COP30: Another Failed Climate Junket | RealClearEnergy

The 30th UN Climate Summit has come and gone, and the many private jets have returned from Brazil having accomplished nothing new. - Daniel Turner

What we saw for two weeks of COP30 was the same, old, doomsday prophecies. 

• “World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds,” blared one headline from The Guardian, while another declared “Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit.”

With three decades of fear-mongering, there is value to look at some highlights.

• A 2004 article from The Guardian...“Major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.”..
• 1994 video of King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, predicting catastrophe...His speech is so old that Charles was still married to Diana...“As our planet’s life support system begins to fail,” declares Hollywood icon Glenn Close...
• Greta Thunberg, while she was still a climate activist and not part of the more en vogue “death to Israel” crowd, suggested climate change “will wipe out all humanity.” 
•  In 2009, former Biden Climate Czar John Kerry predicted the, “Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013."...