{"id":404062,"date":"2025-09-22T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404062"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:36:13","slug":"the-paris-delusion-collapses-even-the-new-york-times-admits-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404062","title":{"rendered":"The Paris Delusion Collapses: Even the New York Times Admits It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has taken a full decade, but the mainstream press is finally catching up to what we at Watts Up With That<\/em> (WUWT) have been saying since the day the Paris Agreement was signed: it was built on sand, unenforceable, and destined to crumble under the weight of its own political posturing. Now, in a remarkable piece of candor, the New York Times<\/em> admits<\/a> what has long been obvious to anyone outside the climate activist bubble: the age of Paris is over, and the world has lost its appetite for climate politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sprawling retrospective, David Wallace-Wells (yes, the same writer who once branded himself the chronicler of \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d) now concedes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA decade later, we are living in a very different world. \u2026 an official U.N. report declared that no climate progress at all had been made over the previous year, and several of the most prominent architects of the whole diplomatic process \u2026 published an open letter declaring the agreement\u2019s architecture out of date and in need of major reforms\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sound familiar? It should. Back in 2015, Paul Driessen wrote on WUWT that The \u2018Binding\u2019 Paris treaty is now just voluntary mush<\/a><\/strong>. Unlike the Times, we didn\u2019t need ten years to figure it out. Six years ago we posted: The Climate Decade that Was: Failed Predictions, Tour De Paris, and the Gretas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Wallace-Wells, the Times\u2019 resident prophet of doom, opens his essay with a question that would have been unthinkable to print in 2015: \u201cHow do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It Isn\u2019t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics. – The New York Times<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is the same Wallace-Wells who made his name spinning apocalyptic scenarios of climate collapse. His book The Uninhabitable Earth<\/a><\/em> was practically a handbook for the Greta Thunberg generation. Yet now, even he is conceding that the global political consensus on climate action has dissolved into indifference and backsliding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A decade ago, Paris was sold as nothing less than the salvation of humanity. Barack Obama declared that the agreement was \u201cthe best chance we have to save the one planet we\u2019ve got\u201d. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claimed sustainability would define the 21st century the way human rights had defined the 20th. His successor, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, elevated the treaty to near-scriptural status, suggesting its significance rivaled the U.N. charter itself. Pundits, activists, and world leaders congratulated themselves on ushering in a new era of global solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At WUWT, we weren\u2019t fooled. On the very day the Paris agreement was signed, I wrote that it was \u201ca non-binding collection of political promises, unenforceable and destined to unravel\u201d. We noted that the agreement contained no enforcement mechanism, no penalties for failure, and relied entirely on the good faith of politicians whose careers depend on short-term voter approval. It was obvious then, and it is undeniable now, that this was a recipe for failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times admits that the unraveling has been swift. When Paris was forged, the United States was still a net importer of energy. Today, it is the world\u2019s largest producer and exporter of refined oil and liquid natural gas. The Biden administration\u2019s much-heralded Inflation Reduction Act, hailed as the single largest climate bill in U.S. history, has been gutted and dismantled under President Trump\u2019s second term. As Wallace-Wells notes, Trump has not only canceled approvals for new renewable projects, he has literally \u201cpaved over that same Rose Garden\u201d where Obama celebrated Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But America is not the only player abandoning climate pieties. Canada\u2019s new prime minister, Mark Carney\u2014once the high priest of climate finance\u2014made his first act in office the repeal of Canada\u2019s carbon tax, and he was rewarded with a landslide victory. Mexico\u2019s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist by training, now boasts about her nation\u2019s booming oil and gas industry while enjoying one of the highest approval ratings of any world leader. Europe, once the vanguard of green virtue, is retreating as well. Laws once touted as proof of planetary salvation are being weakened, watered down, or repealed under pressure from populist coalitions and economic reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mood has shifted so dramatically that Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser and now head of Columbia University\u2019s Center on Global Energy Policy, admits: \u201cYou can\u2019t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without \u2018pragmatism\u2019 and \u2018realism\u2019 being thrown around as the order of the day. \u2026 But it\u2019s not clear to me that anyone knows what those words mean other than this whole climate thing is just too hard\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the very people who once lectured the world about \u201cexistential threats\u201d are now shrugging their shoulders and calling it \u201ctoo hard.