Good news everybody. The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as Cop30, will take place later this year. Along with Davos, it is one of the most important dates in the calendar for jet-setting globalists. This is the last chance for tech bros and the ruling class to save the world. We must act now, exactly as we have always done, or face the planet’s inevitable heat death.

You’d think that after thirty years of these gatherings of the back-slapping elites, they would have learned their lesson and done the sensible thing by conducting the entire meaningless event over a twenty-minute Zoom call. It would be the perfect opportunity to virtue signal – perhaps a representative one of the low-lying countries could send a pre-recorded video address, wearing Bermuda shorts and a suit jacket while sitting at a desk half-submerged in an atoll’s lagoon. Unfortunately, in November, the great and good fly off to Brazil for ten days of thirty-dollar sangrias and whining about poor people wanting warm homes and dependable cars.

Last year’s shindig Cop29 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital. While delegates arrived on private planes and dined on expensive champagne, its government was invading neighbouring Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. For nearly four decades the two former Soviet republics have fought over control of this autonomous region in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains. Who cares about thousands of deaths, forced incarceration of political prisoners, and allegations of ethnic cleansing when the world is at risk of being a bit warmer in fifty years? The one before that, Cop28, was hosted by Dubai – insult Mohammed and expect a rope around your neck; argue we need to repent for our carbon-hungry sins and expect a seat at the table.

The point I’m making is that whenever there is environmental concern, hypocrisy is seldom far behind. An act of heroic arrogance and stupidity is destroying the Amazon rainforest. In preparation for the annual fear-mongering climate summit, a new four-lane highway will be built through tens of thousands of acres of protected rainforest in Belém, Brazil. Aerial footage reveals lush verdant trees towering on either side, a painful reminder of what once stood tall. Logs are heaped high all along a 13-kilometre-long deeply muddy road. Diggers are excavating an eight-mile highway through the forest, paving over wetlands to surface the road which runs through a protected wildlife area. Tell me again about how much these people care about the environment!

Hydrocarbons helped to stop deforestation. When we started using coal, we stopped cutting down trees. Natural gas is not only used to heat our homes. It is the primary ingredient of fertiliser, which increases food output while using less land. As a result, the global agricultural footprint of farms has been reduced. If we abolish these fossil fuels, as those who attend these green conferences urge, our environment will suffer but none of this matters when you’ve been ideologically captured by the green machine. It has been declared that fossil fuels are the devil and we must harness our power from renewable sources.

Energy sources the green clergy extol are completely inefficient. Numerous physical realities severely restrain renewable energy output. As far as capacity factor is concerned – the total energy produced by a device divided by the amount generated if it operated at maximum capacity all year long – nuclear operates around 90 per cent. Wind power accounts operates at about one-third of this total. A nuclear power plant can generate an equivalent amount of energy to hundreds of wind turbines, according to John Parsons, deputy director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (MIT). The average nuclear reactor generates approximately 900 megawatts of capacity. In comparison, a land-based wind turbine produces roughly 3 megawatts. Wind farms require around 350 times as much land to generate the same amount of electricity as a nuclear power plant.

According to a report co-sponsored by the University of Melbourne, more than 120,000 square kilometres of land would be needed to produce enough renewable energy to meet Australia’s net zero goal – equivalent to half the size of Victoria.

The projected Upper Burdekin wind farm in North Queensland will raze almost 800 hectares of vegetation, nearly two hundred times the area of Melbourne Cricket Ground. Removing areas of specialist habitat, threatens endangered species such as the Sharman’s rock wallaby, koalas, and the northern greater gliders. There is also the proposed Euston wind farm in New South Wales. The project would comprise 96 wind turbines built near the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, which is home to native species like the chestnut quail-thrush and the endangered pink cockatoo.

The laws of thermodynamics limit renewable energy production. Each conversion step loses energy, but renewable resources waste significantly more than fossil fuels. As for energy storage, hydrogen takes up approximately four times as much space as petroleum. Once hydrogen is transformed into electricity you are left with 30 to 40 per cent of the original energy used. It is like digging one hole simply to fill another.

Then you have the financial constraints. MIT estimates that building a battery facility that could store enough solar and wind energy for just 12 hours of US national consumption would cost approximately $2.5 trillion – or roughly one-third of all federal spending. If money ever exists to build such a device, good luck if it goes wrong. A decommissioned solar farm generates 300 times more toxic waste than a nuclear power station.

This is the world that the green lobby wants us to live in. Cop is the biggest scam since the Piltdown Man. A gathering of unelected, finger-wagging technocrats who wish to lecture us while doing the opposite. They want us to stop eating meat, but gorge on it at their summits. Now they’re literally destroying the environment so they can shame you about your annual family holiday.

The Brazilian President says this will be historic because it is ‘a Cop in the Amazon, not a Cop about the Amazon’. No, it’s a cop out.