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Page 216 ‘a BBC Horizon documentary of January 2011’– ‘Science Under Attack’, BBC Horizon. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
episode/b00y4yql/Horizon_20102011_
Science_Under_Attack/ [Accessed 13 March 2011].
Page 217 ‘an extract from a joint letter which had been published in Science magazine’– ‘Climate Change and the Integrity of Science’, Science, May 7, 2010, 328(5979). Available at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5979/689.full [Accessed 13 March 2011].
Page 218 ‘This is hardly consistent with the idea that he was ‘open-minded’ on the subject of AGW: for that particular circle, it’s one of the key articles of faith.’ – See: Watson, P., Prison Planet blog, ‘Secretive Rich Cabal Met To Discuss Population Control’ Available at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/secretive-rich-cabal-met-to-discuss-population-control.html]
Page 219 ‘The BBC has held a high level seminar…’ – ‘From Seesaw to Wagon Wheel: safeguarding impartiality in the 21st century’, BBC Trust Report 18 June 2007. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/other/century21.shtml
Page 219 ‘A 2011 report into the BBC’s science coverage’ – Jones, S., Review of Impartiality and Accuracy of the BBC’s coverage of science, 20 July 2011 Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/
other/science_impartiality.shtml For comments on this, see also: Delingpole, J., Telegraph blogpost: ‘BBC’s biased climate science reporting isn’t biased enough, claims BBC report’ Available at: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/
100098066/bbcs-biased-climate-science-reporting-
isnt-biased-enough-claims-report
Page 221 ‘[Australia’s] state officials…cancelled or neutered flood defense programs’ – see: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/it-was-bound-to-happen.html [Accessed 13 April 2011]
Pages 222 ‘the real cause of the fire: a global warming activist at a Rainbow Festival’ – see: http://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/
2011/01/13/environmentalist-starts-israels-worst-
ever-firegreenpeace-blames-global-warming/
Page 222 ‘Viner was quoted in a newspaper article’– Onians, C., ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past’, Independent Online, 20 March 2000. Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html [Accessed 13 March 2011].
Page 222 ‘a massive rescue operation was underway to free a Russian factory fishing ship’ – North, R., ‘In serious trouble’, EU Referendum Blog, 14 January 2011. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-serious-trouble.html [Accessed 13 March 2011].
Page 223 ‘In the US, NASA announces that 2010 was the third hottest year since records began in 1880.’ – NASA (2011). ‘NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record’, Goddard Institute of Space Studies, January 12. Available at: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20110112/ [Accessed 13 April 2011]
Page 223 ‘The ranking ‘third hottest year’ is all but meaningless, as even Hansen himself admitted’– ‘Despite Subtle Differences, Global Temperature Records in Close Agreement’, NASA, 13 January 2011. Available at: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-climate-records.html [Accessed 13 March 2011].
Page 223 ‘.…Upstarts like Henrik Svensmark’ – Delingpole, J, ‘CLOUD Rains on Climate Theory’, Energy Tribune 2 September 2011. Available at: http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/8448/CLOUD-Rains-on-Climate-Theory
Page 224 ‘Here’s a classic example from October 2011’ – Fischer, D.., ‘Evidence builds that scientists underplay climate impacts’; Daily Climate, 18 October 2011. Available at: http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/10/climate-alarmism
Page 224 ‘As Marc Morano noted at the Climate Depot website…’ – Morano, M., – ‘Warmists now claim global warming worse than predicted. Climate Depot responds. The scientific case for man-made climate fears has collapsed.’ Available at: http://www.climatedepot.com/a/13338/Warmists-Now-Claim-Global-Warming-Worse-than-Predicted-Climate-Depot-Responds-The-scientific-case-for-manmade-climate-fears-has-collapsed
Page 226 ‘Someone who might have a near 100 per cent failure record on all his doomsday predictions’. For examples of Tim Flannery’s consistent wrongness, see Bolt, A., blogpost, Herald Sun. Available at: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/it-pays-to-check-out-flannerys-predictions-about-climate-change-says-andrew-bolt/story-e6frfhqf-1226004644818
Chapter Eleven: Decline And Fall (pt II)
Page 229 ‘The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.’ – Vladimir Lenin
Page 235 ‘Chris Horner in his book Power Grab’ – Horner, C., (2010), Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America (New York: Regnery).
