The Daily Mail's Funhouse Story on Climate Change

As Slatenoted last year, the UK's Daily Mail is "the world's most popular online newspaper." It's not exactly a news you can use publication. Imagine if you crossed the New York Post (and its worst tendencies) with the National Enquirer and maybe throw in a splash of Weekly World News. That's the Daily Mail. So the headlines on any given day highlight the most heinous, bizarre, and ass-clownish aspects of humanity. Imagine a newspaper that covered the world as if it was one big freak show. That's the Daily Mail. Then there is its pseudo-serious side, where typists write stories about serious subjects, like climate change. It so happens that one of Britain's most famous tabloid typists, James Delingpole, has a byline in the Daily Mail today, in which he pronounces: