Coffee on the brink of extinction due to climate change? Olive oil in permanent crisis? Not according to the data.

Something was conspicuously missing from California’s primary this month. In the state that built its political identity around fighting climate change, the issue barely registered.

Voters fixated on affordability and housing. About 44% named the cost of living, jobs and inflation as the state’s most important problem, with just 1% citing climate change.

Even Tom Steyer, the billionaire who made his name funding climate activism, ran a campaign centered on lowering household costs.

Bjorn Lomborg joined the radio program Chicago’s Morning Answer to assess the implications of that admission and what a more rational approach to climate policy would look like.

Copenhagen Consensus President Bjorn Lomborg joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to explain why California and New York are scaling back climate goals and argue that green policies are proving more expensive than promised.

How to manufacture a crisis: A WHO commission wants to declare climate change a “global health emergency.” Their big evidence? Rising heat deaths in Europe. But once you adjust for an ageing society, the “crisis” essentially disappears. Even more dishonestly, the report conceals that cold deaths have declined by approximately 250 times as much as heat deaths have risen.

Two decades ago, Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth thrust climate change into the global spotlight. With dramatic imagery and dire warnings, it transformed a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists.