Rogue Chats Up the Green's "Issues" with Dennis Miller and James Delingpole

Today, RogueOperator had the pleasure of chatting up the inimitable Dennis Miller and the iconoclastic James Delingpole, author of Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. Their chat sesh was preceded by some tete-a-tete with the avuncular Thomas Lifson, editor of American Thinker. Audio of their oh-so-brief time together linked below [3:00-4:00]:

RogueOperator on The Dennis Miller Show 6-28-11

On the advice of a caller to the Dennis Miller Show, I read Walter Russel Mead’s latest blogs on Al Gore.  They’re worth a skim. Frankly, I find Mead far too conciliatory as to the green movement’s intentions; but then again, he is perhaps practicing the art of incremental persuasion.

The following is the paragraph I thought particularly apt.

The global green treaty movement to outlaw climate change is the most egregious folly to seize the world’s imagination since the Kellog-Briand Pact outlawed war in the late 1920s.  The idea that the nations of the earth could agree on an enforceable treaty mandating deep cuts in their output of all greenhouse gasses is absurd.  A global treaty to meet Mr. Gore’s policy goals isn’t a treaty: the changes such a treaty requires are so broad and so sweeping that a GGCT is less a treaty than a constitution for global government.  Worse, it is a constitution for a global welfare state with trillions of dollars ultimately sent by the taxpayers of rich countries to governments (however feckless, inept, corrupt or tyrannical) in poor ones.

There is the crux of the issue: the constant apocalyptic fearmongering of the left, proceeding since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Paul Erlich’s The Population Bomb, has been going on on for decades now; and despite their prognostications in no wise coming true, and despite the Holocaust-worthy, god-awful effects of such causes as banning DDT and ethanol subsidies, we find the green movement still conveniently driving the statist-globalist agenda of all-powerful control over man’s environment; to wit, everything.