies are doubling down and trying to persuade us that the straitened, struggling, constrained, impoverished, collapsing world we’re now experiencing is something we should all embrace.”18James Delingpole. “Earth Day 2020 – Greens Celebrate Coronavirus Lockdown as Blueprint for New World Order,” Breitbart, April 22, 2020. Archived July 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/ZpGvW

July 15, 2019

In an article criticising a feature on the 10th anniversary of the so-called “climategate” scandal produced by the BBC, who Delingpole called “one of the key promoters of the man-made global warming scare”, Delingpole wrote:19James Delingpole. “‘Climategate Was Fake News,’ Lies the BBC…” Breitbart, July 11, 2019. Archived July 15, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/3OMJF

“It really doesn’t matter in what order you rearrange the Climategate emails. You get the same result every time: a bunch of second-raters bullying dissenters, troughing lavish grants, racking up air miles on conference freebies, cooking the books, manipulating the evidence, torturing the data till it screams in order to make man-made global warming look like a much more significant and well-understood problem than it actually is.”20James Delingpole. “‘Climategate Was Fake News,’ Lies the BBC…” Breitbart, July 11, 2019. Archived July 15, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/3OMJF

In the same article, Delingpole repeated the allegation that the TV crews of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who he described as a “doddery old Malthusian”, had “drive[n] walruses off cliffs and then blame[d] it on climate change” in a recent documentary on climate change. Delingpole also used the opportunity to promote a crowdfunding campaign called “Stop BBC Bias” launched by David Keighley, founder of the anti-BBC, climate science denying group, News-watch.21James Delingpole. “‘Climategate Was Fake News,’ Lies the BBC…” Breitbart, July 11, 2019. Archived July 15, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/3OMJF

July 2, 2019

In an article for Breitbart, Delingpole wrote of “mainstream media journalists”:22James Delingpole. “What I Learned on My Undercover Mission Among the Greenies at Glastonbury…” Breitbart, July 2, 2019. Archived July 4, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/SXDGT

“Not only do they assiduously promote the [non-existent] climate change ‘problem’ but they also shill on behalf of the extremely damaging solution: renewables (or ‘clean’ energy as they’ve laughably redesignated it).”23James Delingpole. “What I Learned on My Undercover Mission Among the Greenies at Glastonbury…” Breitbart, July 2, 2019. Archived July 4, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/SXDGT

January 2018

In an episode of This Week, Delingpole described Donald Trump as “amazing” and lauded his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement:24“James Delingpole: Donald Trump ‘is amazing’ (This Week, January 2019),” YouTube video uploaded by user “gilhody,” January 13, 2018. Archived mp4 on file at DeSmog.

“Let’s cut the crap. Donald Trump is amazing. The US economy is going gangbusters. The DOW is soaring. Growth is over 3%. Hourly wages are two-and-a-half percent higher than this time last year. Unemployment for African Americans is at record lows.

“And after Trump’s sweeping tax reforms, something that lesser Republicans have been trying and failing to achieve for years, we can expect massive growth ahead.

“And because he’s so frank and fearless, he’s even dared to take on the green crazies. He’s brushed off all their scaremongering nonsense and told it like it is: global warming is just an excuse to bomb the global economy back to the dark ages.

Au revoir, Paris Climate Accord. Hello freedom, scientific integrity, and prosperity.”25“James Delingpole: Donald Trump ‘is amazing’ (This Week, January 2019),” YouTube video uploaded by user “gilhody,” January 13, 2018. Archived mp4 on file at DeSmog.

November 19, 2016

Writing of _Breitbart_‘s Steve Bannon, who was chosen as Donald Trump’s chief strategest in November 2016:26James Delingpole. “It’s tough being the only British journalist who’s right about everything,” The Spectator, November 19, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QvHwM

“One of his pet peeves is the great climate-change con. It’s partly why he recruited a notorious skeptic like myself […] “Basically, we won.”27James Delingpole. “It’s tough being the only British journalist who’s right about everything,” The Spectator, November 19, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QvHwM

August 29, 2016

“Of all the climate ‘science’ scams I’ve helped expose, about the worst has got to be Ocean Acidification,” Delingpole wrote at Breitbart.28James Delingpole. “Ocean Acidification: Your Chance To Help Kill This Dodgy Scam Once And For All!” Breitbart, August 29, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SADle

March 28, 2016

In an article titled “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer, Delingpole wrote at Breitbart:

“[N]ow we have all those eco-friendly wind turbines. Or as I call them bird-slicing, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes.”29James Delingpole. “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer,” Breitbart, March 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LHmOH

“[I]t really doesn’t matter whether you believe in global warming or not because here’s the reality: All that money we’re being to spend on the global warming industry – that $1.5 trillion I mentioned earlier siphoned straight out of taxpayers’ pockets – it isn’t going to make the blindest bit of difference.”30James Delingpole. “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer,” Breitbart, March 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LHmOH

“I call climate change ‘the gift that goes on giving’ because day in day out I get an endless stream of stories to write about the corruption, incompetence, skullduggery of the climate alarmism industry.”31James Delingpole. “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer,” Breitbart, March 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LHmOH

April 9, 2016

“The left is cunning. Like the Taliban – ‘you have the watches, we have the time’ – it plays a very long game. The tactics it has been using in the environmental wars date at least back to Saul Alinsky and probably as far back as the Cultural Marxists of the 1930s Frankfurt School.

“What’s certain is for several decades now – and most especially since the Fall of the Berlin Wall supposedly won the capitalist argument – the left has been using environmentalism as a cloak to disguise its usual controlling, misanthropic, puritanical, big government agenda with a kindly aura of bunny-hugging caringness,” Delingpole wrote at Breitbart.32“Why Conservatives Will Always Lose The War On Climate Change,” Breitbart, April 9, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/trClD

June 18, 2015

“If he [the pope] really cares about the poor, the last thing he should be doing is endorsing this nonsense [encyclical on the environment].”33“WATCH: BREITBART’S DELINGPOLE HAMMERS POPE’S ‘ECO-ENCYCLICAL’,” Breitbart.com, June 18, 2015.

“Catholics should know that there is probably more strong evidence for the existence of God than there is for catastrophic man-made global warming,” Delingpole wrote at Breitbart.34“WATCH: BREITBART’S DELINGPOLE HAMMERS POPE’S ‘ECO-ENCYCLICAL’,” Breitbart.com, June 18, 2015.

April 7, 2013

“The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues’ gallery to be granted the mercy of quick release. Publicly humiliated? Yes please. Having all their crappy books remaindered? Definitely. Dragged away from their taxpayer funded troughs and their cushy sinecures, to be replaced by people who actually know what they’re talking about? For sure. But hanging? Hell no. Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags.”

“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,” Delingpole wrote in an article at The Telegraph. See commentary by ThinkProress here.35James Delingpole. “An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists,” The Telegraph, April 7, 2013. Archived January 11, 2014. 36“Joe Romm. “Denier Delingpole Wishes For ‘Climate Nuremberg’, Says ‘Hanging Is Far Too Good’ For Climate Scientists!”, ThinkProgress, April 7, 2013. Archived April 10, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2OOjV

June 30–July 1, 2011

“I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I’m not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature,” Delingpole declared at the Heartland Institute‘s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC6).37“James Delingpole, ICCC6,” climateconference.heartland.org. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

January 2011

“It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven’t got the time […] I am an interpreter of interpretations,” Delingpole said during an interview with Nobel prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse. See commentary on the interview from The Guardian and ThinkProgress.38James Randerson. “The TV interview that tied James Delingpole’s tongue,” The Guardian, January 24, 2011. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ngmaw 39“Must-see Delingpole meltdown on BBC: ‘It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven’t got the time…. I am an interpreter of interpretations’,” ThinkProgress, January 25, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/DbtUz

November 2009

“The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGWCRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That),” Delingpole wrote at The Telegraph.40“Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?“ The Telegraph, November 20, 2009. Archived January 31, 2014.

Key Actions

March 5, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart criticising a study in the climate science journal Nature Climate Change which had called for strengthening decarbonisation targets, after the study’s lead author, Corinne le Quere, told The Guardian that: “We need a cut in emissions of about the size of the fall [from the lockdowns] every two years, but by completely different methods.”41James Delingpole. “Delingpole: Lockdown Equivalent Every Two Years to Save Planet, Claim ‘Experts,’” Breitbart, March 5, 2021. Archived March 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/0mSAH 42Fiona Harvey. “Equivalent of Covid emissions drop needed every two years – study,” The Guardian, March 3, 2021. Archived March 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/Fm0Of

Delingpole stated that measures required to achieve this level of decarbonisation would be “almost certainly unpopular with people who quite enjoy the trappings of 21st-century life and would rather not be compelled to go back to the Dark Ages.”

February 16, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart claiming that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s policies aimed at decarbonising the economy through a “Green Industrial Revolution,” were “hitting the poor hardest.”43James Delingpole. “Delingpole: BoJo’s Green Policies Are Hitting the Poor Hardest,” Breitbart, February 16, 2021. Archived February 22, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/7I5ZF

The article quoted John Constable, energy editor of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Britain’s most prominent climate science denying organisation, who criticised measures implemented by Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng intended to alleviate fuel poverty, which included a £140 discount for vulnerable households. Constable stated: “Mr Kwarteng’s measures are wholly inadequate, barely scratching the surface of the electricity bill issue, and leaving the cost of living problem caused by his climate policies quite untouched.”

February 9, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart asserting that Germany’s renewable energy sector had collapsed due to competition from China, costing thousands of jobs. He wrote: “The ‘green jobs’ promised by everyone from President Joe Biden to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson as one of the benefits of their proposed Net Zero revolutions are a myth. Or, if you prefer, a blatant lie.” The article concluded: “Net Zero is a looming disaster and the politicians steering us towards it are doing so with their eyes wide open – and their tongues as forked as a snake’s.”44 James Delingpole. “Delingpole: Green Jobs Collapse in Germany and Go to China Instead. What a Surprise!” Breitbart, February 9, 2021. Archived February 15, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/t1QMP

Delingpole also cited a report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation entitled, “The Myth of Green Jobs,” which claimed that “there are no sound economic arguments to support an assertion that green energy policies will increase the total level of employment in the medium or longer term when we hold macroeconomic conditions constant.”45 Gordon Hughes. “The Myth of Green Jobs,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 15, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/vvIFv

February 7, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart which disputed the existence of a climate emergency, describing warnings about the severity of climate change as “doom-mongering,” and a “scare narrative.” He stated: “It is an article of faith for the globalist elite and their useful idiots in the media, in politics, in business, and the entertainment [sic] that the world is on course for climate disaster which only radical and costly international action can prevent.”46 James Delingpole. “Study Disputes that Earth is in a Climate Emergency,” Breitbart, February 7, 2021. Archived February 9. 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/SI1Xp

The article cited a report written by science policy analyst Dr Indur Goklany for the Global Warming Policy Foundation which disputed the negative consequences of increased levels of atmospheric CO2, stating: “The detrimental effects of carbon dioxide and fossil fuels are overwhelmed by other concurrent changes that are beneficial.”47 Indur Gokhlani. “Impacts of Climate Change: Perception and Reality, “ The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/vOZKB

February 4, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart criticising the government’s ten point plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution,’ which he described as “eco-fascist crap,” and “far-left nonsense.” He argued that as a result of the plan, Britain’s landscape would be “ravaged with solar panels and bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes.”48 James Delingpole. “Delingpole: We Didn’t Ask For it, But Boris the Con Man’s Great Green Revolution Whopper is Coming,” Breitbart, February 4, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/aZSxG

Delingpole described the imposition of environmentalist policies as undemocratic, writing: “Where green issues are concerned, there is a massive democratic deficit — between the green hell that a narrow elite want to impose on you and the old normal which is what most people actually want,” arguing that “unrepresentative extremists like the hair-shirt loons of Extinction Rebellion,” had dictated government policy.

He also cited a report written by researcher and commentator Ben Pile for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which criticised the UK’s Climate Assembly, a focus group assembled from UK citizens to discuss the response to climate change. The report stated: “the Assembly was convened by political campaigning and lobbying groups, funded by special interests. Its composition did not reflect that of the broader public.”49 Ben Pile. “The UK Climate Assembly: Manufacturing Mandates,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/vyN4F

January 29, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for The Conservative Woman disputing the veracity of official UK government statistics showing that the UK had recorded 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on January 25, 2020. In the same article he argued that politically-motivated scientists had also produced dishonest, unreliable data on climate change, which he described as a “natural process to which we can all adapt easily and inexpensively,” rather than a man-made phenomenon.50 James Delingpole. “Why the ‘grim milestone’ of 100,000 Covid deaths is nonsense,” The Conservative Woman, January 29, 2021. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/en5XD

January 18, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart in which he claimed that Western environmentalists had hypocritically condoned China’s continued use of fossil fuels, stating: “while the West bleats about carbon emissions targets, sustainability and Net Zero, China is expanding its economy rapidly.”51 James Delingpole. “Delingpole: China Coal Output Highest Since 2015 – Despite ‘Green’ Pledges,” Breitbart, January 18, 2021. Archived January 19, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/HQGv7

Delingpole cited a paper written by “China watcher” Patricia Adams in the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which asserted that the CCP “exercises the ability to direct the agenda that the environmentalists will carry out via the Communist government’s de facto control over the use of funds,” characterising Western environmentalists as “China’s useful idiots.”52Patricia Adams. “The Red and the Green: China’s Useful Idiots,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/HjjOS

January 15, 2021

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart criticising Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution,’ as Johnson prepared for Britain to host the COP26 UN climate conference. He wrote:53 James Delingpole. “Delingpole: ‘Obsessed’ Greenie Boris Johnson Is Driving Britain Towards Eco-Dictatorship,” Breitbart, January 15, 2021. Archived January 18, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/N5uZq

“Possibly this is good news for Johnson, who, as a reward for this nonsense, may now get more nookie from his eco-activist girlfriend Carrie Symonds (aka Princess Nut Nut). But it will be an absolute disaster for the country at large, as a number of recent reports and articles make clear.”

Delingpole cited a study by the US fossil fuel-funded Institute for Energy Research, which characterised initiatives to create green jobs as “terribly economically counterproductive,” in addition to a blog post by climate science sceptic Paul Homewood, who also criticised the government’s proposals, stating: 54 Gabriel Calzada Alvarez. “Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources,” Institute for Energy Research. Archived January 18, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/NEh7r Paul Homewood. “10 Million Jobs At Risk From Net Zero Pledge, Says New Report,” Not A Lot of People Know That, January 8, 2021. Archived January 18, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/hbiYj

“the climate change agenda is being driven by the metropolitan liberal consensus in London, where few jobs will be at risk.”

December 13, 2020

In an article for Breitbart entitled, “Report: Western Environmentalists Are the Chinese Communists’ Useful Idiots,” Delingpole cited a Global Warming Policy Foundation report written by Patricia Adams entitled, “the Red and the Green: China’s useful idiots,” which characterised Western environmentalists as mouthpieces for President Xi Jinping. Delingpole stated: “In reality, the Chinese communists are only interested in environmentalism insofar as it weakens idiot Western nations as they destroy their own economies with needlessly inflated energy prices.”55James Delingpole. “Report: Western Environmentalists Are the Chinese Communists’ Useful Idiots,” Breitbart, December 13, 2020. Archived December 21, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/1wwnW 56Patricia Adams. “The Red and the Green: China’s Useful Idiots,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/HjjOS

December 7, 2020

In an article for Breitbart, Delingpole commented on an Independent article which suggested that snow could cease to exist in Britain due to the impacts of climate change. Delingpole wrote: “But now, bizarrely, the Climate Industrial Complex has decided to revive this much-mocked claim in a new BBC documentary designed to persuade us, once and for all, that climate change is real and that it is oh so definitely worth destroying the economy and curtailing our freedoms to counteract the horrors of a snowman-free future.”57 James Delingpole. “Delingpole: Children Just Aren’t Going to Know What Snow Is. Part II,” Breitbart, December 7, 2020. Archived December 8, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/a3irO 58Charles Onians. “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” The Independent, March 20, 2000. Archived December 8, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/VVw0P

Delingpole cited a blog post written for ConservativeHome by Andrew Montford, Deputy Director of the GWPF. Montford stated: “Householders will also have to swallow a doubling of the cost of motoring and a tripling of domestic fuel bills. The price of everything will soar.”59Andrew Montford. “Andrew Montford: Honesty is needed on the huge costs of attempting ‘net-zero,’” ConservativeHome, December 5, 2020. Archive December 8, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/4kl2z

November 22, 2020

In an interview with Sky News Australia, Delingpole criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, asserting that it formed part of a “globalist, leftist takeover.” Delingpole stated that “they (the Conservative Party) claim to care about those working class voters in the North and the Midlands, who gave their voters to the Conservative Party for the first time, and yet I can’t imagine a single one of those voters is yearning to have their car taken away from them to be replaced by an electric car costing £30,000 or more that they could never dream of affording. It is absolutely crazy.”60“Countries in the Western world expecting ‘globalist, leftist takeover”, Sky News Australia, November 22, 2020. Archived November 24, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/UJs6u

September 22, 2020

In an article for Breitbart, Delingpole compared a graph cited by Boris Johnson’s science advisors predicting a second wave of COVID-19 to Professor Michael Mann’s hockey stick graph, stating: “I share this scepticism towards what some are describing as the latest update of Project Fear — and which others are calling Boris’s Hockey Stick”, and that it is an artefact that has much more to do with propaganda than honest science”.

