Doctors dance at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out

Associated Press

A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels. They say clean energy isn’t just a climate issue, it’s a public health one.

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KevinM
November 19, 2025 10:02 am

Nothing says “stopped learning before the 21st century” like rich middle aged idealists rapping. I hope it makes them feel young and trendy.

Scarecrow Repair
Reply to  KevinM
November 19, 2025 10:27 am

Should be canceled for cultural appropriation. And they had to find a black entertainer? That’s, I dunno, slavery or capitalism or something.

Reply to  Scarecrow Repair
November 20, 2025 5:29 am

Well, they’re Canadian. They’re not “straight outta Compton.”

Russell Cook
Reply to  KevinM
November 19, 2025 1:39 pm

‘Clean energy’ mania isn’t actually a climate issue, it’s a mental health one.

Andrew St John
Reply to  Russell Cook
November 19, 2025 4:08 pm

Thanks for your comment. Can I ask if real doctors are working on a cure for “CO2 Derangement Syndrome”? It is so debilitating for the critical thinking skills training that are so badly needed for our educated classes(?), like these poor people.

Colin Belshaw
Reply to  Andrew St John
November 20, 2025 3:57 am

I wonder what’s inside the heads of these utter idiots? Or, what’s actually wrong with the inside of their heads?!
The Statistical Review of World Energy shows that 86.7% of global energy is provided by fossil fuels and that 3.43% is provided by wind and solar generation (this 3.43% having taken 20 years and $TRILLIONS to achieve).
They are Doctors, for god’s sake, so one must surely assume they possess significant intellect. Or do these people provide an horrendously stark reminder that intellect does not always translate into intelligence?!!
But surely they have enough to determine that, over the last 150 years, there has been no increase in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes droughts and floods; forest acreage lost to wildfires is now less than 25% of what it was 100 years ago; deaths due to extreme weather events are less than 2% of what they were 100 years ago; that since 1960, global wheat yields have doubled and those for maize and rice have tripled . . . etc, etc.
In other words . . . WHAT BLOODY CLIMATE CRISIS?!!!

Reply to  Colin Belshaw
November 20, 2025 5:52 am

Exactly right, I been saying the same for years.

Reply to  Andrew St John
November 20, 2025 5:12 am

There’s so much derangement around at the moment and it only seems to afflict one group of people: primarily white left middle classes. Maybe they should isolate and twerk from home

starzmom
Reply to  Russell Cook
November 20, 2025 12:52 pm

The real public health emergency is not having any electricity in your hospital. I bet the generators run on natural gas or oil.

Clyden Eyre
Reply to  starzmom
November 22, 2025 7:42 pm

They will need to have revenue from oil and gas to pay for their hospitals, exorbitant wages and the never ending medication train, these people are removed from reality and would be difficult to have an intelligent discussion with them!

Reply to  KevinM
November 19, 2025 6:01 pm

Wearing a stethoscope around your neck while rapping and dancing on a conference stage will help convince people attending the conference that you are actually a medical doctor.

It serves no other purpose at that time and place.

Leon de Boer
Reply to  KevinM
November 19, 2025 7:46 pm

They learn those moves from Australian “Olympian Raygun”?

Robertvd
Reply to  KevinM
November 20, 2025 3:49 am

Let them get home without the use of fossil fuels. Or let them survive in Belem without fossil fuels. The fun will be soon over.

David Loucks
November 19, 2025 10:06 am

What about the pollution from resource extraction for the extensive mining and processing for clean energy?

SxyxS
Reply to  David Loucks
November 19, 2025 11:05 am

I missed them dancing during lockdowns and mandatory vaccines.
That’s where I’d expect doctors.

Bryan A
Reply to  SxyxS
November 19, 2025 11:59 am

Speaking of vaccines… What will the doctors prescribe for ailments and symptoms when extraction stops and petrochemical stocks run dry? Pharmaceuticals depend on Fossil Fuel extraction and processing to create what Doctors pander on their patients.
Fossil Fuel processing for Petrochemical production creates Gasoline as a byproduct. Will that Gasoline simply be dumped in the deserts?
Perhaps they could dispose of it at the Burning Man site over the course of the year then have a final bonfire during the event?

