evidence: Much of the press coverage hinged not so much Hansen’s prescience—that is old news—but on increasing hostility in the United States to scientific observations, and the actions they might suggest. The Associated Press’s Seth Borenstein noted that "America’s political climate may have changed more than the Earth’s over the past three decades." As late as 2008 the Republican Party platform called for action against climate change; today, the U.S. administration has exorcised those very words from web sites and we are the sole nation on the planet to withdraw from the Paris climate accords. Predictably, the Wall Street Journal marked the anniversary with an opinion piece by two associates of the libertarian Cato Institute claiming that Hansen, and all the major scientific bodies of the world including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been wrong all along. "It’s time to acknowledge that the rapid warming he predicted hasn’t happened," they write. Their recommendation for action: "a lukewarm policy, consistent with a lukewarming planet." [...] James Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right about global warming Associated Press