Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to set himself up for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, embracing every left-wing activist issue he thinks will play well. That includes climate change, no matter how contradictory or pointless his climate grandstanding really is.

Newsom jetted down to Brazil for a climate conference that is more than 5,000 miles away from Sacramento. Newsom’s round-trip private jet flight, adding to global carbon emissions, is not the only climate hypocrisy on display here, either. The climate conference, COP30, necessitated Brazil mowing down tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest to pave a highway, lest the global elites and United Nations bigwigs in attendance be expected to sit in........

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