Does Yvo de Boer think that the world's citizens are very very stupid?

He admits that direct climate taxes won't fly with the public, but he thinks that people will swallow sharply higher climate-scam-related energy prices.

Tax polluters for global warming funds: U.N. official

"If we go to citizens under the current circumstances...and say 'I'm increasing your tax burden in order to pay for climate policy', that might not go down very well," [Yvo de Boer, who heads the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat] told Reuters.

The solution, he said, was to directly target the polluters as a source of revenue to help developing countries.

Speaking ahead of a major conference on climate technology transfer in Beijing, de Boer warned the rich world that under a roadmap for a climate deal to replace the current Kyoto Protocol, they had to create revenue to help developing nations fund greener growth.