An Impertinent Pup From Snopes Tried

To Fact-Check Me On Global Warming.

Written by James Delingpole

As I predicted, my piece “400 Scientific Papers say ‘Global Warming’ is a Myth”,

is causing greenie heads to explode like watermelons struck by hollow-point bullets.

Here is an email I got shortly afterward from a guy at… Snopes.

Hello James,
I’m a science writer for the fact-checking website Snopes.com reporting on your ‘400 studies say climate change is a myth’ exposé. I had a couple of questions about your process:
Did you read all (or a fraction) of the 400 studies listed in that post personally or talk to any of the scientists involved?
How long did it take to research this piece?...
Best, Alex

This Alex is an impertinent pup, isn’t he?...

Snopes’s question:

Did you read all (or a fraction) of the 400 studies listed in that post personally or talk to any of the scientists involved?

My answer:

I see what you’re trying to do there. And I’m not playing. Let me explain why.

The other day I read a long book... Now I don’t actually speak Russian so I had to take... the English translation

I apply this to lots of other things too. For example: … I send my kids off to boarding school so I don’t have to discipline them…

Yes, I suppose I could have spent days (weeks?) reading all the papers myself,

But I didn’t – ... because that would have been utterly and dumb and pointless...

Only an imbecile... could possibly be so blinkered and stupid as to imagine otherwise."