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Celebrating Paris Climate Agreement at Ten? (postmodernism in action)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 29, 2026

“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.” (James Hansen, The Guardian, December 12, 2015)

Jean Boissinot is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here and here) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.

Boissinot’s celebration post about Paris 10 follows:

About yesterday – on the occasion of the day to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement organized in Académie du Climat by the Fondation PARC – Paris Agreement Research Commons and the Collège des Directeurs du Développement Durable (C3D).

🎂 Thank you to the organizers (Stéphane VOISIN, Quitterie Lasserre ) for taking the time to create this moment. 🎤 Thank you to Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore for assembling its bouquets of speakers. 🫶 Thank you to all those who, on stage and at the microphone or backstage, shared their memories of the “making of” of COP21. 📖 Thank you to the readers of “Green Finance” (the 1st and 2nd editions) – it’s always a pleasure to exchange with you!

✍️ And thank you to my fellow signers, especially Sylvianne VILLAUDIERE, especially for this very improbable double Dunod (Marie-Cécile de Vienne, Ludivine L., Garance M., Delphine Levêque, Eglantine Assez, Adeline Coffinier ) – and a friendly nod to the booksellers who made it possible despite, in short… (librairie et éditions Utopia )

Celebration? For what exactly? Confirmation bias is certainly present as the true believers grasp at any good news and sugarcoat the bad. Such is the nature of a failing crusade, when it is otherwise time to question assumptions and acknowledge energy and political reality. As I stated in a previous post:

It’s a funny, scary time in the climate alarmist camp. Once-favorable economic and political trends are going the other way in the U.S. and increasingly in the world. What to do? Literally thousands of climate-issue employees (grifters?) need to find alternative employment, almost all in net-positive (CO2) industries where value is being created rather than redistributed and lost. Big Money Green will keep —–priming the pump for many, however, so a base of false-green advocacy will remain.

Will Jean Boissinot et al. change their mind? Can they with all the emotional and financial capital invested in a failing worldview? Human betterment requires fossil fuels, not wind/solar/batteries. Here’s to open minds at the current inflection point. There are signs aplenty, beginning with politics and continuing with (pragmatic) business and ending with the great middle (citizen voters) unmoved by climate alarmism relative to other issues.

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Other Paris Climate Agreement posts at MasterResource:

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