UNFCCC Paris Agreement Impact on CO2 Emissions. Source UNFCCC letter from Executive Secretary Simon Stiell to Parties and Observers. Image annotated.

COP30: President Lula Calls for an End to Climate Denialism

Essay by Eric Worrall

“… It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists …”

From pledges to action: Leaders push for faster climate progress at COP30

By Felipe de Carvalho 

  Climate and Environment

COP30 opened in Belém on Monday with a clear message: the era of half-measures is over. Climate change is here, devastating communities and driving up costs, but solutions are within reach. Clean energy is surging, resilience saves lives, and cooperation can still bend the curve further. 

“This is the moment to match opportunity with urgency,” said Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, calling for a decisive defeat of climate denial and faster action to keep the 1.5°C goal alive.

“Your job here is not to fight one another – your job here is to fight this climate crisis, together,” he said. “This is the growth story of the 21st century – the economic transformation of our age.”

In his opening address, President Lula warned that “climate change is not a threat to the future – it is a tragedy of the present.”

Citing Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean and a tornado in Paraná, the President declared this “the COP of truth,” warning that denial and delay are no longer options. “We are moving in the right direction – but at the wrong speed,” he said. “Crossing 1.5°C is a risk we cannot take.”

He went on to call strongly for an end to climate denialism, underscoring that: “In the age of disinformation, obscurantists reject not only scientific evidence but also the progress of multilateralism. They control algorithms, sow hatred, spread fear, and attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists. Without the Paris Agreement, the world would be heading toward catastrophic warming of nearly 5°C by the end of the century.”

Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166322

Clearly we are not past the age of demonising climate skeptics.

On a positive note climate skeptics are winning, otherwise we wouldn’t occupy so much realestate in the minds of green true believers.

The reference to “control algorithms” is intriguing. I’ve said for a while that I believe Silicon Valley big tech abandoned climate activism and secretly helped President Trump win in 2024, because they desperately need a secure supply of abundant cheap energy to power their AI systems, to keep up with competitors in Asia. Is President Lula’s references to “algorithms” corroboration of this suspicion? If anyone notices green true believers lashing out at big tech in the next few weeks or months, please leave a story tip comment.

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November 11, 2025 2:11 pm

Translation from grifter speak:
“We don’t want the scam to end. Send us money.”

SxyxS
Reply to  Shoki
November 11, 2025 2:45 pm

You only translated 50% of the message.

“We want a world government,
and this can’t happen without a global crisis, a global tax and We Are The World BS. “

gezza1298
Reply to  SxyxS
November 12, 2025 8:36 am

The UN is like the fascist EU, desperate to secure its own source of money free from nation states.

Bryan A
Reply to  Shoki
November 11, 2025 3:38 pm

Of course Lula wants the Grift to continue… Brazil is a Climate Reparations Receiver Nation AND pays nothing into the fund. Also, as a developing nation, Brazil isn’t forced to give up FF energy either.
And, as the “B” in BRICS, would desire the Western (developed) world to be forced into failure, especially Financially as the BRICS preferred monetary unit (the Yuan) would replace the Dollar as Primary unit of trade.

toddzrx
November 11, 2025 2:21 pm

“It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists.”

Um, yeah. Nothing totalitarian hidden in that phrase, eh?

SxyxS
Reply to  toddzrx
November 11, 2025 2:38 pm

And who the hell are the “obscurantists(as if this imbecil even knows what this word means)
who control algorithms”?

All algorithms,except for X, work absolutely in favor of the 100% non-existant climate crisis.
It goes so far that comments get instantly deleted on YouTube if specific “deniers” or their websites are being named.
The infamous fossil fuel lobby that officially invests billions in climate disinformation
is nowhere to be found at MSM,Big Tech,politics( except for a one man show).

And how is it even possible to sow hate when talking about climate?
I guess: Hate=not believing the lie.

hdhoese
Reply to  SxyxS
November 11, 2025 7:00 pm

“They control algorithms, sow hatred, spread fear, and attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists.”  
What I see more of is indirect ‘control’ done because more from what they can do than what is necessary. It occurs from cars to many other areas we have to deal with that computers have made possible. Promises of less paperwork failed. AI might be scary that way more from dumb use than other sins,not to deny their existence. I was just told by a relative about a professor friend worried about incompetence.  

Reply to  hdhoese
November 13, 2025 2:27 am

The first sentence of what you quoted sounds like a perfect description of the Climte Fascist camp.

