Excellent news from the liberal bastion that is the University of California, Berkeley: Climate change is solved. We can all stop marching and demanding fundamental changes in the structure of society because the problem is done and dusted. Which is nice, of course, but what makes it better is that we just can’t argue with such a source of establishment orthodoxy, can we? Surely, Berkeley must be entirely unbiased and unimpeachable on climate change, no?

True, this isn’t quite what they announced, but it is the obvious outcome of what they say. Their point is that new solar and new wind generation is cheaper today than even new gas, let alone coal or nuclear, as methods of producing the electricity we desire. They go on to say, “Let’s not build any more gas, let alone coal or nuclear” — and given that cheapness, that’s a jolly good idea. At which point, we do get to insist that climate change is solved.