{"id":414079,"date":"2025-11-21T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414079"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:08:00","slug":"cop30-green-hype-and-real-world-rip-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414079","title":{"rendered":"COP30, Green Hype, And Real-World Rip-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"448\" data-attachment-id=\"414083\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414083\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?fit=1306%2C808&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1306,808\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?fit=723%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?resize=723%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Entrance to the COP30 climate change conference in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, featuring the United Nations logo and decorative wooden panels.\" class=\"wp-image-414083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?resize=1024%2C634&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?resize=640%2C396&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?resize=1200%2C742&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQMClKKThFSPlJEoS3zf2ba7L7SuWO1e0EANJbyHr5afS5reVhj-keUHAJnnbg6C2jjCDaIN49JaoYwpghswIcS6eMvAi41c8tThhnn23QhMRCe432ugr0ZulnioJnWi.jpeg?w=1306&amp;ssl=1 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/11\/16\/opinion-cop30-green-hype-and-real-world-rip-offs-melanie-collette\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2025\/11\/19\/cop30-green-hype-and-real-world-rip-offs\/\">CFACT<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/mamamsd\">Melanie Collette<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/cop30\/ifp\">COP30<\/a>\u00a0unfolds in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, amid the familiar spectacle of jet-setting elites lecturing on climate from air-conditioned halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s darling? The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/climateaction.unfccc.int\/Initiatives?id=Clean_Energy_Ministerial_Biofuture_Platform_Initiative&amp;utm_source\">bioeconomy<\/a>\u201c\u2014 swapping fossil fuels for products derived from nature\u2019s bounty: plants, forests, algae, microbes, and waste. Think biofuels for your F-150, bioplastics for packaging, industrial chemicals, even drugs from organic scraps. Proponents promise circular economies, emission slashes, rural job booms, and freedom from foreign oil barons and rare-earth tyrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It evokes Reagan-era optimism: American grit turning cornfields into energy independence. But this U.N.-fueled fantasy is big-government snake oil \u2014 crony subsidies inflating costs, ravaging ecosystems, and mocking true conservation. Conservatives have battled these mandates since the Paris debacle; the bioeconomy is their sequel, exporting our prosperity to Brazilian bureaucrats while squeezing U.S. families.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/11\/13\/un-cop30-global-climate-denial-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(RELATED: United Nations Recruits Countries To Crack Down On What They Call Climate \u2018Denialism\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crop-based biofuels exemplify the scam. EPA models paint corn ethanol as a low-carbon hero. Reality bites: Mandates surge demand, spurring farmers to raze prairies and forests. \u201cIndirect land-use change\u201d (ILUC) unleashes buried carbon, often doubling emissions over decades. A seminal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energyjustice.net\/ethanol\/ghg\/2008-Searchinger-Science-1238-40.pdf?\">2008 Searchinger study<\/a>\u00a0confirmed U.S. ethanol rivals&#8217; gasoline\u2019s footprint when ILUC counts. The EU, green as it is, now phases out high-ILUC fuels to zero by 2030 under its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energy.ec.europa.eu\/topics\/renewable-energy\/renewable-energy-directive-targets-and-rules\/renewable-energy-directive_en\">Renewable Energy Directive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pain hits home. Biofuel diversions fueled the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/blog\/food-versus-fuel-v20-biofuel-policies-and-current-food-crisis\/\">2007-08 food crisis<\/a>, spiking corn and soy prices 75%, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/229961468140943023\/pdf\/WP4682.pdf\">World Bank leaks<\/a>. Families in flyover country \u2014 not speculators \u2014 paid dearly. That\u2019s not security; it\u2019s starvation politics from Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0973082623001916\">RenovaBio<\/a>, COP30\u2019s showcase, fares worse. Since 2017, it trades credits for \u201clifecycle-low\u201d biofuels, claiming transport emission wins. Lula\u2019s team hypes it as a bioeconomy beacon. But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0973082623001916\">peer reviews<\/a>&nbsp;expose the rot: no ILUC accounting, enabling Amazon-chewing sugarcane sprawl. An IEA report slams weak fraud checks and deforestation risks as demand booms. Pre-COP expos\u00e9s reveal land grabs and indigenous clashes \u2014 hardly the sustainable idyll being sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood pellets? \u201cRenewable\u201d power\u2019s grim reaper. Labeled carbon-neutral, they ignore the math: Burning trees flood the air with CO\u2082 now,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/2017\/02\/woody-biomass-power-and-heat-impacts-uk-bioenergy-policy\">regrowth lagging for 40-100 years<\/a>&nbsp;amid fires and blight. NPR probes show wood pellets are dirtier than coal in the short-term, poisoning rural air for subsidies. It\u2019s not stewardship; it\u2019s subsidized savagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bioplastics follow suit. \u201cBiodegradable\u201d PLA from corn demands industrial infernos to dissolve \u2014 useless in landfills or oceans, where it festers like PET. It commandeers food acres, gums recycling, and yields zilch on waste, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/why-bioplastics-will-not-solve-the-worlds-plastics-problem?\">Yale analyses<\/a>. Feel-good fiction, not a fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSustainable\u201d wastes? Crop residues cap at soil-safe levels to dodge erosion; overreach invites Dust Bowls 2.0. Used cooking oil? Scarce, scam-prone \u2014 importers fake \u201cwaste\u201d from palm plantations for green gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond ledgers, its values are at stake.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10531-021-02232-5?\">Monocrops gut biodiversity<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 80% species drops in Amazon hotspots, per global reports \u2014 eviscerating jaguars and habitats. Smallholders flee land rushes, igniting conflicts sans U.S.-style rights. Cronyism reigns:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ember-energy.org\/latest-insights\/subsidies-for-drax-biomass\/?\">billions subsidize<\/a>&nbsp;agra-giants; mandates crush independents; energy bills soar; innovation freezes. Climate impact?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/2017\/02\/woody-biomass-power-and-heat?\">Negligible<\/a>&nbsp;against fossils, sidelining nukes and gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservatives offer clarity: Free markets over edicts. Mandate tech-neutrality with ironclad lifecycle math \u2014 no ILUC dodges or neutrality nonsense. Axe high-risk feedstocks, EU-style. Champion audited wastes over crops. Electrify pragmatically \u2014 fleet EVs, not mandates \u2014 but gut permitting for modular reactors, fracked abundance, grid upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unleash Iowa innovators and Texas drillers on equal footing. Energy dominance &nbsp;demands merit, not Bras\u00edlia busybodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COP30\u2019s bioeconomy is hemp-clad socialism: Slick pitches veiling pricier groceries, barren fields, and bogus cuts. As delegates toast in Bel\u00e9m, recall: Prosperity springs from unchained enterprise, not U.N. utopias. Spurn subsidies; seize reliable, cheap power for families and freedoms. America first \u2014 red, white, and verdant truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Melanie Collette is a CFACT Policy Analyst. She comes to CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow) with a background in environmental\/energy policy work, especially in combating the offshore wind turbine groups and green organizations in their plans for northeast construction of wind farms up and down the Atlantic coast.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u00a0This article originally appeared at Daily Caller.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP30\u00a0unfolds in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, amid the familiar spectacle of jet-setting elites lecturing on climate from air-conditioned halls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":414083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore the COP30 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