Climate turning point

John H. Cochrane · 18 Sept 2025

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High electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness.

Their wordsThe average European and UK voter, once he or she moves on from immigration, will notice how Europe and the UK have made energy unaffordable, stopped its growth-exactly as degrowthers wish-and deindustrialized, on the altar of climate policies that do nothing to improve the climate.

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Climate change is real and is not the civilisation-threatening disaster it was sold as, and the expensive policies bought nothing.

Their wordsclimate change though real is not the civilization-threatening disaster pitched at Davos, Paris, and the media, that hugely expensive climate policies do no good
Our reading
Climate became a moral and political cause rather than a technical one, and that is what will destroy public support for it.

Their wordsThe “climate crisis” has been taught as gospel for 20 years. Now the average person can see their teachers have been preaching politics in the name of science.
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Trust in institutions has fallen because the institutions have been repeatedly and spectacularly wrong.

Their wordsWell, when the institutions are over and over spectacularly wrong, whether just incompetent, politicized, or mendacious, there is a reason for loss of trust.
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High electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness.

Their wordsThe average European and UK voter, once he or she moves on from immigration, will notice how Europe and the UK have made energy unaffordable, stopped its growth-exactly as degrowthers wish-and deindustrialized, on the altar of climate policies that do nothing to improve the climate.

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