This Year’s UN Climate Summit in Brazil, COP30, Is a Green Flop
The A-List World Leaders failed to show. But B-List Gov. Gavin Newsom did, and he then proceeded to bash Trump and tout California’s green successes.
A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump declared that the climate crisis was dead, as more people are becoming aware of the fact that it has been nothing more than an excuse to grift. He was successfully reversing course on some of the most destructive policies emanating from the pseudoscience.
The luster is finally coming off the glamorous annual climate conferences as well. Hints that the gig was up began surfacing last year, when the leader of the host nation explained to attendees at the United Nations Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) that fossil fuels were a “gift from God”. Of course, the event took place in Azerbaijan, which is a petroleum-producing nation. Still, it was a hopeful sign.
This year’s conference was expected to play out a little differently. It was held in Brazil, the first time in the Amazon region that is sacred to eco-activists. It was hosted by the leftist leader of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. They carved a swath through the rainforest to construct a four-lane highway, stretching more than 13 kilometers, to help participants get to the conference.
They bulldozed 100,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest for a highway to shuttle 50,000 delegates to COP30—and private jets are falling from the skies in a carbon confetti parade. The Avenida Liberdade (Liberty Avenue) slices 13 km through the protected Belém Environmental… pic.twitter.com/HqA30sIkhs
— Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) November 11, 2025
It was going to be glorious. However, most of the A-List world leaders failed to show.
The COP30 climate alarmism summit hosted by Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week had the lowest attendance turnout by world leaders in the past four years, the Brazilian outlet Poder 360 reported.
..The high-level summit, hosted by Lula in the city of Belém, Pará, attracted only 31 participating heads of state out of 198 countries that sent delegations to the event.
President Donald Trump did not attend the summit or send any high-level representatives of his administration — a decision that appears to have angered some of the participating leftist heads of state, who dedicated time off their respective speeches to lash out at Trump for challenging the global climate alarmism movement.
The turnout is the lowest since 2019’s COP25, an edition that faced an urgent last-minute change in venue from Chile to Spain due to a wave of violent far-left riots in the South American nation.
The COP30 was a complete flop. Most countries didn't show up. Only 20 countries out of 200 continued their pledges. Trillions spent, world emissions unchanged. Think what the world could have done with that money. The Net Zero scam is almost over. https://t.co/XXLgpcfbm3
— John Lee Pettimore (@JohnLeePettim13) November 11, 2025
However, B-Listers were present. One was California Gov. Gavin Newsom, clearly trying to build some momentum for the 2028 presidential election season. He used the opportunity to do what Democrats do…hate on Trump.
Calling America’s absence from key United Nations climate negotiations “doubling down on stupid,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the United States risks being left behind as an economic power.
Newsom, a Democrat eyeing a 2028 presidential run, is so far the highest profile of several U.S. governors and mayors at U.N. climate talks being hosted in Belem, Brazil. They say they are here to tell the 195 nations who are trying to fight climate change that much of the United States is doing its best despite Trump administration policies overturning environmental regulations and aiding the production of dirty fuels, such as coal, while stymying green energies like wind and solar.
As he did during his first term, President Donald Trump is also pulling America from the 2015 Paris Agreement, which set international goals to limit average global temperature rise.
Newsom’s presence as governor of the most populous U.S. state serves to draw a clear contrast with Trump’s absence. He said Trump’s decision to skip the talks tells the world: “You don’t matter, we don’t care.”
Back in California, Pacific Palisades is still in ruins, and the state is trying to figure out what happens when an important refinery shuts down. There are a myriad of other issues in California that Newsom clearly doesn’t care about.
Lula, the host, seems more game than Azerbaijan’s president to gin up climate panic and expressed a great deal of anger at “climate denialism“.
In his opening address, President Lula warned that “climate change is not a threat to the future – it is a tragedy of the present.”
Citing Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean and a tornado in Paraná, the President declared this “the COP of truth,” warning that denial and delay are no longer options. “We are moving in the right direction – but at the wrong speed,” he said. “Crossing 1.5°C is a risk we cannot take.”
