No More Fairy Tales, XLVII
columns of smoke
FYI: BBC News, Nov. 21, 2025: Fire breaks out at COP30 as conference closes And The Guardian, Nov. 21 2025: Cop30 delegates ‘far apart’ on phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon
Added: Trump Empire, Inc, LXIII:
oak leaves drift down
through the smokestack haze ...
America first
FYI: The Washington Post, Nov. 7, 2025: U.S. skips COP30 climate conference, lobbies to sink new global deals
The Trump administration is using lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.
“We want to bring our arguments to our opponents,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, speaking at an energy summit on Oct. 22 hosted by the America First Policy Institute, a think tank aligned with Trump. “We’re going to come back to realistic views on energy, and President Trump is just all-in on American energy dominance. That’s a win not just for America, that’s a win for the world.”
Added: No More Fairy Tales, XLVIII
COP30:
more fossil fuels
or green energy?
a question smeared in ash
from the burned Amazon
In 2024, fires were the largest driver of forest loss in the Amazon, ravaging an area larger than California in Brazil alone...
Between January and October 2025, fires burned 7.5 million acres (3 million hectares) of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, about 39 times the land area of New York City.
