You can almost hear the globalists saying, “We are so back, lads!”
On Thursday, the 31st edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference — otherwise known as COP31 — commenced in Antalya, Turkey.
If you missed the first 30 COPs, don’t worry, you’ll be able to follow the plot this time around.
Absurdly wealthy and amoral plutocrats and internationalist functionaries will tell middle-class people in successful nations that they need to embrace energy austerity and start eating bugs so that the world’s most prolific polluters, like China, can be held to practically no standards at all.
Otherwise, the planet will melt. COP plot lines are more predictable than “Fast and the Furious” sequels.
And as it turns out, COP31 might also burn way more fossil fuels than any of the “Fast and the Furious” movies ever did.
According to a CNN report, at least 93 private jets have landed in Antalya since the COP31 summit began, which is 22 times the number of private flights the airport usually handles.
What’s more, it’s a huge increase over the 66 private jet flights that COP30 handled last year.
Rules for thee but not for me.
An estimated 93 private jets landed in Antalya, Turkey for COP31 in the past five days while the climate cult demands sacrifices from everyone else.
That’s at least 22 TIMES the number of jets that landed at the airport in the same time last year.
By comparison, just 66 private jet flights were recorded going to COP30—so the elites are taking more private jets while they demand the rest of us cut back. From CNN:
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 12, 2026
Now, while the data were compiled by Oxfam, an insufferable British progressive group which is at COP31 because it’s “calling for climate action rooted in justice, equity, and accountability,” flight statistics don’t lie unless you’re Col. Jessep and you can change the logbooks.
And, given that these flights will have emitted an estimated 777 tons of carbon dioxide by their count, according to Scotland’s The National, Oxfam is calling for a high tax on private jets in return.
The tax, the group argued, would “send a clear message” that “climate leadership does not stop at speeches and summits.”
You’re almost tempted to side with them, except “climate leadership” really does stop at these speeches and summits, because basically none of these people believe a word that they’re saying and they have the Gulfstreams to prove it.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen something like this happen. Or the second. And we’re not even counting that, during COP30, they had to clear a huge swath of rainforest to ensure that VIPs got to the conference site without hassle.
I’d say it’d be funny if it weren’t so serious, but nope: still funny. However, still serious.
Remember, until a few years ago, this Davos clique basically held profound unelected sway over how the world worked, telling us how we needed to go into climate austerity and carbon-credits mode the day before yesterday if we were to avoid millions of corpses of polar bears washing up on the Atlantic coast, which was now somewhere in Ohio thanks to those melting ice caps.
Meanwhile, as they planned out the rest of the rabblement’s fate — less quality of life for more money, of course — the obscenely rich and powerful were probably scooping caviar off of a naked aboriginal Australian flown in for a tableau vivant that they’d set up in the Gstaad hotel they were meeting in, a living work of art which was a way of reminding us how pure the world was before civilization came along or whatever.
Something like that. So, the proles eat cockroaches from here on in, right?
A few unfortunate election results kind of relegated this degenerate crew to the sidelines for a bit, although not so far to the sidelines that they couldn’t still make some calls.
A few favorable election results for them of late, however, and it looks like they’re back in the picture again, and living large and in charge.
But don’t just ask me. Ask the private-jet pilots trying to find a parking space for that Dassault Falcon at Antalya’s airport.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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