Within weeks, World Weather Attribution had delivered its verdict: climate change made the rainfall about 40 per cent more intense. Blame was attributed to climate change, framed as an abstract collective failure with no single culprit. The politics of climate change have crossed a critical threshold. Back in 2019, the G20 halted multilateral funding for oil and gas exploration in developing countries just because it could, ignoring the consequences for growth in developing countries. Carney is right to emphasise that fighting climate change is every country’s responsibility, but his message has fallen on deaf ears.