As many WUWT readers know, child climate crusader Greta Thunberg always seems to have a sad frown on her face:

Josh thinks he’s found the real reason behind the frown (as mentioned in a Tweet). Shame on the PR company behind Greta for taking away her childhood.
We know it here at WUWT as “the green blob”…

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I recognize that scowl. Here she is, some 20 years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onm5gjgL97Y
It is that of someone with little joy, and lots of hatred in their heart. Sad indeed.
Note: If I wanted to reduce the effectiveness of the leading sceptical CC blog on the planet I would make it annoying for people to post comments by putting in a delay before those comments were published, on the basis that those commenters wold tend not to come back.
I really think someone is playing silly b*ggers with WUWT.
Harry P,
Funny you should mention that, because this is what happens to all of my comments — they never appear, after I write them — there is a delay, and then they appear later. Yet I come back time and time again.
Sorry, I don’t get what your point is.
Want some cheese to go with that wine ?
Greta is being used, exactly the same way that the polar bear was being used a decade ago………in a marketing scheme, where they serve as “mascots” representing the vulnerable on this planet………to elicit an emotional response/tug at heartstrings.
The threatened polar bear narrative didn’t work out so well when, instead of them facing adversity from melting sea ice in the Arctic as we were promised would happen, their populations exploded higher.
https://www.thegwpf.org/as-polar-bear-numbers-increase-gwpf-calls-for-re-assessment-of-endangered-species-status/
“Since 2005, however, the estimated global polar bear population has risen by more than 30% to about 30,000 bears, far and away the highest estimate in more than 50 years. ”
But this should have been obvious to those that know it was much warmer than this in the Arctic 5,000 to 9,000 years ago and the polar bears did just fine then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
“The Holocene Climate Optimum warm event consisted of increases of up to 4 °C near the North Pole (in one study, winter warming of 3 to 9 °C and summer of 2 to 6 °C in northern central Siberia)”
Note the adjective describing that period WARMER than today. It wasn’t the Holocene Climate CRISIS. It was universally understood and agreed that warmer conditions during the Holocene climate OPTIMUM caused life to flourish and do better.
Then, the UN/IPCC hijacked climate science, erased the Medieval WARM period, 1,000 years ago that was this warm, when life flourished and a number of groups with similar political objectives(UN/IPCC/world governments/extreme environmentalists/activist scientists/mainstream media) became the gate keepers of information………..which has led us to the fake climate crisis.
So using Greta and the future of her generation is just another scam from the same playbook to sell us on something that only exists on simulations of the atmosphere going out 100 years based on programmed computer models……..even while our planet massively greens up.
But there is a much worse element to this………….the brainwashing of our children with junk science.
https://www.fatherly.com/news/students-skip-school-protest-climate-change-global-climate-strike/
“The weekly strikes are taking place in over 1,700 cities across more than 100 countries—and now American students are joining in, as they push for environment-improving initiatives, like the Green New Deal. Led by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the non-binding resolution calls for a complete switch to renewable energy in the U.S. by 2030.”
We are seeing many comments similar to this on social media:
Ilhan Omar ✔ @IlhanMN
· Mar 8, 2019
“My little sister is in first grade and she’s going to graduate high school in 2030, so to think that I get to have a childhood and she won’t even be able to reach adulthood”
How many of these millions of children that are being taught that the planet and the human race is in peril and we must act now or the planet will be lost in 12 years(not 11, or 13 years but exactly 12 years because the gate keepers of the climate science secrets, are so knowledgeable and wise, that they can pin it down to the exact year when everything will be lost unless we do exactly as they say now)….are also being taught that there are many non caring adults who are responsible for the lack of actions to save the planet?
How about most of them that believe in the fake climate crisis are being taught that.
There are “bad”? people who don’t care about the earth and the children of the future. They are the ones trying to sabotage the good people’s effort to save the planet.
If you’re a kid, this makes perfect sense because you don’t know otherwise.
I wonder what the party is of the good people trying to save the planet and what the party is of the bad people that don’t care about the planet or even worse are obstructing the good people’s actions? Brainwashing a decade before they can even vote.
Once you’ve convinced children in the climate crisis, their brains process all new information differently than before. Effectively establishing a permanent cognitive bias at the most malleable stage of life.
Periods in history warmer than this………….doesn’t compute.
The planet greening up…………..doesn’t compute.
Life always doing better when it’s this warm or a bit warmer………doesn’t compute.
The optimal level of atmospheric CO2 for life being double this…….doesn’t compute.
Sea levels increasing around 1 inch/decade…..does not compute.
Observations/empirical data not matching up with extreme climate model predictions used to scare people……will not compute.
Natural cycles that have always been a factor influencing climate…..does not compute.
Extreme weather constantly broadcast as unprecedented and from catastrophic man made climate change………even though weather records show it happened just like that many times in the past and sometimes was worse…………does not compute.
To them, the climate crisis is science settled at the confidence level of the law of gravity because that’s exactly how it’s being taught to them. It’s entirely from humans and there will be no planet as we know it in 12 years and they will have no life as they know it in 12 years. But we have one chance…… if we do exactly as the gatekeepers with the understanding(obtained from their alternate universe of junk science/energy) tell us to do to fix it.
Correction on the this particular ending:
Extreme weather constantly broadcast as unprecedented and from catastrophic man made climate change………even though weather records show it happened just like that many times in the past and sometimes was worse…………THAT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE!!!
The 12 year to Doom,is an open admission the game is up.
We should adapt the 12 days of Christmas to this meme.
The 12 years of Climate Cataclysm.
If fact they seem to be begging for 12 more years before we fire them all.
Even the fools now acknowledge Proclaiming Climate Catastrophe is Comedy.
Truancy is not the way to increase knowledge.
Girls in other parts of the world, instead of having to work, would love to go to school and learn.
These criminals are psychological paedeophiles.
Simpal Cindy from The Fifth Day.
Frightening children in order to advance your cause has been going on for a long time. Fifty years ago the threatened catastrophe was nuclear war. My daughter, who was in high school in the 1980s, said that many of the boys in her class said it didn’t make any difference what they did because the world was going to blow up anyway.
it was even before then, in the early 70s having gotten the enforced messages on ZPG and starvation already happening for kids I started to develop an eating disorder. how could I eat when i was seeing starved biafran kids every day on tv and in the womens magazines my mum read , without feeling guilt.
and believe me we were poor and food wasn’t plentiful but I still felt bad. I decided to not have children because of that indoctrination also.
Gretas parents and all those promoting her decidedly ILLinformed view of the world are so much the same as the earlier testrun from Ehrlich Strong etc it makes me wildly angry and also feeling ill to see it happen to a far worse degree via the mass media nowdays.
and the fact we have so many terminally stupid adults supporting this abuse of children and childhood.
The poor kid is simply parroting what she has been taught at school! She believes it implicitly, because she’s been told repeatedly, throughout her education, that humans are causing the planet to heat up. She also believes that polar bears are dying out. They told her that in school too!
If politicians want to introduce more ”climate emergency” policies, then what better way than to get vocal critics, preferably school children, to protest that the various Governments aren’t doing enough. The protest marches shout their message for all to hear. They want the Governments to ”tell us the truth” tell us just how bad things really are.
That’s it, job done. The politicians have their ultimatum, Emergency declared. Now we’re really screwed.
Why do we always react to what they say. We need to go on the offensive and start our own narrative . Get us a poster child and quick, it’s freezing in Tucson
that child is not well 🙁
hard to know the source of her illness, could be physical or emotional …
In either case her being used by the Green movement is child abuse …
I looked up the term, useful idiot, and found her pigtailed face.
Unfortunately, it’s not her fault. I understand she has some form of autism, so it’s not exactly politically correct to be making fun of the poor gal. There’s a good chance that someday, she’s going to wake up and completely resent her parents for allowing her to be used as a PR tool for a lie. I genuinely feel terribly for her.
For those that don’t realize it, this girl’s parents have probably been getting paid under the table by one or more environmental groups to act as a poster child for the climate alarmist movement. Note how she’s been carefully dresses down and told to wear a woe-is-me expression all the time. It’s too bad a girl her age has been convinced to allow herself to be used in this way, but if the price is right, anything goes.
Think Selwyn Suzuki (David’s daughter and the earliest attempt to shame evil energy users…) at the Rio Earth summit in 1992. Plus ca change…
The bottom line …
Don’t think rationally about the message, EMOTE about the messenger!
The Hydrino economy, to follow the “carbon” economy.
It’s a matter of engineering now, and fashioning a suitable design that is able to be patent/IP protected while yet being economically-priced/priced under “conventional” power generating technology.
SO much unneeded worry during this interim period before the Hydrino-based ‘tech’ reaches the mature, mass-production stage.
The latest paper in the march toward harnessing the Hydrino at commercial-scale/grade power levels: “OXYGEN AND SILVER NANOPARTICLE AEROSOL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC POWER CYCLE”
https://brilliantlightpower.com/pdf/MHD_Paper_051019.pdf
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