This is one of those moments where everything has come together so deliciously that I know I have a smirk on my face fit to beat the band.
In my VIP post on Wednesday, I caught you all up on the annual cult party that the UN throws - the Conference of the Parties (COP) - being down in Belém, Brazil this year, the thirtieth.
The splash and dash was out for the attendees who flew in on private jets from all over the globe for COP30.
The COP30 climate hypocrisy summit in Brazil. Ripping up trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a 8 mile highway to COP30 while hundreds of delegates arrive on private jet to tell us all how to save the planet.
— No Farmers, No Food (@NoFarmsNoFoods) November 7, 2025
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The socialist Lula regime did their very best to make bank off of the virtue-signaling posers coming in by the bus and Lear Jet-loads, like restricting all purchases to a state-managed Cielo card (no cash or credit cards accepted at the venue for food and beverage purchases like R$25 waters and R$9 bananas), among other pricey annoyances. But, hey - the bulk of the attendees, if not wealthy in their own right, were there on other people's largesse or expense accounts, so no skin off their sculpted or pierced noses, right?
But mostly everyone was there to see and be seen, although the quality of glitterati attending has faded somewhat. I noted that about the shiniest objects spotted were Prince William's shiny dome and Gavin Newsom's smile. There wasn't much else in the way of celebrity, even from the 'B' list.
Is this the first crack in the climate hysteria circus—spinning propaganda since '88 with endless doomsday flops? Only ~60 leaders showed for COP30's kickoff in Brazil. Xi & Modi stayed away, plus leaders from 130+ other nations. Trump didn't go; the US sent zero bigwigs.
— Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) November 10, 2025
On Day… pic.twitter.com/qFe84jSX8s
...On Day 1 back in office, Trump axed membership of the Paris Accord and called climate change 'the greatest con job ever.'
He rolled back oil/gas/coal regs, slashed taxes for fossil giants and flung open federal lands for drilling. The US now urges its allies to ditch their sad-sack green schemes and snap up American hydrocarbons. Japan, South Korea & Europe have signed deals for tens of billions in US oil & gas. COP30 a dud? Yes/No.
Of course, that didn't stop American climate crusaders from wanting to fly down to Rio, as it were, and on the taxpayers' dime.
Only this year was a rude shock for their annual green grifting pilgrimage, as the risible Senator Sheldon Whitehouse found out. Where the senator has gotten used to annually hobnobbing with those upper-echelon woke and crusading crustaceans of a sort who would also be members of his exclusive country club, this year turned out a tad differently for his government-funded junket.
It wasn't.
The United States sent no representatives to COP30 this year, a fact I guess the senator ignored when he submitted his official travel request. Wasn't he the picture of umbrage when the State Department informed him that they weren't going to pay for his trip to an unsanctioned event nor bless him with official US credentials to do so, although he was more than welcome to go as a private citizen.
Oh, Mr Whites' Only Country Club stood next to the black House Minority leader, who nodded obediently at every WAAH he spewed, while whinging that he, Sheldon Quark Whitehouse, Esq., had to find someone else to pick up his tab for the R$9 bananas.
Sheldon Whitehouse is very upset that the State Dept refused to pay for his COP30 trip to Brazil:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 20, 2025
“My credentials don't say United States of America... That's how bad the Trump administration has become."
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THAT'S HOW BAD THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BECOME
I do believe this is precisely what I voted for.
The State Department refused not only to pay for Democrats to go to an overseas Communism Conference, but wouldn't credential them as US employees.
Rubio draws prog blood again, and I am so here for it.
Who woulda thunk that it might rain in a rainforest?
There's a question with apparently no good answer, as it did rain, and people got very wet. In a rainforest.
Maybe it was payback for the four-lane highway gouged through the center of the wilderness.
Holding a climate summit in the tropics would seem to be a good idea. Scientists say the world’s hot zones are bearing the brunt of a warming climate.
“The high temperatures do help frame conversation on the reality of what we’re dealing with,” said Alex Bath, a communications director with the Global Renewables Alliance who traveled to the Amazon rainforest for the latest edition of the annual United Nations climate conference.
