The End Of The Climate Cult: It’s Been A Long, Lucrative Ride – Matt Ridley

Warm weather – time for an ice cream perhaps. [image credit: RSPB]

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The long retreat from hopeless and corrosive net zero-related policies and agendas is well underway, but there’s still a long way to go before all the subsidies and other unmerited concessions, mandates and so on are eliminated or at least brought under real control, if they ever are. The non-alarmist sections of the media are all keen on this Matt Ridley article.
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Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out, says Matt Ridley @ The Spectator (via Climate Dispatch).

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 (NZBA) 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.

Full article here.
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The Daily Sceptic chimes in with a similar theme – The Global Warming Gravy Train is Coming to a Screeching Halt at Long Last. It features this quote from Matt Ridley:

Of course, Al Gore, the former US vice-president who did more than anybody else to alarm the world about climate change and made a $300 million fortune from it, has been at the recent conference in the Brazilian jungle – the one where they felled a forest to build the access road. As he railed against Gates last month for abandoning the cause and accused him of being bullied by Donald Trump, he sounded like one of those Japanese soldiers emerging from the jungle who did not know the second world war was over.

Perhaps Gore might now regret his exaggerated preachings of hellfire and damnation.
[Talkshop comment: well, perhaps not as it’s been so lucrative for him.]
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Image: enjoying warm weather.