Audrey Streb
DCNF Energy Reporter
A top United Nations official reportedly directed Brazilian authorities to immediately address concerns like leaky light fixtures, unbearable heat, and inadequate security personnel at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, according to Bloomberg News.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell reportedly wrote to Brazilian officials on Wednesday, demanding that the state manage security lapses like unsecured doors and insufficient security staffing, according to Bloomberg News. Stiell reportedly noted in the letter that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s office asked state police not to disperse the activists that stormed COP30 on Tuesday, according to the publication.
“The security forces and command structure required to execute the security plan were all present on the ground during the incident but failed to act,” Stiell wrote, according to Bloomberg News. “This represents a serious breach of the established security framework.” (RELATED: Feather-Headed Protesters Storm Elite Climate Summit In Chaotic Scene)
Almost 200 countries and over 50,000 people are in attendance at COP30, according to UN materials. Attendees have been plagued by protesters, flooding and high temperatures during the conference that is set to run until Nov. 21, according to Bloomberg News.
About 150 protesters stormed the conference on Tuesday night and caused a fracas in which two security guards were injured, with one being taken out in a wheelchair while holding his stomach, Sky News reported.
At the conference venue, rain has poured from “the ceiling and light fixtures, creating not only disruption but also potential safety hazards due to electrical exposure,” the letter said, according to the publication.
Poor air conditioning and hot temperatures have also endangered attendees, according to Bloomberg News, with Stiell reportedly arguing that the situation required “immediate intervention” to “safeguard the well-being of delegates and personnel” as there had already been “instances of heat-related health concerns.”
Additionally, one Associated Press report stated that an Indigenous people’s performance was interrupted by a power failure on Monday.
Delegates dealt with bathroom water shortages and long food lines, according to Bloomberg News. Stiell reportedly flagged these uncomfortable conditions, noting that there has been “serious concern regarding the poor condition of delegation offices,” and that several facilities “fall below agreed standards,” while others “are not fit for use,” according to the publication.
Limited accommodations meant that some attendees had to book “love motels,” with owners clearing rooms of raunchy materials ahead of COP30, according to multiple reports.
COP30 attendees are being asked not to flush toilet paper at the venue or elsewhere around Belém, but to dispose of it in trash cans instead, according to an email from the COP30 operations team reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The UN can’t even figure out how to allow toilet paper in toilets at their own summit, but they want to tell the world how to manage and plan their energy economies for the year 2100!” Marc Morano, author and publisher of ClimateDepot.com, who is in Brazil covering the conference, told the DCNF.
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The “indigenous” people have to put on the costume of indigenous peoples every morning. The COP Marxists must participate and contribute to the chaos. They need the “fossil” fuel and greenhouse gases to produce the air conditioning, food, water pipes that they need.
The asian coloni… indigenous guy at the top got twice the standard protest money after he initially rejected to wear the wooly vest on such a hot day.
Looking forward to COP 32 in Ethiopia.
Too close to the snows of Kilimanjaro? I know that’s Tanzania, not Ethiopia, but it would ne so obvious to report on the snows of.
I know it’s the wrong continent, but Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’ comes to mind.
Giving them a taste of life after all the banning of fossil fuels will be like. LMAO
Exactly right, HB! It reminds me of a story I first read on WUWT, some years ago, about the perfect world those delegates are all working for:
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where, instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, “Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it.”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?”
There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
“Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .”
And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
(I hope Marc has found a hotel with working toilets.)
Root canal now becomes an extraction without painkillers other than alcohol assuming that hasn’t been banned because of the CO2 byproduct
Tooth extraction on the other hand…I just had to have a molar pulled. Without Novacaine? Yikes.
Try getting two wisdom teeth yanked out on USN “sickbay” Novocain (water mostly). The only direct order from an officer (Dentist, commander) I ever disobeyed – “report in 3 months to get the other two out”. I was due to be discharged in 6 months and I took a chance he’d let me slide.
and even worse the climate hasn’t changed
‘I hope Marc has found a hotel with working toilets.’
