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James Delingpole

January 07, 2023

James Mark Court Delingpole (born 6 August 1965) is an English writer, journalist, and columnist who has written for a number of publications, including the Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He is a former executive editor for Breitbart London,[1][2] and has published several novels and four political books. He describes himself as a libertarian conservative.[3] He has frequently published articles promoting climate change denial[4][5][6] and expressing opposition to wind power.[7][8][9]

James Delingpole
Delingpole in 2012
Born
James Mark Court Delingpole

(1965-08-06) 6 August 1965 (age 57)
Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationMalvern College
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford (BA)
Occupation(s)Journalist
Columnist
Novelist
OrganizationBreitbart News
MovementLibertarian conservatism
Websitedelingpoleworld.com

Education and early life

Delingpole grew up near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the son of a factory owner.[10] He attended Malvern College from 1978 to 1983, an independent school for boys,[11] followed by Christ Church, Oxford (1983–1986),[12] where he studied English language and literature.[13]

Career

In addition to writing articles and commentary for the Daily Mail, Daily Express,[14] The Times,[15] The Daily Telegraph,[16] and The Spectator,[17] Delingpole has published four political books including: 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.[18] His writing for the book Welcome to Obamaland has been called an "engaging, witty writing style" and "at least original and amusing" by otherwise critical author John Wright.[19]

Delingpole is the author of several novels including Fin and Thinly Disguised Autobiography.[20] In August 2007, Bloomsbury published his first novel of the "Coward" series, Coward on the Beach, which tells the story of a man's reluctant quest for military glory and is set on the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day landings. In June 2009 the second novel of the series, Coward at the Bridge (set during Operation Market Garden in September 1944), was published.[20][21]

In 2005, Delingpole presented the Channel 4 documentary The British Upper Class, which was part of a series of three documentaries on the class system in Britain.[22][23] Writing in The Guardian, the television reviewer Charlie Brooker concludes that "Delingpole succeeds in improving the image of the upper classes. Whenever he opens his mouth to defend them, they magically become 50 times less irritating. Than him."[24]

On environmental issues, Delingpole has written with scepticism regarding the impact and consequences of man's activities on climate change,[8] and has been highly critical of wind farms. He has called wind turbines "environmentally damaging" and suggested that they deface the countryside.[7]

In 2012, Delingpole began Bogpaper, a satirical blog, with Jan Skoyles.[25][26][27] In 2013, Delingpole apologised after describing an article by a fellow journalist, which attacked the views of columnist Suzanne Moore, as giving her "such a seeing-to, she'll be walking bow-legged for weeks."[28]

In 2015, Delingpole was named as a source for Lord Ashcroft's unauthorised biography of David Cameron, Call Me Dave written with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, about Cameron's time at university, in which Delingpole claims to have smoked cannabis with the future PM.[29]

Anthropogenic global warming

Delingpole has repeatedly promoted climate change denial.[4][30][31] In September 2009 he used his Daily Telegraph blog to join other denial bloggers in spreading and amplifying allegations made by Steve McIntyre on his Climate Audit blog, falsely accusing the Climatic Research Unit tree-ring climatologist Keith Briffa of wrongly selecting a particular tree-ring data series.[32] Delingpole blogged "How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie",[33] arguing that this discredited the 1998 hockey stick graph, though in fact that study did not use any of the data in question. He also alleged that this discredited the scene in An Inconvenient Truth where Al Gore walks beside a graph relating past temperatures to CO2, then has to use a platform lift to reach the projected future curve, but that graph was based on Lonnie Thompson's ice core data, not tree rings, and the projected curve was for CO2 levels, not temperature.[32][34]

In a November 2009 Telegraph blog post titled "Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?", Delingpole popularised the term "Climategate" referring to the Climatic Research Unit email controversy. He also said that he does not have a science degree, but is "a believer in empiricism and not spending taxpayers' money on a problem that may well not exist."[8] In May 2010 he gave a 15-minute talk to The Heartland Institute's conference, and said that it reused a term he had seen in a follow-up comment to the Watts Up With That? blog. He quipped that "Climategate" was "the story that would change my life and, quite possibly, save Western civilisation from the greatest threat it has ever known".[35] Subsequent investigations have cleared the scientists involved of any wrongdoing.[36]

At various times, Delingpole has said he does not dispute that global warming has occurred, but doubts the extent to which it is man-made ("anthropogenic") or catastrophic.[37][38][39][40]

In the BBC Horizon documentary, "Science under Attack", broadcast in January 2011, Paul Nurse interviewed scientists and examples of those disputing their work. Delingpole dismissed the scientific consensus on global warming and scientific consensus in general, saying science has never been about consensus. When Nurse posed an analogy with a patient dismissing the consensus of an oncology team and choosing their own treatment, Delingpole resented the comparison with quackery. The programme also interviewed a man who takes yogurt to treat HIV. In response to Nurse's question as to whether he read peer reviewed papers, Delingpole maintained that as a journalist "it is not my job" to read these, as he simply had neither the time nor the expertise, but instead read internet posts and was "an interpreter of interpretations".[41] In the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism, this is described as showing Delingpole "detached from reality".[4]

