Essay by Eric Worrall
“… One eyewitness told the BBC that he believes an electrical fire was the cause. …”
COP30 climate talks evacuated after fire breaks out
Georgina Rannard and BBC climate team in Belém, Brazil
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The talks were in the final hours of trying to agree on next steps to tackle climate but the fire has disrupted negotiations.
“It was climbing the walls and onto the ceiling. People were screaming,” Dr Harshita Umesh, who was giving a talk next to the place where they fire broke out, told BBC News.
“Then I ran, I think I tripped and fell.”
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“People are pretty traumatised and shocked,” she added.
“There’s a huge panic, people have been running out of here, it’s a very dramatic moment… UN security guards are telling us to leave,” said BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt.
“It looks actually as if they are beginning to get it under control but you can see huge columns of smoke rising up into the air through the hole that’s been burnt in the top of the conference centre.”
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One eyewitness told the BBC that he believes an electrical fire was the cause.
Read more (includes video): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d9p5jrjgo
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The article doesn’t say it was a battery fire, but from the video in the BBC article above, it was a pretty impressive blaze for a simple electrical fault. Of course the intensity of the fire might have been caused by all the disposable single use petroleum based plastic used to construct the climate conference pavilion.
The UN seems determined the conference will continue, but with the conference almost at its end, no significant leaders in town, and many conference center evacuees likely relocating to the nearest wine bar to calm their nerves, there is a good chance a lot of people will pack up and go home early.
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According to witnesses, Al Gore could be seen…
Well, they would have needed panorama settings on their cameras to get a pic of him.
Fisheye lens.
The main reason greenies are against fishing is because they heard that Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
(not that liberals condemn bestiality per se, but fishies are already having to deal with boiling oceans)
Panorama would have spliced in footage of Al Gore changing into his Superman outfit and rescuing the world
I would have expected Gavin, not Al, given it was a fire…
As an, ahem, inconvenient truth, assuredly there will be be no permanent ice in Belém, Brazil, by the year 2026.
How inconvenient.
OK – I will start the obvious funny side.
The globe is boiling – that was the perspective from Belem during COP30.
CO2 can do anything !!! 😉
Unfortunately, the session organizers didn’t allow the use of the CO2 fire extinguishers that were required to be there.
– ( of course, none of us wants anyone to be hurt or killed by fire )
But if the only harm done was to the pride of the enviro-zealots demanding that the planetary fire be quenched …
… I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there!!
The funny side is that indios(original ones – with the George Soros seal) have been protesting
and doctors have been dancing to summon the fire.
Quick, sacrifice some virgins.
good luck finding some, without resorting to extreme pedophilia.
Sacrifice some virgin, climate-change deniers?
Well, it is true that the global average temperature at Earth’s surface is above the boiling point of CO2 at STP.
First some of the most influential countries failed to show. Then many of the countries that did show failed to do their homework and announce any new virtue signaling numbers. Then locals demonstrated against the proceedings. Now a fire routed those that did come. All appropriate for a conspiracy of dunces.
A confederacy of dunces-better, I think.
Does this mean the $1.3 trillion is a no go? Ah shucks! Anybody want to buy a third world country cheap?
Its time to calculate how big the refunds will be for 30 or more years of climate hustling.
Confluence of carrots.
or
Dribble of dunces.
Who would have thought that it would be 98 degrees and humid on the equator in November, causing multiple people to faint while others in the wrong part of the giant air conditioned pavilion shivered with cold and ran for their coats. The tropical downpour split tents of certain delegations, tore holes in the giant pavilion (77 football fields in size) and made it impossible to hear speakers.
TV monitors shorted out, stalls for presenters were not ready and toilets lacked soap..
Still…
From the article: “The UN said the fire was extinguished after six minutes”.
So, unlikely to be a battery (though that would have been interesting karma).
However, 6 minutes seems a bit quick for a fire of that intensity.
Stay tuned.
They gave the only three Americans there, Bubba, Leroy and Billy-Bob a keg of beer … and five minutes later they pissed it out
The investigation into the cause will go on for as long as it takes to rule out a L-i battery being the culprit.
Any other cause and they’ll be Li-ion
I see what you did there 🙂
6 Minutes wasn’t quick(that’s what I always say to my chicka)
but you Americans are so used to watch the fire burning for some time before you start doing a thing as we have seen in Hawaii and LA.
Ugly, but pretty accurate…a coincidence that Newsom was there?
You gauge a whole country on the inactions of two whacked out states.
You make the wars –
we make the fun.
Would you like it if sides are changed?
Anyway,it is legitimate for me to comment that way
because all the crazy stuff , incompetence etc is coming from the USA.
But you are right – its always from 2 whacko states(NY California).
Hmm, all the crazy stuff? We’re talking about COP30 and the UN nutballs. That’s not US.
The UN ? locate in? US
Initiated by? Roosevelt
Sponsored by Rockfeller.
Origin and major pusher of climate scam?US experts.
Carbon Trade Market CCX – Chicago.
Crazy stuff?
Pronouns,Trannies(going back to Mr Money and Mr Green,NY),GND ,
Hippies,DEI etc etc.
All US Astroturf Origin.