Delingpole referenced work by climate science deniers Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, and Andrew Montford to support his claim that Mann’s graph was unreliable.61James Delingpole, Delingpole: Boris Johnson Wants You to Play with His Dodgy Hockey Stick, Breitbart, September 22, 2020. Archived: September 28, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/Zim2Y

June 16, 2020

In an article for Breitbart entitled, ‘Australia Invites High School Dropout Greta Thunberg into the Classroom’, Delingpole stated that, “Thunberg is a teenage school drop out who knows nothing about climate change other than what she has picked up from left-wing newspapers and propaganda sites, and from movies like Ice Age 2.”62James Delingpole, ‘Australia Invites High School Dropout Greta Thunberg into the Classroom’, Breitbart, June 16, 2020. Archived September 28, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/Fy7YU

June 3, 2020

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart criticising the government’s 10-point plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution,’ which he described as a “looming disaster caused by a mass outbreak of green groupthink at virtually every level of the Boris Johnson administration,” and “eco-bilge.”63 James Delingpole. “Britain Unleashes a Green New Deal to Kill What’s Left of the Economy,” Breitbart, June 3, 2020. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/VUImC

Elsewhere in the article, he stated: “A green industrial revolution is a bit like the original industrial revolution, except for one or two crucial differences: instead of boosting prosperity, creating jobs and stimulating economic growth, it does the exact opposite.”

Delingpole cited a study in the Global Warming Policy Foundation written by its energy editor, John Constable, which described the government’s plans to reach Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 as “deeply unwise,” and a “facile error.”64 John Constable. “The Fatal Attraction of a Post – Covid Green New Deal,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/O3h9K

May 9, 2020

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart commenting on Michael Moore’s documentary, ‘Planet of the Humans’, in which he stated:

“sure, the film says nothing that I haven’t been saying at Breitbart and elsewhere for over a decade: that renewables are expensive, environmentally destructive, do not reduce fossil fuel usage, do not reduce CO2 emissions, kill birds and bats, ruin views, despoil nature, enrich crony capitalists at the expense of ordinary energy users, etc.” Delingpole also claimed that, “far from being ‘clean’ energy or ‘green’ energy, renewables are in fact a dirty, ugly, planet-destroying failure.”65James Delingpole, Delingpole: Michael Moore Has Become a ‘Hero’ to ‘Climate Deniers’, Complains Guardian, Breitbart, May 9, 2020. Archived October 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AIorT

April 9, 2020

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart which disputed the accuracy of scientific research warning of the dangers of COVID-19, citing scientific experts’ alleged lack of accuracy concerning climate change as grounds for his scepticism. He wrote:66James Delingpole. “Delingpole: ‘Trust the Experts on Coronavirus’. Sure. Which Experts?” Breitbart, April 9, 2020. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/EJc5U

“The fact that computer models are unreliable — often based on the junkiest of junk data inputs; programmed with the shonkiest and most politically motivated algorithms, put together by people you wouldn’t trust to run a bath let alone dictate government policy — is the single most important thing you need to know about the entire global warming/climate change scam.” He added: “This was the basis of the 2009 Climategate scandal: that the scientists were pushing a radical, disruptive, economically damaging agenda without any solid supporting evidence.”

Delingpole also criticised the “scientific establishment” that had warned of the dangers of both climate change and COVID-19, characterising them as “arrogant, intellectually and morally corrupt,” and “driven by politics, money and power not by honest science.”

April 2, 2020

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart commenting on the postponement of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, originally due to take place in Glasgow in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote:67James Delingpole. “Delingpole: UN Climate Summit Tragically ‘Postponed’ Because of Coronavirus,” Breitbart, April 2, 2020. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/Hzo12

“It’s good for Boris Johnson’s government: no longer does it have to go through the motions of pretending to a sceptical electorate that ‘climate change’ is the biggest threat to the planet,” adding: “It’s also an acknowledgement of the growing difficulties that the green movement is going to face in a post-coronavirus world where there will simply be no spare cash to spend on imaginary problems which exist only in the realm of dubious computer models.

Delingpole also cited a tweet from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which said: “As climate hysteria is dying a slow death from Coronavirus and the public is no longer captured, green lobbyists are frantically reassuring their clients that the pandemic will be good for the climate industrial complex.”68 “Have you noticed: As climate hysteria is dying a slow death from Coronavirus and the public is no longer captured, green lobbyists are frantically reassuring their clients that the pandemic will be good for the climate industrial complex,” tweet by @GWPF, April 2, 2020. Retrieved from twitter.com. Archived.png on file at Desmog

March 3, 2020

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart eulogising the late scientist Freeman Dyson, who had argued that increased greenhouse gas emissions could have positive effects. Delingpole stated that he had been “unpersoned for taking the ‘wrong’ view on climate change,” adding: “as far as the left-liberal MSM is concerned, all his achievements are to be considered null and void just because he didn’t parrot the correct green pieties about carbon dioxide.”69 James Delingpole. “Delingpole: RIP Freeman Dyson – Unpersonned for Wrongthink on Climate Change,” Breitbart, March 3, 2020. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/YBkHV

Delingpole also cited a report written by policy analyst Dr Indur Goklany in the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the foreword for which had been written by Dyson. It disputed the negative consequences of increased amounts of atmospheric CO2, stating: “the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial,” adding: “the possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated.”70 Indur Goklany, Freeman Dyson. “Carbon Dioxide: The Good News,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/o3Wkp

February 24, 2020

An IndieGoGo campaign was launched to crowd-fund a climate change film by James Delingpole and Martin Durkin, director of the 2007 Channel 4 programme, The Great Global Warming Swindle.71Martin Durkin. “Crowd-funding just gone live for a DELINGPOLE/DURKIN movie, attacking the irrational, tax-munching ‘Climate Emergency’ bandwaggon. Please retweet,” Tweet by @Martin_Durkin on February 24, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived July 8, 2020. Archived .png on file at DeSmog. 72Brendan Montague. “Revealed: The Inside Story of The Great Global Warming Swindle,” DeSmog, August 11, 2015.

In a promotional video for the documentary, called Climate My Ass: The Green War on Freedom, Delingpole said that the film would “show how the folks behind this climate consensus have a powerful material and professional vested interest in keeping the climate bandwagon going”.73“Climate My Ass,” Vimeo video uploaded by Fast Car Productions on February 24, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

February 24, 2020

In a Breitbart article, Delingpole wrote that Boris Johnson’s net-zero targets were an “uncosted, ill-considered, virtue-signalling disaster” and that the British economy would have to commit “energy suicide” to reach the targets. This was published the same day that the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, published a series of reports claiming that the 2050 targets would cost the UK economy in excess of £3 trillion.74James Delingpole. “Eco-loon Boris’s £3 trillion net-zero scheme will bankrupt Britain, reports warn,” Breitbart, February 24, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/suezN 75“Cost of ‘Net Zero’ Will Be Astronomical, New Reports Warn,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 24, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/ocScu

The GWPF reports and subsequent coverage were strongly criticised for being misleading.76Simon Evans. “The UK is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050 Because climate change is “the greatest and most pressing challenge facing the modern world” (UK govt Jan20) But what will it cost to get there? Let’s take an “honest” look at the evidence, shall we? (source,” Tweet by @DrSimEvans, February 25, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.

January 11, 2020

Delingpole wrote an article for the Spectator about the ongoing bushfires in Australia, which he argued had “nothing to do with ‘climate change’ whatsoever”.

He said this season’s fires were “exacerbated by two man-made factors: arson and the ongoing failure by government and local authorities to clear the scrub, underbrush and hyper-inflammable eucalpyts, which have turned what should have been routine burns into raging infernos”.77James Delingpole. “Bushfire of the vanities,” Spectator, January 11, 2020. Archived January 23, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

October 25, 2019

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart praising US President Donald Trump‘s recent announcement that he would follow through on his pledge to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the end of 2020. Stating the move could be Trump’s “most significant” achievement and quoting the late Christopher Booker, he called the international agreement “a power grab – a two-pronged assault on America’s global hegemony as an independent, fossil-fuel energy superpower”.78James Delingpole. “Quitting the Paris Climate Accord Is Trump’s Most Important Achievement,” Breitbart, October 25, 2019. Archived October 29, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.md/O5nBl

October 11, 2019

Delingpole attended protests in London organised by climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, who he described as “posturing, deluded, ‘planet-saving’ pests” and “soap-shunning losers”. He interviewed anti-renewables activist Michael Shellenberger for the same Breitbart article.79James Delingpole. “Watch: Delingpole Savaged by a Tofu-Muncher at the Extinction Rebellion Protest,” Breitbart, October 11, 2019. Archived October 14, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/vpLhc

July 3, 2019

Delingpole wrote an article in memory of Christopher Booker, calling him the “world’s greatest climate sceptic” and someone who “recognised that across the ages madness has run in cycles, and that every stupid idea – from the Taiping rebellion to Nazism to Maoism – has its day during which the warnings of the sane are ignored. The great global warming scam is just another example of this phenomenon.” Delingpole begins the article by saying he and Booker had “weekly phone chats”.80James Delingpole. “RIP Christopher Booker, the World’s Greatest Climate Change Sceptic,” Breitbart, July 3, 2019. Archived July 4, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/edXLN

July 2, 2019

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart about an “undercover” trip he made to Glastonbury music festival, in which he called the recent decision by the UK to set a “net zero” emissions target a “suicidal project”, ending the piece:81James Delingpole. “What I Learned on My Undercover Mission Among the Greenies at Glastonbury…” Breitbart, July 2, 2019. Archived July 4, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/SXDGT

