James Delingpole’s Watermelons have been making quite a splash this weekend. No, not the fruit. The book: Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future. Quite a mouthful, but if you like Watermelons it’s something to get your teeth into.
The book broke Amazon’s top 100 this weekend and is currently number 15 on their science and nature bestsellers chart. It also reached number 2 on the movers and shakers chart. Swing it, shake it, move it, make it, in the words of the most successful girl group of all time. If you want to move and shake the way we do I suggest you pre-order the book, which is released on the 16th February, now.
In the book Delingpole details how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest – and most expensive – outbreak of mass hysteria in history. It explains the Climategate scandal, the cast of characters involved, their motives and methods. He delves into the background of the organisations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda, showing that beneath their cloak of green lurks a heart of red.
For those sceptical of climate change the book is sure to be an enjoyable read. For those who are committed environmentalists the book is an essential. Coming from one of the defining members of the climate change-sceptic movement, this book is sure to advance the debate on global warming and provoke opinion. Do you want to miss that? Surely not!
You can also read what James had to say on climate change in the Daily Mail this weekend when he asked: ‘Why, when the records show that there has been no global warming since 1997, are we still squandering billions of pounds trying to avert it?’
Still not convinced you should read this book? Well if fruit-related work trickery and Spice Girls lyrics haven’t convinced you I don’t know what will. Perhaps this review, where Roger Helmer MEP says of the book:
‘I’m hugely impressed. It is so many things at once — a polemic, an analysis, an enormously valuable, well-researched and referenced resource, inspiring to those of us committed to opposing climate alarmism, convincing for those still in doubt, a horrid shock to the Warmists, and an awful warning of the economic damage we’re doing to the West in general and the UK in particular’.
Yes.