In 2012 Delingpole wrote an article in The Australian titled "Wind Farm Scam a Huge Cover-Up"[42] containing controversial issues and tone, which was ultimately censured. Three complaints were made, and the Australian Press Council upheld three aspects of the complaints, commenting on the "offensiveness" of the comment made by a New South Wales sheep farmer, which Delingpole quoted, that made an analogy between advocates of wind farms and paedophiles.[43]

On 10 January 2013 the UK Met Office responded to Delingpole's Daily Mail article published earlier that day, 'The crazy climate change obsession that's made the Met Office a menace', with a blog rebutting "a series of factual inaccuracies" in the piece, which included repetition of a falsehood which the Telegraph had withdrawn in 2012 following a Press Complaints Commission ruling. The Met Office refuted an assertion attributed to Global Warming Policy Foundation member David Whitehouse, but agreed with Whitehouse's statement that "when it comes to four or five day weather forecasting, the Met Office is the best in the world".[44][45]

Delingpole has repeatedly incited violence against named scientists and climate campaigners.[4] In 2013 he published an article in The Spectator, asking the question whether climate scientists like Michael E. Mann, natural scientist Tim Flannery and journalist George Monbiot should be "given the electric chair", "hanged" or "fed to the crocodiles" for speaking out on anthropogenic global warming, stating that his answer "is – *regretful sigh* – no." He said that "extreme authoritarianism and capital penalties" wouldn't be his "bag" and "perhaps more importantly, it would be counterproductive, ugly, excessive and deeply unsatisfying. 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. [...] But hanging? Hell no. Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags." He also wished to establish Nuremberg trials for climate scientists and activists, stating this is meant as a metaphor.[46][47]

Politics

Delingpole has described himself "as a member of probably the most discriminated-against subsection in the whole of British society—the white, middle-aged, public-school-and-Oxbridge educated middle-class male."[48]

On 6 September 2012, Delingpole announced he would stand in the upcoming Corby by-election on an anti-wind farms platform.[49] He withdrew, saying his campaign against wind farms had been "stunningly successful" before a vote was cast.[50] A Greenpeace investigation said that Delingpole's campaign was supported by the Conservative Party's campaign manager for the Corby by-election, Chris Heaton-Harris. Heaton-Harris said that Delingpole had announced his candidacy as part of a "plan" to "cause some hassle" and drive the issue of wind farms up the political agenda.[51]

In a 2013 article in The Spectator, he stated that for some time prior "I've held dual political nationality: my heart with UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party), my head with the Tories", going on to praise the latter as "the natural party of government in a brave new world where politicians are the people's servants, not their masters."[52]

Awards and prizes

In 2005 Delingpole was awarded the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award for his essay "What are museums for?"[53]

In 2010 Delingpole won the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism for his Telegraph blog, a $3,000 prize awarded by the free-market International Policy Network for "work that promotes 'the principles and institutions of the free society'"; Damian Thompson, the Telegraph's blog editor, linked receipt of the award to the impact of Delingpole's posts on the Climatic Research Unit email controversy.[54][55]

Publications

  • — (1997). Fish Show. Penguin.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2001). Fin. Picador USA.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2004). Thinly Disguised Autobiography. Picador USA.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2007). Coward on the Beach. Bloomsbury UK. ISBN 9780747590705.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2007). How to be Right. Headline Review.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2009). Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-588-9.
  • — (2009). Coward at the Bridge. Simon & Schuster Ltd.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2011). 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy. Washington, DC: Regnery Pub.[ISBN missing]
  • — (2012). Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing your Children's Future. Biteback Publishing.[ISBN missing][56][57]
  • — (4 January 2014). "Those Bitcoin Weirdos Might Just Be Right". The Spectator (print, online). Vol. 324, no. 9671. p. 13.

Personal life and family

Delingpole is married to Tiffany Daneff, a gardening journalist. They have three children.[58]

In April 2021 one of Delingpole's sons, who was at the time a 3rd-year student at Durham University, took the video footage of Sir Keir Starmer in Durham, which triggered the 2022 Beergate controversy.[59]

References and notes

  1. ^ Kaufman, Leslie (2014). "Breitbart News Network Plans Global Expansion". The New York Times (online). No. 16 February. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Former Breitbart London Boss Streamed With White Nationalist". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  3. ^ Delingpole, James (2012). . Self. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d Sachsman, D.B.; Valenti, J.A.M. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks. Taylor & Francis. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-351-06838-3. Retrieved 15 June 2022. The extent to which these individuals are detached from reality was shown in a BBC Horizon documentary, Science under attack in 2011, in which Sir Paul Nurse of the UK Royal Society attempted to tease out the roots of Delingpole's skeptical position. Asked if he ever read journal papers, Delingpole replied that as a journalist it is "not my job" to read peer-reviewed papers, but to be "an interpreter of interpretations." Delingpole is among a number of climate deniers who have repeatedly incited physical violence against named journalists and scientists who speak publicly on climate issues
  5. ^ Plait, Phil (26 September 2013). "The Climate Change Denial Machine Is Going Up to 11". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  6. ^ Hern, Alex. "RSPB: James Delingpole "has not looked into the evidence in a balanced way"". New Statesman. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  7. ^ a b Philo, Greg; Catherine Happer (2013). Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security: New Methods in Understanding Audiences. Routledge. p. 136. ISBN 978-0415835091.
  8. ^ a b c Delingpole, James (2009). . The Daily Telegraph (online). London (20 November). Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed", and "A contretemps with a Climate Bully who wonders whether I have a science degree. (No I don't. I just happen to be a believer in empiricism and not spending taxpayers' money on a problem that may well not exist).
  9. ^ Appearances on C-SPAN
  10. ^ Leith, William (2003). "A Writer's life: James Delingpole". The Daily Telegraph. London (21 July).
  11. ^ Edwards, Tom (22 September 2015). "Former Malvern College pupil at the centre of David Cameron biography furore". Worcester News.
  12. ^ "My problem with James Delingpole..." The Tab. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  13. ^ White, Michael (30 May 2011). "The class war: Why everyone feels insecure". The Guardian.
  14. ^ Dellingpole, James (11 July 2018). "If only the Cabinet was more like the England players, says James Delingpole". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  15. ^ Delingpole, James (1 May 2016). "James Delingpole: Next time I nearly die, I'll go private". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  16. ^ "James Delingpole". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  17. ^ "Author: James Delingpole | The Spectator". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  18. ^ 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy, James Delingpole
  19. ^ Wright, John (2010). The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism. Potomac. p. 196. ISBN 978-1597975124.
  20. ^ a b "James Delingpole | Biteback Publishing". www.bitebackpublishing.com. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  21. ^ "A writer's life: James Delingpole". The Daily Telegraph. 20 July 2003. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  22. ^ Glover, Gillian (2005). "The aristocracy and us". The Scotsman (online). No. 22 July. Edinburgh.
  23. ^ Wollaston, Sam (2005). "Grand designs". The Guardian (online). No. 25 July. London.
  24. ^ Charlie Brooker (2005). "Blue blood on the carpet". The Guardian (online). No. 23 July.
  25. ^ Delingpole, James (2012). James Delingpole Introduces Bogpaper.com (Pt. 1) (self-published video (9 February)) (YouTube). The Bogpaper Channel. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.[full citation needed]
  26. ^ . Archived from the original on 24 March 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  27. ^ "James Delingpole talks to Bogpaper". Bogpaper.com. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  28. ^ Michael Gove's gang perfect the art of fighting dirty, The Observer, 10 February 2013
  29. ^ Gander, Kashmira (2015). "Lord Ashcroft's Cameron Biography: Source James Delingpole Defends Alleged Cannabis Revelations". The Independent (online). No. 6 October. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  30. ^ "Climate change denial: James Delingpole tells it like it isn't".
  31. ^ "James Delingpole".
  32. ^ a b Mann 2013, pp. 198–199.
  33. ^ Delingpole, James (29 September 2009). . blogs.telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  34. ^ Pearce, Fred (3 February 2010). "Climate scientists withheld Yamal data despite warnings from senior colleagues | Fred Pearce". the Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  35. ^ Delingpole, James (speaker) (2010). Climategate and the War against Man, Bear, Pig (online streaming audio). Arlington Heights, IL: The Heartland Institute | The Fourth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-4), Chicago Illinois, 16–18 May 2010. Event occurs at 2:28–2:36. Retrieved 21 January 2016. rude, controversial, merciless, outspoken, sometimes mildly amusing [introductory self description, 0:55–1:07] … the story that would change my life and, quite possibly, save Western civilisation from the greatest threat it has ever known [reference to Climategate story, 2:28–2:36] … I wasn't the first person to use the word Climategate. Actually what happened was, I was reading the What's Up With That? blog, and I was looking at the comments below. And the Commentor called Bulldust had said, 'I wonder how long it will be before somebody calls this story Climategate'… So I was the second person to use the word Climategate. [2:48–3:10]