It would likely be an informative field trip to check out Belem’s waste treatment infrastructure.
Again, that climate absurdity that is so often pedalled has within it the fear that one big wind could wipe out all the solar panels and wind turbines. Rather than a few power lines down, as in our conventional systems, restored in days at worst, lose your green assets and you may be talking years to recover the means of generation.
Of course Lula told the police to stand down to not interrupt the protest he staged as much as the jan8th.
This is Climatism in action. They have manifested their own destiny, and it is one they seek to bestow upon everyone else. I do worry about too much schadenfreude though, so will not point and say HA-HA, like Nelson.
Oh, what the heck:
Seems to be perfect analogy for the current state of the Manmade Climate Change fiasco.
Those protestors are late to the party, aren’t they?
Shouldn’t they have been out protesting *before* all the trees got cut down?
Or, was that not what they were protesting about?
Protesters need audience. Don’t protest when no one is watching.
The UN is an excellent audience. Otherwise no good.
Good point! 🙂
Chuckle. I hope it is true. As for the toilet paper, advanced sewer systems are a luxury that requires prosperity, which is only available when you have abundant energy. The pampered elite need a taste of how the other half, er, 85% live.
There’s also the possibility that much of the untreated raw sewage in Belem goes directly into the river, hence the local’s request to segregate the paper into a separate waste stream so as not to make it too obvious to the ‘delegates’ where the former is ending up.
Aah, the good ol days without the blessings of cheap energy. Wallowing in your excrement you are hoping to die of the plague instead of cholera because it is quicker.
https://youtu.be/zEmfsmasjVA
What a joke. The delegates should experience the real world they hate, see how many come.
Let’s see . . . according to the above article there is at COP30:
— “unbearable” heat
— so much rain that it “has poured from ceiling and light fixtures”
— at least one power failure
— bathroom water shortages so bad that COP30 attendees are being asked not to flush toilet paper at the venue or elsewhere around Belém, but to dispose of it in trash cans instead . . . where it will inevitably end up in landfills, thereby creating pollution and direct health risks to sanitation workers and the larger population of the city.
Of course, the conference’s Executive Secretary, the UN in general, and certainly all COP30 attendees should quickly place the blame on the above problems on climate change™ and call for “immediate actions” to stop such.
One could not make up such humor with a paid staff of 30 comedians!
All those issues … Sounds like COP30 is being powered by intermittent renewables without “Firm” reliable FF back-up to insure both reliability and availability for running A/C and keeping the lights on. As far as Rain and leaky roof goes, what does one expect when holding a COP in the middle of the Rainforest?
Baby, the Rain must fall…
It appears that the verbal shit isn’t the only shit flowing at COP30. Ultimate Leftism/Socialism in action.
Sounds like my Mexican vacation with notes in the bathroom. I never followed those notes. ARE-YOU-F’ING-KIDDING-ME?
Sounds like they’re getting a taste of the world they wanted. Why the complaints?
Having traveled in several coun/ies in Central and South America I recall that putting toilet paper in trash cans was fairly common. Never did understand why.
Probably a habit formed from having sewage/septic systems that only have the water flow to barely handle the effluent alone, and would quickly clog and back up if toilet tissue was flushed along with it.
This horrible, unsanitary practice is also common in China outside the big cities.
More good news. Yes it is true our side believes in things that actually work not just things that others think sound good. Dummies.
Climate loons with any curiosity could have watched a Tony Bourdain episode on the Amazon from about a dozen years ago, in which he went to Belem. It rained very hard there, and people just stood in it, unloading fish from boats. He did a nice tribute to “Fitzcarraldo,” appropriately enough. But it definitely looked like a swamped Hades.
Sounds about right.
A number of years ago I was in a first-world country in a normal back-woods area, that used mostly squat toilets. I was cautioned not to throw toilet paper in the hopper, because the waters therefrom flowed into the rice fields and the while paper would stand out. Squat toilets world wide have a “bum-blaster” hose and a paper disposal can nearby.