My Dear Readers:
Today marks the last day of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Share with you two of the remarks on satire and two of my satirical poems, one unpublished haiku and one published gembun for sparking your imagination of and reflection on future global climate:
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, COP30.
-- paraphrasing Robin Williams
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
No More Fairy Tales, XLVII
columns of smoke
YAK, YAK, YAK, blah, blah, blah
at COP30
No more climate alarmist talk.
flashfloodingweareallinthistogether
floodafterfloodweareallinthis t o ge t h e r a gain
Added: Trump Empire, Inc, LXIII:
oak leaves drift down
through the smokestack haze ...
America first
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.
