We have seen a lot of positive tipping points in this series, but COP30 must be a time to reckon with the world’s failures to accept reality, and to prefer insensate greed over actual, $$Real Money$$™. What we need is not secret, but it is often buried under a barrage, a farrago, a tsunami of disinformation. We need to get rid of industry greenwashing on fossil carbon subsidies and fake carbon capture. We need to tax carbon and other forms of global pollution, and speed up the conversion to clean, green industry, especially steel, cement, and ammonia. We need to speed up deployment of renewable energy, storage, EVs, heat pumps, agrivoltaics, and everything else you have seen here over and over. We need to fully fund every country that can’t do all of that currently by itself.
We won’t. The delegates to COP30 will confusticate at length, pretending to be serious the whole time, and will end up doing far less than is required, as usual. The US will be the worst, this time, because of the current maladministration, although we are not a total loss.
President Lula promises to do better. I hope so, but I don’t expect it.
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New taxes on the super-rich, fossil fuels, financial transactions and highly polluting activities should be explored as ways to raise the finance needed to help poor countries, says report by Cop Presidents
#COP30
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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— Damian Carrington (@dpcarrington.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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As Trump betrays people and the planet, I’m headed next week to the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference in Brazil.
I’ll be joining our international partners to strengthen California’s climate commitments and showcase how our climate action is creating more jobs, cleaner air, and lower costs.
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— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We are heading toward 1.5℃ now, and we are at 426 ppm CO2. We have to hit Peak Carbon ASAP, and start coming down the other side of the curve.
Exaggerated, but with a kernel of truth. EVERY COUNTRY needs to be liberated from numerous ills. Some, notably the ones with even stupider wars and overt tyrannies, are even worse off than Palestine.
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Palestinian Civil Society Call to COP30: We call on climate negotiators gathering in #Brazil for #COP30, to remember that Palestinian liberation is central to our fight for people and planet.
Read more: loom.ly/aF8rqwY
Add your organization and demand #IsraelOutOfCOP30: loom.ly/W0_D2yE
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— BDS movement (@bdsmovement.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Ready for Belém!
Just arrived in Brazil for COP30, with good news.
The EU has just adopted its NDC for 2035.
66-72% in GHG reduction by 2035 from to 1990.
A milestone on our path to reaching climate neutrality in 🇪🇺 by 2050.
And to keeping the Paris goals within reach.
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— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu) November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
They should make every delegate ride in at least one of these Chinese EVs.
Chinese company GWM delivers 100 electric cars to support logistics for COP30.
The electrified vehicles will be used in Belém during the climate conference; the partnership with the government reinforces cooperation between Brazil and China.
No New Nukes
This insanity is getting worse.
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BO-O-O-O-OGUS!
#NoNewNukes
They kill uranium miners, cost far more than promised, take longer to build than promised, & leave toxic waste behind. They can only be built with corrupt political bargains for
Other People's Money, extorted from customers & taxpayers.
Renewables are far cheaper.
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— Mokurai (@mokurai.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Helsinki energy utility is still vague on plans to build nuclear heating.
First one reactor then maybe another. Total power 500 MW.
Location in the city or maybe outside. Ready maybe 2035.
Heat only or maybe also power.
Price per reactor one billion or maybe five.
www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
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— Henri Horn (@henrihorn.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Specific instances of corruption and bribery have been exposed. For example, major utilities like FirstEnergy and Exelon have been implicated in racketeering and bribery schemes to ensure favorable legislation that bailed out their nuclear plants using ratepayer money.
Super-expensive, and not clean either.
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newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Never really understood how #nuclear is a part of the #affordability argument when it is one of the most expensive sources of electricity even after decades of being deployed worldwide. #Clean - sure. But #cheap?
#climatechange #solar #wind #batteries #EV
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— TinJar (@tinjar.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Australia has so much solar power that they're offering free electricity during peak hours because solar power is so cheap.
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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— How-Sen Chong (@how-sen.com) November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™
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Only the Moronic Conservatives can Not see that
there is NO FUTURE for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
when the World is Switching to CHEAP Renewable Energy
that makes All Fossil Fuel Investments just
DEAD MONEY Now as EV'S Kill future Oil Sales &
Cheap Solar & Wind Power Kill future LNG Sales
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— endtimesview.bsky.social (@endtimesview.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Renewables + battery storage is much cheaper and much more reliable than supposed baseload power. See Texas.
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The AI boom has given way to a rush to build more 24/7 baseload power, regardless of whether it’s gas, nuclear, or geothermal. But Eric Gimon, a consultant with the think tank Energy Innovation, thinks this impulse to build is based on flawed assumptions.
“The idea that a new data center is.....
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— Desert Flower (@crystal159.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The US Supreme Court should review a lower court’s decision preventing an anti-nuclear nonprofit from challenging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s license for a nuclear waste storage site in New Mexico, the nonprofit says.
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— Bloomberg Law (@bloomberglaw.com) November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
