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James Delingpole is an English journalist and novelist. He has published several novels and two political books, How to be Right: The Essential Guide to Making Lefty Liberals History,[1][2] and Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work[3]. He writes for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and as a television critic for The Spectator. He describes himself as a libertarian conservative.[4]
Views on climate change
In his writing and media appearances, Delingpole regularly expresses a viewpoint that man-made climate change is not as extensive as it is described in the mainstream scientific opinion on climate change, and has linked alarmist projections concerning climate change with "the atavistic impulse which leads generation after generation to believe it is the chosen one: the generation so special that it and it alone will be the one privileged to experience the end of the world; and the generation so egotistical that it imagines itself largely responsible for that imminent destruction".[5]
Debates with George Monbiot
In a debate with George Monbiot in the The Daily Politics programme in March 2010, Delingpole stated that climate science differs from science in the conventional sense of the term, and that the former "is not about rigour, it's not about empiricism, it's not about the pursuit of truth – it's about politics".[6] Shortly before their BBC appearance together, Monbiot wrote in The Guardian that Delingpole produced "ill-informed viciousness" about the subject and accused him of "putting a wrecking ball through any claims the denial lobby might have to being civilised, intelligent or serious",[7] while Delingpole described Monbiot as "a Malthusian pessimist who believes that man is essentially a blot on the landscape".[8]
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