Let's hope...

Let's hope...  Those are the first few words of the final sentence of Matt Ridley's piece in today's Wall Street Journal:

Let's hope that the United Nations admits as much on day one of its coming jamboree and asks the delegates to pack up, go home and concentrate on more pressing global problems like war, terror, disease, poverty, habitat loss and the 1.3 billion people with no electricity.

The piece is a good observer's summation of the mess the “pause” in global temperature rise has made of the warmist's shouts of impending doom.  Mr. Ridley himself used to be an advocate for global warming mitigation action.  His views have changed in the face of evidence supporting the skeptics...