Climate change doom-and-gloomers are finally bowing out and showing that common sense prevails
Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out.To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belém, Brazil — or at Harvard and on CNN — but elsewhere it’s dead.
It’s gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.By failing to pledge a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing, the venue caught fire, the air-conditioning malfunctioned — and delegates were told on arrival not to flush toilet paper.
Bill Gates’s recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise,” after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group is just the latest nail in the coffin.In October, the Net Zero Banking Alliance shut down after JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs led a stampede of other banks out the door.Shell and BP have returned to being oil companies, to the delight of their shareholders.
Ford is about to cease production of electric pickups that nobody wants.Hundreds of other companies are dropping their climate targets.
Australia has backed out of hosting next year’s climate conference.According to analysis by the Washington Post, it is not just Republicans who have given up on climate change: the Democratic party has stopped talking about it, hardly mentioning it during Kamala Harris’s campaign for president last year.The topic has dropped to the bottom half of a table of 23 concerns among Swedish youths.
Even the European Parliament has voted to exempt many companies from reporting rules that require them to state how they are helping fight climate change.It has been a long, lucrative ride.Predicting the eco-apocalypse has always been a profitable business, spawning subsidies, salaries, consulting fees, air miles, best-sellers and research grants.
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