  36. ^ NOAA Staff (24 February 2011). "Inspector General's Review of Stolen Emails Confirms No Evidence of Wrong-Doing by NOAA Climate Scientists". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Retrieved 1 January 2016. Report is the latest independent analysis to clear climate scientists of allegations of mishandling of climate information.
  37. ^ Economist Staff (2012). "Wind Farms and Renewable Energy: A Lot of Hot Air". The Economist (online, print). No. 17 November. Retrieved 21 January 2016. Subtitle: The government's energy policy gets mired in politics.
  38. ^ Delingpole, James (2011). . The Daily Telegraph (online). London (21 October). Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2016. We know it's getting warmer. That's not the point. 'The planet has been warming,' says a new study of temperature records, conducted by Berkeley professor Richard Muller. I wonder what he'll be telling us next: that night follows day? That water is wet? That great white sharks have nasty pointy teeth? That sheep go "baaaa"? / No, the only surprising part of the results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project is the good professor's chutzpah in trying to present them as new or surprising – let alone any kind of blow to the people he calls 'skeptics' (or, when speaking to his friends at The Guardian, 'deniers').
  39. ^ Delingpole, James (2010). . The Daily Telegraph (online). London (6 February). Archived from the original on 9 February 2010.
  40. ^ Delingpole, James (2010). "Greens Have Got Us Tilting at Windmills". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) (online) (30 April). Retrieved 19 January 2014. It's not climate change we sceptics doubt. What we question is (a) the degree to which it is man-made, (b) the extent to which recent climate change is in any way catastrophic or unprecedented, and (c) whether the measures we are taking to stop it are either helpful or desirable.
  41. ^ Delingpole, James (20 January 2011). . bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2022. Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded - from the theory that man-made climate change is warming our planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS. He interviews scientists and campaigners from both sides of the climate change debate, and travels to New York to meet Tony, who has HIV but doesn't believe that that the virus is responsible for AIDS. .. [broadcast] Mon 24 Jan 2011, 21:00{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) See also Dowling, Tim (2011). "Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy". The Guardian (25 January). Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  42. ^ Delingpole, James (3 May 2012). "Wind Farm Scam a Huge Cover-Up". The Australian (online).
  43. ^ Australian Press Council (2012). "Press Council Adjudication". The Australian (online) (20 December). Retrieved 21 January 2016. Subtitle: The Australian Press Council has released the following adjudication.
  44. ^ "Setting the record straight in the Daily Mail". Official blog of the Met Office news team. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  45. ^ Batty, David (11 January 2013). "Met Office hits back at 'inaccuracies' in James Delingpole article". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  46. ^ Delingpole, James (7 April 2013). . The Spectator (online). Archived from the original on 11 April 2016.
  47. ^ Romm, Joe (7 April 2013). "Denier Delingpole Wishes For 'Climate Nuremberg', Says 'Hanging Is Far Too Good' For Climate Scientists!". ThinkProgress (online). Archived from the original on 26 September 2016.
  48. ^ The Cameron club, John Harris, The Guardian, 16 February 2007
  49. ^ Delingpole, James (2012). . The Daily Telegraph (online). No. 17 September. London. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  50. ^ Hern, Alex (2012). "Anti-Wind-Farm Candidate James Delingpole Pulls Out of Corby By-Election, as the Town Continues to Have No Wind Farms". New Statesman (online) (31 October). Retrieved 21 January 2016. Delingpole cites "stunningly successful campaign"; others cite desire to avoid losing £500 deposit.
  51. ^ Lewis, Paul (2012). "Tory MP running Corby campaign 'backed rival in anti-windfarm plot'". The Guardian (online). No. 13 November. London. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  52. ^ Delingpole, James (2013). "UKIP is Patriotic, Fiscally Conservative and Socially Libertarian—What's Not to Like?". The Spectator (online) (30 March).
  53. ^ Naughton, Philippe (2006). "The Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award 2005". Times Online (online). No. 17 March. London.
  54. ^ Thompson, Damian (2010). . The Daily Telegraph. No. 12 November. London. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
  55. ^ Oliver, Laura (2010). . journalism.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010. Subtitle: Delingpole beat international competition to take the $3,000 prize, which recognises work that promotes 'the principles and institutions of the free society.' … Freelance writer, journalist and Telegraph blogger James Delingpole has won the online journalism category of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism… It is the second year running in which a Telegraph blogger has taken the online award. In 2009 controversial MEP Daniel Hannan won the prize for his blog for the title.
  56. ^ "Amazon.co.uk: James Delingpole: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle". Amazon. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  57. ^ Depository, Book. "Results for James-Delingpole". Book Depository. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  58. ^ Keen, Mary (6 September 2002). "The day I almost lost the plot" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  59. ^ Waterson, Jim (9 May 2022). "Student who shot Keir Starmer Beergate video is Breitbart writer's son". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  • Mann, M.E. (2013). The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15255-6. Retrieved 5 June 2022.

