{"id":413162,"date":"2025-11-13T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=413162"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:44:20","slug":"climate-delusions-gaslighting-at-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=413162","title":{"rendered":"Climate delusions & gaslighting at COP30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Peter Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN & China make impervious demands for cash & control<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bel\u00e9m, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absurdities abound at this year\u2019s United Nations Climate Summit, COP30, in Brazil. This is not unique to these annual gatherings, yet never cease to amaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The standouts at this year\u2019s summit thus far start at the top, with UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, whose opening speech<\/a> raised hysteria and gaslighting to new heights. China\u2019s Vice Premier, whose nation seeks global dominance, also weighed in with calls to uphold \u201ctrue multilateralism\u2026 [and] coordination.\u201d The host country\u2019s president, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva of Brazil, screeched about those in opposition to the UN\u2019s climate agenda, evidently with U.S. President Donald Trump living rent-free in his cranium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all too rich for leading globalists demanding more cash and control over the sovereignty of individual nations, including their economies and living standards \u2014 just to keep the average global temperature increase from exceeding 1.5 degrees a quarter century from now, which they assume will occur \u2014 but cannot prove \u2014 based on carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary-General Guterres claims that \u201cscience now tells us that a temporary overshoot of the 1.5 [degree] limit starting at the latest in the early 2030s is inevitable.\u201d This \u201covershoot,\u201d he claims, \u201ccould push ecosystems past irreversible tipping points to unlivable conditions and amplify threats to peace and security \u2026 more hunger, displacement, and loss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is so common with these screeds, \u201cscience\u201d is mentioned, but none was given by the secretary-general, nor by anyone else at the podium. No data and zero evidence of forthcoming catastrophe were presented. Rather, even as emissions have increased, World Bank data<\/a> show that global poverty is way down in the last three decades, especially in nations with their own oil and gas development, from the United Arab Emirates to Azerbaijan, the two previous hosts of UN climate summits. Climate policies do not reduce poverty \u2014 they will increase it in developed and developing countries alike by raising the cost of all energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change policies won\u2019t help people in Bel\u00e9m shanty towns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we have noted, Bill Gates himself evidently is done with such fatuous existential climate claims and has called for refocusing resources on directly fighting poverty and disease among the world\u2019s poor, rather than on spurious attempts to alter global temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secretary-general\u2019s claim of a nexus between climate change and \u201cthreats to peace and security\u201d is especially insulting to populations suffering in war zones. Are there any Ukrainians or Israelis blaming the climate for being invaded by their hostile neighbors? Was \u201cclimate change\u201d motivating Vladimir Putin or Hamas to launch their attacks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, Secretary-General Guterres and his fellow travelers are demanding $300 billion in annual contributions, growing to $1.3 trillion annually, mostly from the United States and Europe, to fund their climate fantasies throughout the developing world. These projects certainly will enrich corporations, lawyers, and NGO bureaucracies, but will do nothing to ameliorate hunger or mitigate disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year at COP29 in Baku, self-congratulations among the climate delegates were pervasive with their agreement for nations to provide carbon mitigation plans and new financial commitments. Most nations have done little to nothing since. With so many countries annually refusing to cough up such largesse, Guterres sounds more desperate and dishonest with every COP summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is the People\u2019s so-called Republic of Communist, dictatorial China. Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang said<\/a> that nations need to cooperate more on expanding \u201cgreen technology\u201d and pushed for more \u201cglobal climate governance\u2026 [for] global sustained development.\u201d This from a nation that is expanding coal capacity and production in 2025 at the fastest rate in nearly a decade, according<\/a> to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to this report, China has failed to live up to its pledges on using coal in a more supporting role for renewable energy and to phase down coal production. Still, the CREA report, while documenting China\u2019s coal expansion, speculates that it \u201csignals \u2026 a last-ditch effort before China\u2019s 2030 carbon peaking deadline,\u201d after which it \u201cshould be the priority to meet climate goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to these geniuses and every UN bureaucrat who takes China\u2019s word on climate \u201cgoals\u201d or \u201ccommitments.\u201d They never have, and never will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, on a note of hilarity, Brazil\u2019s President Lula da Silva said<\/a> the world must \u201covercome fossil fuels\u201d and defeat those \u201cextremist forces [that] invent untruths\u201d about climate change. Those who oppose the UN climate agenda, he said, will \u201cperpetuate social and economic disparities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This thinking is backward, as Belem\u2019s own shanty towns reveal. Oil, coal, and gas fueled development in every first-world nation and improved living standards for more than a century. These sources are needed more in the developing world, which is why China is relentless on coal expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar and wind energy, which rely on fossil-fuel backup, remain a tiny percentage of the energy mix. Attempting to impose such sources on any nation\u2019s people \u2014 rich, poor, or middle class \u2014 is foolhardy and impractical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, such impediments to energy reality are no barrier to national leaders gaslighting and fantasizing at UN climate conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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