Accusing their opposition of exactly what they are doing. What a shock.

Reply to  SxyxS
November 12, 2025 5:38 am

“It goes so far that comments get instantly deleted on YouTube if specific “deniers” or their websites are being named.”

I once mentioned WUWT (and gave the link) on a post on the WSJ. Then I got an email saying it was rejected- without an excuse.

SxyxS
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
November 12, 2025 12:40 pm

I got deleted/shadowbanned and eventually totally banned so many times on YT for just using words like Rockefeller,Soros or Ice Age Scare.

On the other hand.
Iirc it was Gingrich whose interview was instantly stopped on CNN? when he mentioned the name Soros (the lady who intervened was a CiA operative and Obama employee)
Therefore using the name Soros must be some kind of Felony.

cgh
Reply to  toddzrx
November 11, 2025 2:41 pm

He’s a communist. This is to be expected. It’s simply a more modern version of Mao’s “Power grows from the barrel of a gun.”

Scissor
Reply to  cgh
November 11, 2025 3:06 pm

Lose the right to defend yourself, lose your freedom and life.

cgh
Reply to  Scissor
November 11, 2025 5:37 pm

I agree. So the first thing in dealing with Lula’s demand is to tell him to get lost.

Reply to  toddzrx
November 12, 2025 1:54 am

What “old” defeat have skeptics suffered?

I can’t recall any.

Now, on how many occasions have Climate Alarmists been wrong? Answer: Every time they make a claim about the climate.

SxyxS
November 11, 2025 2:22 pm

He sounds like someone straight out of the globalist machine – because he is.

But it would be nice if he explains to us how the permanent increase in food production is even remotely possible during this “present tragedy of climate crisis”?
Well, he can’t as he is just reading a standardized buzzword script someone else wrote for him.

And why does he call the ruinous debt desaster(the real crisis)
the growth story of the 21st century?

Reply to  SxyxS
November 12, 2025 2:09 am

Lula is delusional, like most Climate Alarmists. He thinks windmills are the wave of the future.

Lula will get his 15 minutes of fame at COP30, and then he will be in the rearview mirror, never to be heard from again.

Edward Katz
November 11, 2025 2:25 pm

What Lula da Silva is really saying is that we should stop presenting the real facts about what the supposed climate change is causing and what more or most of the harebrained ideas to combat it can really achieve. Suddenly these recent violent storms, droughts, wildfires and floods are occurring when they never occurred before since we somehow had the weather and climate under near-total control. Yet we can restore this mythical control by adopting all sorts of green products and renewable energies made possible by a multitude of new taxes, laws, restrictions and mandates. Except voters and consumers have already shown they won’t tolerate the type of costs and inconveniences guaranteed to accompany such proposals, and that’s the main explanation that governments worldwide have learned that to impose them on a skeptical public is to commit political suicide.

Reply to  Edward Katz
November 11, 2025 2:40 pm

IOW, Global redistribution of national wealth.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  George Daddis
November 12, 2025 9:43 am

One World Order

November 11, 2025 2:38 pm

For sake of argument, let’s grant all of his claims as valid.

Their own date indicates that if the entire Western World were to magically get to net zero overnight, the declared emissions from China and India would STILL result in a WW increase.

What is his plan to get China and India to reduce emissions?

cgh
Reply to  George Daddis
November 11, 2025 5:40 pm

Never take anything for granted from the climate grifters. Lacking any evidence that his claims are true, all are to be rejected automatically.

November 11, 2025 2:41 pm

But climate denial is actually Climate Realism!

Reply to  purecolorartist@gmail.com
November 11, 2025 3:07 pm

They just can’t handle the truth 😉

So are desperate to suppress it.

Reply to  bnice2000
November 12, 2025 2:16 am

That’s right.

Mr.
Reply to  purecolorartist@gmail.com
November 11, 2025 6:57 pm

I’m thinking of calling for an end to climate denialism myself.

More specifically, we need to put an end to denialism of climate natural HISTORY.

There should be a public square set up to put history denialists in stocks, and be pelted with tree trunks that prove there were warmer conditions hundreds / thousands / millions / billions of years ago.

And yet – life has gone on, evolving and adapting to changing climates all around the globe for all this time.

These are records that will outlast religion.
(h/t “Kenny”)

Reply to  Mr.
November 12, 2025 2:26 am

Yes! We need to apply a little tree stump/tree line science to these Climate Alarmists to show them that history actually refutes their claims that today is the hottest time in human history, or that CO2 has anything to do with regulating Earth’s temperatures.

