<![CDATA[When the Spectator's Matt Ridley wrote a lengthy essay earlier this week titled "The End of the Climate Cult," I scoffed. Too many billionaires and government agencies funded their Chicken Little hysteria for les bons temps to ne pas rouler, so to speak. Yes, the end of USAID and the collapse of Arabella might have damaged its more activist arms, but the United Nations' Climate Change Conference still managed to deforest part of the Amazon to give 56,000 of the global leftist elite, many on private jets, a five-star resort experience at COP30 last month. ]]>