Page 235 ‘‘We have two very powerful allies on our side’, says the great Climate Realist Christopher Booker’– Personal communication.
Page 237 ‘With good reason, the U.S. meteorologist Roy Spencer describes our current Global Warming paranoia’– Spencer, R., (2010), The Great Global Warming Blunder, (Encounter Books). p. xxvii
Page 238 ‘In his excellent book Climatism!’– Goreham, S., (2010), Climatism! Science, Common Sense & the 21st Century’s Hottest Topic, (RealStory Books).
Page 239 ‘I suspect the public doesn’t realise how radical this legislation is’– see ‘Doomed By Democracy?’, BBC Radio 4, May 30, 2010. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfwtc [Accessed 28 January 2011].
Page 240 ‘Research … by economics professor Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez’– Alvarez, G.C. (2009), ‘Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources’, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Available at: http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf [Accessed 28 January 2011].
Page 240 ‘According to research by Verso Economics’ – Marsh, R., and Miers, (2011) Worth The Candle? The Economic Impact of Renewable Energy Policy in Scotland and the UK. Available at: http://www.versoeconomics.com/research.htm
Page 240 Obama and green jobs – see Delingpole, J., Telegraph blog post ‘Rogue Trader in $38.6 billion green jobs fraud’. Available at: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/
jamesdelingpole/100105725/rogue-trader-in-38-6-
billion-green-jobs-fraud/ [Accessed 7 November 2011]
Page 241 ‘By vastly exaggerating the threat of earthquakes, water contamination and taps of flaming methane’. See Delingpole, J., – Telegraph blog post ‘How many died in the great Blackpool earthquake of ‘ll?’ Available at: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/
100111487/how-many-died-in-the-great-blackpool-
earthquake-of-11/ [Accessed 7 November 2011]
Postscript: The Big Lie
Page 251 ‘Every snowflake is unique…’ – Mann, M., Climate Contrarians Ignore Overwhelming Evidence; letter to Wall Street Journal, 5 December 2011; Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB10001424052970204449
804577068211662483248.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLE
ThirdBucket#articleTabs%3Darticle
Page 251 ‘Big Lie.’ – See Vol 1; Chapter X of Mein Kampf; Hitler, A., translated by Murphy, J., Available at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
Page 253 David Horowitz; Spectator interview by Delingpole, J., A Refreshing Weekend of Real Conservatism; 26 November, 2011; Available at: http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/all/7418698/a-refreshing-weekend-of-real-conservatism.thtml
Page 253 ‘An opinion page article in the … Wall Street Journal…’ – Muller, R., The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism, Wall Street Journal, 21 October, 2011. Available at: http://online.wsj.com/
article/SB100014240529702044224045765
94872796327348.html
Page 254 ‘In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme…’ – BBC Radio 4 interview 21 October 2011. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/
h
i/today/newsid_9621000/9621049.stm
Page 254 ‘As the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s David Whitehouse pointed out…’ – Whitehouse, D., Best Confirms Global Temperature Standstill; 29th October 2011; Available at: http://www.thegwpf.org/the-observatory/4230-best-confirms-global-temperature-standstill.html (Accessed 5th December, 2011)
Page 255 ‘There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped…’ – Judith Curry, interviewed by David Rose in the Mail on Sunday, 30 October 2011; Available at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-
climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-
accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html [Accessed 5 December, 2011]
Page 255 ‘Christopher Booker’s devastating December 2011 report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation…’ – Booker, C., The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal, Available at: http://www.thegwpf.org/gwpf-reports.html [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 256 ‘In it [Lord May] claimed…’ – Address of the President Lord May of Oxford OM AC FRS given at the Anniversary Meeting, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 30 November 2005. Available at: http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/60/1/109.full. [Accessed: 6 December 2011]