The UN was a Soviet project. The bankers cheered it on because they figured they would come out on top of any international construct. Alger Hiss, the US co-architect of the UN, was a Soviet agent, and it was actually Woodrow Wilson who facilitated the fraud and made the first attempt at such a global body.
I would say that the formation of the Federal Reserve, in concert with the other central banks of the world, and the imposition of fiat currency they promoted, was the real culprit. That was hardly a US original but rather a European design.
Sure, the US is a sponge for crazy, but socialism/communism originated on the other side of the Pond, and we certainly did not invent war and conquest, though we may have perfected the art of concealing it as foreign “aid”.
We did invent freedom and individuality as an end unto itself, and a model for prosperity unlike previous forms. That is admittedly a risky venture. Mixed with the Old World urge to dominate, it has presented a curious mix of weird and wicked as a byproduct.
Ever heard of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and Islam in general?
Probably started by a trans “woman” using hairspray and smoking a big old stogie.
Then it would have been an LGBTBBQ.
Ew.
It’ll be a good thing if this fire causes the early termination of COP 30 since all indications show it will have achieved even less than its predecessors. It will be an even bigger accomplishment if it causes them to be terminated permanently since they’ve already wasted too much money with too few results.
Its scheduled to end tomorrow anyway sooo…fire sale at the venue, get your souvenirs while their Hot
I imagine t-shirts with burn holes in them and printed on the front…my liberal associate went to COP 30 and all I got was this lousy shirt
But it’s a holy shirt!
Wholly holey.
Holy Wholly holey shirt Batman
From the gift shop…
Datsa perfect!!!
I’me celebrating, because we poor folk in Australia don’t have to pay for the next COP
our deluded Net Zero government wanted to have here. Let the real believers in Bonn have what we hope is the last of these boy scout jamborees. They can burn their economies to death on the alter of climate change, but it won’t improve our weather one iota. The jungle drums of science and engineering reality are catching up with this Back to the Future mob of dodos.
More power to the guy with the hand held fire extinguisher.
Was it Co2 powered….
Oh how inconvenient.
Get the CO2 fire extinguishers from the school…CO2…it’s Cold
“CO2, Dave, CO2! It hates cold!“.
Nope. Based on the size, as best I can tell from the picture, it’s a standard 10lbm (or metric equivalent) ABC extinguisher. It will be loaded with ammonium monophosphate and charged with nitrogen.
The cause is currently thought to be either a Microwave Oven malfunction or a Generator. Since it is in an indoor space, I would think the Generator possibility would be ludicrous since you don’t operate a Generator indoors. Although this is Brazil so…
And it looks like the booths were for some African Nations. I see Rwanda in the left foreground, but can’t make out the next booth, which looks like the one that’s on fire. Republic something.
Maybe they were just trying to burn up all that toilet paper in the bins, and it got out of control?
These days, a battery with inverter is often described as a generator.
Yes, ridiculous, but there you are.
Wow! What a show! Loved the pyrotechnic effects this year. I hope that ‘Nature’s Way’ by Spirit, followed by ‘Animal Zoo’ was playing during the flaming spectacle.
“The UN seems determined the conference will continue, but with the conference almost at its end,”
They still have to get the “selected few” together to come up with a trite, meaningless “statement”.
Guy in the pink shirt with the lanyard round his neck, demanding people do what he says to save their lives.
No doubt a climate delegate doing what just comes naturally.
And everyone ignores him. 🤣
“next steps to tackle climate”
So it’s not just climate change they’re trying to “tackle”, they want to get rid of climate altogether.
Many Australians lust for not only to reduce debate and laws about “climate change”, but also to get rid of childish politicians like our Minister for Energy who is now a special international appointment to implement COP30 actions. Three more long years to endure before he and mates can be voted out. We have not yet reached peak stupidity, alas. Geoff S
The fact that these people are voted in in the first place does not bode well for any of us.
Oh no! What a terrible shame!
“Certified Public Health and Disaster Medicine Trainer” was next scheduled speaker for a conference on a computer modeled change that takes 100 years to be a problem?
Just what in the Hell does that “Trainer” do, anyways?
My first reaction is ho hum but I hope nobody got hurt and everyone was evacuated safely.
A fitting end to COP30…
A fitting end would have Trump attend and tell them all its a big scam!
Are we sure it wasn’t a dumpster fire ?
Let it burn so we can watch which media groups conduct noncoverage operations on it.
probably one of the 330,000 Jeeps that are being recalled because of the potential for the lithium battery to catch on fire and burn down your house
So it went from clown show to shit show to dumpster fire. Perhaps the Universe is trying to tell them something, eh?
Did the extinguishers do any good?
couldn’t be deployed because –
CO2
(aaarrgggh, we’ll all be fried!)
It was a reenactment of a car carrier fire.
It was stillborn from the get-go.
Fewer delegates might make it easier to get final decisions on the numerous issues.
David, you know that “final decisions” were made ages ago !! 😉
The fire was the direct result of climate change. If there was no climate change, there would have been no Cop 30, therefore no fire. Mother Nature may be behind it also. She’s mad about that useless road bulldozed through her jungle.
GAIA has sent a message to stop fooling with her.
Phew! From Adelaide.
‘Really disappointing’: SA fumes over COP
So much for the great burning question of our time turkeys.