This has been an amazing thing to watch happen in what seems to be an extraordinarily short period of time when measured against how long we've been beaten about the neck and shoulders with it.
For decades now, since the little Ice Age scare of the 1970s, we've been harassed, harangued, cajoled, threatened, and mandated in ever increasingly more hysterical terms that our time was nigh, if we DIDN'T ACT NOW TO PREVENT CLIMATE DOOM.
I guess it was a self-defeating cycle the true Science™ believers embarked on, because the problem with prophecy is that, eventually, proving your visions were correct is necessary.
The problem with taking prophecy that then becomes public policy and affects lives in the name of avoiding or mitigating a prophesied doom for which even the tiniest fraction of proof never manifests, coupled with the desperation of cultists willing to manipulate data to provide such proof? After a number of decades, the hysteria tends to fall flat. The Henny Penny, sky is falling alarms no longer ring true, the costs start to outweigh the as of yet unseen benefits, and any more anxious imprecations humans must ACT NOW OR ELSE are greeted with jaundiced looks of disgust and distrust.
The smug, self-congratulatory, hypocritical cabal that has occupied the climate cult's global hierarchy and directed its efforts at regulating world order has added to the gradual erosion of faith in any of the edicts issuing from the anointed orifices of Green.
The John Kerrys, the Michael Manns, the vile little scowl monkey, the Klaus Schwabs, Merkels, and Bond Villainess der Leyens - any and all of them.
We have watched over the past year, even before Trump was elected, as this entire Ponzi scheme started collapsing in on itself.
For years, one of the greatest indulgences the Green grifting community had, which even lesser lights not normally invited to the swanky, exclusive enclave of Davos could attend, were the annual COP (Conference of Parties) get-togethers that the United Nations Climate Change 'supreme body' has organized every year since 1995, supposedly in order to check up on everyone's climate change progress, and to bang heads over new 'goals' to make living even more difficult and miserable.
What is the COP?
The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and any other legal instruments that the COP adopts and take decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention, including institutional and administrative arrangements.
More Background on the COP
A key task for the COP is to review the national communications and emission inventories submitted by Parties. Based on this information, the COP assesses the effects of the measures taken by Parties and the progress made in achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention.The COP meets every year, unless the Parties decide otherwise. The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in March, 1995. The COP meets in Bonn, the seat of the secretariat, unless a Party offers to host the session. Just as the COP Presidency rotates among the five recognized UN regions - that is, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe and Others – there is a tendency for the venue of the COP to also shift among these groups.
This was year 30 of the annual party. Held in places as far-flung as Marrakesh, Paris, or Baku, this year's soiree was in Belém, Brazil. In the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
You know - the one they're always worried about deforesting and climate change killing the trees.
That's why they bulldozed 100,000 trees to cut a 13-kilometre four-lane highway through the middle of the 'protected' rainforest to shuttle 50,000 COP30 attendees to the conference. Most of whom had arrived by private jet.
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
...through the protected Belém Environmental Protection Area south of Belém (Nov 10–21). The irony of desecrating the iconic rainforest to host a climate summit!
Red dirt is flanked by dense green jungle. Yellow excavators and bulldozers grind forward amid scattered vehicles. Experts warn of fragmented habitats, supercharged roadkill (Brazil loses ~475 million wild animals yearly to roads), & a red carpet for illegal loggers and sprawl. Net zero on the tarmac: biodiversity in the ditch.
The tiny wildlife rehabilitation center that has a hospital for accident victims like sloths hit by the occasional truck on the formerly two-lane dirt road is wondering how the animals are going to survive this gash through their formerly pristine habitat. They are also wondering if their homes will survive if the government then determines a gas station needs to be built where their formerly isolated homestead now abuts the new highway.
Huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest destroyed to build road for CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 15, 2025
Thousands of trees are being cut down to build a 4 lane highway for the upcoming COP30 climate change summit in Belem, Brazil. pic.twitter.com/9P4AOsVnZy
There were the usual virtue-signaling indigenous performances anyway.
Not everyone enjoyed them
Bora pra COP30? 😆 pic.twitter.com/Tz6rRmnGOU
— Robert R. Roman (@pois_ze_seu_ze) November 14, 2025
COP30 attendees were also treated to the glory of a full-on Socialist government's efficiency, as they remained locked out of the conference by federal police.
Pitiful kind of cries of 'Agua! Agua!' as the lady swelters in the sun against the gate.
#cop30 Vergonha Internacional. Isso é devido a um desgoverno Lula 100% despreparado. pic.twitter.com/JF8etubzLh
— AJC°•° (@ArthurJ64203117) November 14, 2025
We've all had those days.
But COP30 was largely a failure. The US boycotted the event, and even many European countries sent only delegations. Heads of state were few and far between. Dueling celebrities amounted to Prince William and Gavin Newsom.
As the CFACT guys noted, COP has turned into the world's largest trade show instead of the 'saving the world' show, and that might have benefits in itself far beyond the former 'climate' focus.
