James Delingpole on Media Matters list of the 15

Most Ridiculous Things Conservative Media Neocons Said In 2015

"I’m proud to say that I come in at number 6 (though obviously I would have preferred higher) with my statement that alarmist climate scientists are “a bunch of talentless low lives who cannot be trusted.”

In retrospect I wish to apologise for that sentence.

What I really should have said is that these are a bunch of lying, cheating, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, third-rate tosspots who don’t even deserve the name “ scientists ” because what they practise isn’t really science but data-fiddling, cherry-picking, grant-troughing, activism-driven propaganda.

Update: Bob Carter has since sadly exited stage left, hopefully not pursued by the bear +

Sick Warmists Gloat Over Death Of Climate Hero Bob Carter
By JAMES DELINGPOLE Breitbart 22 Jan 2016
Sick Green activists have been gloating over the death of Bob Carter, the heroic climate sceptic geologist who died of a heart attack earlier this week.

Same author , same subject :

I come to bury Schneider not to praise him

By JAMES DELINGPOLE Daily Telegraph 21 July 2010

De mortuis nil nisi bonum? Yeah, yeah, whatever.

But why, pray, should one even try to find anything nice to say about the man who, more perhaps than any other, was responsible for steering the already pretty nebulous field of "climate science" into a branch of political activism so extreme that it might just as well have rechristened itself "climate Leninism"?

Yes, I'm talking about Stephen Schneider.
Stephen Schneider – who recently died of a heart attack,

Now back to The Delingpole Year in Review:

"Posterity will grant them about as much respect as we now accord the 17th century quacks who bled their patients using leeches,

Monckton: "I'm a member of Parliament. I've cured HIV"

climatecrocks.com/...his Lordship has claimed to discover a cure for HIV, Muscular Sclerosis, and the common cold ...

Einstein diatribe composer Willie Soon

"or the early 20th century German scientists who helped Hitler compose his diatribe against the discredited Jewish science of Einstein...

Really, if none of them ever published another paper in their lives and all their grant funding dried up at midnight tonight, the cause of climate science would not suffer one jot – and the world would become a much better (and richer) place. Having read through all the other items on the Media Matters list, I can’t find much fault with any of them either...

If I were an eco-Nazi I would seriously think about killing myself at this point. "

But first, a warm body funeral oration by James Delingpole

Other 2015 runners up include:

15. Fox News Hosts Congratulate Sen. Inhofe For Using A Snowball To Dispute Global Warming.The February 28 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Saturday aired footage of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) bringing a snowball onto the Senate floor to dispute the scientific finding that 2014 was the warmest year on record.

11. Mark Steyn Invokes Image Of Terrorists "Sawing Bernie Sanders' Head Off" To Attack Sanders For Linking Climate Change To Terrorism. 10. Fox's Dana Perino: If You "Really Want To Work For A Green Energy Field," The Place To Go Is Big Oil

.7. Ben Stein Attacks Global Climate Agreement: "Sav[ing] The Earth ... Is A Ridiculous Goal." On the December 14 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto introduced guest Ben Stein by saying "there's a lot" to the Paris Climate Agreement "that Ben Stein hates." Stein responded by asking: "What if man-made climate change is a fraud?"

4. WSJ Op-Ed Claims Finding That Bacon Causes Cancer Is Part Of Climate Change Conspiracy. "The Climate Agenda Behind the Bacon Scare," was co-authored by Jeff Stier and Julie Kelly of the oil industry-backed National Center for Public Policy Research and Heartland Institute, respectively