At first, I thought this had to be a joke. Then I thought it must be some sort of misinterpretation. Sadly, no.
From the website Afrinik, quoting the book –Scener ur hjärtat by Malena Ernman, Svante Thunberg
According to her mother Malena Ernman (48), 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg can see CO2 with the naked eye. She writes that in the book ‘Scenes from the heart. Our life for the climate’, which she wrote with her family.
Greta was diagnosed as a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Asperger’s syndrome, just like her younger sister Beata. The activist also has a photographic memory. She knows all the capitals by heart and can list all the chemical elements of the periodic table within one minute. In addition, she has another gift according to her mother.
“Greta is able to see what other people cannot see,” writes Malena Ernman in the book.
“She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.”
Of course, with a ~ 410 parts per million concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, we know that is a physical impossibility. Carbon Dioxide is a colorless and odorless gas:
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/carbon_dioxide#section=ICSC-Number
It also does not reflect or absorb any light within the light spectrum that humans can see. Even if Greta had some special ability to see into the near infrared, the absorption spectrum of CO2 is far removed from the human range of color sensitivity.
http://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-2/how-greenhouse-effect-works.php
But, this claim underscores how bizarre her activism has become, and people seem to want to look the other way instead of questioning her abilities and cognitive understanding of the information she professes to know.
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“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”
Taken to mean. evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction.
I am not personally religious, but sometimes, in fact many times, the musings of those who are, come to have meaning in real life.
The COGS might like to consider this from ancient Greece.
Has anyone here read the book? Be nice to know if it really does say she can see CO2.
Nothing new here folks. Move on!!
Fifteen year old South African prophetess Nongqawuse “saw” her ancestors. She successfully persuaded the majority of her Xhosa tribe that the ancestors had advised her that they must slaughter their cattle and burn their crops. Approximately 70 000 (1856) people died in the ensuing famine.
Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg has the ability to “see” (colourless & odourless) CO2 . She is a contemporary Nongqawuse using her persuasive powers to convince a modern tribe ( that is obviously every bit as backward as Nongqawuse’s erstwhile countryfolk) that it is in their best interest to destroy all that sustains them. The only variable is the amount of delusion, death & deprivation that will ensue as a direst result of the current doomsday prophesy!
Saint Greta the astonishing. Apologies to St Christina.
We are back in the 17th Century when some Children could reveal who the witches were among women
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
The trials were started after people had been accused of witchcraft, primarily by teenage girls such as Elizabeth Hubbard, 17, as well as some who were younger.
Since there has been some discussion about what is actually said and claimed in Malena Ernman’s book, here is the original Swedish and my best translation (I might add that I have translated between Swedish and English professionally):
”Greta tillhörde det lilla fåtal som kunde se våra koldioxider med blotta ögat. Hon såg hur växthusgaserna strömmade ut från våra skorstenar, svävade uppåt med vindarna och förvandlade atmosfären till en gigantisk osynlig soptipp.”
“Greta belonged to the very few that could see our carbon dioxides (sic!) with the bare eye. She saw how the greenhouse gases flowed from our chimneys, moved upwards with the winds and turned the atmosphere into a gigantic invisible garbage dump”
It is very hard to interpret this in any other way than that at least Greta’s mother believes that Greta can actually see CO2.
While Mom hands out the Asperger medication tablets.
It is very strange that either complete ignorance on this subject reigns here or willfull Don’t go there consensus.
I have Xray vision. Next.
Of course she can see CO2. Just like in the past girls of similar age had visions of Maria, or witches, or fairies or unicorns. Hormonal problems and idiot parents is my diagnosis.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball…
It is very unfair and downright stupid, to mock, blame youth who are surely under psychotropic medication, likely with no say in that.
It is becoming clear that there will be a huge scandal over this.
Mainstream know-better’s don’t notice the level of prescribed medication all across the translatlantic youth, and see it as normal.
Even the so-called psychologists whisper these drugs are causing the symptoms they treat, while pocketing pharma hand-outs.
It is likely she is taking medication of some sort, but I don’t think hallucination is involved. Her parents are psycho greenies, that is the problem.