What the organizers of this month’s conference didn’t account for was, well, the rain.
Heavy rain is a routine occurrence in Belém, considered the gateway to the Amazon, with some 10 inches falling on average each month. Even November, supposedly the driest month, typically sees around 5 inches, which is more than the average rainfall in any month in New York City. The first day of talks at the two-week conference, known as COP30, was marked by a deluge so huge it caught the organizers by surprise.
The delegation from the U.K. fled their pavilion, abandoning coffee and snacks after a hole appeared in the tent roof, lightning crackling in the sky.
Elsewhere, leaks in the vast canopy, some 77 football fields in size, meant water was seeping through vents in the air conditioning or dripping onto the delegates who had come to negotiate what to do about climate change.
Look how inconvenient regular weather was when they had such serious work to do!
HOW DARE IT!
There were only a few working days left this week before the party was scheduled to break up, and there's always tension when the delegates have to draft 'the statement' of what they've accomplished and negotiated as far as future climate goals.
They issued the usual balderdash about skeptics and misinformation being the bane of Real Science™, and won't somebody crush these pesky, unbelieving mutants for us once and for all?
Some very scary stuff coming out of COP30: Declaration of Information Integrity on Climate Change. A sample:
— Judith Curry (@curryja) November 20, 2025
"Concerned by the growing impact of disinformation, misinformation, denialism, deliberate attacks on environmental journalists, defenders, scientists, researchers and…
...researchers and other public voices and other tactics used to undermine the integrity of information on climate change, which diminish public understanding, delay urgent action, and threaten the global climate response and societal stability"
WAAH
It's not a new lament. I think Michael 'Real Mann of Science™' writes it for them every year.
Any time they all get together, the closeness draws out the inner fascist lurking just below the collective hairline.
United Nations’ #COP30 climate summit attendees:
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) November 12, 2025
Use the EU Digital Services Act to target people who spread “climate disinformation.”
Climate crazies want to silence anyone who does not believe their climate hoax. pic.twitter.com/EWRvC9dIxo
The aim is complete control of a lifecycle from birth to death. Saving the climate is the excuse.
The host country has a lot of input on these announcements. For example, already gloomy due to Trump's election, at last year's COP29 held in Azerbaijan, they almost had to bring in therapy dogs and healing crystals when the Azerbaijani president praised fossil fuels as 'a gift from God' and told the assembled cultists that any plans for eliminating them were 'not realistic.'
It was like they heard that and all keeled over dead.
FOSSIL FUELS ARE A GIFT FROM GOD...and donk
It's not any different this year. The discussion got pretty heated right towards the end.
Well...'REALLY heated' might be an understatement.
Achei legal esse painel interativo da COP30 mostrando como a floresta é queimada no governo do amor pic.twitter.com/6r8s7fD5pn
— Renata Barreto (@renatajbarreto) November 20, 2025
...I thought this interactive panel from COP30 showing how the forest is being burned under the government of love was cool
Tempers flared...along with the expensive snacks. Where's that damn rain when you need it?
Fire at the COP30.
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth_2) November 21, 2025
I hope the cleaning staff got out OK.pic.twitter.com/kR9CZrdHsG
And you know what?
Through some miracle, with all that petroleum-heavy plastic draping (right?!), there were only 13 inhalation injuries reported. Unbelievable.
For all the flames, rains, and pains, fossil fuels won yet another round.
All mention of fossil fuels, by far the largest contributor to climate change, has been dropped from the draft deal under negotiation as the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil enter their final stretch.
Draft agreements at the meeting of nearly 200 countries usually go through multiple revisions as all parties must agree in order for a deal to pass.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and some countries including the UK want the summit to commit countries to stronger, faster action to reduce their use of fossil fuels.
An earlier text included three possible routes to achieve this, but that language has now been dropped after opposition from oil-producing nations.
A group of countries including the UK have published a letter rejecting the new draft deal.
WAAH! WE'RE NOT SIGNING THAT!
And all the green possums flipped backwards...until they woke up and started fighting over semantics again.
Until next year.
