RIP Christopher Booker the World’s
Greatest Climate Change Sceptic
JAMES DELINGPOLE 3 Jul 2019
Christopher Booker, the world’s greatest climate sceptic, has died.BRITON MOURNS PASSING OF WORLD'S GREATEST CLIMATE SCEPTIC |
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... he was one of very, very few journalists capable of getting climate sceptical arguments... in his weekly Sunday Telegraph column.... he made it very hard for his many enemies on the green side of the argument simply to dismiss him as an ignorant crank.,,
WORLD'S SECOND GREATEST CLIMATE SCEPTIC |
Booker, in other words, was considerably more formidable... than most of the tragic little pigmies who made it their business to mock his journalistic columns and to wear him down with vexatious complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation...During his long, varied career he had been the founding editor of Private Eye... jazz critic for The Spectator, a... correspondent at the Moscow Olympics and a crusader against the European Union...
But in our final
conversations he did admit to finding it extraordinary – as I do – that almost a decade after Climategate,,, we are still no closer to derailing the $1.5 trillion (plus) per annum... vast and powerful climate alarmism industry screams that the sky is falling and that we’re all doomed (unless we spend still trillions more on this non-existent problem…
Booker was like my honorary dad...when the phone rings... I’ll still pick it up half expecting to hear a man about to launch into another hour long conversation ranging from the European Union to climate change to Peter Cook to his schooldays at Shrewsbury: “Dellers!…”