James Delingpole is a UK columnist who regularly writes denial pieces so outrageous we try not to waste your time with them, for fear your eyes will roll right out of your head. Much the same way one ignores a child throwing a tantrum, most of the public ignores his hyperbolic whingeing. But those who confuse the bitter bile of political impotence with smart and serious satire take him seriously, so we’re compelled to occasionally cover his climate craziness.
Now an executive editor for Breitbart London, Delingpole still makes time for the print rags he once called home. For example, in April he wrote a characteristically overwrought column for the Spectator. Though this attack on the science of Ocean Acidification (OA) didn’t make too big a splash at the time, there’s now a full point-by-point rebuttal plumbing the depths of Delingpole’s deceptive polemic.
If you’re interested in reading how Delingpole misrepresented OA experts while unquestioningly citing deniers and dissecting his use of pretty much every denier trick in the book, it’s all laid out one paragraph at a time. But the summary statement from piece’s author and actual OA expert Dr. Phillip Williamson is that “almost everything that could be factually wrong, is wrong.”
Given Delingpole’s career of publicizing Climategate, praising Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia and testing the bounds of human decency with the BP oil spill, the fact that he got basically everything wrong on acidification sounds exactly right.
For those who recognize the difference between science and demagoguery, Delingpole’s attempt to use an acid tongue to dispute OA will only further dissolve that which is already likely extinct anyway: his credibility.
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