The UN’s 31st Climate Summit is now underway in Antalya, Turkey, and is set to run until 20 November 2026. A total of 92,934 delegates (!) have registered for this year’s spending spree, making COP31 one of the largest in history. Among the participants are representatives from 196 countries, 102 of whom are political leaders, including 37 heads of state and 35 heads of government. The rest are accredited observers, representatives from NGOs and members of the press. And everyone is on the hunt for more money, because you can’t save the climate without buying something.
The main aim of COP31 is to translate previous climate pledges into concrete action, as climate cuts aren’t going particularly well: Global CO₂ emissions are rising steadily, in line with population growth, as if there were no climate crisis underway. And despite trillions of dollars being squandered on the ‘green transition’, every country remains just as dependent on fossil fuels as before. Exactly as I documented in my 2020 book.
The drastic and costly measures that have been implemented are nowhere near sufficient to meet the ever-increasing demand for energy, let alone replace fossil fuels. Now, in fact, many at COP31 are asking themselves why 35 years of full focus on climate action have resulted in such a failure in terms of outcomes. The answer, however, has been given: «Because we haven’t done enough!» And that is wrong. The correct answer is: “Because it was never going to work”.
This intellectual short-circuit means that this year’s conference continues to pursue three main objectives: How can we achieve the 1.5-degree target? How should the world deal with global warming if it exceeds 1.5 °C? And how can the pace of emissions cuts be accelerated? The answer to all of this is always the same: “More use of other people’s tax money”. The outcome of the conference is therefore a foregone conclusion.
Only Western countries are taking it seriously
It is mainly European countries alone that are seriously attempting to cut their emissions of plant nutrients through the construction of wind farms, solar panels, CCS plants and a spending spree on electric cars: the US is no longer on board. South America is taking a siesta until it gets more money from Western countries. Africa is just chaos, as always. China is building coal-fired power stations as fast as it can, just as it promised in its climate targets. India cannot afford this nonsense, unless the West pays for more emissions trading fraud. The Middle East is mostly concerned with raking in oil money, killing infidels and controlling women. Russia is focusing on bombs and missiles against Ukraine instead. And the sinking island nations need more money to boost tourism. It is all the purest form of hypocrisy, self-deception and corruption.
Unfortunately, Western countries have a ruling elite that never asks any critical questions of itself, the observable results or the crucial and fundamental question they should have asked before the Paris Agreement in 2015: «Is this massive and rapid energy transition really possible?» The answer to that question is, in fact, «no». It has never been possible. The global ‘energy transition’ is a flying pig, and it will never fly, no matter how much money is squandered. Instead of focusing on facts, mathematics and empirical evidence, the delegates at COP31 are obsessively fixated on everything that has «succeeded» so far. These so-called successes are merely about decisions that have been made, and which are now undermining Western countries.
Milestones in Western self-destruction
In 2015, all countries adopted the Paris Agreement at COP21: The agreement is legally binding and is intended to ensure that the rise in global temperature does not exceed 1.5 degrees. They claim this was based on science, but there is no science capable of predicting the Earth’s climate in the year 2100, or of giving humanity control over the planet’s future climate change. Nor is there any science, mathematics or concrete data from pilot studies to back up the alleged ‘climate measures’. The ‘green transition’ is in fact quasi-religious myths from the hippie era, completely divorced from the natural sciences.
During COP27 in Egypt in 2022, a fund for loss and damage was established for those countries that are least responsible for, and most affected by, climate change. This was pushed through by Greenpeace and poor countries, which wanted as much cash as possible from countries that already provide them with aid. That way, they avoid having to spend money on climate measures, and instead Western countries have to pay double to increase corruption in these dysfunctional countries. That is why everyone will continue with climate policy. It has nothing to do with the ‘environment’.
Another ‘breakthrough’ was achieved at COP28 in Dubai in 2023: For the first time, the world’s nations agreed on a formulation to “transition away from fossil fuels” – that is, coal, oil and gas – and replace them with energy harvested from wind and solar power. All this achieves is replacing 95 per cent efficient, stable power stations with 35 per cent inefficient, weather-dependent power stations. Anyone who has studied maths at primary school level realises that this will mean ever-increasing power shortages, as we are seeing in Germany.
However, following COP31, the failures are over: as many as 93,000 people have flown on fossil-fuelled planes to Turkey to ensure that climate measures and the ‘green transition’ are implemented and will actually work. And that, of course, is impossible. But facts cannot stop this, for climate hysteria is collective mass psychosis and a corrupt money-making machine. Facts, empirical evidence, mathematics, results, costs or science have never had any relevance in the climate debate, because the power structures behind it have zero scientific insight, no sense of responsibility and are driven by power, money and prestige. That is why climate hysteria is so unstoppable, despite 35 years of negative results.
However, the attempt to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions will ruin every country that tries. And the longer this self-harm continues, the worse the consequences will be. You’re already feeling the effects on your finances, and it’s only going to get worse. Politicians, you see, don’t care about you. They intend to ‘save the planet’ and create ‘the future’ with your money.
