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Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism is Crumbling

COP30, the United Nations climate conference, is underway in Belem, Brazil. 
Thousands of representatives from all over the world have journeyed to discuss 
how to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to try to fight human-caused climate 
change. But ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, the global consensus 
on climate change is crumbling.

COP30 is the thirtieth "conference of the parties." The first took place in 
Berlin in 1995. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, more than 190 countries signed the 
Paris Climate Agreement, pledging to cut emissions and to limit global warming 
to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

About 50,000 people are attending COP30 from more than 190 nations. But key 
world leaders are not attending, including President Xi Jinping of China, 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and President Donald Trump of the 
United States. Climatism, the ideology pushing for a global transition to Net 
Zero energy, faces a rising tide of opposition across the world.

Two weeks before COP30, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates posted a 
memo to COP30 on his website titled "Three Tough Truths About Climate." In it 
he states that "Climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the 
end of civilization," and also that "Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is 
causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions 
goals ... " He also said that "Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, 
particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world's 
poorest countries."

This is a remarkable change of position for Mr. Gates, who has spent billions 
in the fight against climate change over the last two decades. In 2021, he 
wrote a best-selling book titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. His shift of 
emphasis away from stopping emissions to solving real world problems is a move 
away from climate alarmism and toward common-sense policy.

President Trump called climate change "the greatest scam ever perpetrated on 
the world" in his address to the UN General Assembly in September. During the 
last 10 months, the Trump Administration has shut down permits for offshore 
wind, slashed subsidies for wind, solar, and electric vehicles, cut climate 
funding, and banned climate change rhetoric in government documents. The US is 
not sending delegates to COP30.

But in addition to the United States, opposition to Net Zero and Climatism is 
rising in other nations. Reform UK, the opposition party led by Nigel Farage 
in the United Kingdom, is now using the phrase "Net Stupid Zero." Reform UK is 
now leading in some political polls.

Alternative für Deutschland, the number two political party in Germany, wants 
to tear down all wind turbines, calling them "windmills of shame." Germany has 
more than 20,000 wind turbines installed, one of the highest densities in the 
world. Last month the Nationals party in Australia voted to abandon support 
for Net Zero. Nationals leader David Littleproud said, "We believe in reducing 
emissions, but not at any cost." Just this week, Australia's Liberal party 
also abandoned Net Zero and pledged to bring down energy prices instead. 
Australia, Germany, the UK, and other nations are struggling with escalating 
energy costs and no apparent benefit from Net Zero policies.

What have thirty UN climate conferences accomplished since 1995? The answer is 
"no measurable climate benefit." Since 2000, the world has spent about $10 
trillion on renewable energy, but hydrocarbons-coal, natural gas, and oil-
still provided 87% of world energy in 2024 according to the Energy Institute.
World Hydrocarbon Share 1965-2024 Pres

Since 1965, global energy consumption has quadrupled and has accelerated since 
2000. Every year the world adds about an additional UK worth of energy 
consumption. Except for the recession year of 2012 and the COVID-19 year of 
2020, wind, solar, and other renewables failed to generate enough new energy 
to provide for the global increase in consumption, let alone replace 
hydrocarbons.

Last year, former US Secretary of State John Kerry said, "There shouldn't be 
any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world." But global 
coal consumption continues to rise. Today, more than 6,500 coal-fired power 
plants operate across the world and another 1,000 are in planning or under 
construction. In 2024, coal provided 34% of the world's electricity, the 
largest source of power.

Global energy consumption will continue to rise. The US has about 80 vehicles 
for every 100 people, but vehicle usage in Africa and India remains below 10 
vehicles for every 100 people. Today, developed nations use up to 20 times as 
much plastic as poor nations on a per-person basis. Developing nations will 
continue to use more hydrocarbon fuels to enable their economies to grow.

As Mr. Gates has observed, poverty still characterizes many of the world's 
people. Almost 700 million people do not have access to electricity and 
another two billion have blackouts or brownouts every other day. Over two 
billion people do not have access to clean water. Millions die each year from 
malaria, typhoid, and other diseases. World leaders should concentrate on 
these real problems, instead of unfounded concerns about carbon dioxide 
emissions.

From the political scene to the continued growth of hydrocarbon energy, the 
global climate consensus and the push for Net Zero is crumbling. It's time for 
nations to return to sensible energy policy.

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November:

Arctic Air Mass To Shatter U.S. Early-Season Cold Records
Earth-Directed X-Flare To Deliver Double Hit
BBC To Review Its Own Climate Lies

The last time the US saw this kind of early season cold was Nov 13, 1977. What 
followed was the historic winter of 1977-1978.

Australia Starts November With Record Cold
Late-Season Antarctic Cold
In China, 77 Stations Meet 'Full Blizzard' Criteria
Arctic Blast Locks Onto U.S.' + Climate Sanity Returning To Europe

Record Snow For Northern India
Record-Breaking Wintry Surges In China
"Gobsmacking" U.S. Cold Lobe
Northern Hemisphere Snow Report
South Pole's Sub -20C Stretch

Russia's Record -45C
Blizzards Slam Xinjiang
Deep Winter Ahead As QBO And Stratosphere Align
Australia's Bumper Snow Season

Avalanche In Italy Kills Five
Major Cold Blast Forecast For The U.S. Next Week
Heavy Snow For Northern China
Late-Season Frosts Threaten Argentina's Wheat

Russia's First -40C
Seoul To -2.8C (27F)
Record November Snow In China
Greenland's 1920s And 1990s Warming Bursts Offset By Cooling