The latest global climate conference opened Monday in Azerbaijan. The timing is excellent. Any doubt regarding the wisdom of the next Trump administration’s likely pullout from such meetings should be dispelled by the conference photos alone. Here are tens of thousands of well fed, well-dressed members of the global elite—activists, employees of lavishly funded NGOs, armies of government bureaucrats, hundreds of heads of state—who have all travelled via jet and private plane to this remote corner of the Earth and who expect that every minute of their day will be supported by abundant, magically available energy. None has sacrificed a single personal comfort to save the planet. They assume that their smartphones will draw on an invisible web of transmitters and that they will be able to search the Internet and run AI queries at will, notwithstanding that doing so requires voracious energy use from a growing archipelago of server farms. They expect their PowerPoints to be well lit and their conference and hotel rooms to be heated or air conditioned as needed. They’re never without their bottled water, which is carried thousands of miles by carbon-emitting trucks and planes and kept sterile by plastic containers whose manufacture requires petrochemicals and plenty of energy. They do not wait on the sun to shine or the wind to blow to light their rooms, run their elevators, or power up their devices; they want energy now and without interruption.

You don’t have to be a “climate denier” to see that climate-change politics have become the largest global grift in history, one that grows in proportion with each new conference. It was just a matter of time before Third World basket-case countries exploited the First World’s virtue signaling. This year’s UNFCC COP 29 conference in Azerbaijan (COP stands for Conference of the Parties) features the demand that developed countries fork over billions, if not trillions, more dollars to the Global South, ostensibly to help it adjust to climate change. Those billions will follow all previous foreign aid into the same sinkhole of corruption and incompetence.

The grift also includes the green energy enterprises that survive only thanks to government subsidies and mandates that no one meets. When it comes to electric vehicle use, those mandates would take down the power grid if they were met. President Joe Biden’s hilariously named Inflation Reduction Act transfers close to $400 billion of appropriated taxpayer wages into subsidies for wind and solar development. The alleged purity of those alternative energy sources is based on keeping their environmental costs off stage.

Climate change conferenciers lead self-important, globe-trotting lives. Not a month goes by without an international convocation somewhere. In April 2024, the 15th Petersburg Climate Dialogue took place in Berlin; in June 2024, the Bonn Climate Change Conference included the 60th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and a meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. The 79th Session of the UN General Assembly in September 2024 hosted a high-level plenary meeting on what the General Assembly called the “existential threats posed by sea level rise.” The current COP 29 meeting gathers together climate change veterans as well as an ever-expanding crew of new exploiters. It will include the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 19), and the sixth meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 6). Hot air is acceptable for a good cause.

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