Climate is really all about politics
WE should be cautious when listening to those who, throughout history, have told us we are in great danger and must act now to save ourselves.
In the present instance our planet is supposed to be dangerously overheating and threatening us, along with millions of other life forms, with extinction.
“We”, of course, means the ruling class and acting now means allowing politicians to raise taxes and regulate away much of our freedom.
If you live in the countryside you can forget owning a car to go shopping in town.
Anyone who has read about the Green New Deal being proposed by far left members of the House of Representatives in the United States as the solution to global warming and endorsed by all the Democrat candidates for president will have an idea of what we are in for if it is ever implemented.
Fortunately, it is wholly unrealistic but it does reveal an aspiration. The truly menacing aspect of the proposal is that it is not designed to save the environment but to remake society into a communist Utopia.
Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff of Alexandra Ocasio-cortez who first brought the deal to public attention, indiscreetly said this: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-theentire-economy thing.” (Washington Post)
That means the government taking complete control of the private economy.
Climate change is the cover story. Our own equally unrealistic zerocarbon plan is projected to cost at least £1 trillion but that is peanuts compared to the $93 trillion or more projected for the Green New Deal.
From 2008 to 2015 Dr Ottmar Edenhofer was co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on “Mitigation of Climate Change.”
He is also deputy director and chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, one of the climate centres helping write climate policy for the EU, the UN, and the World Bank, and one of the most-cited sources on climate in the mainstream media.
During an interview in 2010, Dr Edenhofer candidly declared, “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.”
He then added this alarming admission: “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Climate change is about politics, Marxist, socialist, collectivist politics.
The UK is responsible for about 1% of the world’s anthropogenic CO2 emissions. In the unlikely event that we succeeded in reducing CO2 emissions to zero by 2050 - not sure what you do about people breathing it out all the time - there would be no measurable effect on global climate.
There would, however, be very measurable effects on our economy and way of life. Mark Allaby Stanton