We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy

[Elwar]

I have said it time and time again, when the goal of the global warming alarmists is no longer socialism, then I'll start to listen to their "facts". Until then, it's just the same communist agenda of the 1900s re-branded.

“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.

So what is the goal of environmental policy?

“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer.

For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn’t really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that “the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”

Perhaps Naomi Klein summed up best what the warming the fuss is all about in her book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.”

“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis?” Klein asks in a preview of a documentary inspired by her book. “What if it’s the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?”

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarmist-admits-real-motive-behind-warming-scare/

[McGinS]

Oh sure, re-post a barely re-worded 5 year old spin job in order to sell your e-trader software to people who fall for this kind of stuff.

Explaining the spin, as I'm sure many people here will tell you, almost ALL government policy de-facto redistributes wealth... ban a product, no one can buy it. Lower speed limits make faster cars less appealing and some manufacturers lose out, etc.

This article and the "interview" it shamelessly re-hashed try to make banal centrist policies - their effectiveness notwithstanding - look like some kind of socialist conspiracy.

I'm not taking a position on those policies, heck, I won't say there isn't a conspiracy but it's got to be an impressive one and it's going to take a lot more than spin doctors taking quotes from some e-mail out of context and twisting the words then appending "gate" to convince me.

Sometimes I wonder if they make these things on purpose - astute readers will notice the out-of-context hatchet job on the quotes, and people who have less time to read the article, will get angry at the "alarmist conspiracy". And then the two sides attack each other, the educated people think that the real conspiracy is to make it look like a conspiracy so oil can keep making money, but are kept busy arguing with the people complaining about "alarmists" to dig into the real conspiracy that the fake conspiracy is covering up.
It's brilliant.