He went on to call strongly for an end to climate denialism, underscoring that: “In the age of disinformation, obscurantists reject not only scientific evidence but also the progress of multilateralism. They control algorithms, sow hatred, spread fear, and attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists. Without the Paris Agreement, the world would be heading toward catastrophic warming of nearly 5°C by the end of the century.”
As Eric Worral of Watts Up With That notes, the reference to algorithms appears to be directed at Artificial Intelligence. As I have indicated in previous posts, massive data centers will require reliable, efficient and inexpensive energy. The eco-activists seem to be directing their anger at Big Tech firms that have embraced the realities of physics and geologic history.
Belém, host of #COP30, has 84% of homes without sewage… 97% of wastewater untreated, dumped straight into the water.
But sure, let’s spend billions on virtue signaling climate models instead of fixing actual pollution today.
This isn’t environmentalism.
It’s climate theater. pic.twitter.com/VYxsOWkT0r— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) November 10, 2025
I predict COP31 will be even more of a green flop and a hot mess.
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It’s not a flop to those on tax dollar fully paid vacations. Commies love other people’s money, such a greedy bunch.
Sounds like a very poorly implemented scam fundraiser for Brazil. I wonder if their people will hold him accountable.
Probably not, He is a socialist after all.
Plus, the caviar was WARM. Ewwwwwww!
“Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the United States risks being left behind as an economic power.”
Says the man who is destroying every industry in his own state, save fantasy entertainment and online porn (but I repeat myself).
And yes, that INCLUDES mistreating his flagship “legal pot” industry.
“He said Trump’s decision to skip the talks tells the world: “You don’t matter, we don’t care.”
Actually, a much better description of why HE got tapped to fill one of the remaining huge gaps in their speaker program.
Scum is such a tool bag it’s a wonder even gullible CAs don’t see through him.
Communism is still communism even if you give it a cool sciencey name like “gLObaL WaRmiNg!” 😱
I read Al Gore’s ‘Earth in the Balance’ way back in the day. When I got to the chapter in which he discussed the issue that I’m an expert in he got it all wrong. Not even close.
I knew right then that climate change (or whatever we’re calling it this week) is a steaming pile of 🐂 💩.
To paraphrase Idiocracy, “Co2 is what plants crave”. I’d be more concerned about a repeat of the Year Without a Summer (1816).
David Atherton
@DaveAtherton20
Yesterday evening at an
@BobbyVylan
concert in Kentish Town there were signs that said it was a “Zionist free zone”.
A man who was a passive spectator was arrested for wearing a t-shirt which had the words “Some people are Zionists, get over it.
Some cops are Nazis, get over it.
Bob Vylan receive apology and substantial damages from Manchester Evening News over “Nazi salute” claims
https://www.nme.com/news/music/bob-vylan-receive-apology-and-substantial-damages-from-manchester-evening-news-over-nazi-salute-claims-3906666
This was an extremely serious and damaging allegation, falsely suggesting that an artist whose entire career is rooted in anti-racism and social justice was performing a Nazi salute,” he said. “In fact, our client merely drew attention to the genocide in Gaza, at a time when many ignored the crimes of the IDF.”
so hes not,,as they claim,, a racist
ahahahaaaaaaa
Speaking of vacations, the California MOU with Nigeria lays the groundwork for lots of meetings (boondoggle vacations) but no action. Curiously, the MOU does mention that the population of Nigeria is predicted to explode but the MOU does not seem to be concerned about this from an environmental impact perspective. My take away is that they are not doing anything except talk.
The Secretary of the UN spoke lots of fine words that don’t mean anything and will not result in anything. For example he said, “let fairness be the engine of progress”. Clearly he has no idea of how economic progress, of any sort, is achieved. Adam Smith, almost 250 years ago in the Wealth of Nations, wrote how economic progress is achieved, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.”
These grifters say they want to save the planet, but they have no problem destroying 100,000 trees so the conference can be held in a 4th world city. The conference could have been held in Brazilia, or Rio, or Sao Paulo, but no they had to hold in Belem. They really don’t care about the environment. Also, many could have come on commercial flights, but no, they had to use private jets. Again, they speak, or act, with forked tongue.
Who moved Newsom up to the B-list?
The UN needs to go the way of the League of Nations.