The Highwire with Del Bigtree - NET ZERO CREDIBILITY AT COP30

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

COP30 is exposing its own hypocrisy: World leaders preaching about a climate catastrophe flew in on private jets and even bulldozed miles of the Amazon to build a highway for the conference. Meanwhile, governments push climate indoctrination in schools, float new “green” taxes, warn about your pets’ gaseous carbon footprint, and ignore the massive water and energy use of AI data centers. The green agenda has become the great green grift.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Just a couple weeks ago, we had Bill Gates come out and say that the world is in really no big danger of climate change. He said, we're going to survive and thrive in the foreseeable future. And that brings me back to a pioneer in this conversation. It's the late Rosa Corey. She wrote the book Behind the Green Mask. And she saw behind the Green Mask, this climate change agenda that was really at all levels of government and non-government agencies. And she wrote a book on it. And I want to take I want to take that theme and bring it through the segment today because we just had last week

the ending of COP 30. This was the United Nations Climate Change Conference. It took place in Brazil. And literally from the inception of this conference, from the groundbreaking inception of this conference, it was antithetical to climate change. Take a look. As Brazil prepares to host tens of thousands of Climate Summit delegates later this year, there is visible evidence that the building work is causing deforestation.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected forests of the Amazon have been deforested to make way for a new four-lane highway, as our South America correspondent Ione-Ewells now reports. This is going to be a highway, and this is where it's being built. Slicing through the Amazon rainforest, protected land until now. The government here have made a big deal about this COP summit being in the Amazon, about the need to protect the Amazon. But preparations for the summit have already cut down some of the last remaining protected forest in this area. And for some reason, note this reminds me of Jeffrey. Remember during COVID, there was that famous, you know, press conference where they're all getting ready and have all the diplomats behind them.

And then look around the way, wait, put your mask on, put your mask on. None of them are wearing masks. And then suddenly they all throw their mask on to give the dire warning to the people. This feels like that, right? Total insincerity. We'll probably get all these images there from them like, I'm in the jungle, where they're jungle's being deforested, not to mention the highway we poured in here

and the jet fuel that was used to get us all here. You know, it's such, it's exactly right. It's a total hypocrisy. And there it is, four lane highway for climate change. Right. And so the headlines covering this event, this United Nations climate change event, have been really in your face.

And remember, the United Kingdom is one of the forerunners on the climate change conversation right now. They're still going full steam ahead with this. So here's one of the articles out of the UK, flying 5,700 miles to lament the climate crisis perfectly captures our elites nauseating hypocrisy. Couldn't get a title any better than that. Totally.

And you know, it's, so perhaps it would have been better for the planet if the politicians who care so deeply about climate change could have just met on Zoom. I mean, it worked great for the kids in school, school and it worked great for grandma and grandpa on the nursing home. Why can't it work for climate change if they're so sincere? So there's a lot of people that were missing from this climate change summit. Notably, United States, President Trump, any U.S. leaders at all because we pulled out of the Paris climate agreement, but also some of the top polluters, leaders from

China, not there, leaders from India, not there. Russia, Japan, also not there. And so that leaves Prime Minister Kier Starrmer in the UK talking like this. Starmer warns consensus is gone on on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP 30. So he's ringing his fists in the air because he really wants this to happen. We want that consensus. Science is settled, don't you know? So they're still going, again, full steam ahead in the UK. Here's the headlines coming out of there.

Five-year-olds to be taught climate change under labor. That's your political party. It says Professor Francis's report called for pupils to be taught about climate change from key stage one or around the age of five, including lessons on sustainable choices and habits and climate. justice. So kids are just going to get downloaded with this, whether they like it or not, because now it's being forced in their curriculum at a really young age. But remember, all of these sacrifices we were supposed to be making, we were supposed to switch over to an all-electric

car fleet by 2030. I think that was the original plan because it's better for the climate, right? Well, now we're getting taxed on the back of that. This is out of the UK. It's going to start here. Electric car drivers could face new pay per mile tax from 2028 under Treasury plans, It's out of the independent. Wow. Why? They're punishing the people that made switching over to electric cars. It doesn't seem like a good policy plan, but I guess they're trying it because they do need

money in the UK. There's a lot of people leaving and they don't have a tax base anymore. Over in the United States here, here's the Associated Press. They're kind of giving up on people at this point. And now they're going for our pets. Pets contribute to greenhouse gases like us. Here's how to reduce their carbon paw print, cute title. but it goes into there and says in the article one of the most climate intensive decisions we make

is whether to own a pet it's for the same reasons that humans have a big impact they eat every day okay and then it goes on to say this what else do pets do we have to feed them i think that that's why it's number one said alison reser director of sustainability and innovation at the pet sustainability coalition and of course pets eat meat so you can't have that you may want to think rethink your pet according to the Associated Press. So they're still going on with this climate change conversation, but it reaches out into a lot of other places. One of those places are these massive data centers

that are going in for artificial intelligence. And those aren't really climate friendly, but they have to go in. So in Texas, we're seeing something happen here back in the United States. We have a family's fight and a community's fight, really looks like for now they lost this fight. This is the headline out of Texas. This is the Cloudburst Data Center.

It's called It's Devastating Families Fight Against Controversial AI Data Center ends. And you go into here, into the article, and it talks, a lot of people don't know this, but data centers need massive amounts of water. How much water? It says water used to cool down the equipment within data centers. A large data center can use over 500,000 gallons of water a day, the equivalent of over 4,000 people's daily water use, according to the University of Illinois. And then it goes on, this is, it goes on a quote, one of the executive chairperson,

from this company. A person's name is Thompson. And she says this. A key part of Thompson's presentation was education on the need for more data centers. So here's the cell. Here's the hard sell. She says, when you Google someone, when you take a picture, all that goes in the cloud. And so you need more data center space to hold that, Thompson said. We're fulfilling a need in a community. Okay. Well, then it talks to an economist here. He says this. I think there's going to be and net benefits for Texas, for the economy, and really for people to find more jobs in the future. So there's the hard sell, 500,000 gallons a day. So there's your climate.

There's your climate conservationism for the data centers. And we know. I mean, we keep talking about this issue, right? We've talked about the amount of energy that's going to be needed for all the AI data centers. You've got Google, everyone investing in nuclear power plants. I mean, this thing just ravages the environment as we know it from the very same. people that are probably sitting in an Amazon forest, you know, talking about what the rest of us need to do to cut back on our footprints.

Right. And so again, that perfect analogy, this green mask slipping, we can see the hypocrisy, the hypocrisy behind all of this. And you'd be hard-pressed to drive through communities in the United States without once in a while seeing a sign that says water ban, mandatory water ban in progress. So for us, it's water bans. Or for us, there's restrictions on some states from collecting rainwater, but not for the data centers. And you mentioned, you mentioned. mentioned the nuclear power. This is the data center we covered in Maryland.

They were running these massive lines through farmland and taking the farmland through eminent domain. This is for these data centers in Virginia. And this is the headline, massive data centers invaded Virginia and Maryland wants to be next. So these data centers are plopping in states all over the place. Thank you.