{"id":575799,"date":"2010-05-22T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5755"},"modified":"2010-05-22T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:55:41","slug":"greenies-the-red-the-dumb-and-the-angry-by-james-delingpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575799","title":{"rendered":"Greenies: the Red, the Dumb and the Angry by James Delingpole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=318\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;James Delingpole&quot;\">James Delingpole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Just back from the Oxford Union where, last night, we debated the motion: This House Would Put Economic Growth Before Combatting Climate Change. Though I wouldn\u2019t necessarily say I sucked, my performance definitely wasn\u2019t as strong as the <a  href=\"http:\/\/truthiscontagious.com\/2010\/05\/18\/uk-journalist-and-climategate-vanguard-global-warming-debate-as-%E2%80%98important%E2%80%99-as-winning-world-wars\">one I gave at Heartland<\/a>. Luckily I had the benefit of a blindingly good team in the form of Lord Lawson of Blaby, Lord Leach and Viscount Monckton \u2013 who temporarily ennobled me to Lord Delingpole of Blogosphere so I didn\u2019t feel too left out.<\/p>\n<p>Much to my surprise the motion carried. (133 Ayes; 110 Noes) I suppose I oughtn\u2019t to be surprised, what with all the arguments so obviously in favour of our side and none in favour of theirs. But you never quite know with undergraduates \u2013 even frightfully clever Oxford ones \u2013 because, never having inhabited the real world, they can all too easily incline to dreamy idealism combined with an utter failure to grasp economic reality.<\/p>\n<p>What really struck me about the occasion, though, was the unspeakable direness of the opposition. I don\u2019t mean the nice girl from Trinity College: as an officer of the Union, she had to take whatever side of the debate she was given to argue. I mean the three others, who embodied pretty much everything wrong with the green movement: its crypto communism; its woeful ignorance; and its sphincter-popping rage.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: blogs.telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5755\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L8STopvxJxcOtx2BqecCBxAyj4k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L8STopvxJxcOtx2BqecCBxAyj4k\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L8STopvxJxcOtx2BqecCBxAyj4k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L8STopvxJxcOtx2BqecCBxAyj4k\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/Oamo2pgo_Wg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: James Delingpole Just back from the Oxford Union where, last night, we debated the motion: This House Would Put Economic Growth Before Combatting Climate Change. Though I wouldn\u2019t necessarily say I sucked, my performance definitely wasn\u2019t as strong as the one I gave at Heartland. Luckily I had the benefit of a blindingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}