External links

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08 06 6 August 1965 age 57 Alvechurch Worcestershire EnglandNationalityBritishEducationMalvern CollegeAlma materChrist Church Oxford BA Occupation s JournalistColumnistNovelistOrganizationBreitbart NewsMovementLibertarian conservatismWebsitedelingpoleworld wbr com Contents 1 Education and early life 2 Career 2 1 Anthropogenic global warming 2 2 Politics 3 Awards and prizes 4 Publications 5 Personal life and family 6 References and notes 7 External linksEducation and early life EditDelingpole grew up near Bromsgrove Worcestershire the son of a factory owner 10 He attended Malvern College from 1978 to 1983 an independent school for boys 11 followed by Christ Church Oxford 1983 1986 12 where he studied English language and literature 13 Career EditIn addition to writing articles and commentary for the Daily Mail Daily Express 14 The Times 15 The Daily Telegraph 16 and The Spectator 17 Delingpole has published four political books including 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 18 His writing for the book Welcome to Obamaland has been called an engaging witty writing style and at least original and amusing by otherwise critical author John Wright 19 Delingpole is the author of several novels including Fin and Thinly Disguised Autobiography 20 In August 2007 Bloomsbury published his first novel of the Coward series Coward on the Beach which tells the story of a man s reluctant quest for military glory and is set on the beaches of Normandy during the D Day landings In June 2009 the second novel of the series Coward at the Bridge set during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was published 20 21 In 2005 Delingpole presented the Channel 4 documentary The British Upper Class which was part of a series of three documentaries on the class system in Britain 22 23 Writing in The Guardian the television reviewer Charlie Brooker concludes that Delingpole succeeds in improving the image of the upper classes Whenever he opens his mouth to defend them they magically become 50 times less irritating Than him 24 On environmental issues Delingpole has written with scepticism regarding the impact and consequences of man s activities on climate change 8 and has been highly critical of wind farms He has called wind turbines environmentally damaging and suggested that they deface the countryside 7 In 2012 Delingpole began Bogpaper a satirical blog with Jan Skoyles 25 26 27 In 2013 Delingpole apologised after describing an article by a fellow journalist which attacked the views of columnist Suzanne Moore as giving her such a seeing to she ll be walking bow legged for weeks 28 In 2015 Delingpole was named as a source for Lord Ashcroft s unauthorised biography of David Cameron Call Me Dave written with journalist Isabel Oakeshott about Cameron s time at university in which Delingpole claims to have smoked cannabis with the future PM 29 Anthropogenic global warming Edit Delingpole has repeatedly promoted climate change denial 4 30 31 In September 2009 he used his Daily Telegraph blog to join other denial bloggers in spreading and amplifying allegations made by Steve McIntyre on his Climate Audit blog falsely accusing the Climatic Research Unit tree ring climatologist Keith Briffa of wrongly selecting a particular tree ring data series 32 Delingpole blogged How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie 33 arguing that this discredited the 1998 hockey stick graph though in fact that study did not use any of the data in question He also alleged that this discredited the scene in An Inconvenient Truth where Al Gore walks beside a graph relating past temperatures to CO2 then has to use a platform lift to reach the projected future curve but that graph was based on Lonnie Thompson s ice core data not tree rings and the projected curve was for CO2 levels not temperature 32 34 In a November 2009 Telegraph blog post titled Climategate The Final Nail in the Coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming Delingpole popularised the term Climategate referring to the Climatic Research Unit email controversy He also said that he does not have a science degree but is a believer in empiricism and not spending taxpayers money on a problem that may well not exist 8 In May 2010 he gave a 15 minute talk to The Heartland Institute s conference and said that it reused a term he had seen in a follow up comment to the Watts Up With That blog He quipped that Climategate was the story that would change my life and quite possibly save Western civilisation from the greatest threat it has ever known 35 Subsequent investigations have cleared the scientists involved of any wrongdoing 36 At various times Delingpole has said he does not dispute that global warming has occurred but doubts the extent to which it is man made anthropogenic or catastrophic 37 38 39 40 In the BBC Horizon documentary Science under Attack broadcast in January 2011 Paul Nurse interviewed scientists and examples of those disputing their work Delingpole dismissed the scientific consensus on global warming and scientific consensus in general saying science has never been about consensus When Nurse posed an analogy with a patient dismissing the consensus of an oncology team and choosing their own treatment Delingpole resented the comparison with quackery The programme also interviewed a man who takes yogurt to treat HIV In response to Nurse s question as to whether he read peer reviewed papers Delingpole maintained that as a journalist it is not my job to read these as he simply had neither the time