Fever in the Alps

EVERY year, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum has a theme, and this year it’s “The Shifting Power Equation.” But the real theme here in Davos is global warming-it’s on everyone’s lips, and everyone’s brain. There are 17-17!-separate sessions on global warming, or, as you’re supposed to call it, “climate change” (because “climate change” covers everything under the sun). You have “The Security Implications of Climate Change,” “The Economics of Climate Change,” “The Legal Landscape Around Climate Change,” etc., etc. And if you’re still feeling climate-changey after hours, you can attend the Climate Change Nightcap, whose hosts include Shimon Peres, the Israeli elder statesman, and Claudia Schiffer, the German supermodel. Oh, yes, the great and the good attend the meeting, as always. We have heads of government, like Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, and Lula (just one name, please), and captains of industry, like Bill

Gates, Michael Dell, and Sergey Brin (the Google guy), and some wild cards, like Anatoly Karpov, the chess master, and Maxim Vengerov, the violinist, and Robert Trent Jones Jr., the golf-course architect.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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EVERY year, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum has a theme, and this year it’s “The Shifting Power Equation.” But the real theme here in Davos is global warming-it’s on everyone’s lips, and everyone’s brain. There are 17-17!-separate sessions on global warming, or, as you’re supposed to call it, “climate change” (because “climate change” covers everything under the sun). You have “The Security Implications of Climate Change,” “The Economics of Climate Change,” “The Legal Landscape Around Climate Change,” etc., etc. And if you’re still feeling climate-changey after hours, you can attend the Climate Change Nightcap, whose hosts include Shimon Peres, the Israeli elder statesman, and Claudia Schiffer, the German supermodel. Oh, yes, the great and the good attend the meeting, as always. We have heads of government, like Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, and Lula (just one name, please), and captains of industry, like Bill

Gates, Michael Dell, and Sergey Brin (the Google guy), and some wild cards, like Anatoly Karpov, the chess master, and Maxim Vengerov, the violinist, and Robert Trent Jones Jr., the golf-course architect.