Political class rewards climate fat cats, starves the poor and needy: One fifth of government aid is diverted to the climate industry. These funds were formerly spent on necessities such as better education and improved health care for instance-Richard Tol, The American Interest, 2/10/2014

Richard Tol has served on 4 UN IPCC reports.

 2/10/2014, "Hot Stuff, Cold Logic," The American Interest, Richard Tol. Tol, an economist, "is a veteran of four assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

"A fifth of official development aid is now diverted to climate policy. Money that used to be spent on strengthening the rule of law, better education for girls, and improved health care, for instance, is now used to plug methane leaks and destroy hydrofluorocarbons. Some donors no longer support the use of coal, by far the cheapest way to generate electricity. Instead, poor people are offered intermittent wind power and biomass energy, which drives up the price of food. But the self-satisfaction environmentalists derive from these programs does not put food on poor peoples’ tables.

In sum, while climate change is a problem that must be tackled, we should not lose our sense of proportion or advocate solutions that would do more harm than good. Unfortunately, common sense is sometimes hard to find in the climate debate. Desmond Tutu recently compared climate change to apartheid.¹ Climate experts Michael Mann and Daniel Kammen compared it to the “gathering storm” of Nazism in Europe before World War II.²

That sort of nonsense just gets in the way of a rational discussion about what climate policy we should pursue, and how vigorously we should pursue it." (end of article<sup>) 

 1</sup>Tutu, “We Fought Apartheid. Now Climate Change Is Our Global Enemy”, Guardian, September 20, 2014.

 ²Mann and Kammen, “The Gathering Storm”, Huffington Post, September 19, 2014."

"Richard Tol teaches economics at the University of Sussex and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is a veteran of four assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

 

 

 

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