I imagine a lot of readers are suspicious about the United Nations (U.N.)-directed fight against global warming/climate change. I’ve long held the suspicion that the U.N.-led fight against global warming was simply an excuse to gain control over people and resources. It’s been difficult for me to see the U.N.’s efforts to combat so-called “anthropogenic global warming” or “climate change” as solely an effort to combat the heating of the planet in the aftermath of Climategate and in light of scientific evidence that suggests recent climate change can be largely explained by natural phenomenon (i.e. the fluctuation in solar variation).
Recently, Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and member of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted that climate policy is really an effort to redistribute the world’s resources. Here is Edenhofer’s most revealing comment from a recent interview that you can read here:
“First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole”.
Edenhofer even goes as far as to call next month’s world climate summit in Cancun, Mexico (interesting that they decide to hold a summit at a tropical resort city instead of the North Pole) “one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War” and not a “climate conference”.
One could argue that Edenhofer is a rogue official, but the U.N. wouldn’t name him as a member of the IPCC unless he shared the views of other IPCC members. The U.N. cannot be thrilled that one of their members was so transparent about perhaps the real motivation behind climate policy.