nor the expertise but instead read internet posts and was an interpreter of interpretations 41 In the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism this is described as showing Delingpole detached from reality 4 In 2012 Delingpole wrote an article in The Australian titled Wind Farm Scam a Huge Cover Up 42 containing controversial issues and tone which was ultimately censured Three complaints were made and the Australian Press Council upheld three aspects of the complaints commenting on the offensiveness of the comment made by a New South Wales sheep farmer which Delingpole quoted that made an analogy between advocates of wind farms and paedophiles 43 On 10 January 2013 the UK Met Office responded to Delingpole s Daily Mail article published earlier that day The crazy climate change obsession that s made the Met Office a menace with a blog rebutting a series of factual inaccuracies in the piece which included repetition of a falsehood which the Telegraph had withdrawn in 2012 following a Press Complaints Commission ruling The Met Office refuted an assertion attributed to Global Warming Policy Foundation member David Whitehouse but agreed with Whitehouse s statement that when it comes to four or five day weather forecasting the Met Office is the best in the world 44 45 Delingpole has repeatedly incited violence against named scientists and climate campaigners 4 In 2013 he published an article in The Spectator asking the question whether climate scientists like Michael E Mann natural scientist Tim Flannery and journalist George Monbiot should be given the electric chair hanged or fed to the crocodiles for speaking out on anthropogenic global warming stating that his answer is regretful sigh no He said that extreme authoritarianism and capital penalties wouldn t be his bag and perhaps more importantly it would be counterproductive ugly excessive and deeply unsatisfying 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 But hanging Hell no Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags He also wished to establish Nuremberg trials for climate scientists and activists stating this is meant as a metaphor 46 47 Politics Edit Delingpole has described himself as a member of probably the most discriminated against subsection in the whole of British society the white middle aged public school and Oxbridge educated middle class male 48 On 6 September 2012 Delingpole announced he would stand in the upcoming Corby by election on an anti wind farms platform 49 He withdrew saying his campaign against wind farms had been stunningly successful before a vote was cast 50 A Greenpeace investigation said that Delingpole s campaign was supported by the Conservative Party s campaign manager for the Corby by election Chris Heaton Harris Heaton Harris said that Delingpole had announced his candidacy as part of a plan to cause some hassle and drive the issue of wind farms up the political agenda 51 In a 2013 article in The Spectator he stated that for some time prior I ve held dual political nationality my heart with UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party my head with the Tories going on to praise the latter as the natural party of government in a brave new world where politicians are the people s servants not their masters 52 Awards and prizes EditIn 2005 Delingpole was awarded the Charles Douglas Home Memorial Trust Award for his essay What are museums for 53 In 2010 Delingpole won the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism for his Telegraph blog a 3 000 prize awarded by the free market International Policy Network for work that promotes the principles and institutions of the free society Damian Thompson the Telegraph s blog editor linked receipt of the award to the impact of Delingpole s posts on the Climatic Research Unit email controversy 54 55 Publications Edit 1997 Fish Show Penguin ISBN missing 2001 Fin Picador USA ISBN missing 2004 Thinly Disguised Autobiography Picador USA ISBN missing 2007 Coward on the Beach Bloomsbury UK ISBN 9780747590705 ISBN missing 2007 How to be Right Headline Review ISBN missing 2009 Welcome to Obamaland I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn t Work Regnery Publishing ISBN 978 1 59698 588 9 2009 Coward at the Bridge Simon amp Schuster Ltd ISBN missing 2011 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy Washington DC Regnery Pub ISBN missing 2012 Watermelons How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet Destroying the Economy and Stealing your Children s Future Biteback Publishing ISBN missing 56 57 4 January 2014 Those Bitcoin Weirdos Might Just Be Right The Spectator print online Vol 324 no 9671 p 13 Personal life and family EditDelingpole is married to Tiffany Daneff a gardening journalist They have three children 58 In April 2021 one of Delingpole s sons who was at the time a 3rd year student at Durham University took the video footage of Sir Keir Starmer in Durham which triggered the 2022 Beergate controversy 59 References and notes Edit Kaufman Leslie 2014 Breitbart News Network Plans Global Expansion The New York Times online No 16 February Retrieved 19 February 2014 Former Breitbart London Boss Streamed With White Nationalist Hatewatch Southern Poverty Law Center Retrieved 31 January 2022 Delingpole James 2012 About James Delingpole Self Archived from the original on 29 May 2012 Retrieved 27 May 2012 a b c d Sachsman D B Valenti J A M 2020 Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Taylor amp Francis p 225 ISBN 978 1 351 06838 3 Retrieved 15 June 2022 The extent to which these individuals are detached from reality