COP30’s Carbon Circus: Elites Show Everything That’s Wrong With Climate Alarmism

Massive costs and heavy use of fossil fuels are an annual beef about these COP fests, but this year damage to the Amazon environment to make getting large numbers of delegates to the venue at all possible is an extra black mark on the proceedings.
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In case you’ve missed it amid the Trump White House’s decision to ban U.S. participation, this year’s U.N.-sponsored COP30 conference is being hosted by Belem, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará, says the Daily Caller (via Climate Change Dispatch).

Suffice it to say that, as is always the case with these annual gatherings of globalist elites, preparations for this year’s event have been filled with a series of pitfalls, emergencies, and the usual stories of rank hypocrisy.

A great example came on Tuesday, when Bloomberg ran a story with the alarming headline, “Nations Rethink Plans for Brazil Climate Summit as Costs Soar.” Sounds scary, doesn’t it? Yeah, that’s probably the point.

It turns out that prices for hotel rooms and other accommodations are soaring (unexpectedly!) in advance of the conference, which should actually surprise no one, given that these events are regularly attended by tens of thousands of conferees armed with virtually unlimited expense accounts.

The profit motive remains alive and well in the midst of the Amazon jungle despite the best efforts of Brazil’s socialist government to kill it off. Go figure.
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Countries must have a big delegation present to ensure they get their entitled slices of every one of the myriad climate alarm initiatives, schemes, and scams that will be rolled out at this year’s conference, you know.
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Improving the city’s and region’s infrastructure has also presented a major challenge to Belem officials, leading to some stunning displays of rank hypocrisy and lack of concern about the same carbon emissions that attendees all claim are destroying the planet.

One perfect example is the fact that the city of 1.5 million’s smallish airport had to be massively expanded to be able to accommodate the flood of hundreds of private jets, which so many globalist elites use to fly into these COP events each year.

After all, as John Kerry famously said, they can’t be expected to fly commercial, can they?
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The most massive display of rank hypocrisy, though, came not from the airport expansion itself, but from the brand new shiny four-lane expressway which had to be constructed right through the heart of the CO2-trapping rainforest to accommodate all the limos and high-end sedans those globalist elites will ride from the airport into the city.

That project involves the bulldozing of thousands of trees in a part of the rainforest that was supposed to be a protected area by heavy equipment powered by – gasp! – the same “fossil fuels” and emitting mass quantities of the very same plant food that the conferees deride as poisonous pollution. [Talkshop comment – climate alarmism and bulldozing often go together].

Worse, the highway is paved in asphalt, a substance which is derived from – you guessed it – oil.

Full article here.