The United Nations’ 30th Conference of the Parties, known as COP30, will be held next month in Belem, Brazil. It will be a nearly two-week festival of intellectual depravity, in which fiery sermons are preached, nags are given an undeserved forum, backs are slapped, glasses clinked, and participants tell each other and the world how important they are. [some emphasis, links added]
We hope that it’s an endangered species falling hard toward extinction.
While the crisis-mongers are supping luxuriously and congratulating themselves for saving a world that’s in no danger from human fossil-fuel exhaust, their crusade is losing momentum.
Polls are showing that fewer Americans believe it’s a “very serious” or serious problem. When issues are ranked by the public, climate is far behind others, such as healthcare and the economy.
It also follows, though a bit more closely, immigration, energy policy, and crime as a top concern. Some Americans are even more troubled by our growing political extremism, which, given the growing violence on the left, is understandable.
President Donald Trump, for one, seems to have never thought too much of the climate warnings. Last month, Politico reported that he was actively seeking “to undermine international efforts to tackle climate change.”
While using “the bully pulpit” at his U.N. address last month, he touted “the benefits of U.S.-produced fossil fuels,” while also ridiculing “other nations for embracing green policies and renewable energy.”
Which is as it should be. No American president ought to let an international cabal of grifters and zealots dictate our energy policy.
While Trump is not afraid to publicly call out the climatistas, other nations are tacitly acknowledging that the global warming narrative is a con. More than “100 countries have missed the deadline to tighten their climate targets” ahead of COP30, reports the Daily Caller.
“Though the Paris Agreement requires countries to set more stringent climate targets, many have yet to submit updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) plans.”
The media also seem to be losing interest, or maybe they are surrendering to the fact that the world has caught on to the ruse.
“The mainstream press run-up to COP30 is the most subdued I have ever seen, and I have seen them all. No grand global plans or calls for astronomical sums of cash,” says David Wojick.
He credits Trump for the “lack of financial grandeur.” The president “is pulling America out of the Paris Accord” – for the second time – and he has also “denounced climate alarmism as a colossal scam to the U.N. General Assembly, in their face as it were.”
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