“The depressing part is that our message is simply not reaching them. We on the sceptical side of the argument have so many facts in our favour: we have the science, we have nature, we have the weather, we have the economics, we have the birds and the bats, we have the poor, all on our side, all adding up to arguments against the Green Terror so utterly compelling than any half way competent PR company ought to win the battle for hearts and minds in a nanosecond.”82James Delingpole. “What I Learned on My Undercover Mission Among the Greenies at Glastonbury…” Breitbart, July 2, 2019. Archived July 4, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/SXDGT

June 26, 2019

In an article for Breitbart, Delingpole called a report by Sky News detailing the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by different countries historically an “excruciatingly embarrassing piece of eco-propaganda” and described Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as “a 16-year old autistic kid in pigtails”.83James Delingpole. “Watch: Sky News Eco Propaganda Gets Ratioed on Twitter,” Breitbart, June 26, 2019. Archived July 10, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/nKw4E

May 30, 2019

Delingpole interviewed Ronan Connolly on his podcast Delingpod. Connolly is an “independent scientist” whose website GlobalWarmingSolved has published articles disputing the causal link between climate change and extreme weather, and who has co-written a paper with climate science denier Willie Soon, cited by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.84 “Delingpod 22: Ronan Connolly,” YouTube video uploaded by user The James Delingpole Channel on May 30, 2019. Archived.mp4 on file at DeSmog. 85 “Is man-made global warming causing more hurricanes?” GlobalWarmingSolved, December 11, 2013. Archived January 25, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/5iLgA 86 Willie Soon, Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly. “Evolution Of Arctic Sea Ice In The Pre- And Post-Satellite Era,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 4, 2017. Archived January 25, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/TxYRR

Connolly disputed the veracity of reports documenting a recent increase in global temperatures, stating:

“when you are trying to calculate global temperatures, if you are using a station that is located in an urban area now, say Paris or London […] you will detect this warming from the growth in urbanisation, which is not representative of the surrounding countryside,” referring to this as “urbanisation bias.”

Connolly also argued that:

“the net effects of the urbanisation biases seem to have led to a slight underestimation of the 1940s to 1970s cooling, and an overestimation of the 1980s – present warming.”

May 21, 2019

Delingpole interviewed fellow climate skeptic and pro-Brexit Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, for Breitbart. During the interview, Rees-Mogg said conservatives should stop being “mini-me socialists” and praised Donald Trump:87James Delingpole. “Exclusive Rees-Mogg Interview: ‘We Need to Move Away from Being Mini-Me Socialists’,” Breitbart, May 21, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/Fox7s

“Donald Trump does conservative things. He had a fantastic budget that cut taxes. He was Reaganite in his approach. He’s got drive and enthusiasm for what he does. His judicial appointments are really well thought-through. He’s much more deliberative and thoughtful than people give him credit for…”88James Delingpole. “Exclusive Rees-Mogg Interview: ‘We Need to Move Away from Being Mini-Me Socialists’,” Breitbart, May 21, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/Fox7s

March 13, 2019

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart based on a Global Warming Policy Foundation report by Professor Henrik Svensmark which claims the sun has a much larger impact on the climate than previously thought:

“…nobody in the climate alarmist establishment wants to admit the importance of the Sun because if they did, bang would go their theory – and attendant funding gravy train – that man-made CO2 is a significant and potentially dangerous driver of climate change.”89James Delingpole. “Delingpole: Sun’s Impact on Climate ‘Greater than Thought’ Shock,” Breitbart, March 13, 2019. Archived April 18, 2019. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/VbCQ8

January 24, 2019

Delingpole appeared on the BBC politics show, This Week, arguing for a “no deal” Brexit. During the discussion, he admitted: “we’re going to take a hit, but it’s a hit worth taking.”90“Brexit Bozo James Delingpole has a WTO horror show,” Youtube video uploaded by user I Am Incorrigible on January 24, 2019. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

When challenged on how Britain would secure a good trade deal with the EU after leaving, he replied: “I don’t think it really matters that much… These things can be sorted out. The chap who’s in charge of the shipping at Calais says it’s going to be fine.”91““One of the reasons we are in this mess is that Theresa did not plan for no deal and her civil servants did not plan for no deal… No deal is what people really want” @JamesDelingpole tells @afneil #Brexit #bbctw,” Tweet by @bbcthisweek, January 25, 2019. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.

October 8, 2018

Delingpole wrote an article for Breitbart about a recently released report by the UN’s IPCC into the difference between limiting warming to 1.5C and 2C. He described the report as “the usual farrago of dubious science, wailing hysteria and worryingly eco-fascistic policy prescriptions” and quoted Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, as well as referencing work by Rupert Darwall and the Cooler Heads Coalition.92James Delingpole. “Delingpole: Failing IPCC Ramps up Climate Hysteria with New Doom Litany Report,” Breitbart, October 8, 2018. Archived January 23, 2020. Archive.md URL: http://archive.md/1itSw

April 2018

Delingpole wrote a double-page splash for the Daily Mail entitled ‘The Colossal Con Trick’, criticising wind energy “propaganda” which he says supports an “unviable” industry. In the article, he quotes John Constable, Energy Editor at the climate science denial thinktank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and Professor Gordon Hughes, who wrote reports for the thinktank in 2012.

Delingpole also claims Nazis pioneered the technology, writing that “wind power was all the rage among Nazis”, including “Hitler’s favourite commando, Otto Skorzeny.”

February 2, 2018

Delingpole spoke for the opposition in a Durham Union Debate titled “This House Regrets Brexit.” View video, via Twitter, below:93Cameron McIntosh. “Durham students vote to ‘regret Brexit’,” Palatinate. February 8, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p8NwA

“It’s about democracy. It’s really that simple.”
WATCH @JamesDelingpole oppose the motion ‘This House Regrets Brexit’ pic.twitter.com/Nz3h6b6CqL

— the Durham Union (@durhamunion) February 6, 2018

“For a real Oxbridge education you have to go to Durham,” Delingpole said, opening his speech. Palatinate reported that Delingpole likened Brexit to “taking down the Death Star” and being “given the keys to our prison doors.”94Cameron McIntosh. “Durham students vote to ‘regret Brexit’,” Palatinate. February 8, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p8NwA

“It was the first vote I’d ever cast in my life that I felt really, really counted for something,” Delingpole said. He described himself as a “a man of the people… the people of the North, the people of the countryside” (he was educated in Oxbridge and attended private schools), while he described those who opposed Brexit as “corporate lawyers, bankers, quangocrats, [and] people who work for Greenpeace.”95Cameron McIntosh. “Durham students vote to ‘regret Brexit’,” Palatinate. February 8, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/p8NwA

Durham students voted to support the motion “This House Regrets Brexit.” According to the event description on social media, the debate included opposition speakers Peter Lilley and Steven Woolfe. Proposition speakers included Professor Brendan Simms of Cambridge University, Conservative MP Anna Soubry, and Labour Peer Lord Adonis.96“Durham Union Debate: This House Regrets Brexit,” Facebook, Feb 2, 2018.Archived February 26, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6Lrbo

December 6, 2017

Delingpole published an article claiming to prove that climatologists had manipulated data to exaggerate the threat of global warming.97James Delingpole. “Tidalgate: Climate Alarmists Caught Faking Sea Level Rise,” Breitbart, December 6, 2017. Archived December 28, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TpD4r

Snopes debunked the Breitbart article, noting it was based on an “extremely flawed study […] written by an ex-Fiat engineer publishing under an assumed name with no formal training in sea level data who is infamous within the climate community for pushing a high volume of questionable studies in journals desperate for submissions.”98“Were Scientists Caught Tampering with Raw Data to Exaggerate Sea Level Rise?” Snopes. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/PYVX0

The paper Delingpole cited was written by Albert Parker (which Snopes describes as an ex-Fiat engineer with no university accreditation) and Cliff Ollier, a retired Australian geologist.99“Were Scientists Caught Tampering with Raw Data to Exaggerate Sea Level Rise?” Snopes. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/PYVX0

John Church, a sea level expert at Australia’s University of New South Wales and an IPCC author, described the paper:100“Were Scientists Caught Tampering with Raw Data to Exaggerate Sea Level Rise?” Snopes. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/PYVX0

“Parker and Ollier dismiss this work by PSMSL saying it is incorrect and arbitrary. However, they provide absolutely no information to support their allegations. Instead they make up their own adjustments to the sea level record so that the trend over the series is minimal.”

September 19, 2017

Writing at Breitbart, Delingpole claimed “Climate alarmists have finally admitted that they’ve got it wrong on global warming,” pointing to a paper in Nature Geoscience. Delingpole quoted climate change denier Benny Peiser, who described the study as a “landmark” moment:101“Delingpole: Climate Alarmists Finally Admit ‘We Were Wrong About Global Warming’,” Breitbart, September 19, 2017. Archived November 24, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/IGIHj

“It’s the first official confirmation we’ve had that CO2 is not as big a driver of climate change as the computer models have claimed; and it’s the first official admission that the planet is not warming dangerously,” Peiser said.