SxyxS
Reply to  Bryan A
November 19, 2025 1:54 pm

Noob.
You use the same method.
You replace fossil fuel medicine with? Green medicine !
Give them people high end placebos just as you give them placebo electricity.
Green New Deal complemented by the Green New Heal (i should copyright that).

Bryan A
Reply to  SxyxS
November 19, 2025 2:37 pm

Green New Heal…definitely Copyright it then they’ll have to pay you royalties to use it.

SxyxS
Reply to  Bryan A
November 20, 2025 1:34 am

Too late.AOC was faster.

Reply to  Bryan A
November 20, 2025 4:48 am

So long as it is not a Soylent Green Deal we should be ok…

Clyden Eyre
Reply to  SxyxS
November 22, 2025 7:49 pm

I agree, don’t wait!

Scissor
Reply to  Bryan A
November 19, 2025 2:59 pm

Just about all the clothes, posters and props in that video are plastics made from petroleum.

Bryan A
Reply to  Scissor
November 19, 2025 6:35 pm

People would be surprised if they were required to read the list of 6,000+ necessities that were derived from petrochemicals (oil and gas). Those same people would be gobsmacked if they realized what they would NEED to …. GIVE-UP to eliminate FF exploration/extraction/refinement

Robertvd
Reply to  Bryan A
November 20, 2025 3:46 am

Not only that because Pharmaceuticals these days depend on China. Most stuff in the medical world these days is made in China.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Bryan A
November 20, 2025 10:12 am

We are to shift to fully using only indigenous medicines. 🙂

Reply to  David Loucks
November 19, 2025 11:34 am

That’s all done in China… so it doesn’t count.

Wind and solar production are a really filthy and highly polluting processes.

Bryan A
Reply to  bnice2000
November 19, 2025 12:02 pm

China…the Great Climate Champion that can do no wrong even when emitting 34% of all global emissions mostly through burning 70% of the annual global Coal Supply

Clyden Eyre
Reply to  David Loucks
November 22, 2025 7:48 pm

You must mean the stuff for solar and wind, two extant branches of the energy evolution tree that will dry up and fall off in the near future, I find the dearth of reasonable talk of nuclear energy astounding as they think CO2 is a poison!

Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 10:08 am

An astounding level of ignorance considering they are all well educated, intelligent people. “A transition to a clean energy environment stop local health costs from resource extraction”. I just shake my head! Have they honestly missed all the conversation about ‘critical minerals’ and lithium extraction?

Reply to  Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 10:16 am

Intelligent? These “Plunge Canada Into Another Ice Age” folks are the very definition of stupid. And don’t forget they also want to stab you with poison and seize your bank account.

Curious George
Reply to  OR For
November 19, 2025 5:09 pm

Do we know how many of them are Canadian, and how many are doctors?

Tony Cole
Reply to  Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 10:51 am

unfortunately, just indoctrinated idiots

Bryan A
Reply to  Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 12:05 pm

An astounding level of ignorance considering they are all well educated, intelligent people

Let me fix that for you

An astounding level of ignorance intelligence considering they are all well socialist educated, pseudo intelligent people

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 1:34 pm

Excuse me, but you have two non-validated assumptions in your post.
1. “educated”
2. “intelligent”

I see not proof either of those are valid.

Clyden Eyre
Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 22, 2025 7:54 pm

I think the video of rap dancing is proof enough, this is a case of a picture is worth a thousand words!

Mac
Reply to  Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 3:21 pm

I was teaching pathology at UCLA health center in the 70’s. The rot had already started to set in with affirmative action in both medicine and dentistry. I read recently that the woman who is chairman of the medical department is very concerned about making sure DEI is implemented in admitting new freshmen to medical school.
Personally I would be very careful when going to a young doc either medical or dental.

Reply to  Bruce Friesen
November 19, 2025 6:31 pm

Note to self: don’t take medical advice from these doctors.

November 19, 2025 10:14 am

“They say clean energy isn’t just a climate issue, it’s a public health one.”

Poverty resulting from bad energy policies (ruinables) is a huge, avoidable health problem.

SxyxS
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
November 19, 2025 11:18 am

“Funny” Note:
Throughout the last century those countries with the highest co2 output had the highest life expectancies while those with the lowest output had also the shortest lifespans.

Countries like India had a life expectancy of 52 years in 1980.
Since they increased the use of dirty energy the life expectancy went up by 1/3.
Similar trends in all other countries.

