QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why No One Cares About the Climate Conference.
Suppose they held an international summit and nobody came? The Brazilian organizers of the annual United Nations climate conference are close to finding out. They pulled out all the stops, including bulldozing tens of thousands of acres of rainforest to clear a new highway to the host city, Belém. International business leaders flocked to earlier summits, and 150 heads of government attended the one in Dubai two years ago. The moguls are steering clear of Brazil, though, and only 53 national leaders are making the trek (a shame, considering all those temporarily converted “love motels“).
The sudden bursting of the climate-alarmism bubble is nearly as shocking as the global shrug that has accompanied it. Not so long ago, the climate movement was widely believed to be the most urgent cause of our time. Global do-gooders flew around the world urging others to cut transportation-related greenhouse gases, agencies and bureaucracies developed plans to slash carbon emissions, and C-suites lobbied their governments for green targets and subsidies. Now Germany is trying to avoid hosting next year’s climate gabfest.
Back in 2020, Nancy Pelosi sputtered that climate change “is a religious issue:”
Pelosi on empowering government to try controlling the climate: “This is a religious issue.” pic.twitter.com/CaVGJSxO3n
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 13, 2025
But while every obsession of the left functions as a substitute religion, in order to advance technology such as AI, it looks like the business community is desperate to find a separation of the climate church and state, Pelosi, Al Gore, and John Kerry be damned.