Delingpole on Bob Ward

James Delingpole takes aim at Bob Ward.

Ouch.

Comments

[DrCrinum]

One Delingpole line caught my eye:

"But isn’t this exactly what Bob Ward does all the ruddy time, popping up like a bad smell on TV and radio whenever a rentaquote spokesman is needed to talk about ‘Climate Change’?"

... popping up like a bad smell on TV and radio ...

Smells do not emanate from a TV or radio, but sounds certainly do, so I interpret this line to mean that Bob's oral commentary imparts a bad auditory smell. Wow! Auditory halitosis. What an clever metaphysical parody of words.

[Barry Woods]

Rules of PR

Rule 1: If your PR person ever becomes the story, replace your PR person immediately.
Rule 2: see Rule 1

[Phillip Bratby]

Bob Ward comes over as a PR disaster. It is unbelievable that LSE keep him in employ. But getting rid of him would be as bad as getting rid of Pachauri. Both do considerable harm to their cause.

[hunter]

Bob Ward is diong exactly what he is supposed to: put skeptics on defense, fill bandwidth, and distract from the problems his side does not want the public to notice.

[ZT]

Now it makes sense. "Ward and Pachauri, with PR like this, it must be good science". Indeed, it is worse than we thought.

And I am sure that Franny is producing the associated infomercial - hopefully no animals will be harmed.

[Latimer Alder]

@hunter

'Bob Ward is diong exactly what he is supposed to: put skeptics on defense, fill bandwidth, and distract from the problems his side does not want the public to notice'

True. And such tactics work when there are only a few sceptics and they can be easily overloaded. A sort of 'denial of service' attack.

But judging by the increased traffic on all the sceptical sites that I read, that is no longer the case. The number of sceptics is increasing...and the number of people prepared to post and argue is increasing too.

Its true that so far the warmists have been those to set the agenda..and so choose the ground to fight on. But that is changing. Slowly but slowly opinion is turning against them and towards the sceptical position. One day soon, we will be the ones setting the agenda..challenging them to prove that they are right, not them asserting they are right and challenging us to prove them wrong.

[Barry Woods]

I have started writing to the green party about thier links to the Campaign Against Climate Change.

It offends me that MP's and MEP's are involved in this behaviour. (Skeptic Alerts, Halls Of Shame)

[John Silver]

So, why don't you just ignore this troll?

[Barry Woods]

Sometimes the bully has to be challenged, or it gets bigger and steps on more and more people.

[ianl8888]

The ABC here is the Australian Broadcasting Commission - this is relevant because what was actually happening in this radio broadcast is not well understood by those commenters from the Northern Hemisphere

That Robyn Williams (ABC radio broadcaster) indulges in this pap is not at all of note anymore. He has done so for quite many years now and indeed the ABC is and has been at the very forefront of green propaganda for about twenty years. It's akin to pointing out that the earth spins on its' axis about every 24 hours

What is of note though is the effect this relentless barrage has finally had on the voting patterns of the electorate-at-large. Aus has two major parties, roughly categorised as soft-left Labor and centre-right Conservatives (between them, they have generally captured about 90% of the vote). The Greens have been around for about twenty years but until recently were static at 10% or less of the vote

This has changed over the last few years, with the Green vote now at about 14%, with balance-of-power control in the Upper House Senate. Best estimate is that this status will remain or increase

Despite the MSM-propagated view that the Greens challenge the Conservatives, this is not where the upsurge in votes is sourced. These are coming from the inner city electorates at the expense of Labor. We are watching the implosion of Labor where a formal coalition with the Greens is likely the only survival path. This is the actual result of years of MSM and ABC propaganda, driven by the demographic that Aus is about the most urbanised country in the world.

Most Aus city people do not yet grasp that city populations can neither feed nor energise themselves. I may even live long enough to watch that finally sink in ... it will certainly amuse me

[not banned yet]

If anyone fancies a chortle there is a fine piece of creative writing from scud1 in the comments at the Telegraph. Harsh but well written stuff.

[Lucy Skywalker]

Thank you Delingpole. You've got the man nailed.

There are only a few thoroughly bad men in all this, and Ward is one, IMO. Mann did the dirty work and bullied weak-willed Jones into goosestep. Ward smeared the mud around together with desmogbog, using bullying, hysteria, half-truths, and lies. Connolley made sure the mud stuck by designing the prototype for Franny: a whole array of red buttons to press, each with a hotline to Wikipedia, the split second anyone stepped out of line, "no pressure", just Wiki rules.

Bob Ward was likely a crucial part of the process that poisoned the Royal Society: he was their PR man. Richard Lindzen wrote a very important paper describing, amongst other things, how such revolting pieces of work managed to get into the science institutions by the back door and then open that said back door to their fellow thugs.

[FarleyR]

Bob Ward is excellent - on tv he comes across as a frothing-at-the-mouth hysterical activist type and surely does the warmists little good?

[Mac]

Bob Ward, like the endangered Pachauri, should be saved.

Sceptics don't have to make arguements when we have the foaming Wards and loony Pachauris of this world inadvertently making them for us.