Denis
November 19, 2025 10:15 am

You gotta admit that a fossil fuel phase out would be a public health issue!

Mr.
Reply to  Denis
November 19, 2025 10:58 am

Yes.
These people are reputedly doctors.
Maybe they should take a close look at all the plastic essential medical equipment in hospitals these days.

Where to they think the ingredients for making these plastic items come from?

Or “natural” substitutes –
hemp plants, bamboo trees, mangrove root stalks?

Bryan A
Reply to  Mr.
November 19, 2025 12:08 pm

Not to mention their pharmaceutical “bread and butter” treatment regimens.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Mr.
November 19, 2025 3:50 pm

Well, we are talking about Canadian hospitals…

SxyxS
Reply to  Denis
November 19, 2025 11:20 am

But…but…they want to dance on our graves.

CD in Wisconsin
November 19, 2025 10:23 am

Get rid of fossil fuels?

Has it occurred to these brilliant medical light bulbs that such a ban might effect agricultural production and the distribution of food? Don’t farmers and truckers use diesel fuel for their equipment and trucks (respectively). Doesn’t fertilizer for crops come from natural gas?

Implementing their demands will likely produce a lot of patients that will be starving to death. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath of doing no harm? If I was one of their patients, I would change doctors.

Don’t they have patients in Canada that they should be treating? I pray that there aren’t any U.S. doctors there.

CD in Wisconsin
Reply to  CD in Wisconsin
November 19, 2025 10:34 am

….and do those Canadian doctors understand how many of the medical products that they use are made from crude oil?

Reply to  CD in Wisconsin
November 19, 2025 11:37 am

These are probably bureaucratic doctors.. who would deign to have any real patients.

Bryan A
Reply to  CD in Wisconsin
November 19, 2025 12:09 pm

Brilliant medical light bulbs? Bunch a Dim Watts if you ask me!

mleskovarsocalrrcom
November 19, 2025 10:25 am

Typical fact free activists telling you they have all the answers to non existent problems.

Scarecrow Repair
November 19, 2025 10:25 am

“We haven’t even studied them so we know they cost a lot an that is unacceptable.” Frickin’ genii, she is.

November 19, 2025 10:25 am

They might want to consider the risk to the “lungs of the world” from grid-scale battery storage installations. Oh wait. I guess that doesn’t fit their mind-locked “climate” agenda.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-15/la-me-monterey-county-vistra-fire-lithium-battery-pge

Reply to  David Dibbell
November 19, 2025 3:03 pm

And of course the ‘lungs of the world’ do not exist. The Amazon rainforest consumes as much as it produces. It’s effect has more to do with H2O and wind/ currents.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  ballynally
November 19, 2025 4:07 pm

Its.

Reply to  ballynally
November 19, 2025 5:59 pm

The last line of the silly rap session, “‘Cause the lungs of the world are in our hands.” follows an emphasis on toxic local air pollution impacts on people rather than on the rainforest issue. So I think it refers to the lungs of people. That triggered my reference to battery fires.

rpercifield
November 19, 2025 10:37 am

I watched it for a few seconds, and stopped before my ears were threatening to bleed, and my intra ocular implants were wanting to fog up and redevelop cataracts. It is always interesting to watch educated ignorant people, with too much money, advocate for something that would leave them without clothes, equipment for their vocations, and remove food, water and money for their survival. The stupidity is glaring, and even the Babylon Bee could not make this stuff up.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  rpercifield
November 19, 2025 1:38 pm

If I saw the one without clothes, I would be tempted to pluck my eyes out.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  rpercifield
November 19, 2025 4:10 pm

Plenty of extremely well-educated people don’t have a lick of common sense.

J Boles
November 19, 2025 10:38 am

Canada? Let’s see them go without FF for a year and see how their health is. And BTW how did they get there? Birch bark canoes? No, by FF powered jets.
FLAMING LEFTIST HYPOCRITES as usual.

ResourceGuy
November 19, 2025 10:47 am

COP30 Inc meets Burning Man Inc

Mr.
November 19, 2025 10:50 am

Oh dear.
Is there anything more cringe-worthy to be seen anywhere on the whole interweb this morning?

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Mr.
November 19, 2025 1:38 pm

Actually, no.