was shown in a BBC Horizon documentary Science under attack in 2011 in which Sir Paul Nurse of the UK Royal Society attempted to tease out the roots of Delingpole s skeptical position Asked if he ever read journal papers Delingpole replied that as a journalist it is not my job to read peer reviewed papers but to be an interpreter of interpretations Delingpole is among a number of climate deniers who have repeatedly incited physical violence against named journalists and scientists who speak publicly on climate issues Plait Phil 26 September 2013 The Climate Change Denial Machine Is Going Up to 11 Slate ISSN 1091 2339 Retrieved 29 September 2018 Hern Alex RSPB James Delingpole has not looked into the evidence in a balanced way New Statesman Retrieved 29 September 2018 a b Philo Greg Catherine Happer 2013 Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security New Methods in Understanding Audiences Routledge p 136 ISBN 978 0415835091 a b c Delingpole James 2009 Climategate The Final Nail in the Coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming The Daily Telegraph online London 20 November Archived from the original on 22 January 2016 Retrieved 21 January 2016 The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth aka AGW aka ManBearPig has been suddenly brutally and quite deliciously exposed and A contretemps with a Climate Bully who wonders whether I have a science degree No I don t I just happen to be a believer in empiricism and not spending taxpayers money on a problem that may well not exist Appearances on C SPAN Leith William 2003 A Writer s life James Delingpole The Daily Telegraph London 21 July Edwards Tom 22 September 2015 Former Malvern College pupil at the centre of David Cameron biography furore Worcester News My problem with James Delingpole The Tab 24 February 2011 Retrieved 3 September 2018 White Michael 30 May 2011 The class war Why everyone feels insecure The Guardian Dellingpole James 11 July 2018 If only the Cabinet was more like the England players says James Delingpole Express co uk Retrieved 3 September 2018 Delingpole James 1 May 2016 James Delingpole Next time I nearly die I ll go private The Sunday Times ISSN 0956 1382 Retrieved 3 September 2018 James Delingpole The Telegraph Retrieved 3 September 2018 Author James Delingpole The Spectator The Spectator Retrieved 3 September 2018 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy James Delingpole Wright John 2010 The Obama Haters Behind the Right Wing Campaign of Lies Innuendo amp Racism Potomac p 196 ISBN 978 1597975124 a b James Delingpole Biteback Publishing www bitebackpublishing com Retrieved 3 September 2018 A writer s life James Delingpole The Daily Telegraph 20 July 2003 ISSN 0307 1235 Retrieved 3 September 2018 Glover Gillian 2005 The aristocracy and us The Scotsman online No 22 July Edinburgh Wollaston Sam 2005 Grand designs The Guardian online No 25 July London Charlie Brooker 2005 Blue blood on the carpet The Guardian online No 23 July Delingpole James 2012 James Delingpole Introduces Bogpaper com Pt 1 self published video 9 February YouTube The Bogpaper Channel Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 full citation needed Why Bogpaper Why now Archived from the original on 24 March 2013 Retrieved 13 April 2013 James Delingpole talks to Bogpaper Bogpaper com 11 September 2012 Retrieved 3 September 2018 Michael Gove s gang perfect the art of fighting dirty The Observer 10 February 2013 Gander Kashmira 2015 Lord Ashcroft s Cameron Biography Source James Delingpole Defends Alleged Cannabis Revelations The Independent online No 6 October Retrieved 8 November 2015 Climate change denial James Delingpole tells it like it isn t James Delingpole a b Mann 2013 pp 198 199 Delingpole James 29 September 2009 How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie Telegraph Blogs blogs telegraph co uk Archived from the original on 2 October 2009 Retrieved 6 June 2022 Pearce Fred 3 February 2010 Climate scientists withheld Yamal data despite warnings from senior colleagues Fred Pearce the Guardian Retrieved 6 June 2022 Delingpole James speaker 2010 Climategate and the War against Man Bear Pig online streaming audio Arlington Heights IL The Heartland Institute The Fourth International Conference on Climate Change ICCC 4 Chicago Illinois 16 18 May 2010 Event occurs at 2 28 2 36 Retrieved 21 January 2016 rude controversial merciless outspoken sometimes mildly amusing introductory self description 0 55 1 07 the story that would change my life and quite possibly save Western civilisation from the greatest threat it has ever known reference to Climategate story 2 28 2 36 I wasn t the first person to use the word Climategate Actually what happened was I was reading the What s Up With That blog and I was looking at the comments below And the Commentor called Bulldust had said I wonder how long it will be before somebody calls this story Climategate So I was the second person to use the word Climategate 2 48 3 10 NOAA Staff 24 February 2011 Inspector General s Review of Stolen Emails Confirms No Evidence of Wrong Doing by NOAA Climate Scientists National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA Retrieved 1 January 2016 Report is the latest independent analysis to clear climate scientists of allegations of mishandling of climate information Economist Staff 2012 Wind Farms and Renewable Energy A Lot of Hot Air The Economist online print No 17 November Retrieved 21 January 2016 Subtitle The government s energy policy gets mired in politics Delingpole James 2011 Global Warming is Real The Daily Telegraph online London 21 