By Marc Morano
Thank You, Mr. President!
Trump’s masterclass move not to send U.S. delegation, blamed (credited) for the failure of UN climate summit COP30! POLITICO reported that the ‘U.S. absence allowed’ BRICS nations “to team up with petrostates, isolating the more green-oriented European Union and refusing to countenance even a reiteration of past deals to end fossil fuels.”
The UN COP30 failure was so spectacular that even the mainstream media could not paper over it. POLITICO cited a European government official asking: ‘What the f*ck are we even doing here?’ A great question indeed.
I have attended in-person 21 out of the past 23 international UN climate/environmental summits. I can declare that after spending a week in Brazil at COP30, it was the biggest UN climate sh*t-shows ever! President Trump chose not to send an official U.S. delegation to the UN climate summit for the first time in its history.
COP30 morphed into Clear-Cut30 as tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest were cleared for the summit’s climate highway. Massive energy-intensive cruise ships served as temporary hotels for delegates, while hamburgers, chicken, and other beef products were sold out at the UN food court (why were there no insects on the menu?!), and the venue suffered from leaking and crumbling infrastructure.
The conference morphed into CRAP30 when the toilets failed, with world leaders going hours without access to bathrooms, and eventually leading to long lines with no toilet paper allowed in the conference center toilets. The conference then morphed into Combustion30 as it succumbed to a massive fire that shut down the entire summit. A blaze spread through the hastily built temporary venue, which felt like a windowless circus tent inside.
With any U.S. delegation absent from the meeting, China reveled in playing the role of “climate hero” in order to suck up all of the gullible countries that are deluded enough to empower China further. China sent the second largest delegation to the UN climate Summit in Brazil and had a massive pavillion complete with Chinese flags, books by Xi Jinping and standing room only media events — thus proving accurate the 2012 tweet by Trump warning that ‘global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.’
Bill Gates’ newfound climate skepticism also loomed over the summit. Gates declared just days before COP30, that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and rejected a “doomsday outlook. This angred Al Gore, who showed up in Brazil to call Gates ‘silly’ and declared Gates a bully victim of President Trump.
Despite the entire UN climate agenda warning about the evils and the huge carbon footprint of air-conditioning, Bloomberg News quoted a top UN official screaming for colder air-conditioning at the summit. You would think that the UN, which is trying to manage energy economies centuries into the future, would’ve been able to plan a climate summit that included adequate air-conditioning, functioning toilets, and insects on the menu.
UN climate agenda flushed ‘down the toilet’
President Trump has seemingly left the global climate movement in shambles. The NY Times in September 2025, revealed that the “‘old climate-activism playbook no longer works” and that under Trump, the climate movement has entered “a uniquely bleak time…the future is cloudier than ever.”
Longtime environmental activist Denis Hayes lamented: “Everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
But, as we celebrate a failing UN climate process, we must also recognize that it may come back, just like Jason in any Friday the 13th film. President Trump needs to finish off the UN climate agenda with one more bold action: Withdraw from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Rio Earth Summit Treaty signed by then-GOP President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and ratified by the U.S. Senate.
Vacating this treaty would give permanence to Trump’s agenda and free America from this 33-year-old UN climate terror campaign.
As POLITICO reported on May 14, 2025: “During his first term, Trump declined to exit the UNFCCC, which the Democratic-led Senate had ratified during George H.W. Bush’s presidency following the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro.”
“If Trump does pull the country out of the framework, it could be difficult for a new president to undo. Joining a treaty requires a two-thirds Senate vote — a high hurdle even in less polarized times,” Politico reported.
Trump 2.0’s climate legacy could become permanent, making it very difficult for a future President, AOC, or Gavin Newsom to get the U.S. back into the UN climate fiasco.
Mr. President, tear up this treaty!
Trump 2.0 is poised to strike a fatal blow to the climate hold that has been oppressing America these past 33 years.
While the teeth knashing over the COP FLOP continues, we must never forget: Failure of a UN climate summit is great news for humanity!
Marc Morano is Publisher of CFACT’s Climate Depot and Former Senior Staff U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee.
This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.
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Imaginary crisis…imaginary failure…
Just what you would expect from COP-XXX. A lot of money being spent with a lot of people getting screwed and the Global Government Cabals giving each other a huge case of CLAP on the Back
Marc Morano is a climate realist hero. Few have done so much for so long to battle the alarmist beast. Congrats, Marc. The war isn’t over yet, but the enemy is in disarray and retreat. Keep the pressure on!
An excellent article, Let’s hope The Donald does as suggested by Marc and withdraws from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
And let’s hope he goes a bit further and has the US withdraw from the UN,
Trumps greatest peace deal is most likely to be stopping the war on carbon dioxide. He has made his intentions clear as crystal to the UN general assembly. He has started down the road to peace with a competent team around him.
I wish him the greatest success with that peace deal. It would be even better if the UN is shut down. It is a worse than useless Climate Change ™ scammer of the highest grade.
The word “gnash” is one of those weird Middle English words, and comes from the word “gnastan”. It also sounds somewhat like what the word describes, making it onomatopoeic, a word likely to foil the most ardent of spelling bee participants.
This language minute was brought to you by “English – the only language where you can chop a tree down and cut it up”.
And yet you can also cut down a tree and chop it up….
Strangely, you can’t get down from a tree.
Or an elephant – you get down from a duck.😊
Hmmm . . . both elephants and trees have trunks. Wondering why?
Regarding making little pieces out of a tree: one fells a tree, limbs it, and bucks it.
Also, lumber mills typically debark felled trees. What? . . . they mistake them for dogs?
“Everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
The saddest line in a cheerful piece. It must indeed be crushing when realising that you wasted all your time and effort on a falsehood. I almost feel sorry for the guy.
“I almost feel sorry for the guy.” Good point, especially the “almost.” Even if he sincerely believed the unsound claims, it was just a fashion trend all along. He should have known better. Live and learn.
I don’t feel sorry for him at all. This hoax hurt a lot of people.
Save your tears for the truly downtrodden. He either failed to learn the Scientific Method during his education, or he chose to ignore it. In either case, he is a fraud. The Scientific Method requires a scientist to provide both the supporting data but also the data that fails to support his conjecture.
Environmental activist Denis Hayes’ first mistake was thinking that supporting AGW/CAGW climate alarmism could be considered to be “professional”.
Trump reverberates-
NZ’s rejection of emission targets fuels risk of international law breach
Why NZ slashed NVES-style emissions fines on new cars | Drive
Won’t you please think of struggletown while you’re enjoying your international jetset kneesups?
From the article: “President Trump has seemingly left the global climate movement in shambles.”
It appears he has. And not only because he didn’t send a delegation to the COP30, but he has also left the windmill industry in shambles with his decisions about not authorizing more windmills. That’s a big, world-wide market that Trump is partially shutting down.
We are indeed fortunate to have Trump for our president. He makes the U.S. better, and he makes the world better.
Trump has stopped eight wars that were going on around the world! Think about that. Trump has saved countless innocent lives. The Right Man in the Right Place and Time.
Trump’s claim that he “ended eight wars in just eight months” since he became US President in January 2025 is highly debatable, and specifically not factually supportable.
See this BBC article for details: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3599gx4qo
Among the some of the facts reported in the article:
Egypt and Ethiopia
“There was no ‘war’ here for the president to end, but there have long been tensions over a dam on the River Nile. . . . No formal deal has been reached between Egypt and Ethiopia to resolve their differences.”
Serbia and Kosovo
“The two countries have long been in dispute – a legacy of the Balkan wars of the 1990s – with tensions rising in recent years. . . . The two countries signed economic normalisation agreements in the Oval Office with the president in 2020, but they were not at war at the time.”
And, most certainly, it remains to be seen if the war between Israel and Hamas has really been “ended” or is just in a momentary pause.
Trump, the “Right Man” (your words), has a demonstrated propensity to take credit for accomplishments he never made.
“Everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
I was on the mall in DC on earth day 1970 and Denis was lead speaker. The doom and gloom was dumbfounding. Predictions of end of world, end of civiliation, in 10, 20 years if the world did not follow them back to poverty. Anyone with half a brain could see that it was total BS in spite of all the cheering. That set me on a life long journey to debulk the entire climate change fraud. Contrary to Denis, I feel I and the world has won. Now it is just a mater of waiting out the death throws of the corpse, then clean up the mess.
In 1970 I was a sophomore in high school, I retired in 2016. Denis certainly has some pitchforks prodding him along – perhaps it’s time for him to relax a bit and think about other things.
Pull out of all the climate treaties now!
While I’m all for pulling out of all UN stuff, it probably isn’t that easy. A treaty that was approved by 2/3s vote of the senate may well require a 2/3s senate vote for withdrawal. Obviously, the democrats will not allow that. Trump could try but it would likely be decided by SCOTUS and perhaps nit until after Trump’s term. Another good reason to vote for GOP senators in 2026.
YES! The downfall of the COP – how sweet is victory! The whole climate scam is crumbling, I knew it was a house of cards.
When is FLOP31 so I can make travel plans somewhere else and try to expend as much carbon as the attendees.
COP31 will be hosted by “Türkiye” in 2026, specifically in the southwest city of Antalya {the capital of tourism} on the Mediterranean coast.
“Clear-Cut30 as tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest ”
I fail to see how an 8.5 mile 4-lane highway can require 10s of Th of acres. Such a road is about 0.05 miles wide (or less), giving us X8.5 mi. = 0.42 sq. miles. That’s 272 acres. If there are 250 trees per acre, that’s 68,000 trees. Can that be where the “tens of thousands” comes from?
I think this is a Trumpism to be taken seriously but not literally. [Thanks to Salena Zito for the phrase.]
Then there is this from mom: I’ve told you a million times not to exaggerate!
This failure is only another in a long string of them not only at the COPs but also at other meetings that were supposed to reach some sort of consensus on the climate issue. Except after a steady stream of such failures, governments, and any other entities which spend money sending delegates to them should have conceded that they’ve been steadily achieving nothing and pulled the funding from them. And if it’s been taxpayers’ money that’s been doing the funding the governments should be called to account for it and be forced to withdraw any further sponsorship of events that not only have achieved nothing but also aren’t even held accountable when they don’t.
A couple things.
First: “POLITICO reported that the ‘U.S. absence allowed’ BRICS nations “to team up with petrostates, isolating the more green-oriented European Union and refusing to countenance even a reiteration of past deals to end fossil fuels.”
So really it wasn’t Trump rather BRICS and the petrostates that caused COP 30 to fail and I didn’t realize we (the US) meant so much to the green oriented European Union.
Second: “Longtime environmental activist Denis Hayes lamented: “Everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
I have news for you Denis, your professional life isn’t worth spit compared to the well being of the rest of the planet.
From the above article, referring to a comment in The NY Times, September 2025:
“. . . the climate movement has entered ‘a uniquely bleak time…the future is cloudier than ever’.”
Cloudier than ever? . . . why that’s a clear sign of climate change isn’t it?
/sarc