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By James Delingpole

British writer James Delingpole tells the surprising tale of the way an unholy mixture of junk technological know-how, eco-friendly hype, company greed and political opportunism ended in the most important - and costliest - outbreak of mass hysteria in history.

In Watermelons, Delingpole explains the Climategate scandal, the solid of characters concerned, their factors and strategies. He delves into the heritage of the corporations and people who have sought to push international warming to the head of the political schedule, exhibiting that underneath their cloak of eco-friendly lurks a middle of pink.

Watermelons exhibits how the clinical strategy has been sacrificed at the altar of weather alarmism. Delingpole mocks the fairway movement's pathetic checklist of apocalyptic predictions, from the "population bomb" to international cooling, which didn't materialize. He unearths the elemental misanthropy of eco-friendly ideology, "rooted in hatred of the human species, hell bent on destroying nearly every thing guy has achieved".

Delingpole provides a clean voice to common public skepticism over worldwide warming, emphasising that the "crisis" has been engineered by means of humans trying to keep watch over our lives by means of implementing new taxes and laws. "Your taxes can be raised, your liberties curtailed and your funds squandered to house this 'crisis'", he writes.

At its very roots, argues Delingpole, weather swap is an ideological conflict, now not a systematic one. eco-friendly at the outdoor, purple at the inside of, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating "watermelons" of the trendy environmental move do not need to avoid wasting the realm. they wish to rule it.

Delingpole is the bestselling British author who helped reveal the Climategate scandal in his Daily Telegraph weblog. He additionally writes a column for The Spectator. His different books contain 365 how you can force a Liberal loopy (Regnery, 2010) and Welcome to Obamaland (Regnery, 2009).

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