E. Calvin Beisner points to an upcoming U.N. report to say climate alarmists are shifting from climate change to protecting various species around the world as another way to advance totalitarian politics.

Nonetheless, as global warming fears collapse in the face of Climategate, the green socialist machine is scrambling to be ready to switch gears. Perhaps the new rationale for global wealth redistribution and deindustrialization will be preserving biodiversity. It’s a good candidate: It has all the flaws of global warming – bad science, bad economics and totalitarian politics.