There is a train wreck coming with Greta, but I can’t guess which way it’ll evolve. It could hit her parents, it could hit the news media, it could hit someone with the law, or Greta could become a UN spokesman for Climate Change in place of De Caprio.
and before we all got PCd to death autistic and asbergers and others were called simple or idiots, or challlenged at best
now we have people acting like theyre all savants not idiot savants she may have some talents but seeing co2 sure isnt one of em.
her mums got issues and greta and the sister , such a pity mum bred at all frankly.
I’m not a witch! I’m not a witch! These aren’t my clothes! They dressed me like this. And this isn’t my nose! It’s a false nose!
Yes, please, let’s start the witch hunting again. Let’s do that. Let every space alien in the vicinity know that we’re as susceptible to delusional BS and mass hysteria as a herd of shorthorns. Let’s do that!
At least we know how delusional this teen is and how she’s able to manipulate hysterics into following her. When do they reach the cliff’s edge?
Burn her! Burn her! Burn the witch! Does she weigh the same as a duck? Does she have a wart? Is she made of wood?
I see things too…in plain sight. A clearly vulnerable girl being manipulated (abuse?) by her psychotic ‘ green blob’ activist parents.
The ‘ Joan of Arc’ of climate change ( adding to a long list of mass hysteria over GT) is perhaps a little ill thought out (albeit mildly amusing) considering the real JoA’s eventual demise….adding her own CO2 emissions to our precious atmosphere!
Greta: what about the pink elephants? See ’em as well?
Is she what people mean by a ‘Useful Idiot’…?
It’s worst than that: she’s is a naive, trusting innocent who believes what she says and is being taken advantage of by her own mother and other adults – people she trusts – who see her as nothing but a toy. When they’re done with here (the Jeanne d’Arc allusion is accurate), they will dump her like a mold potato.
Well… if she could sie in IR, the 400 ppm of CO2 blocks 10 um IR radiation at the distance of 10 meters…
But yes, the exhales black gas then!
She does need help. That might begin with someone near to her gently saying ‘Hey Greta, the polar bears are doing OK.’ And then, over time, explaining how she has been duped and used, and how just about all she believes about the climate is clearly and demonstrably wrong. But does anyone near her actually care that much?
For a help, she has a loving progressive and rich family. And all Fridays with her pals. No, WE need help.
Unfortunately her “loving progressive and rich family” are taking advantage of her by filling her head with this climate Armageddon nonsense in order to use her as a mouthpiece for their “progressive” agenda instead of loving her and giving her the help dealing with reality that she needs.
Build the Global Warming Cathedral on the site of the grotto where the young girl first saw the visible, holy CO2. Did the holy molecule speak of the immaculate Gore to her?
Behind the Greta Media Blitz is this young guy: Ingmar Rentzhog https://news.cision.com/fundedbyme/r/ingmar-rentzhog-joins-the-fundedbyme-board,c2731641
A few millionaires suffering from self doubt fund his “WeDon’tHaveTime” company.
For Greta’s daily coaching there is this girl https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Neubauer
Here is a recent article outlining the public relations campaign behind Greta’s sudden rise. Greta Inc. (Friends of Science)
https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2019/04/27/greta-inc/
Oh how delightful!What will the idiot child say next I wonder? Popcorn.
The child is batshit crazy.
No, she’s being manipulated by adults who should be thrown into jail for abuse.
Indeed. They took advantage of a child will a mental illness and should rot in jail.
This young lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0GbGGvvHjM
had her family ripped by the cognoscenti for feeding her opinions and using her as a tool to attack Saint AOC… Even though their current prophetess is being “exploited in the same way. Rather than whine she had this to say…
We can all laugh it up but I’m afraid the lunatics are winning hands down.
Best case scenario: in a few decades, this young lady will still be popular is some circles (much like Uri Geller still sells tickets). She will still believe what she believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, but in general, is about as well-adjusted as can be expected. Oh, and probably very wealthy, ala Al Gore.
Slightly worse scenario: she is an embittered hag, broke and even more delusional, seeing enemies everywhere and blaming everyone for her failure, ala Hillary Clinton. Except the broke part, of course.
Terrible scenario: this ends like so many cults do…
Seriously, that’s a concern of mine. Young people tend to commit suicides in binges, as on our native reserves here in Canada, or after something on social media.
It would only take one high-profile suicide, unfortunately.
Oh, and look up “Munchhausen Syndrome by proxy”.