Two important climate stories have somehow evaded media attention. The first is that the authoritative International Energy Agency now recognizes that the high-emissions (and therefore high-warming) scenarios associated with future energy use are flat-out wrong, and the second is that global greening is fighting global warming.

The only real attention that has been paid to the IEA’s bombshell is from University of Colorado’s Roger Pielke, who notes that “thousands” of alarmist articles in the scientific literature now need major revisions (or retraction?). This is a problem because that literature forms the core of the most recent (2018) United States “National Assessment” of climate change effects, a sort of biblical resource for policymakers and the media.