\u201d This, after years of hectoring ordinary citizens to give up reliable energy, pay punitive carbon taxes, and trust in grand promises that were never going to materialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One cannot help but recall the fevered rhetoric of just a few years ago. At COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, then\u2013Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned, \u201cIt\u2019s one minute to midnight on that Doomsday Clock, and we need to act now.\u201d Prince Charles (now King) declared it was \u201cliterally the last-chance saloon.\u201d Barack Obama told young people to \u201cstay angry\u201d and \u201cchannel that frustration\u201d into ever more demands for climate action. The mainstream press ate it up, as did activists who treated climate politics as a secular religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But today, those same conferences are sparsely attended. President Biden skipped COP29, as did Vice President Harris, China\u2019s Xi Jinping, Brazil\u2019s Lula da Silva, and France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron. Even the U.N.\u2019s own reports admit \u201cno climate progress at all\u201d has been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because when push came to shove, voters simply weren\u2019t willing to pay. This is something WUWT has documented repeatedly. Polls show that while people will tell surveyors they \u201ccare about climate change,\u201d it ranks dead last in voter priorities, and support collapses when costs are attached (WUWT, 2019<\/a>). As we pointed out during Europe\u2019s energy crisis, when forced to choose between freezing in the dark or burning more coal, people chose warmth and light every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times, in its own roundabout way, now validates this. Wallace-Wells concedes that \u201cpolls show that voters don\u2019t actually prioritize decarbonization and, crucially, aren\u2019t willing to pay much to bring it about\u201d. That\u2019s precisely what we\u2019ve been saying for over a decade: you can\u2019t build climate policy on the assumption that the public will sacrifice endlessly for hypothetical benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, the Times tries to find a silver lining. Wallace-Wells notes that renewable energy investment has surged in recent years, with solar installations now measured in terawatts instead of megawatts. He emphasizes that \u201c93 percent of new power worldwide came from clean sources\u201d in 2024. But even this acknowledgment is tempered with a concession that such growth \u201cis not yet enough to push global emissions downward\u201d. And, crucially, he admits that what growth exists is being driven not by top-down treaties or activist demands, but by markets and consumers: \u201cDecarbonization could not be reliably imposed from above on moralistic terms and would have to be powered instead by market forces, private investment and the informed consensus of a price-conscious public\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That line could have been lifted straight from WUWT. We have long argued that technological innovation\u2014when it makes sense economically\u2014will naturally find its way into the energy mix. It does not require endless climate conferences, bureaucratic targets, or punitive taxes. It requires affordability, reliability, and demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The irony is rich. For years, critics of Paris\u2014including myself\u2014were dismissed as \u201cdeniers\u201d for pointing out that the agreement was structurally doomed. Now, with the entire world backsliding, the same voices who scolded us are echoing our conclusions. Wallace-Wells admits that \u201cperhaps it was always foolish to believe the world might fulfill the headline dream of Paris, and keep warming close to 1.5 degrees, and perhaps the promises to do so were always empty, as the most informed always suspected\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exactly. Empty promises, designed more for political theater than practical action. Paris was never a roadmap; it was a mirage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let\u2019s not forget the broader consequences of these failed policies. In Europe, energy shortages forced governments to spend more on direct fossil fuel subsidies than on renewables during the Ukraine crisis. In Germany, the vaunted Energiewende collapsed into higher prices, unreliable grids, and renewed coal burning (WUWT, 2024<\/a>). Meanwhile, China has quietly seized dominance of the green supply chain, producing 74 percent of global solar and wind projects and exporting panels so cheaply that they are flooding markets from Pakistan to sub-Saharan Africa. The West\u2019s grandstanding has left it weaker, not stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we are witnessing is the slow-motion collapse of a delusion. The climate establishment promised salvation through international treaties, moralistic speeches, and punitive economic policies. Instead, they delivered broken promises, higher costs, and a geopolitical shift that left China in command of the very industries the West hoped to control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At WUWT, we have been consistent. We warned that Paris was unenforceable. We pointed out that voters would never accept the sacrifices demanded. We documented the failures of renewable mandates, the hypocrisy of elites, and the unintended consequences of policies that put ideology ahead of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, at long last, even the New York Times<\/em> can no longer deny it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Paris Agreement did not save the planet. It did not usher in a new era of solidarity. It did not fulfill its grand promises. It was, as we said from the beginning, a mirage\u2014one that distracted from practical solutions while enriching a class of political elites and green investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The age of Paris is over. And we told you so.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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