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.
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.
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.
I predict COP31 will be even more of a green flop and a hot mess.
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