"China’s vice foreign minster has confirmed his country is not behind a climate change hoax, as suggested by Donald Trump.

'If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC [UN climate science panel] with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,' Liu Zhenmin told media on Wednesday.

A 2012 tweet from the US president-elect suggested the Beijing government had made up the concept of global warming to cripple the US economy."

Ed King reports for Climate Home November 17, 2016. [2]