Page 257 ‘We are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them coverage at all…’ – Kirby, A.; Climategate 2.0 email 4894txt. to Phil Jones, 6December 2004. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=4844 [Accessed: 6 December 2011]
Page 262 ‘Observations do not show rising temperatures…’ – Thorne, P, Climate Research Scientist, Hadley Centre, private email 4 February 2005. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=1466 [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 262 ‘The science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.’ – Thorne, P; private email 20 February 2005. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=3016 [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 262 ‘Basic problem is that all models are wrong – not got enough middle and low level clouds’ – Jones, P.; private email 11 March 2004. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=1448 [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 262 ‘What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation?’ – Wils, T.; private email 28 March 2007. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=1632 [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 262 ‘I can’t overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a message that the government can give on climate change to help them tell their story’ – Humphrey, K.; DEFRA private email 19 May 2009. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=2445 [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 262 ‘But for GODS SAKE please respect the sensitivity here and destroy the file immediately when finished and please do not tell ANYBODY I sent this. Cheers Keith’ – see Briffa, K.; private email 12 October 2001. Available at: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=3705 [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 263 ‘Fear also runs through quite the nastiest thread of the Climategate 2.0 email correspondence….” – see Climategate 2 and Corruption of Peer Review, New Zealand Climate Change blog. Available at: http://newzealandclimatechange.wordpress.com/
2011/11/27/climategate-2-and-corruption-of-peer-review/ [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Page 263 ‘Across the world, many records reveal that the twentieth century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium’ – see Soon W, Baliunas S (2003) Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years. Available at: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/cr/v23/n2/p89-110/ [Accessed: 11 December, 2011]
Nihil Sub Sole Novum: A Brief Afterword
Page 268 http://www.populartechnology.net/2012/06/truth-about-richard-muller.html
Page 268 ‘Because they weren’t scientifically credible.’ – see: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/why-the-best-papers-failed-to-pass-peer-review/
Page 268 ‘… a paper on US surface station temperatures.’ – see: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would simply not have been possible without the help, advice, encouragement, eagle eyes, taste, expertise, generosity, wisdom, kindness, patience, insight, passion, learning and judgement of the many friends cited below. I call them friends because that is what they have all become. Meeting them, working with them, learning from them and generally hanging out with them: this has been the greatest pleasure and privilege of writing this book. If you’re not mentioned below and feel you ought to have been, consider yourself added – and I beg your forgiveness.
Special, special, über thanks go to my team of expert advisors/encouragers/phone confidantes/fact-checkers/ego boosters. They are: Christopher Booker, Bob Carter, A. N. Ditchfield, Andrew Montford, Julian Morris, Richard North, Ian Plimer, Matt Ridley.
Thanks to my editorial team: Kendra Okonski, Stuart Bramwell, Teri Moore, Michael Nolan, Diana LeCore and Jonathan Harley.
