The Biden administration and climate change officials around the world are working overtime to make the UN's “climate” process “anti-Trump” ahead of the UN's COP29 summit in Azerbaijan. But despite their best efforts, President-elect Donald Trump's historic return to power next year has already dramatically shaken up the entire summit and the broader movement it represents.
At the very least, Trump's well-known hostility to globalism and “climate fraud” will overshadow the alarmism promoted by the United Nations, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Joe Biden, and many others. Some analysts believe it could even undermine an entire movement based on increasingly discredited assumptions that Trump has repeatedly described as “dangerous misinformation.”
During his last term, President Trump famously pulled the United States out of the controversial United Nations Paris Agreement. Under this plan, Barack Obama vowed that the U.S. government would decimate the U.S. economy, while communist China's rulers would continue building coal-fired power plants until at least 2030. Trump’s second term is likely to be even more brutal on the “climate” agenda. .
What would Trump do?
Mandy Gunasekara, Trump's former chief of staff at the EPA, warned that the gloves will start to come off on climate change in President Trump's second term. There is even serious talk of the United States withdrawing from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was the basis for the Paris Agreement.
Speaking about her new book, Y'all Fired on The Liberty Report, last month, she explained:
I don't think President Trump will be able to take things like, “Oh, we need a seat at this table,'' or “Oh, this is very important in terms of our relationships on other international issues.'' I hope they will understand and won't be bothered by frivolous arguments. ”I think the gloves will definitely come off.
“The Paris Agreement is a subcomponent of something called the UNFCCC, which is the actual treaty that was passed by the Senate,” she continued.
I have to get out. And Trump has the means to get out of that treaty. The treaty would stop many derivative shenanigans, including ones like the Paris climate accord, which is once again being used to impose onerous regulations on the United States, but the rest of the world will have a free pass. get.
With Republicans expected to hold a sizable majority in the Senate and the same likely in the House, Congress and climate-concerned people around the world are right to be concerned. A small number of liberal “Republicans in Name Only” (RINOs) are cashing in on the global warming bandwagon, but they represent a fringe position within the party and are under tremendous pressure from non-faith voters and colleagues. likely to be exposed.
President Trump has also vowed that the climate change “hoax” will be a top goal for the next president. In a speech he gave in Florida in 2022, he slammed concerns about “green” energy and CO2, claiming:
One of the most urgent challenges, not only for our movement, but also for our country, is to decisively defeat the climate change hysteria myth.
The president-elect also mocked the sea level forecast, saying:
The sea is rising. It's going up. I'll come. It is less than 300 years old. We're going to increase sea level by a hundredth of an inch and add a little more beachfront property. It's going to be a big deal. No, that's a hoax. It's all a complete hoax… That's so crazy.
activist's hand squeeze
There was no shortage of activists warning of impending doom from the election. Comments by Rachel Cleetus, policy director for the far-left Union of Concerned Scientists, were emblematic of the movement's despair. “The nation and the world can expect the incoming Trump administration to throw a wrecking ball into global climate diplomacy,” she said.
Some of the hand-wringing was bordering on hysterical, while others were downright ridiculous. After the election, global “climate” leader Michael Mann, notorious for Climategate, said Trump's victory meant the United States was officially a “failed democracy” (actually a republic) and now “the entire planet.” It was argued that the evidence showed that the country posed a “serious threat to the world.” Critics in the scientific community have described his posts as increasingly “erratic.”
Fix completed
Yet, despite the hopelessness of the situation, US climate change activists suggest there are solutions, even at high levels. Last year, I asked a delegation of seven U.S. senators at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Dubai how they can be trusted. “Climate'' pledge given the prospect of President Trump returning to office and the fact that most Americans reject the anthropogenic warming hypothesis.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware), responding to a question at the urging of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin (D-Md. )” is being played. States are being governed under the deceptive name of the “Inflation Control Act.” He also pointed out that the taxes flowing under the “infrastructure” bill will continue to captivate Republican states. Kuhn said:
Am I saying that everything will be fine if the former president becomes the next president? no. But what I'm saying is that there's enough broad and deep support for continued investment to fight climate change and for anti-inflation legislation and bipartisan infrastructure legislation. …We keep moving forward regardless.
Other climate change activists are taking a similar line. For example, Dan Lashoff, US director of the World Resources Institute, says:
While there is no denying that Trump's return to office will slow down the nation's efforts to tackle the climate crisis and protect the environment, most U.S. state, local, and private sector leaders are willing to move forward. I am doing my best to.