As reported in a Carbon Brief fact check, the study’s authors themselves disagreed with the conclusions reached by the media:102“Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming,” Carbon Brief, September 21, 2017. Archived November 24, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/3xWVb

“A number of media reports have asserted that our [study] indicates that global temperatures are not rising as fast as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and hence that action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is no longer urgent. Both assertions are false. Our results are entirely in line with the IPCC’s 2013 prediction that temperatures in the 2020s would be 0.9-1.3 degrees above pre-industrial [levels],” lead author Dr. Richard Millar and Myles Allen said in a statement.103Myles Allen and Richard Millar. “Clarification on recent press coverage of our ‘1.5 degrees’ paper in Nature Geoscience,” University of Oxford, September 20, 2017. Archived November 24, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GiFBz

August 23, 2017

Writing at Breitbart, Delingpole shared a graph by Steven Goddard, AKA Tony Heller, claiming “All of recent U.S. warming has been faked by NOAA.”104James Delingpole. “Delingpole: All of Recent U.S. Warming Has Been Faked by NOAA,” Breitbart, August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/qWKpL

“You don’t need to be a scientist to see the hoax here: it’s there in blue and red,” Delingpole wrote.105James Delingpole. “Delingpole: All of Recent U.S. Warming Has Been Faked by NOAA,” Breitbart, August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/qWKpL

Heller originally wrote at The Deplorable Climate Science Blog that “the data is simply fake” and that since 1990, “The measured NOAA data shows no warming.”106“100% Of US Warming Is Fake,” The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lFySf

Apart from himself, Heller does not cite any external sources to explain how he reached his conclusion. However, he signs off with a final statement that “This is the biggest and most cynical scam in science history.”107“100% Of US Warming Is Fake,” The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lFySf

August 22, 2017

James Delingpole, among others, promoted a study by John Abbott and Jennifer Marohasy, both senior fellows at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in Australia. “Most global warming is natural and even if there had been no Industrial Revolution current global temperatures would be almost exactly the same as they are now, a study has found,” Delingpole wrote at Breitbart.108James Delingpole. “Delingpole: Global Warming Is Almost Entirely Natural, Study Confirms,” Breitbart, August 22, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017, Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/xyart 109“Marohasy’s Machine Learning Paper Gets Schooled,” DeSmog, August 27, 2017.

As Graham Readfearn reported at The Guardian, Marohasy also wrote about the study at the Spectator and at her own blog, claming that the research had shown recent global warming to be natural. The Drudge Report also linked to the article. Readfearn, who noted that the writers themselves did not consult other climate scientists on the paper, contacted five. “They variously summarised the research as “junk science” and seriously flawed.”110Graham Readfearn. “Why the IPA’s claim global warming is natural is ‘junk science,” The Guardian, August 25, 2017. Archived September 1, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bb283 111Jennifer Marohasy. “Big data finds the Medieval Warm Period – no denial here,” Spectator, August 22, 2017.

Readfearn also noted that Abbott had claimed an academic affiliation with James Cook University that, “according to that university, had expired more than six months before the research was submitted to the journal.”112Graham Readfearn. “Why the IPA’s claim global warming is natural is ‘junk science,” The Guardian, August 25, 2017. Archived September 1, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bb283

Marohasy rejoined the IPA after being terminated from her position at the Central Queensland University (CQU) on July 1, 2015. “Indeed universities can be so political, and in modern Australia so intolerant of dissent,” Marohasy commented on her website. The IPA, which is one of the largest promotors of climate change denial in Australia, does not disclose funding. However, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that about a quarter of IPA’s $2 million in annual funding comes from corporations with a direct stake in the climate change debate.113“About: Current Situation,” Jennifer Marohasy. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/95zp5 114“The benefit of the doubt,” The Sydney Morning Herald, May 8, 2010. Archived August 11, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ofCHO

Delingpole claims the Abbot-Marohasy study, published in the soon-to-be discontinued journal_GeoResJ,_ “contradicts the claims of alarmist scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that “man made” global warming is a worrying and dangerous phenomenon.”115John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy. “The application of machine learning for evaluating anthropogenic versus natural climate change,” GeoResJ Vol. 14 (December, 2017). 116“GeoResJ,” Elsevier. Archived August 31, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pEPu8

One scientist disagreed with the conclusion of the study, describing it as “essentially just a complicated curve-fitting exercise” and “simply nonsense.” He outlines one “key problem” with the approach of Marohasy and Abbot:117“Machine unlearning,” …and Then There’s Physics, August 22, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ynvKo

“[Y]ou can’t try and understand what causes our climate to vary, or how it might vary in future, using machine learning alone. Even though our climate is complex, it is still a physical system and we do understand the underlying physical processes quite well. You do need to take this into account. […]”118“Machine unlearning,” …and Then There’s Physics, August 22, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ynvKo

Replying on Twitter, climate scientist Gavin Schmidt had this to say:

Hey @JennMarohasy, Your conclusions are based on inaccurately cited data that’s incorrectly scaled & incorrectly aligned in time. Comments? https://t.co/qElHI8WUMR

— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) August 23, 2017

Marohasy also guest authored a post at the blog Watts Up With That, where she promoted the study.119“Most of the Recent Warming Could be Natural,” Watts Up With That? August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/JQMR1

July 20, 2017

Delingpole interviewed climate change denier Christopher Horner on his “Delingpole podcast.” According to Delingpole, reporting on the interview at Breitbart, Horner “has the perfect insider perspective to explain what’s going on in the White House” due to his position on Trump’s EPA transition team. “No other GOP presidential candidate – not Rubio, not Cruz – would have delivered on climate change in the same way as Trump has. They would, quite simply, have been overwhelmed by the swamp,” Delingpole declared.120“Delingpole: Solving the Mystery of How Donald Trump Got to be so Amazing on Climate Change…” Breitbart, July 21, 2017. Archived July 21, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Co4TX

“Here’s what I firmly believe,” Horner said. “I’m convinced that the penny dropped for others, as it did me, when Donald Trump gave his editorial board interview to the Washington Post. It’s often mocked – where he said: ‘I’m not a big believer in global warming. Not a big believer.’ And then he continued in a very important way. And if you follow the way Donald Trump speaks it’s perfectly clear what he’s saying. He said, ‘You know, a lot of people are making a lot of money off of this.’

“He was not saying this as a politician says it. (‘And if we use spoons not shovels we can create even more jobs…’ That sort of playground thinking is very common among politicians.) And whatever anybody thinks about Donald Trump you can be confident of this. At 21, at Le Cirque, somewhere at some point, somebody who is making a killing off the rents of the global warming industry laughed it up a little too loudly or once too many times around Donald Trump. Because what he said to the Washington Post was ‘You’re robbing Peter to pay Paul. Goldmans is making a killing out of this.’ That’s what I heard him say. Politicians normally fall for this. But not Donald. Instead – what I heard him say ‘They’re making a lot of money out of this’ – he said: ‘You’re propping up, sometimes even standing up industries, to transfer taxpayer money to them. And he didn’t go into Energy Poverty or the Economic Drag or the inefficiency or the opportunity cost or the 2.2 jobs. He just said: ‘You’re robbing Peter to pay Paul. A lot of people are making a lot of money off this.’ And to me he was saying ‘This is something of a scam.’ You can take his Chinese hoax comments, you can take hoax in any context but the fact is the way they’re playing out the global warming industry there are many scams involved and I think he was aware of this. I do think at one point somebody laughed a little too loudly…”121“Delingpole: Solving the Mystery of How Donald Trump Got to be so Amazing on Climate Change…” Breitbart, July 21, 2017. Archived July 21, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Co4TX

April 10, 2017

Delingpole wrote a Breitbart piece titled “Only Gullible Fools Believe that the Great Barrier Reef Is Dying” where he claims “The Great Barrier Reef isn’t in the remotest danger,” and that those who believe it is are “pillocks,” “idiots,” and “eco loons.”122“Delingpole: Only Gullible Fools Believe that the Great Barrier Reef Is Dying,” Breitbart, April 10, 2017. Archived April 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ZnaDU

Delingpole primarily criticized a study published in Nature by Terry Hughes of James Cook University in Queensland, who Delingpole calls “the main man behind the scare.” Hughes had examined 2016 bleaching, as well as the previous incidences in 2002 and 1998.123Graham Readfearn. “Breitbart’s James Delingpole Denies Danger of Great Barrier Reef Bleaching — Again,” DeSmog, April 13, 2017.

DeSmog reported Delingpole primarily relied on the arguments of Jim Steele, who claimed the Hughes study was based on “aerial surveys” that “cannot discriminate between the various causes of bleaching.” However, the Nature study had stated analysis was based on “aerial and underwater surveys” as well as satellite data. Hughes told DeSmog by email:124Graham Readfearn. “Breitbart’s James Delingpole Denies Danger of Great Barrier Reef Bleaching — Again,” DeSmog, April 13, 2017.

“Steele needs to actually read our Nature paper. We reported the extent of bleaching, measured both from the air and underwater — the latter on 150 reefs.

Mass bleaching due to thermal stress is the only mechanism that can turn more than 1000km of a reef system white in the course of a few weeks.