Thanks to all the wonderful scientists/bloggers/polemicists/politicians/cartoonists/
illustrators/economists/think-tankers/fellow travellers I have befriended on the way – and to the friends who were already friends but whom I now love still more. They include, in no particular order: Andrew Orlowski, Alan Howard, Milo Yiannopoulos, Josh, Fenbeagle, Christopher Monckton, Marc Morano, Benny Peiser, Donna Laframboise, Andrew Bolt, Jo Nova, Douglas Murray, Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Nigel Lawson, Anthony Watts, Willis Eschenbach (and the WUWT gang), Chris Horner, Roddy Campbell, Josie Jackson, Pat Michaels, Victoria Michaels, Robert Michaels, Roger Helmer MEP, Godfrey Bloom MEP, Anthony Howard, Myron Ebell (and all at CEI), Steve Goreham, Avril Terri Jackson, Fred Goldberg, Fred Singer, Hans Labohm, Cory Bernardi, Ian Wishart, Indur Goklany, John Fund, the Fox & Friends team, John Stossel, Kim Strassel, David S. Taylor, Douglas Murray, Henrik Svensmark, David Archibald, Brendan O’Neill, Max Borders, Bridgett Wagner, Brittany Balmer (and all at the Heritage Foundation), Melanie Philips, Joe Bast, James Taylor, Nikki Comerford (and all at Heartland), Joe D’Aleo, Eric Worrall, Malcolm Delingpole, Richard Delingpole, Charlie Delingpole, Tiffany Daneff, Stephen Daneff, Mark Musser, Philip Foster, Alain de Botton, Alan Oxley, John O’Sullivan, Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney, Steven Milloy, C3 Headlines, Donna Edmunds, Redmond Weissenberger, Ken Shock, Fay Kelly-Tuncay, Hillsdale College, Cami, Casey, Rob, Mo, Betty and the rest of the Facebook gang, Martin Helme, Fraser Nelson, Mary Wakefield, Freddy Gray, Liz Anderson, Harry Crocker, Philip Hensher, John Barnes (Washington Policy Center), John Pollock, Paul Chesser (American Tradition Institute), Barbara ‘Babe In The Bunker’ Simpson, Arlene Bynon, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, G. Gordon Liddy, Dennis Miller, Haunting The Library blog, Biased BBC blog, Susan Hill, Paul Feine, Michael Kelly, Lubos Motl, Rajan Alexander, Tim Worstall, Ecotretas, P Gosselin, Aaron Levisay, Terence Corcoran, Fill In Your Name Here…
Thanks to the Telegraph blogs team: Chris Deerin, Marcus Warren, Toby Young, Ed West, Dan Hannan, Will Heaven, Tom Chivers, Lucy Jones, Daniel Knowles, Toby Harnden, Katharine Birbalsingh, Nile Gardiner, Ben Brogan, Ed Roussel and above all, Damian Thompson, without whom there would have been no blog, and consequently no Watermelons.
And finally, thanks to all my loyal blog commenters for their wisdom, their insight, their links, their banter, their encouragement and their endurance in the face of relentless provocation from my noisome festering menagerie of house trolls.
INDEX
9/11 Truth movement 1, 2
10:10 pressure group 1
Aaronovitch, David: Voodoo Histories 1
Abbess, Jo 1, 2
ABC news 1, 2, 3
acid rain 1, 2, 3
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) 1
Æthelred the ‘Unready’ 1
Africagate
Agenda 1
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 1
AIDS 1, 2, 3
scare of early 1980s 1
air conditioning 1, 2, 3, 4
air miles 1, 2, 3
airlines 1, 2
Albania
Tirana, 1
Allen, Prof. Myles 1
‘alternative energy’ 1, 2
Alvarez, Dr Gabriel Calzada 1
Amazon region 1, 2, 3
Amazongate 1
American Cancer Society 1
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1
American Meteorological Society
BAMS (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) 1
American Physical Society 1
American Thinker 1
Americans for Prosperity Foundation 1
Amundsen, Roald 1
Anderson, Gillian 1
animal rights 1, 2, 3
Annan, Kofi 1, 2
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
AGW industry as a political process
alarmism 1, 2, 3, 4
defending the cause 1, 2
and the first Climategate inquiry 1, 2, 3
flaws in 1
flimsiness of the theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and funding 1, 2
industry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
jury on AGW still out 1
the lobby’s credibility 1
and the Medieval Warm Period 1
Monbiot’s view of the AGW debate 1, 2
‘null hypothesis’ on 1, 2, 3
one of the defining political ideas of our age 1
and Post Normal Science 1
propaganda 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and Ravetz 1
as a religion 1, 2, 3
and the Royal Society 1