The United Nation’s 30th Conference of the Parties, known as COP30, will be held next month in Belem, Brazil. It will be a nearly two-week festival of intellectual depravity, in which fiery sermons are preached, nags are given an undeserved forum, backs are slapped, glasses clinked and participants tell each other and the world how important they are. Our hope is that it’s an endangered species falling hard toward extinction.

While the crisis-mongers are supping luxuriously and congratulating themselves for saving a world that’s in no danger from human fossil-fuel exhaust, their crusade is losing momentum.

Polls are showing that fewer Americans believe it’s a “very serious” or serious problem. When issues are ranked by the public, climate is far behind others, such as health care and the economy. It also follows, though a bit more closely, immigration, energy policy and crime as a top concern. Some Americans are even more troubled by our growing political extremism, which, given the growing violence on the left, is understandable.

President Donald Trump, for one, seems to have never thought too much of the climate warnings. Last month, Politico reported that he was actively seeking “to undermine international efforts to tackle climate change.” While using “the bully pulpit” at his U.N. address last month, he touted “the benefits of U.S.-produced fossil fuels,” while also ridiculing “other nations for embracing green policies and renewable energy.”

Which is as it should be. No American president ought to let an international cabal of grifters and zealots dictate our energy policy.

While Trump is not afraid to publicly call out the climatistas, other nations are tacitly acknowledging that the global warming narrative is a con. More than “100 countries have missed the deadline to tighten their climate targets ahead” of COP30, reports the Daily Caller.

“Though the Paris Agreement requires countries to set more stringent climate targets, many have yet to submit updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) plans.”

The media also seem to be losing interest, or maybe they are surrendering to the fact that the world has caught on to the ruse.

“The mainstream press run-up to COP 30 is the most subdued I have ever seen, and I have seen them all. No grand global plans or calls for astronomical sums of cash,” says David Wojick.

He credits Trump for the “lack of financial grandeur.” The president “is pulling America out of the Paris Accord” – for the second time – and he has also “denounced climate alarmism as a colossal scam to the U.N. General Assembly, in their face as it were.”

Wojick further noted that Trump has eliminated USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, “which was throwing billions of dollars a year around the world in climate money,” and cut off climate spending at “many other” federal agencies.

Paul Driessen, like Wojick a scholar at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, says that despite the “pre-summit hype and proclamations of hope,” the COP30 “summiteers are nervous.” It seems they know the public is catching on to their racket.

“Increasing evidence demonstrates that claims of a planetary crisis are rooted in meaningless computer models and fearmongering, not in actual science, data or fact.”

The global warming machine has for more than three decades successfully waged a propaganda campaign. But after predicting so much that has never come to pass, it has lost credibility that it never should have had in the first place. Now it simply needs to go away. We’d all be the better for it.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board