350.org’s Bill McKibben supports campaign of school-strikes over climate alarm this Friday 12/14/18
The aberration that is climate alarm had it’s ugliest moment a few years ago, when the ill-fated 10:10 organization made a video that depicted bloody explosive detonations of school children who didn’t want to follow the path of climate brainwashing at schools. It was so horrid, so self-serving and anti-cognizant of free speech, basic human rights, and optics that the video was immediately excoriated, pulled, and the 10:10 climate organization fell into ruins.
What’s going on now isn’t quite that bad, but it is a form of brainwashing, and in my view, socially repugnant. Politicizing children at school is the lowest of the low.
You're all terribly misguided and on a fool's errand. Brainwashing children. Shame on you.
— Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) December 12, 2018
Here is the video that Bill McKibben made in support of the effort:
Here is the document summary of the plan put together by Greta Thunberg
School #ClimateStrike 2018 – All You Need To Know
WHAT
Students are walking out of school and going on #ClimateStrike to call on governments to keep warming below the unacceptably dangerous level of 1.5 degrees Celsius and protect our future. See this video from Greta Thunberg, the 15-year old Swedish student who sparked the movement — and then join the strike!
WHY
Heat waves, floods, and hurricanes are killing hundreds and devastating communities across the world. Climate change is already a deadly reality. Governments are meeting for the UN climate talks right now in Poland, and despite the latest stark warning from climate scientists that we have only 12 years to reverse course, politicians are ignoring their call. What use is it learning facts if adults ignore them? That’s why Greta and her fellow students are walking out of school to teach politicians a lesson in leadership. Read more here.
WHEN
Friday, December 14, 2018, during normal school hours, which is the final day of UN climate negotiations
WHERE
Your school, anywhere you feel called.
…
KEY FACTS — WHY WE #CLIMATESTRIKE
Here are some key facts you can use to talk to your peers about why you’re going on #ClimateStrike:
- There is no debate among climate scientists that human-generated carbon pollution is the primary reason for global warming.
- The 6 hottest years on record have all been since 2010.
- Climate-related disasters like floods, hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage every year, destroying lives and communities across the world.
- We have the solutions — renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels across much of the world.
- Students from Sweden to Australia to Japan have been striking to hold leaders accountable to deliver on the kinds of action needed that will protect the future for everyone.
This effort is repugnant, ridiculous, and wrong-headed.
But then again, we know Bill has in the past supported Klu Klux Klan style intimidation of people in their homes, so it appears he has no moral compass or limits to his activism.
One day, he’ll go too far in supporting this lunacy, and it will come back to him in a spectacular implosion.
This “children’s strike” was held in Australia two weeks ago. It was strange how young school children at various schools around Australia out of nowhere spontaneously decided to “strike” from school and form a number of well organised protest marches in the cities.
And they carried placards that quoted various UN or Greenpeace/FOE slogans riddled with scientific errors, some clearly written by an adult hand, but made to look like a child wrote it.
Not one of our esteemed journalists attempted to look at who actually made all the organisational arrangements for the protests; who coordinated the various schools to “strike” on the same day, who booked in the marches with the authorities etc., who wrote the press releases and coordinated the media briefings, how supportive teachers all got a day off on the same day. You get the idea.
What happened in Australia was a well organised number of rallies across the nation with the shadowy organisers in the background. No surprises there are some well known international activist groups in that list. Just like the plastics campaign, its a global program out of Europe. Whats coming next?
No so much well organised rallies that are the problem, it is the well trained media reporting these things as major and significant events.
Australian Bureau of Statistics lists the 0-14 age group in Australia as about 18% of the total population. Even if you remove the pre-school aged types, add in a few more for 15-17 year olds and half the total for those who lived too far from their nearest green mobilisation station you are still left with a significantly high number. In Melbourne (Australia’s leading dystopian city) alone my back of envelope calcs came up with a figure of about 200,000 school kiddies that could/should have been attending their local rally.
Anyone trying to claim there were that many school kids in attendance?
The School Strike is a farce and a failure and the only good thing to take out of it is that the standard of education is so low at the moment that spending a day away from their Marxist teachers probably did the kids a world of good.
“Heat waves, floods, and hurricanes are killing hundreds…”
What? Not even hundreds of millions?
Why don’t school children hold a protest to demand the governments of the world just move the Earth a little farther away from the sun? Or maybe demand that we make the Earth turn faster so that there are 8 days in a week? Why not demand that the governments invent pocket sized fusion reactors that run on sarcasm? Just think of what you can do by not going to school!
Last week here in N/E Australia we had raging bushfires. Today we have drenching rain.
This normal weather for us at this time of the year. But no doubt the Green blob will write it up as ” Extreme weather”.
Don’t blame the kids, it has to be the teachers, so perhaps they need to re- test the teachers as too their ability to be able to teach.
But who would do the testing, guess what, Teachers.
MJE
Based on the size of flames and smoke generated, I’d guess those torches in the protest picture were burning diesel fuel.
In regards to the ‘No Pressure’ exploding children video I have always been under the impression that Richard Curtis knew EXACTLY what he was doing. He regarded the entire thing as a bit of a joke and trolled his Green Masters by seeing how far he could push the boundary.
Unfortunately, since most Lefts lack self awareness, they saw the proposal for exploding kiddlings and decided that was EXACTLY the message they wanted to put out and Curtis, bravely keeping a straight face, ran with it.
Curtis has done comedy for decades. Are people suggesting he didn’t know how to parody?
From the article: “The 6 hottest years on record have all been since 2010.”
That’s not true.
Here’s the UAH satellite chart. Obviously 350 org can’t make this claim using the UAH chart (1998 is warmer than every subsequent year but 2016). So they don’t use it because it doesn’t show the bogus “hotter and hotter” meme.
“We have the solutions — renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels across much of the world.”
Actually we don’t have solutions to global warming. The last 30 years of investing trillions in green energy has had zero effect on the climate. Keeping on doing the same thing and expecting a different result is a sign of madness.
If spent properly, that money could have alleviated many of the worlds problems.
Also, getting children to fight the green battle is a form of child abuse. The perpetrators should be prosecuted and sent to jail.
As others have noted above.
There is a sad note of pathetic loser to these molesters of children’s minds.
Politely they have acknowledged that they cannot convince the average adult,of the validity of their cause.
Hence their fading from the public stage.
Their attempts to use children to influence those children’s parents,is an open admission of their inadequacy as adult citizens.
As recent history has shown,using children as your soldiers is beneath contempt.
Q. When did it become okay for leftists to indoctrinate children?
A. When they figured out they could.
Kids if you’re going to go on strike by leaving school, then do it because you’re being taught what to think rather than how to think; not to simply parrot old tired worn out talking points conveyed by old tired worn out activists.
Kids: It’s not cool to toe the party line. Youngsters are supposed to be rebels!
Start being a rebel by reading WUWT daily, and by rebelling against the liberal activist brainwashing you are getting in school.
https://youtu.be/ACYRaNvTN2w
Leftism truly is evil:
https://youtu.be/YR5ApYxkU-U?t=137
This is very bad, but no worse than other religious indoctrination in many schools. Child abuse.
A very dangerous man with instant public access.
Alarmistic, striking kids are a danger for teachers:
https://www.google.com/search?q=teacher%27s+reeducations&oq=teacher%27s+reeducations&aqs=chrome.