Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30

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American commitment to curb global heating has waxed and waned over the years but the US now appears to not only be uninterested, but actively fighting for the other side. “Before, it was benign neglect, even in Trump’s first term,” said a former senior state department official. “Now it’s quite the opposite. They don’t want to participate and don’t want others to, either. “If the choice is no US or a US that is there as a spoiler, to wreck and disrupt things, then I think most countries would prefer there to be no US,” the former official added. “I mean, we are now to the right of Saudi Arabia, when you think about it. The Saudis negotiate hard but they are OK with the Paris agreement. They aren’t against the word ‘climate’.”

Trump was not, as expected, present at a leaders summit held last week as a curtain raiser for Cop30, although the US president loomed over the event, with the leaders of Colombia and Chile calling him a liar for his rejection of climate science. The US position on climate has hit a nadir, more hostile than during Trump’s first term or under George W Bush, when the US refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol, according to Todd Stern, a lead climate negotiator for the US during Barack Obama’s presidency.

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Any sort of US presence at the Belém talks, where countries will work through new emissions-cutting targets and topics such as climate finance, could’ve repeated extraordinary scenes seen when nations met in London last month to rubber-stamp plans for a small levy on greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. US representatives at the talks were accused of using bully-like behavior to force countries to drop the plan, reportedly issuing threats of higher fees for docking in American ports and even visa restrictions upon US travel for negotiators and their families. Trump had called the proposal a “global green new scam tax on shipping” and demanded it be blocked. The tactics appear to have paid off, with the pollution fee now delayed for at least a year.

“It would have had a microscopic effect on the US economy, particularly compared to Trump’s tariff warfare, and yet they went into full thug tactics to batter that down at the very last minute,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/cop30-trump-climate-crisis-brazil