UN Climate Summit COP30 held in Belém Brazil: ‘A city where raw sewage flows openly into waterways’ – ‘A staggering 80.7% of Belém residents have no access to a sewage network’
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/cop30-in-belem-the-pinnacle-of-climate The Pinnacle of Climate Hypocrisy: Prioritizing Fantasies Over Real Human Suffering DR. MATTHEW WIELICKI As COP30 kicks off this week in Belém, Brazil, I can’t help but reflect on one of the key moments that soured me on the climate movement entirely. The Pinnacle of Climate Hypocrisy Prioritizing Fantasies Over Real Human Suffering. For […]
‘There’s no such thing as a low-energy rich country’ – ‘You can have prosperity or you can have low energy use—but you can’t have both’
You can have prosperity or you can have low energy use—but you can't have both. Every prosperous nation in existence runs on abundant, cost-effective energy (which almost always means fossil fuels). https://t.co/a60boBEthP — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) October 27, 2025
UN Climate Week reveals elites’ scorn for the world’s poor – In 2024, ‘the world spent over $2 trillion on climate policies. By 2050, net-zero will cost an impossible $27 trillion every year’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/opinion/un-climate-week-reveals-elites-scorn-for-the-worlds-poor/ By Bjorn Lomborg As world leaders and influencers converge for New York’s UN General Assembly and Climate Week, two incompatible visions are about to clash — rich-world elites obsessed with climate change versus developing nations battling poverty, hunger and disease. Here’s a plain fact the elites refuse to accept: Hundreds of trillions of dollars […]
No climate equity here! Belém residents evicted in rush for profits from UN Cop30 climate summit rentals – As Brazilian city prepares to host 50,000 UN delegates, local people are being pushed from their homes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/22/belem-residents-evicted-to-make-way-for-cop30-rentals By Amanda Magnani and Laiza Mangas The two-bedroom apartment in Belém became Suelen Freitas’s home in 2020, when she moved her family to the same building as her elderly mother. On the edge of the Amazon rainforest, it was where her story played out for five years, from enduring the Covid pandemic, to watching […]
Watch: Morano on Fox Trump makes global push for fossil fuels & Gov. Newsom suddenly realizes California has an energy shortage problem
The Bottom Line – Fox Business – Broadcast September 22, 2205 The Bottom Line – September 23, 2025 Trump makes global push for fossil fuels – ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano discusses President Donald Trump’s upcoming speech on fossil fuels and more on ‘The Bottom Line.’ California trying to keep oil and gas firms from […]
Trump pushes World Bank to finance more fossil fuel development – U.S. is applying pressure to lenders to drop restrictions on projects ‘contributing to climate change’
https://archive.is/yTlPz https://www.ft.com/content/24c67b12-14d5-43a8-a00e-54eba71fcba5 By Attracta Mooney in London and Aime Williams in Washington Excerpt: Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring the World Bank to fund more fossil fuel projects, including drilling for new gas, as part of a broader backlash against efforts to tackle climate change. The US president, who has promised to unleash American fossil fuels […]
‘Unpaid wages, searing heat, long hours’: why workers are quitting the world’s largest renewable energy park in India
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/11/unpaid-wages-searing-heat-long-hours-why-workers-are-quitting-the-worlds-largest-renewable-energy-park By Anuradha Nagaraj in Khavda, Gujarat A vast migrant labour force is helping India meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, drawn by promises of good wages and perks. But many say they are forced to ‘escape’ without pay A month into his new job at the world’s largest renewable energy park in Gujarat’s Rann […]
Vietnam’s ‘Green’ Path to Poverty & Blackouts – Plan ‘to prohibit gasoline-powered motorcycles in central Hanoi’ – An example of ‘climate dogma disrupting developing economies’
Hanoi’s ‘Green’ Path to Poverty and Blackouts By Vijay Jayaraj Vietnam’s decision to prohibit gasoline-powered motorcycles in central Hanoi beginning July 1, 2026, is a textbook example of climate dogma disrupting developing economies with potentially devastating consequences. The policy will take effect in Hanoi’s downtown districts, then expand to outer areas by 2027 and eventually […]
Regulating CO2 has led to global imbalances – ‘Wreaked havoc on energy & economic development in USA, Europe, & Africa while giving China & India a virtual free pass’
https://www.cfact.org/2025/08/20/regulating-co2-has-led-to-global-imbalances/ By Duggan Flanakin The global push to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, based on the questionable premise that increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere threaten to trigger a global climate catastrophe, has wreaked havoc on energy and economic development in the United States, Europe, and Africa while giving so-called “emerging” nations like China and […]
Climate writer reveals: ‘Why I No Longer Support Electric Cars-And Why You May Feel the Same Soon’ – ‘Total EV emissions can rival or even surpass those of traditional cars’ – Battery ‘mining process intensifies air & water pollution, with slurry ponds & toxic runoff’
Why I No Longer Support Electric Cars—And Why You May Feel the Same Soon By Marco Kopinke (Marco Kopinke is a seasoned author and digital content writer with a strong focus on travel, climate, and home design) 1. The Environmental Cost of Battery Production Electric car batteries might seem like the green choice, but their […]