Left and right in the climate debate

There are few issues in politics where the alignment between left and right is clearer than in the matter of catastrophic anthropomorphic global warming. In case there's any mystery in the  reason for that, it is cleared up succinctly by Bob Ludwick in a comment on Judith Curry's blog:  

As you [another commenter] point out, ‘Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change’ is not the problem, it is the solution.

And the problem? How to concentrate power and money in the hands of the ‘progressives (Democrats/liberals/socialists/Marxists/communists/greens/politically correct euphemism du jour)’.

And a huge and growing success it has been in achieving just that.