The viewpoint of Climate Alarmists has been skewed by thinking the bogus Hockey Stick global temperature chart represents reality. It does not, and history shows it does not.

Yet, this bogus Hockey Stick chart is the ONLY thing Climate Alarmists have to hang their hat on (show a correlation between CO2 and temperatures). History shows there is no correlation between CO2 and temperatures. History also shows the bogus Hockey Stick global chart is indeed bogus.

bobclose
Reply to  Tom Abbott
November 12, 2025 3:25 am

I fully agree Tom. In addition, we now know that human emissions are less than 5% of all CO2 in the atmosphere, so that even if CO2 was driving warming, reducing emissions is not going to change anything measurable.
So, the whole UN emissions mitigation policy is a farce, or really is just an excuse to decarbonize and weaken western economies, so that developing counties can overtake rich nations and install a world government run by caring socialist UN stooges.

November 11, 2025 2:42 pm

Lulu lives in La-la-land if he thinks can impose anything on anyone. !!

Take a hike, hypocritical bozo !!

——

 the economic transformation of our age.””

Now where have we heard that before !! 😉

Socialist / Marxist / far-left Globalist manifesto writ large. !

Reply to  bnice2000
November 12, 2025 2:32 am

After COP30 is over, nobody will pay any attention to Lula.

Reply to  bnice2000
November 13, 2025 3:19 am

Oh if they got there way, it WOULD be an “economic transformation.”

It’s called “prosperity to poverty.”

Bruce Cobb
November 11, 2025 2:42 pm

“Climate Change” is a delusional fantasy of stupid and weak-minded people.

Rod Evans
Reply to  Bruce Cobb
November 11, 2025 2:50 pm

I understand the point you make Bruce, but the reality is, Climate change is normal.
Climate is constantly changing adjusting to the altering conditions on Earth. It has always been that way and will always be that way going forward.
is it a problem? No,

Reply to  Rod Evans
November 11, 2025 5:14 pm

Not in their world. In their world climate change is another stolen phrase or word like ANTIFA, a fascist organization that claims to be anti-fascist, the Inflation Reduction Act (speaks for itself), progressive – destruction of anything that works, liberal – totalitarian wannabe, No kings – not sure WTF that means. I could go on.

noaaprogramer
Reply to  philincalifornia
November 11, 2025 8:51 pm

You forgot the “Affordable Care Act”!

Reply to  noaaprogramer
November 11, 2025 11:01 pm

I think I posted that on another thread, but yes.

Bruce Cobb
Reply to  Rod Evans
November 11, 2025 5:36 pm

Which is why I used quotation marks around climate change.

Reply to  Rod Evans
November 13, 2025 3:21 am

I’m sure he’s talking about “climate change” the way THEY mean it – i.e., “caused by humans.” And THAT is indeed exactly as he described it.

MarkW
November 11, 2025 2:45 pm

Socialists demonizing anyone who stands between them and money or power has been SOP for over 100 years.

Scissor
Reply to  MarkW
November 11, 2025 3:22 pm

I liked the Marx brothers, their cousin not so much.

November 11, 2025 2:49 pm

“… It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists …”

But who is denying what, exactly?

Sooner or later the modelers of the general circulation will explain that energy conversion within the general circulation massively overwhelms the minor incremental IR absorbing power from rising concentrations of CO2, CH4, N2O. This means there never was any good physical reason to expect emissions to drive a trend of temperature or of any climate variable.

What then? Will the warmists deny that the resolved – not parameterized – computational outputs of the models are not representative of the real circulation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDurP-4gVrY

(stop the time-lapse video to read the text description)

More here with a full explanation and references:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PDJP3F3rteoP99lR53YKp2fzuaza7Niz?usp=sharing

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Reply to  David Dibbell
November 11, 2025 3:10 pm

The effect of enhanced atmospheric CO2 on “the climate” is essentially ZERO

The equivalent of a single flea on an elephants butt.

Reply to  bnice2000
November 11, 2025 3:16 pm

“The effect of enhanced atmospheric CO2 on “the climate” is essentially ZERO”
Agreed. This decades-long charade needs to be OVER.

Reply to  David Dibbell
November 11, 2025 8:18 pm

I started out to verify the Reid Bryson quote about the effect of doubling CO2 compared to spitting outside. I ran into this very excellent You Tube of almost an hour talk by Bryson and a question and answer session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_AT3IQlLwc

        1990 the City Club of Portland
        Global Warming: Is the Prediction Sound?

