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Crumbling Consensus On Climate? Americans
Vote ‘No Confidence’ In Latest U.N.
Talks: I&I/TIPP Poll

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 11/12/2025 8:18:13 AM

Voters have little confidence that anything significant will emerge from this month’s global climate talks that begin in Brazil this week, but they are also split on what the best course forward would be, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. The latest I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Oct. 28 to Oct. 31, asked 1,418 adults the following question: “How confident are you that the upcoming United Nations climate talks (COP30) in Brazil, with a goal of raising $1.3 trillion in climate finance, will succeed in curbing global warming?” Overall, just 34% said they were either “very confident” (11%) or “somewhat confident” (23%),

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Reply 1 - Posted by: felixcat 11/12/2025 8:32:49 AM (No. 2028840)
If saving the planet means cutting down millions of Brazilian rainforest trees and other flora for a road for these COP30 attendees to drive on - then I say NO!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JayD 11/12/2025 8:34:37 AM (No. 2028841)
There never was a consensus. The so-called consensus was a combination of cherry-picked "experts" along with deceptive wording. That's without mentioning that most of the "experts" receive grants for their continuing "studies" that create evidence of whatever change in the climate they are looking at is anthropogenic. It's not even a hoax, it's a scam.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Mr. Know-It-All 11/12/2025 8:39:08 AM (No. 2028843)
I have 100% confidence that nothing coming out of this conference will have any effect on the global climate.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Oldenoughtoknowbetter 11/12/2025 8:56:32 AM (No. 2028851)
You would have thought that that climate zealots would have been dancing because flight traffic was reduced a lot due the shut down.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: cor-vet 11/12/2025 9:32:27 AM (No. 2028869)
1.3 Trillion is a lot of graft to divy up! As long as it's not my money or my tax dollars, I really don't care. It's all for show, they're going to steal what they can and nothing they do is going to change the weather patterns. It does prove that the old adage, "talk is cheap", is no longer true!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Bur Oak 11/12/2025 10:25:10 AM (No. 2028885)
Of the things people worry about the climate ranks below toenail fungus.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 11/12/2025 11:24:52 AM (No. 2028907)
50 years of "the climate is going to collapse in the next 10 years" has played out as NOTHING new happening too many times. Their lies won't sell to anyone of any significant age any more. We've seen their predictions fail again and again. They can still scare the children, but that's about it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: kono 11/12/2025 11:42:47 AM (No. 2028916)
" ... (COP30) in Brazil, with a goal of raising $1.3 trillion in climate finance, will succeed in curbing global warming?" Oh, I have high confidence that 1.3 Trillion bucks will go a long way to curbing the potentially-catastrophic unicorn overpopulation.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 11/12/2025 12:29:54 PM (No. 2028944)
If they could talk about climate without mentioning how much money we should give them, more people might listen. I have the same philosophy on Girl Scout cookies, they're okay but the cost is prohibitive.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: chagrined 11/12/2025 2:00:07 PM (No. 2028976)
I've got it! I know how to solve the climate "problem"! All we have to do is round up all the human induced global warming climate goblins around the globe and send them to Iraq! There it is. Simplicity in action! Is that where they will cut out someone's tongue for lying or another country? Would serve these climate jackals right.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Starboard_side 11/12/2025 3:37:23 PM (No. 2029009)
Now I know why CA governor Newsom flew 5000 miles so he could drive down a road that was clear-cut of 100,000 trees to build the road. He heard there was $$$ to be given away for more boondoggles that will only enrich donors. He also knows the people in CA will believe anything they're told by a Democrat, particularly if they frame it in the climate change scheme. He even pretended to think the fire in January was very unusual, or that Santa Ana Winds (happen regularly for centuries) were also unusual. Basically, he provided an excuse for Democrat inaction to prepare for the inevitable. Yet, he still wants to brag about CA being the 4 or 5th largest economy in the world despite CA acting like they're a third-world country with a one-party control and rule, but CA voters don't seem to see the latter.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Kafka2 11/12/2025 3:52:41 PM (No. 2029017)
The only significant thing that 50,0000 climate bureaucrats flying to Brazil for this conference will be a gigantic carbon footprint.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: BarryNo 11/12/2025 4:39:40 PM (No. 2029041)
All the UN is good for, is pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere. Other than that the civilization killers.
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