SxyxS
Reply to  Mr.
November 19, 2025 1:58 pm

The real problem is that by now literally all the left has turned into sociopaths.
They have no sense of shame or class at all.

Bryan A
Reply to  SxyxS
November 19, 2025 2:41 pm

So Not Socialists but Sociopathalists

SxyxS
Reply to  Bryan A
November 20, 2025 1:44 am

They used to make these jokes about them from the very beginning of western left lunacy 70 years ago during the beatnik /proto-hippie era.
In the movie Funny Face they called them Empathicalists = to make hostile tendencies appear as good vibrations iirc.
Sociopathalists is probably the more fitting term.

Reply to  SxyxS
November 20, 2025 1:20 am

I think you have to be a little crazy to be a Leftist in the first place, and now Trump has driven them over the line with his dismantling of the socialist agenda in the United States.

The Left in the United States is now thoroughly detached from reality. They live in a different world than the rest of us. They are a danger to themselves and to us.

November 19, 2025 10:53 am

Poor Canada – MAID and dancing fruitcakes.

strativarius
November 19, 2025 10:57 am

Shouldn’t that be “witch doctors ”?

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  strativarius
November 19, 2025 1:39 pm

A possible alternative: change with “w” to a “b”. 🙂

Bryan A
Reply to  strativarius
November 19, 2025 2:42 pm

Which Doctors?

Bruce Cobb
November 19, 2025 11:06 am

Doctors Without Brains.

Reply to  Bruce Cobb
November 19, 2025 6:38 pm

I like it. To make it really classy it should be in French:

Médecins Sans Cerveau

November 19, 2025 11:14 am

Doctors were still “bleeding” people into the 20th century! The majority are compliant sycophants, as shown by their near total acquiescence in the mRNA vaccine disaster. The best remaining doctors are, sadly, close to retirement. The new generations of ‘physicians’ consider themselves touched by God while, in reality, they are shaman touched by Mammon.

ilma630
November 19, 2025 11:21 am

Not very good doctors then, are they! Distinct lack of critical thinking ability.

Reply to  ilma630
November 19, 2025 11:42 am

How do we know that are actually real doctors, and not just some pathetic paid activists, “pretending”.

Reply to  bnice2000
November 20, 2025 9:03 am

Well, you can be both…I see Dr. Joe Vipond in the vid….an emergency room doctor in Calgary…known for his leftist political activism.
https://albertapolitics.ca/2021/08/where-did-ctvs-story-attacking-physician-joe-vipond-advocate-for-stricter-covid-19-testing-and-tracing-come-from/
Meanwhile, here in Alberta, unionized health care workers are going on strike for higher wages….while Doctors go to COP at several $K per hip-hop….hmmm…

Ed Zuiderwijk
November 19, 2025 11:42 am

More like a mental health issue. What next? A rain dance?

youcantfixstupid
November 19, 2025 11:52 am

The lack of self awareness is truly stunning…do these ‘doctors’ have ANY clue as to the serious benefits hydrocarbons have provided health care? Any at all? From the fuel to power the life saving machines to the vast array of pharmaceuticals they enable.

These supposed ‘doctors’ have no clue. If they truly want a fossil free society they can start with themselves, quit taking government paid vacations to a trade show and go live off the land. Get back to us when you’ve achieved your utopia.

Cy
November 19, 2025 11:59 am

Cringe. I am now dumber for having clicked “Play” on this video.

November 19, 2025 12:15 pm

I thought doctors were supposed to perform hip OPS..

I’ll get my coat

JTraynor
November 19, 2025 12:30 pm

Wonder who paid for the trip down there? The $4,000 a night rooms? Lavish meals I’m sure. Nothing says “boondoggle like a COP conference.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  JTraynor
November 19, 2025 1:41 pm

One can only postulate possible entertainment and escorts for those.

November 19, 2025 1:01 pm

That’s another reason to never implicitly trust doctors.

Mr David Guy-Johnson
November 19, 2025 1:18 pm

Why do these people think that dancing around like a bunch of idiots in any way furthers their cause?????

Bryan A
Reply to  Mr David Guy-Johnson
November 19, 2025 2:43 pm

Cause they’re fruitier than Nut Cakes

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Bryan A
November 20, 2025 11:43 am

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

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