If you have an hour of your precious life to spare, it’s well worth it.

Reply to  Steve Case
November 12, 2025 4:08 am

Thanks for the suggestion. I watched it at 2x speed. 🙂

Reply to  bnice2000
November 13, 2025 3:32 am

As shown by the Earth’s climate history.

A full-blown GLACIATION simply couldn’t happen with ten times as much atmospheric CO2 as today if atmospheric CO2 had any significant influence.

Yet it happened.

And in the ice core reconstructions, temperature change LEADS, atmospheric CO2 FOLLOWS, over and over. With a time lag of hundreds of years during which there is REVERSE CORRELATION. Which again, simply would not occur if atmospheric CO2 had any significant influence.

And if that is not enough, the ice core reconstructions also show that the Earth’s “average” temperature (as meaningless as that is) consistently begins to RISE when atmospheric CO2 is FALLING and near its LOW point, and consistently begins FALLING when atmospheric CO2 is RISING and near its HIGH POINT. Precisely the opposite of what we would observe if atmospheric CO2 had any influence.

Reply to  David Dibbell
November 11, 2025 3:48 pm

Oof. Correction about the double negative. “Will the warmists deny that the resolved – not parameterized – computational outputs of the models are not representative valid representations of the real circulation?”

Reply to  David Dibbell
November 12, 2025 12:21 am

There you go again, David. Using logic. That is just denial in their eyes.
Once you made up yr mind about Climate Change ( call it the Consensus), anybody who doesnt agree is a denialist.
Sure, it is anti Science but that doesnt matter. They have managed to change the parameters so now we have ‘new’ science, mainly modeling. The, in their eyes, Dinosaurs like Feynman et al use ‘old science’. Because of the march through the institutions w raw power and money they have subverted the issue.
‘Science’ is now whatever THEY say it is. If you don’t agree you are both a dinosaur and a denialist, no matter how hard you try to argue using logic. You are considered a heretic.

November 11, 2025 2:51 pm

Is that the same hard-leftist Lulu who’s bringing tyranny to Brazil, and using the courts to persecute and imprison his political opponents, just like was done to Donald Trump? And his expertise on climate issues is…? Didn’t think so. He’s a standard loudmouth leftist tyrant who wants to impose his stupid, oppressive mandates on everyone but himself. Let them eat cake…!

Reply to  stinkerp
November 12, 2025 2:40 am

Trump is not very happy with Lula. Lula looks like Barack Obama and Joe Biden to Trump. All three of them illegally used the power of the federal government to try to put their political opponents in jail.

In the case of the United States, the traitors Obama and Biden were unsuccessful in putting Trump in jail. Lula, on the other hand, was successful in putting his political opponent in jail.

Trump doesn’t like that. I suspect Trump is thinking about doing something about it. I don’t know what that would be right now, but I bet Trump is thinking about it. Lula should watch his step.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  stinkerp
November 12, 2025 9:49 am

“Let them eat cake…!”

Not quite. “You will have nothing and you will be happy.”

Nothing means no cake.

November 11, 2025 2:53 pm

As for the Parana tornado…

Brazil has a significant history of tornado occurrences, with over 580 tornadoes recorded between 1975 and 2018, primarily in the southern region of the country.”

List of Brazil tornadoes – Wikipedia

Reply to  bnice2000
November 11, 2025 3:06 pm

further, from the Wiki page.. Parana had similar scale tornadoes in 1959 and 1997. (data only goes back to 1950s)

There may be historic accounts of other strong tornados going back who knows how long.

The point is that they are a regular occurrence in Brazil.

brazil-tornadoes
Ed Zuiderwijk
Reply to  bnice2000
November 12, 2025 2:38 am

The Parana and Gran Chaco areas are the Southern equivalent of Tornado Alley. The reason for the tournados is the same, driven bythetem

Ed Zuiderwijk
Reply to  Ed Zuiderwijk
November 12, 2025 2:41 am

driven by the temperature difference between the continental mass of Brazil and Antarctica in springtime.

