Declining climate alarmism across the world opens the way for sensible policies to encourage economic growth and clean energy innovation

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What a difference a year makes. The push to radically reshape society to avert climate catastrophe has collapsed. At Davos — a talkfest long dominated by climate advocacy — even the strongest proponents of climate consensus abandoned it.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen didn’t mention the climate transition once after putting it front-and-centre in recent years. Prime Minister Mark Carney, who once called for “a global net zero commitment” to solve climate change, which he saw as “an existential threat,” now admits that the “architecture of collective problem-solving” long supported by World Economic Forum elites, and including UN-organized climate change summits, has been “diminished.” At home, he’s pledging to make Canada an “energy superpower.”

In the U.S., even Democrats have stopped leading with climate change as a central issue, shifting their focus to affordability, low energy prices and immediate economic relief instead. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new democratic socialist mayor, campaigned on rising grocery bills and housing costs, barely discussing........

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