DAN GAINOR: November's Nuttiest News: An Elvis judge, COP chaos and more media lunacy
Fox News anchor John Roberts speaks with strategist Katie Zacharia and commentator Natalie Beisner about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s climate plans and the effects of high energy prices on ‘America Reports’.
Here's your round up of the seven wildest stories from last month. Let's get started with the blazing insanity of a climate conference in Brazil and then look at six others.
It’s November, and that usually means the eco-loons come out of the woodwork. For the past several years, November has brought the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties, or COP. This year was COP30, held in Brazil and drawing more than 56,000 delegates and business representatives from around the globe. Yep, you made the connection — that’s a carbon footprint the size of a small city, flying all around the world to protest … the use of carbon.
It was far worse than that. First, there’s the massive highway they built right through the Amazon to get to the conference instead of, you know, doing it online. According to the BBC, that meant eight miles of "a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest."
The highway had been proposed back in 2012, "but it had repeatedly been shelved because of environmental concerns."
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Then rooms at the event were so expensive even some of the delegates balked at the cost. (And most weren’t paying for themselves.) So Brazil brought in two large cruise ships to house poorer delegates. One of them advertised that it "offers 11 restaurants, 12 bars, 3 swimming pools, and 8 hot tubs." Life’s tough working to save Mother Earth. That’s not a climate event — it’s a 56,000-person group vacation.
We’re talking Ken Burns, sometime historian and all-around lefty. Burns is in the news for his new documentary series on the Revolutionary War. I’ll leave fact-checking that to actual historians.........





















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