November 11, 2025 3:28 pm

The data would just like to say:

Screenshot-2025-11-11-at-3.24.28-PM
Bryan A
Reply to  philincalifornia
November 11, 2025 3:42 pm

Thanks for Philling us in on proper dataspeak 😘

Reply to  philincalifornia
November 11, 2025 4:10 pm

Thing has a similar comment 🙂

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Bob
November 11, 2025 3:35 pm

Wouldn’t it be nice for these CAGW fakers to share some of their science with us? They don’t know what the average global temperature is today much less in 1850, they are just making numbers up. They know the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas is logarithmic so won’t cause runaway global warming. They know water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas far more potent than CO2. They know rising ocean levels are not accelerating. They know earth has been warming because the little ice age was ending in the 1800s. They know that is why the glaciers began retreating. They know we have always had severe weather and it isn’t getting more powerful or more frequent. They know that it was fossil fuels that lifted us out of poverty and made our lives far more comfortable. They know we now burn fossil fuel cleaner, safer and more efficiently than ever. They know that nuclear is a clean, safe and affordable source of energy. They know all this and more yet still cling to their lying cheating ways. They are an embarrassment to our modern society.

Bryan A
Reply to  Bob
November 11, 2025 3:44 pm

You misspelled that
CAGW Fakers
CAGW Fakirs
That’s far more.descriptive

November 11, 2025 3:58 pm

“President Lula Calls for an End to Climate Denialism”

Sweet Jesus!! Is Griff in charge of this shit show?

Reply to  David Kamakaris
November 11, 2025 4:11 pm

Griff’s lemonade stand failed.. so where else would he go !!

SxyxS
Reply to  bnice2000
November 12, 2025 12:42 pm

The lemonade gased out and the co2 instantly attacked him.
He is now sueing for reperations.

William Howard
November 11, 2025 4:56 pm

these people are truly delusional – the wheels have nicole off the green grift wagon

November 11, 2025 5:21 pm

Climate change is here, devastating communities and driving up costs,”

The standard lie. Green nutters never lose faith in it.

Reply to  Pat Frank
November 13, 2025 3:40 am

Climate change is here, devastating communities and driving up costs,”

Climate POLICY is here, devastating communities and driving up costs,”

Fixed it for him. Climate POLICIES are the only “existential threat” to humanity, until we start cooling as we move towards glaciation again.

Warming (vs. The Little Ice Age) is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT good news.

November 11, 2025 6:19 pm

SHADDAP! you censorious moron!

conrad ziefle
November 11, 2025 6:40 pm

Off to another Crusade against the nonbelievers.

November 12, 2025 12:07 am

It will be interesting to see how the Greenies will respond in relation to AI and ‘data’ centres. Im pretty sure they’d want to keep their high tech devices. They are already anti farming, for they mostly live in cities. If they are going to be anti data centres we will see how many voters will support that.
I would say the Greenies will stay shtum about negatives of AI. The New Socialists, like the new mayor of NY are focused on affordable housing and (green) ‘ free’public transportation. That fairs well will most people under 50. It is the new left populist stance.
Apart from that, they actually might steer clear from war mongering as well, making the Hillary Clintons redundant. Let’s say it is the young Bernie Sanders move. Another aspect is that it kind of ties in w old MAGA in some respects.
Watch this space..

Sean Galbally
November 12, 2025 1:42 am

Claptrap. Climate change is real and has always occurred , but it is mostly neither man-made nor can be changed by him. There is no climate crisis. We just adapt to what we have.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Sean Galbally
November 12, 2025 9:53 am

An old saying: “You can only play the hand you’re dealt.”

Reply to  Sean Galbally
November 13, 2025 3:44 am

As I like to put it, “Humans have a grossly overinflated sense of self-importance. We do not dictate the climate and we never will. We are just along for the effing ride.”

Ed Zuiderwijk
November 12, 2025 2:33 am

One day someone will do a Milei on Brazil and that will be the end of troglodytes like Lula.

John Kelly
November 12, 2025 7:24 am

Lula is an old school communist. While he runs a big country, his words aren’t too important.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  John Kelly
November 12, 2025 9:54 am

Amplified by media, they can have a much further impact than expected.

Sparta Nova 4
November 12, 2025 9:40 am

“It is time to impose a new defeat on denialists.”

When and what was the last defeat?

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 13, 2025 3:46 am

Probably the elections of Obama and Biden. But on the “science” front, there haven’t been any.

Ed Zuiderwijk
November 12, 2025 11:20 am

Breaking. Ethiopia organises the clown show in 2027.

Reply to  Ed Zuiderwijk
November 13, 2025 3:47 am

LOL. They might have to import the hookers for that one. And build an airstrip for all the private jets…