Perhaps it’s time to give up on climate? That’s what all the serious people are saying. Energy historian Daniel Yergin and others. A think tank set up by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A “pragmatic way forward” is, in essence, to conclude the energy transition’s not happening, says Yergin. Current ambitions are “unrealistic and therefore unworkable,” says the think tank. In the more pungent words of President Donald Trump, climate action is a “con job.”

The conclusion? Let’s just stop pretending and drill, baby, drill.

This contrarian chorus is so noisy and persistent that it’s easy to miss how dramatically wrong it is.

We hit the objective

Some ambitions, like the promise to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, are being missed. The evidence of nearly three decades of c

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