Fighting man made climate change or redistributing wealth?

"The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War...one must say clearly that de facto we distribute the world's wealth by climate policy.... One has to rid oneself of the illusion that international climate politics have anything to do with environmental concerns."

Otto Edenhofer, IPCC Working Group III co-chair, Nov. 14, 2010.

What is the true aim of Climate policy?

Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated. – Ottmar Edenhofer

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So you think the wealth gap is growing? Wrong - Comment - Voices - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/so-you-think-the-wealth-gap-is-growing-wrong-8431460.html
A rare bit of sense from The Independent.

'Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated.'

The Global Warming Policy Foundadtion report a fascinating interview by Bernard Potter with German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. Read the whole piece and you will see that those of us who have been saying for quite some time that the Global Warming scare was a means to an end and that the end was clear, may have been correct.


Thanks to The Daily Bayonet via Theo Spark for the spot.