In fact, the last time Trump was president, a significant coalition of alarmist governors, mayors, and business leaders across the country (almost exclusively left-wing Democrats) called “We Are Still In” to stay in tune with the U.N. tone. They formed a coalition called. process. Although the federal government's funding and power could not completely bridge the gap left behind, it did help lift spirits at the UN summit.
Alarmists vow to continue without US
Gina McCarthy, a former EPA administrator and Biden climate aide, co-chairs the America Is All In coalition of alarmist state and city governments. They have now vowed that nothing can stop the enormity of climate change, not even voters and the people they elect.
No matter what President Trump says, nothing can stop the transition to clean energy, and our country will not turn back.
Our coalition is bigger, more bipartisan, better organized and better equipped to deliver solutions to climate change, revitalize local economies and advance climate ambition. It's in place. We cannot and will not let President Trump stand in the way of giving our children and grandchildren the freedom to grow up in safer, healthier communities.
The Chinese Communist Party also hopes to make the most of the new paradigm by strengthening its “climate change leadership” alliance with the European Union. Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub, lamented the loss of “political leadership between the US and China” at COP29. He said the gap needed to be “bridged” by the Chinese Communist Party and the EU, telling Reuters:
A strengthened climate alliance centered around Europe and China is our best hope for the coming years.
The architects of the Paris Agreement also expressed optimism about the U.S. government's ability to maintain vigilance without having to fund the entire next four years. Laurence Tubiana, director of the European Climate Foundation, said: “While the US election result is a setback for global climate action, the Paris Agreement has proven resilient and is stronger than any single country's policy. There is,” he said.
He argued that recent hurricanes highlight the seriousness of human-caused climate change, and said the “transition of power” will continue with or without President Trump. “The situation today is very different from 2016,” said Tubiana, who played a key role in developing the Paris plan. “There is a strong economic momentum behind the global transition, and the United States has led and benefited from it, and now we are at risk of losing it.”
damage control
Despite the election, efforts have already begun to keep the U.S. under the UN's climate plan. Bloomberg News, founded by radical climate change activist and carbon-emitting billionaire Mike Bloomberg, reports that “concerned parties” will be able to help President Trump ahead of COP29. He noted that efforts are being made to mitigate the damage.
Officials from Maryland and California met with Chinese officials to discuss continuing cooperation on climate change at the local level to give state and local governments more leeway. Representatives from some states attended the September conference in Beijing, and John Podesta, the United States' chief climate change negotiator, held talks with his Chinese counterpart.
Scientists support Trump
More than a decade ago, President Trump warned that the theory of “global warming” was a “hoax” meant to benefit communist China. Ironically, Dr. William Happer, who served as President Trump's climate advisor during his first term, said last year that the “climate” movement was not about saving the climate, but about controlling people, a form of Soviet tyranny. He told The New American that it was a throwback to .
“People should be encouraged to make more use of CO2 because it's actually good for the world,” he explained. He said some of those pushing the U.N. narrative were “grossly misinformed” and others simply needed “something to believe in.” But ultimately, “it is the same evil fanaticism that has plagued humanity since the beginning of humanity.”
Many leading climate scientists were excited about the impact the election would have on the summit and the broader climate change debate. Willie Thune, a longtime Harvard astrophysicist who left Harvard to co-found the independent Center for Environmental Research and Geosciences and recently appeared as a guest on the Tucker Carlson show, weighed in on Trump's victory. Congratulations on the news.
He also told The New American that Trump should try to reset the entire climate debate. “It's clear that we need to force a reset on endless climate change and faulty climate science,” said Soon, author of numerous studies highlighting the sun's role in warming. “The 47th President of the United States should provide a critical push to make climate science great and real again.”
Soon after, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also condemned:
Climate science activists at the United Nations IPCC COP29 are coming out of the comfort of their air-conditioned computer gaming rooms to show that the sun controls the world's climate. There should be a discussion about some of us who have been doing it right. Not carbon dioxide.
Western funding will be prioritized this year
The redistribution of wealth from middle-class Western taxpayers to Third World kleptocrats (referred to as “climate finance” by governments) is set to be a key topic at this year's climate change summit. In fact, governments around the world were already lining up to blackmail Americans. However, with President Trump taking control of the White House within a few months, all COP29 participants know that funding from the United States will be difficult.
After all, as America moves away from supporting tyranny and globalism disguised as pseudo-environmentalism, losing American tax dollars may not be their biggest worry. If the whole climate change “hoax” were to collapse – a very real prospect – we would have to calculate the historical scale. People around the world will demand real answers and even accountability.
The New American will be attending COP29 in Azerbaijan and will be providing exclusive coverage of developments in the process, so keep an eye out for it.