In the Nature paper, we show the relationship between thermal stress experienced on each reef and the amount of bleaching recorded underwater by divers. We also ground-truthed the accuracy of the aerial scores, and found them to be highly reliable.

We also showed that satellite measurements of heat exposure matched the aerial bleaching scores as well as the underwater scores. The south didn’t bleach in 2016 because it was cool, the north was the most severely bleached because it was hottest.”125Graham Readfearn. “Breitbart’s James Delingpole Denies Danger of Great Barrier Reef Bleaching — Again,” DeSmog, April 13, 2017.

Delingpole had written another piece on March 20 titled “Great Barrier Reef Still Not Dying, Whatever Washington Post Says,” where he described mass coral bleaching as “fake news.”126James Delingpole. “DELINGPOLE: Great Barrier Reef Still Not Dying, Whatever Washington Post Says…” Breitbart, March 20, 2017. Archived April 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CJls0

“Is the Great Barrier Reef dying due to climate change caused by man’s selfishness and greed?” Delingpole asked, then giving a list of people and groups who he thinks will answer yes, including “the Guardian” and “any marine biologist”.

“Have they been out there personally – as I have – to check. No of course not,” he adds.127James Delingpole. “DELINGPOLE: Great Barrier Reef Still Not Dying, Whatever Washington Post Says…” Breitbart, March 20, 2017. Archived April 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CJls0

“It’s as though we’ve reached peak denial,” Graham Readfearn wrote at The Guardian. He noted Delingpole’s only evident trip to examine the reef appeared to have happened 10 years prior, in April 2012 at a single area of the reef system roughly the size of Italy.128Graham Readfearn. “Breitbart’s James Delingpole says reef bleaching is ‘fake news’, hits peak denial,” The Guardian, March 24, 2017. Archived April 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6eAQM 129Terry Hughes. “Behind the Paper: Global warming and repeated bouts of coral bleaching,” Nature Ecology & Evolution (Blog), March 15, 2017. Archived April 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/R4xy3

February 27, 2017

Writing at Breitbart, Delingpole worried that Ivanka Trump may be influencing her father’s views on climate change:130James Delingpole. “DELINGPOLE: President Trump Must Not Wobble on Climate Change – Whatever Ivanka Says…” Breitbart, February 27, 2017. Archived March 4, 2017.

“[Trump] has toned the phrasing of an Executive Order so that it no longer includes derogatory comments about the utterly useless and pointless climate deal signed in Paris in 2015 by Barack Obama,” Delingpole wrote. “If it’s just a case of casual daughter-pleasing, fine. But if he actually means it than we should all start to worry.”131James Delingpole. “DELINGPOLE: President Trump Must Not Wobble on Climate Change – Whatever Ivanka Says…” Breitbart, February 27, 2017. Archived March 4, 2017.

Delingpole adds that Ivanka and Jared Kushner are part of “the monstrously large group of special interests sometimes known as the Green Blob and sometimes as the Climate Industrial Complex.” He then went on to summarize what he observed from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2017, featuring speeches from well known climate deniers including Tony Heller (aka Steven Goddard), Steve Milloy, Mark Mills, and Craig Idso:132James Delingpole. “DELINGPOLE: President Trump Must Not Wobble on Climate Change – Whatever Ivanka Says…” Breitbart, February 27, 2017. Archived March 4, 2017.

“So to recap:

“Man-made global warming is evidently and demonstrably not a problem.

“The people who pretend otherwise are crooks, liars, idiots or shills.

“CO2 does far more good than harm.

“Fossil fuels aren’t running out – especially not now we’ve discovered the game-changing technology of hydraulic fracturing – and are the ideal solution to our energy needs.

Renewables are a waste of everyone’s time – and always will be.”133James Delingpole. “DELINGPOLE: President Trump Must Not Wobble on Climate Change – Whatever Ivanka Says…” Breitbart, February 27, 2017. Archived March 4, 2017.

February 23, 2017

James Delingpole was a speaker on a CPAC 2017 panel sponsored by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) titled “Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda – and What President Trump Plans To Do About It,” according to the CPAC agenda (PDF).134“CPAC-2017-Agenda-Final” (PDF) CPAC.conservative.org, March 8, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

E&E News reported the panel included fellow climate change deniers Steve Milloy and Tony Heller (AKA Steven Goddard).135Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2

In his discussion, Delingpole compared environmentalism to a religion and recycling advocates to a “cult.” Delingpole said the environmental movement was full of “control freaks” looking for justification “to tax us, to regulate us, to control our lives.”136Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2

Delingpole said the treatment of climate change deniers would change under the Trump administration:137Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2

The people who portray people like us as selfish, greedy, nature-hating scumbags — no. They are the scumbags. We are the good guys,” Delingpole said. “Thank goodness, thanks to Donald Trump, the tide’s turned, and we are about to witness that.”138Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2

Delingpole also spoke on another CPAC session the following day where he interviewed Craig Idso of the CO2 Coalition. The panel was titled “The Benefits of Global Greening.”139“CPAC-2017-Agenda-Final” (PDF) CPAC.conservative.org, March 8, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

December 12, 2016

James Delingpole was an attendee at a private meeting also attended by Trump’s EPA Transition team lead Myron Ebell on Capitol Hill. E&E News reported the event was not open to the public or to the press and Ebell refused to give any details. The event was hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and held in the hearing room of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. The EPW committee is chaired by Senator James Inhofe who, like Trump, has described human-caused climate change as a hoax.140George Cahlink. “Trump EPA adviser Myron Ebell meets with Hill aides,” E&E News, December 12, 2016.

DeSmog reported the event featured the “Who’s Who of Climate Science Deniers.” Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts, who spoke at the event, also wrote that the meeting was a gathering of the Cooler Heads Coalition and listed some of the participants on Facebook:141Graham Readfearn. “Donald Trump’s Aide at EPA Myron Ebell Meets with Who’s Who of Climate Science Deniers,” DeSmog, December 13, 2016. 142“Yesterday I spoke at an event for the Competitive Enterprise Institute called Cooler Heads Coalition in Washington. […]” Facebook post by Malcolm Roberts – QLD Senate – One Nation, December 13 at 6:38 pm. Archived image on file at DeSmog.

Names mentioned above included:

• Tony Heller
• Tim Ball
• Fred Singer
• Ken Haapala
• Craig Rucker
• Randy Randall
• Steve Milloy
• Marc Morano
• James Delingpole
• Chris Horner
• Myron Ebell
• Tom de Weise
• James Taylor
• Pat Michaels
• Austin Smithson
• Brandon Middleton
• Marlo Lewis

DeSmog also noted three of the attendees—Myron Ebell, Randy Randol, and Steve Milloy—had all been part of the Global Climate Science Communications Team in the late 1990s, a group organized by the American Petroleum Institute. According to an early memo, the group said “victory will be achieved when […] Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’.”143“Global Climate Science Communications Plan (1998),” SourceWatch.

November 19, 2016

James Delingpole wrote in the Spectator on how “It’s tough being the only British journalist who’s right about everything,” describing his prediction of a Trump presidency as well as his recruitment at Breitbart under Trump’s now-chief-strategist Steve Bannon.144James Delingpole. “It’s tough being the only British journalist who’s right about everything,” The Spectator, November 19, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QvHwM

“One of his pet peeves is the great climate-change con,” Delingpole wrote of Bannon. “It’s partly why he recruited a notorious skeptic like myself.”

“Basically,” Delingpole wrote, “we won.”

ClimateWire wrote that Bannon and the Breitbart News Network will be influential withr egards to Donald Trump’s approach to climate cahnge. ClimateWire noted Delingpole, whose voice dominates the website’s climate change coverage, was recruited at Breitbart in 2014. In a New York Times interview, Bannon called Delingpole and another rcent hire as “real hell fighters in the Breitbart tradition.”145Erika Bolstad. “How Steve Bannon is shaping Trump’s views on ‘climate change’,” ClimateWire November 18, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Wmeb3

October 17, 2016

Delingpole attended the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s (GWPF) annual lecture at the Royal Society in London. The GWPF’s lecture was controversial given it was hosted at the Royal Society in London, which had reportedly been under internal pressure to cancel the booking.146“MATT RIDLEY: GLOBAL WARMING VERSUS GLOBAL GREENING,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 18, 2016. Archived October 20, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/nD0fM 147Graham Readfearn. “Exclusive: Royal Society Under Internal Pressure To Cancel Venue Booking From Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog UK, October 5, 2016.

Delingpole can be seen sitting next to fellow climate change denier and journalist David Rose. See screenshot below [1:39], second row on the left, and fourth person over.

May 2016

Virgin Group invited Delingpole to speak on its Virgin podcast, where he went on to describe climate change as a “bankrupt theory,” Desmog reports.148“The Virgin Podcast – James Delingpole,” Virgin.com, May 10, 2016. Archived February 27, 2017. 149Graham Readfearn. “Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Gives Platform to Climate Science Denier James Delingpole on Official Podcast,” Desmog, May 12, 2016.