October Archived from the original on 23 October 2011 Retrieved 21 January 2016 We know it s getting warmer That s not the point The planet has been warming says a new study of temperature records conducted by Berkeley professor Richard Muller I wonder what he ll be telling us next that night follows day That water is wet That great white sharks have nasty pointy teeth That sheep go baaaa No the only surprising part of the results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project is the good professor s chutzpah in trying to present them as new or surprising let alone any kind of blow to the people he calls skeptics or when speaking to his friends at The Guardian deniers Delingpole James 2010 Dear Geoffrey Lean Let Me Explain Why We re So Cross The Daily Telegraph online London 6 February Archived from the original on 9 February 2010 Delingpole James 2010 Greens Have Got Us Tilting at Windmills The Daily Telegraph Sydney online 30 April Retrieved 19 January 2014 It s not climate change we sceptics doubt What we question is a the degree to which it is man made b the extent to which recent climate change is in any way catastrophic or unprecedented and c whether the measures we are taking to stop it are either helpful or desirable Delingpole James 20 January 2011 BBC Two Programmes Horizon 2010 2011 Science Under Attack bbc co uk Archived from the original on 20 January 2011 Retrieved 16 June 2022 Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded from the theory that man made climate change is warming our planet to the safety of GM food or that HIV causes AIDS He interviews scientists and campaigners from both sides of the climate change debate and travels to New York to meet Tony who has HIV but doesn t believe that that the virus is responsible for AIDS broadcast Mon 24 Jan 2011 21 00 a href Template Cite AV media html title Template Cite AV media cite AV media a CS1 maint date and year link CS1 maint unfit URL link See also Dowling Tim 2011 Horizon Science Under Attack and Tool Academy The Guardian 25 January Retrieved 31 January 2011 Delingpole James 3 May 2012 Wind Farm Scam a Huge Cover Up The Australian online Australian Press Council 2012 Press Council Adjudication The Australian online 20 December Retrieved 21 January 2016 Subtitle The Australian Press Council has released the following adjudication Setting the record straight in the Daily Mail Official blog of the Met Office news team 8 March 2013 Retrieved 4 March 2018 Batty David 11 January 2013 Met Office hits back at inaccuracies in James Delingpole article The Guardian Retrieved 4 March 2018 Delingpole James 7 April 2013 An English class for trolls professional offence takers and climate activists The Spectator online Archived from the original on 11 April 2016 Romm Joe 7 April 2013 Denier Delingpole Wishes For Climate Nuremberg Says Hanging Is Far Too Good For Climate Scientists ThinkProgress online Archived from the original on 26 September 2016 The Cameron club John Harris The Guardian 16 February 2007 Delingpole James 2012 Arguments for wind power are just hot air The Daily Telegraph online No 17 September London Archived from the original on 18 September 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2012 Hern Alex 2012 Anti Wind Farm Candidate James Delingpole Pulls Out of Corby By Election as the Town Continues to Have No Wind Farms New Statesman online 31 October Retrieved 21 January 2016 Delingpole cites stunningly successful campaign others cite desire to avoid losing 500 deposit Lewis Paul 2012 Tory MP running Corby campaign backed rival in anti windfarm plot The Guardian online No 13 November London Retrieved 13 November 2012 Delingpole James 2013 UKIP is Patriotic Fiscally Conservative and Socially Libertarian What s Not to Like The Spectator online 30 March Naughton Philippe 2006 The Charles Douglas Home Memorial Trust Award 2005 Times Online online No 17 March London Thompson Damian 2010 Telegraph Blogger James Delingpole wins Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism The Daily Telegraph No 12 November London Archived from the original on 13 November 2010 Retrieved 12 November 2010 Oliver Laura 2010 Telegraph Blogger James Delingpole Wins Bastiat Prize journalism co uk Archived from the original on 14 November 2010 Retrieved 12 November 2010 Subtitle Delingpole beat international competition to take the 3 000 prize which recognises work that promotes the principles and institutions of the free society Freelance writer journalist and Telegraph blogger James Delingpole has won the online journalism category of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism It is the second year running in which a Telegraph blogger has taken the online award In 2009 controversial MEP Daniel Hannan won the prize for his blog for the title Amazon co uk James Delingpole Books Biography Blogs Audiobooks Kindle Amazon Retrieved 3 September 2018 Depository Book Results for James Delingpole Book Depository Retrieved 3 September 2018 Keen Mary 6 September 2002 The day I almost lost the plot via www telegraph co uk Waterson Jim 9 May 2022 Student who shot Keir Starmer Beergate video is Breitbart writer s son The Guardian Retrieved 9 May 2022 Mann M E 2013 The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Dispatches from the Front Lines Columbia University Press ISBN 978 0 231 15255 6 Retrieved 5 June 2022 External links EditPersonal website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James Delingpole amp oldid 1131955932, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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