For the most part, this is how the CO2 hysteria will end: not with a bang, but a whimper: Lengthy article on (former?) CO2-hysteric Tony Blair devotes exactly two words to the global warming scam

Since leaving office 19 months ago, Tony Blair has rebuilt a life almost as frantic and globetrotting as the one he lived in Downing Street. Amid criticism of his role in the Middle East peace process, Ginny Dougary and photographer Nick Danziger join the former Prime Minister on the road to discuss Gaza, Catholicism, doubt, Iraq, money and Cherie

March '08: Blair paid to lead campaign on climate change

Act urgently or global warming will be irreversible, former PM warns
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"This is extremely urgent. A 50% cut by 2050 has to be a central component of this. We have to try this year to get that agreed, because the moment you do agree that, then you have something for everyone to focus upon. We need a true and proper global deal, and that needs to include America and China," Blair said.
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He is backed by the Climate Group, a not-for-profit organisation supported by business.

Having pounded the table to promote Gore's scam, Blair and many others are very unlikely to openly admit that it was a scam. Instead, I predict that the Blairs of the world will merely talk less and less about the issue until it disappears entirely from their public utterances.