We noted the other day that some 70,000 climate change activists are gathered for the annual climate change party in Brazil. But every day brings more bad news about the future of their movement.

Following up on last week’s International Energy Agency prediction that fossil fuel use will increase over the next 25 years, came two new blows.

Pennsylvania passed a budget that kills the state’s entry into a regional greenhouse gas program. One environmental leader referred to the deal as “climate infamy.”

And across the Atlantic, the European Parliament in Brussels took a dramatic step by slashing rules that required companies to monitor and report on their environmental practices. Over 90% of companies will be exempt from red tape that stifled growth, made trade between Europe and other nations more difficult and deindustrialized the continent.  Politico dubbed the move “Parliament’s defining meltdown,” because it may usher in a new governing majority in parliament dominated by conservatives.

In Brazil, the climate change party still has a few days to go but the atmosphere is looking more like a funeral.  One reporter covering the event recalled a 1970s movie about a forsaken Texas town called “The Last Picture Show” in asking “Is This The Last COP Climate Show?”

None of this prevented Shelly Whitehouse from going to Brazil and embarrass himself: