" 'We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,' said Edenhofer."
Obviously, the reason they don't keep this "secret" is because they have to reassure their own people that it's really about something they care for -- wealth "redistribution" -- not just something as ethereal and amorphous as alleged "climate change".
Global warming advocates are in the business of getting little people to accept a lower standard of living - nothing less.