Have we reached peak alarmism on climate change? The question occurs after the muted reaction last week to the latest forecast from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In case you hadn’t heard we’re all doomed, yet the world mostly yawned. This is less complacency than creeping scientific and political realism. According to its calculations, global carbon emissions must fall 45% by 2030—twice as much as its earlier forecasts—and the world must...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 15, 2018 23:15 UTC