Once billed as the threat that could destroy much of life on Earth, climate change has moved to the back-burner of policy-making

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As the world spins into what appears to be a new global order, one of the dominant movements of the past half century has been pushed to the sidelines. Once billed as the threat that could destroy much of life on Earth, climate change driven by human consumption of fossil fuels has moved to the back-burner of national and global policy-making.

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When it comes to existential crises, the growing threats of wars, dictatorships, economic turmoil and national revolutions appear as real crises compared with the hypothetical risks associated with rising temperatures forecast for decades from now.

Adding to the weakening of climate alarmism is U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to pull out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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But there’s another reason for the fading importance of climate issues. Writing last week about climate from a British perspective, noted environmental academic Christian Dunn laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of the environmental movement’s incessant catastrophizing of climate risks.

In a column last week in........

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