The vast majority of the tens of thousands of people attending COP30 are there to sell and buy stuff, including oil, natural gas, and even coal. Climate policy has little to do with it. This is by far the world’s biggest trade show, with almost every country represented. There is nothing else like it.
Pre-registration for COP30 is around 56,000, the second highest in COP history. Total attendance might be 70,000 or more. The press often talks as though all these people are somehow involved in the climate deliberations, but that is wildly false.
...There is no other get-together in the world even remotely like these COPs. Senior people from most countries and a lot of big businesses all talking to each other around the clock for well over a week. I envision 100,000 elevator pitches.
The number of people here to talk about climate change is probably relatively small, say just 15%. Most are here to see and be seen, to sell and to buy, or at least to start talking about that. This might actually make these otherwise stupid COPs valuable. Imagine that!
It also helped to be on a trade show expense account, because the Socialist Lula government had the food and drink market wrapped up.
You know - to save the planet.
A COP30, vendida como o ápice da “sustentabilidade global”, está mostrando o oposto do que prega. Coxinha a R$ 30, água a R$ 25 e almoço a R$ 70 - valores dignos de um resort de luxo, não de um evento que diz lutar contra a desigualdade.
— Karina Michelin (@karinamichelin) November 7, 2025
Mas o absurdo não para no cardápio;… pic.twitter.com/3v9UFfwQaL
...At COP30, sold as the pinnacle of “global sustainability,” the opposite of what it preaches is on display. Coxinha for R$ 30, water for R$ 25, and lunch for R$ 70—prices worthy of a luxury resort, not an event claiming to fight inequality.
But the absurdity doesn’t stop at the menu; cash and regular cards have been banned. Only an exclusive Cielo card, created specifically for the event, is accepted. To obtain the so-called “cashless card,” participants must register with a passport or personal document. The system is prepaid and only works within the venue—and even to recharge it, one must face lines at specific points.
In other words: not even the freedom to choose how to pay survived the “green economy.” Everything is controlled, monitored, and limited under the pretext of sustainability.
And as if that weren’t enough, there was a lack of water in the bathrooms and power outages, according to reports from journalists present. The event that aims to save the planet couldn’t even ensure the basics for its own participants.
COP30 has become the perfect portrait of climate contradiction: a billion-dollar spectacle that talks about protecting the Earth but serves as a laboratory for financial control, surveillance, and corporate marketing.
While leaders speechify about climate justice, the behind-the-scenes reveal luxury, logistical chaos, and financial exclusion. Nature, once again, is used as a backdrop—and the planet, as a pretext.
It’s the “green” economy showing its true color: not that of the forest, but that of controlled money.
COP30 isn’t just an environmental gathering—it’s a rehearsal for a digital future where freedom and consumption depend on who controls the system.
All the participants were lab rats in an experiment they paid for the privilege of attending. I saw one Xweet where a fellow was pissed about having to pay R$9 for a banana - in the middle of the jungle. Another had handed over $100 to be loaded onto his Cielo card, and it only showed a $50 balance afterward. Not many bananas at that exchange rate.
Too bad for you, gringo.
I'm not sure what they have planned for next year. At the rate they're losing influence and climate battles, there may not be much call for another world climate conference.
As the world’s climate delegations gather in Belém for COP30 (November 10th-21st), they do so under a very different geopolitical sky. The United States has withdrawn from the UN’s climate process altogether, and its diplomats have just led a successful rebellion at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to block a global carbon tax on shipping. The episode marks not only a turning point for global climate policy but a moment of historical resonance. Europe’s effort to impose its moral and regulatory hegemony on the world has been checked by the US. As in 1956, when President Eisenhower forced his European allies to abort their attempt to take over the Suez Canal, Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” approach to energy policy in 2025 has re-asserted the primacy of national interest over imperial pretension.
The IMO Revolt
In April 2025, the IMO unveiled what Carbon Brief – a European climate policy advocacy website – described as “the first in the world to combine mandatory emissions limits and greenhouse-gas pricing across an entire industry sector”. The “Net-Zero Framework” would have imposed an effective global levy on ships not meeting emissions-intensity targets and funnelled revenues into an UN-run global decarbonisation fund.
By October, that project lay in tatters. As Climate Home News – a UK-based green advocacy media outlet – reported: “The IMO’s Net-Zero Framework will be up for approval again in October 2026, after the US and Saudi Arabia persuaded countries not to vote on it as planned.” The US position is explicit. A State Department press release titled ‘Taking Action to Defend America from the UN’s First Global Carbon Tax’ stated: “The Administration unequivocally rejects any and all efforts to impose economic measures against US ships based on GHG emissions or fuel choice.”
But a good party is awfully hard to resist, especially if someone else is paying for it.
The after-party orgy is gonna be lit. https://t.co/iE8GRSt4mw
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) November 19, 2025
And they've been awfully good at spending other people's money for so long.
Old habits hurt the hardest to break.
Oh, by the way...
Nice: "Nothing says 'we've got this figured out' like going from 'burned alive' to 'frozen tundra' in the same news cycle" https://t.co/KUHdFZgtui
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) November 18, 2025
...time to bundle up.