Delingpole also claimed volcanoes “produce far more CO2” than humans. According to the US Geological Survey, humans actually produce about 100 times more carbon dioxide than volcanoes. Delingpole also claimed we are probably in a period of global cooling.150Graham Readfearn. “Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Gives Platform to Climate Science Denier James Delingpole on Official Podcast,” Desmog, May 12, 2016. 151“Which produces more CO2, volcanic or human activity?” USGS, February 15, 2007. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/JGpW2

“Featuring James Delingpole was neither an endorsement of nor an agreement with his positions. In fact, it was made clear that Virgin Group does not share his view on climate change.” A Virgin Group spokesperson commented.152Graham Readfearn. “Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Gives Platform to Climate Science Denier James Delingpole on Official Podcast,” Desmog, May 12, 2016.

March 2016

Delingpole gave a speech at the World Taxpayers’ Associations in Berlin, he reports at Breitbart. In his speech, he describes wind farms, “my hobby horse,” as being worth “pretty close to zero” without subsidies.153James Delingpole. “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer,” Breitbart, March 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LHmOH

“They’re inefficient; they kill birds and bats; they spoil views; they’re environmentally unfriendly – rare earth minerals from China; they’re hazardous; they’re expensive; they’re ugly (well I think they are….),” Delingpole writes. “They cause real people real misery.”154James Delingpole. “Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer,” Breitbart, March 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LHmOH

January 30, 2016

James Delingpole announced in The Spectator that he was going to “put his money where his mouth is” and invest in a fund named Cool Futures with the aim of short-selling renewable energy stocks. Delingpole describes climate change as an “outrageous scam” and says he will bet “on the Big Short principle” and call “this rigged market’s bluff.”155James Delingpole. “I’m putting my money where my mouth is and betting against climate change,” The Spectator, January 30, 2016. Archived June 21, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/FgNVX

“If, as the Cool Futures Fund’s in-house experts believe, we’re entering a period of low solar activity akin to the Little Ice Age, then we’re in all manner of trouble: it will affect everything from the latitudes at which wheat can be grown to the kind of places we’ll wish to live in or go on holiday. But there will, of course, be opportunities amid the gloom: farmland will become more valuable; land reclamation in temperate zones will become a lucrative prospect; agricultural technology will become more pressing; and so on,” Delingpole wrote.156James Delingpole. “I’m putting my money where my mouth is and betting against climate change,” The Spectator, January 30, 2016. Archived June 21, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/FgNVX

According to Daily Kos, Delingpole failed to mention that fellow climate change denier Joanne Nova and her husband, David Edwards, were also involved in the fund. Delingpole also did not mention them in a separate writeup at Breitbart. Both pieces failed to mention that Chris Dawson, CEO of the Lord Monckton Foundation, had launched the fund.157“Deniers Launch Cayman-Island Anti-Renewable Investment Scheme,” Daily Kos, January 29, 2016. Archived June 21, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/3RtkC158“World’s First Anti-Global-Warming Hedge Fund Sticks It To The Greenies,” Breitbart, January 28, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. https://archive.is/9ww8c

Daily Kos also noted the Cool Futures Funds Management group offers a rather stange disclaimer, which states “No one may link to this website, or frame it, without Cool Futures Funds Management’s express written permission.”

In June 2016, Joanne Nova finally published about the new fund on her own blog, asking readers to donate money to get the Cayman Island-based hedge fund started. The Cool Futures Fund Management needs at least 375,000togetofftheground,ofwhichithasalreadyraised375,000 to get off the ground, of which it has already raised 375,000togetofftheground,ofwhichithasalreadyraised42,530, reported Daily Kos.159“Time to pop some bubbles,” JoNova, June, 2016. Archived June 21, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tuNJY 160“Deniers Urge Readers to Crowdfund Their Hedge Fund,” Daily Kos, June 20, 2016. Archived June 21, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4T8lj

December 1, 2015

James Delingpole wrote a blog on Breitbart.com celebrating the death of Maurice Strong, a respected Canadian businessman, diplomat and high-ranking United Nations official. Delingpole’s piece, titled “Ding Dong – The Godfather of Global Warming is Dead!“ described Maurice Strong: “he probably did more to make your world a more expensive, inconvenient, overregulated, hectored, bullied, lied-to, sclerotic, undemocratic place than anyone post Hitler, Stalin and (his personal friend) Mao.”161“Ding, Dong – The Godfather Of Global Warming Is Dead!” Breitbart, December 1, 2015. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9pCto

(In sharp contrast, The New York Times obituary for Maurice Strong quoted UNEP executive director Achim Steiner crediting Strong with “making “history by launching a new era of international environmental diplomacy.”)162Sam Roberts. “Maurice Strong, Environmental Champion, Dies at 86,” The New York Times, December 1, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/E0bSy

June 2015

James Delingpole went on the British news show Daily Politics to criticize Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment. According to Delingpole, “Catholics should know that there is probably more strong evidence for the existence of God than there is for catastrophic man-made global warming.”163“WATCH: BREITBART’S DELINGPOLE HAMMERS POPE’S ‘ECO-ENCYCLICAL’,” Breitbart.com, June 18, 2015.

March 2015

James Delingpole was one of several climate change skeptics cc’d on an email from S. Fred Singer in hopes of countering the documentary film “Merchants of Doubt,” which exposed the network of climate change skeptics and deniers trying to delay legislative action on climate change.164Katherine Bagley. “Leaked Email Reveals Who’s Who List of Climate Denialists,” InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CVOi5

The October, 2014 email was leaked to journalists before the documentary was released. “Can I sue for damages?” Singer asked in the email. “Can we get an injunction against the documentary?”

InsideClimate News reports in their article “Leaked Email Reveals Who’s Who List of Climate Denialists,” how “Many of those copied on the email thread, such as Singer and communications specialist Steven Milloy, have financial ties to the tobacco, chemical, and oil and gas industries and have worked to defend them since the 1990s.”165Katherine Bagley. “Leaked Email Reveals Who’s Who List of Climate Denialists,” InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CVOi5

InsideClimate News also documented all those who were cc’d on the email, including the following skeptics and groups:

• Ron Arnold
• Timothy Ball
• Joseph “Joe” Bast
• Joe Bastardi
• Michael Bastasch
• William Briggs
• Russell Cook
• Judith Curry
• Joe D’Aleo
• James Delingpole
• David Paul Driessen
• James Enstrom
• Steve Goddard
• Pierre Gosselin
• Greenie Watch
• William Happer
• Jim Lakely
• Patrick J. Michaels
• Steven J. Milloy
• Christopher Monckton
• Marc Morano
• Joanne Nova
• Roger Pielke Sr. (Or Roger Pielke Jr. – Unclear in Email)
• Thomas P. Sheahen
• S. Fred Singer
• Wei-Hock (Willie) Soon
• Roy Spencer
• James Taylor
• Anthony Watts

DeSmog covered the emails here: “Merchants of Doubt Film Debuts, Textbook Denial Attack Campaign Led By Fred Singer Ensues” and DeSmog also archived a full copy of the Singer email thread (PDF).

December 2014

James Delingpole is a contributor to the book Climate Change: The Facts published by the Institute of Public Affairs and featuring “22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate.” The Institute of Public Affairs, while not revealing most of its funders, received funding from mining magnate Gina Rinehart and at least one major tobacco company.166“Institute of Public Affairs,” SourceWatch. Accessed May 27, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RtEoe

The book included essays and articles from a range of climate change skeptics, with contributors including the following:

• Alan Moran
• Andrew Bolt
• Anthony Watts
• Bernard Lewin
• Christopher Essex
• Donna Laframboise
• Garth W. Paltridge
• Ian Plimer
• J. Scott Armstrong
• James Delingpole
• Jennifer Marohasy
• Joanne Nova
• John Abbot
• Kesten Green
• Mark Steyn
• Nigel Lawson
• Patrick J. Michaels
• Richard S. Lindzen
• Robert M. Carter
• Ross McKitrick
• Rupert Darwall
• Stewart Franks
• Willie Soon

According to Editor Alan Moran in a post at Catallaxy Files blog on Climate Change: the facts 2014, Ian Plimer, James Delingpole “notes how the climate believers so often accuse sceptics of lack of credentials” and “delves into the qualifications of the major promoters of the climate scare in the UK.”167Alan Moran. “Climate Change: the facts 2014,” Catallaxy Files (blog), December 16, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tCUVU

February 12, 2014

James Delingpole announced the end of his days blogging for The Daily Telegraph. In his final post, Farewell, Knights of Delingpole — and thank you trolls, Delingpole thanks his readers “for your technical expertise and advice (it prevented anyone ever noticing that I’m an English graduate and know NOTHING about science apart from, maybe, how to grow copper sulphate crystals).”168James Delingpole. “Farewell, Knights of Delingpole — and thank you trolls,” The Telegraph, February 12, 2014. Archived February 13, 2014.

April 7, 2013

James Delingpole published an article in The Telegraph titled “An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists.” The article opens with a photo of one of the Nuremberg trials with the caption “Not pictured: Monbiot, Flannery, Mann…” (as in George Monbiot, Tim Flannery, and Michael Mann) and a series of questions (emphasis added):169James Delingpole. “An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists,” The Telegraph, April 7, 2013. Archived January 11, 2014.

“Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science?

“Should George Monbiot be hanged by the neck for his decade or so’s hysterical promulgation of the great climate change scam and other idiocies too numerous to mention?

“Should Tim Flannery be fed to the crocodiles for the role he has played in the fleecing of the Australian taxpayer and the diversion of scarce resources into pointless projects like all the eyewateringly expensive desalination plants built as a result of his doomy prognostications about water shortages caused by catastrophic anthropogenic global warming?”

While Delingpole wrote his answer to all of these questions was no, he also said that “Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags” and that “Indeed, it would be nice to think one day that there would be a Climate Nuremberg.” He defended his statements by claiming that he was using the phrases “metaphorically.”170“Joe Romm. “Denier Delingpole Wishes For ‘Climate Nuremberg’, Says ‘Hanging Is Far Too Good’ For Climate Scientists!”, ThinkProgress, April 7, 2013. Archived April 10, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2OOjV

Joe Romm at Thinkprogress suggested the Telegraph should retract and apologize for Delingpole’s article as it may violate the paper’s own terms and conditions against “obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, [or] abusive” material.171“Why Conservatives Will Always Lose The War On Climate Change,” Breitbart, April 9, 2016. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/trClD

According to Romm,

“If Delingpole’s piece doesn’t count as ‘threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive’ then it is quite safe to say that nothing does. It should be retracted, the Telegraph should issue an apology and then fire him.”

March 8, 2013

James Delingpole published an article in the Daily Mail describing the Met Office as a “menace” and also claiming that the office has “finally conceded what other scientists have known for ages: there is no evidence that ‘global warming’ is happening.”172James Delingpole. “The crazy climate change obsession that’s made the Met Office a menace,” The Daily Mail, January 10, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ed8Vg

Delingpole quoted the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s “Academic Advisor,” David Whitehouse, who claimed that the Met Office was “panicking” because “All the predictions they’ve been making about man-made global warming these past 20 years have started to come crashing about their ears.”173James Delingpole. “The crazy climate change obsession that’s made the Met Office a menace,” The Daily Mail, January 10, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ed8Vg

The Met Office replied to Delingpole, and attempted to correct “a series of factual inaccuracies about the Met Office and its science” that Delingpole’s article had included. According to the Met office, these inaccuracies included:174“Addressing the Daily Mail and James Delingpole’s ‘crazy climate change obsession’ article,” Met Office News Blog, January 10, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Q2N7W

• Mr Delingpole then inaccurately states that the Met Office has conceded ‘there is no evidence that ‘global warming’ is happening’. We have not said this at any point.
• He also states that the Met Office was trying to defend a narrative that the “the past ten years have been the ‘wettest decade ever’”. Again, this is not something the Met Office has ever said.
• Also he quotes David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation saying that the Met Office ‘thinks weather forecasting is beneath it’ and that ‘climate change… brings in more money’.
  A cursory glance at our annual report and accounts (pdf) would reveal weather forecasting represents the vast majority of the Met Office’s contractual work on behalf of the public.

December 2012

The Australian Press Council (APC) upheld a complaint on numerous grounds against The Australian newspaper, which had published an article by Delingpole about wind farms. In the article, Delingpole had quoted an anonymous sheep farmer as saying that the wind farm industry was “bloody well near a pedophile ring. They’re f . . king our families and knowingly doing so.”175Graham Readfearn. “Australian Press Council Finds Against Climate Sceptic Columnists,” Desmog, December 21, 2012. 176James Delingpole. “Wind farm scam a huge cover-up,” The Australian, May 3, 2012. Archived May 5, 2012

After the APC had published its findings, Delingpole wrote a response, also published in The Australian, where he said: “I stand by every word of the piece – especially the bit about pedophiles. I would concede that the analogy may be somewhat offensive to the pedophile community.”177James Delingpole. “Where free speech is dead as the dodo,” The Australian, December 12, 2012.

September 2012

James Delingpole issued a public appeal for people to donate money to the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian free-market “think tank” which has refused to disclose its funders.178“A Personal Appeal from James Delingpole,” Carbontax.ipa.org.au. Archived September 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/0zPae

DeSmog reported how the IPA has been at the forefront of pushing climate science misinformation in Australia since the late 1980s. According to Delingpole, the IPA had paid for him to travel to Australia to promote his book.179Graham Readfearn. “James Delingpole Raising Cash for Australian Climate Sceptic Think Tank,” Desmog, September 12, 2012.

June 2011

James Delingpole was a speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC6).180“James Delingpole, ICCC6,” climateconference.heartland.org. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog. His speech, titled “Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colours” can be viewed below.

Research done by DeSmog found that 17 of the 43 sponsors of the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, including the Heartland Institute itself, have collectively received over $46 million from either Scaife family foundations, Koch Industries family foundations, or ExxonMobil and its foundation.

January 25, 2011

James Delingpole was one of the subjects of a BBC Two presentation titled “Science Under Attack” where Nobel Prize winning Sir Paul Nurse examined why climate change and other scientific theories have had public trust eroded.181“Science Under Attack,” BBC, February 19, 2011.

He interviewed scientists and campaigners from both sides of the climate change debate. Delingpole complained about the editing of his interview with Nurse because it focused on parts of the interview where, according to the Guardian, “he looks like an idiot.”182Tim Dowling. “TV review: Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy,” The Guardian, January 25, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/97roM

This included Delingpole’s explanation of why he never reads peer-reviewed scientific literature because “It’s not my job.” The program also focused on Delingpole’s condemnation of the scientific consensus on global warming.183Tim Dowling. “TV review: Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy,” The Guardian, January 25, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/97roM

May 2010

James Delingpole was a speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC4). His speech was titled “Climategate and the War against Man, Bear, Pig.” Video below.184“James Delingpole, ICCC4,” International Conferences on Climate Change. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

The Heartland Institute also provides a transcript of his speech here.185James Delingpole. “My Moment of Rock-Star Glory at a Climate Change Sceptics’ Conference in America” (Policy Document), the Heartland Institute, May 27, 2010.

DeSmog has done research on the co-sponsors of the conference and found that 19 of the 65 sponsors (including Heartland itself) have received a total of over $40 million in funding since 1985 from ExxonMobil, Koch Industries family foundations or the Scaife family foundations.

June 22, 2010

James Delingpole described an article on expert credibility in climate change, written by William R.L. Anderegg and others and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as being “based on a petty, spiteful, Stasi-like blacklist produced by an obscure Canadian warmist – outrageously aggrandised by being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”186“Expert credibility in climate change,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, No. 27 (April, 2010).

Delingpole’s article on the paper was titled “‘Climate change sceptics have smaller members, uglier wives, dumber kids’ says new study made up by warmists.”187James Delingpole. “‘Climate change sceptics have smaller members, uglier wives, dumber kids’ says new study made up by warmists,” The Telegraph, June 22, 2010. Archived August 13, 2014.

November 20, 2009

James Delingpole has been credited with coining the term “Climategate” to describe what climate skeptics have presented as a scientific conspiracy to manipulate data carried out by climate scientists. The scandal arose from a series of hacked e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia.188Christopher Booker. “Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation,” The Telegraph, November 28, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/a96pt

Climate scientists were since exonerated of any wrongdoing after a series of investigations into the subject, but climate change skeptics continue to describe the event as proof of a conspiracy.189Justin Gillis. “Climate Scientist Cleared of Altering Data,” The New York Times, July 1, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Mzq0O

Affiliations

• The Heartland Institute — ICCC speaker.190“James Delingpole, ICCC6,” climateconference.heartland.org. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.
• The Daily Telegraph — Former Blogger.191“James Delingpole,” The Telegraph. Archived April 21, 2013.
• The Spectator — Contributor.192“James Delingpole,” The Spectator. Accessed September 26, 2016.
• Breitbart — Contributor.193“James Delingpole,” Breitbart. Accessed September 26, 2016.

Social Media

• @JamesDelingpole on Twitter.

Publications

James Delingpole has written several books including:

• Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are Killing the Planet,
• Destroying the Economy,
• Stealing Your Children’s Future,
• How to be Right: The Essential Guide to Making Lefty Liberals History,
• Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn’t Work,
• and 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy.

Other Resources

• “James Delingpole,” Wikipedia.
• “James Delingpole,” SourceWatch.
• “James Delingpole” (Profile), The Carbon Brief Archived April 6, 2015.
• Andrew Neil. “Global warming: Andrew Pendleton and James Delingpole,” BBC News, July 3, 2012.

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  “Climate My Ass,” Vimeo video uploaded by Fast Car Productions on February 24, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

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  James Delingpole. “Bushfire of the vanities,” Spectator, January 11, 2020. Archived January 23, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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  “Delingpod 22: Ronan Connolly,” YouTube video uploaded by user The James Delingpole Channel on May 30, 2019. Archived.mp4 on file at DeSmog.

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  “James Delingpole, ICCC4,” International Conferences on Climate Change. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

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  “Climate My Ass,” Vimeo video uploaded by Fast Car Productions on February 24, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

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  James Delingpole. “Bushfire of the vanities,” Spectator, January 11, 2020. Archived January 23, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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