Alarms Silenced

From the greatest moral challenge of our times, impending doom and global catastrophe to political yawn in 6 months.

Andrew Bolt writes:

Only a few months on from Kevin Rudd’s holy invocation of little Gracie at Copenhagen, and we’re already in a post-alarmism era, writes Lawrence Solomon:

Last week’s G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto and its environs confirmed that the world’s leaders accept the demise of global-warming alarmism.

One year ago, the G8 talked tough about cutting global temperatures by two degrees. In Toronto, they neutered that tough talk, replacing it with a nebulous commitment to do their best on climate change — and not to try to outdo each other. The global-warming commitments of the G20 — which now carries more clout than the G8 — went from nebulous to non-existent: The G20’s draft promise going into the meetings of investing in green technologies faded into a mere commitment to “a green economy and to sustainable global growth.”

Besides Rudd, other politicians who’ve been brought down or compromised by their alarmism faith include Malcolm Turnbull, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy. Spain’s José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi have both abandoned large-scale greenish energy projects. Barack Obama is stalled:

Major environmental and liberal groups are pressing President Barack Obama to play a stronger role in crafting climate change legislation and shepherding it through the Senate, claiming their members are “deeply frustrated” by inaction to date.

Get used to it. Inactivism is the new Big Thing.