Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was invited to the French parliament this week but received heavy criticism from some right-wing lawmakers.
MPs Guillaume Larrivé and Julien Aubert of the conservative Republicans called for a boycott of the Swedish activist, labelling her a “prophetess in shorts”, Le Figaro reports.
“To fight climate change intelligently, we do not need apocalyptic gurus, but scientific progress and political courage,” Mr Larrivé said.
“We are invited to a prediction of Saint Greta Thunberg, surrounded by people who see global warming as a religion,” Mr Aubert told Le Figaro and added that Thunberg had no qualifications and used only emotive arguments, saying there was no debate to be had.
Swedish Populist Leader: Climate Kid Greta Thunberg a Product of PR Agency https://t.co/CliUmeY0yd
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 27, 2019
Sébastien Chenu, a member of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, also slammed the invite saying: “She has no legitimacy other than media, I do not see why I would go prostrate before her.”
“She is a committed young woman, but she brings nothing to the debate, and is not enough to mask all the hypocrisy of the government. The members of the National Rally will not take part in this masquerade,” he added.
National Rally MEP Jordan Baredella, who led the party to election victory in the European Parliament elections in May, labelled Thunberg’s movement “a new form of totalitarianism”.
“This dictatorship of permanent emotion, moreover when it is based on children, is a new form of totalitarianism. It is beyond ridiculous,” he said.
On the brighter side, if she lives a good life, Greta will have to live a lot longer than the IPCC authors knowing she was wrong and completely deluded.
Or to turn it around – given it may be several decades before even the most deluded are convinced they were barking up the wrong tree, many IPCC authors may die still believing they are right, Greta won’t.
Her expression in the photo wearing the blue hoodie – that’s how it feels when Karl Marx’s fist is up your fundament. Another sock puppet, another wasted youth. Actually rather sad.
I expect to read soon in the MSM that Greta has had visions of the Virgen Mary telling her to double her efforts.
Average global temperature tracks water vapor, not CO2
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAbq6CaVUAAPdos?format=jpg&name=small
18 months before the satellites show no warming anomaly. Get busy now before the graphs turn against you.
“…Mr Aubert told Le Figaro and added that Thunberg had no qualifications and used only emotive arguments…”
No grounds for us American’s to criticize the French Parliament. Most of my fellow American’s made Obama our President having the same qualifications and arguments as Thunberg.
Some wonderful quotes from the online essay by Michel Onfray:
“Our time sees child kings coming to the fore. This reign of child kings is that of…contempt of adults… This cyborg speaks for a revolution initiated by green capitalism.
Certainly, as always, the real motives – immeasurable profits – cannot be admitted as such. We need a moral expedient for this revolution to maintain the worship of the Golden Calf. And what better than the project to save a planet in danger of death?
This girl of sixteen who plans to go to school, since she speaks in the name of science, ignores that a philosopher named Hans Jonas wrote long ago the software which informs this artificial intelligence.
In The Responsibility Principle (1979), Jonas makes it appear that in terms of the survival of the planet, it is a question of putting an end to the reason of the Enlightenment, which produced nothing except catastrophes, and that it is necessary to now opt for ‘a heuristic of fear.’ In other words we must dramatize, worry, amplify, exaggerate, frighten, that is to say the very opposite of thinking, examining, thinking, debating. We no longer think, we recite; we no longer examine, we attack; we no longer reflect, we chant; we no longer debate, we insult, we excommunicate, we anathematise…
“We children,” she says when she speaks! What civilization could ever be built with children? It’s the world upside down!… What are the adults who have made this generation of kings who decree adults criminals, irresponsible, despicable, detestable? The worst is not at home, she does what all her kind do, but it is in these adults who enjoy being humiliated by one of their creatures…”
Preach it, brother Onfray! 🙂
Even an absolute idiot like Onfray gets some thing close to being right. Although I’m an atheist, he doesn’t speak for me. Most of religiosity helps our culture.
No argument there, and frankly surprising he’d take this view given the obsessions that have informed his career. That kind of knee-jerk atheism is more common in much younger, generally left-bent people: the Greta-worshiping sort. He may be a good scholar, like e.g. Hitchens, but in the end the stridency and anger always makes it feel like it has its roots in some kind of adolescent resentment.
Been there myself like many of us, but you know – grew it of it. 🙂
Intolerance of others’ beliefs is is ugly, Michael. Spiritualism seems to be a net benefit, however much I don’t believe in something outside of reality.
But but but….she can see CO2 molecules!
She is not a scientist with sufficient education to have a significant opinion related to AGW. She does not need to be present but rather could send an email stating her opinion which could be read allowed at a session of parliament for all to hear. Her not traveling would cause less CO2 to enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
What parliament needs to understand is that the reality is that , based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the climate change that we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans as it has for eons and over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. Parlement should only consider those problems that mankind has the power to solve and climate change is not one of them.
But people look at her an go…”Awwwww…!”
Real people look and go “oh shit.”
Maybe I meant politicians?
The French? Usually the first to cave. Look (Regarde)! Plenty of weapons, never used, dropped once.
Some lunatic left a comment on a story about Greta being used as a propaganda tool in the Citizen Free Press, stating that Greta was ‘sent by God’ as the ‘savior from climate change’, and that we have to worship her for she speaks the gospel and that she is here to ‘free us from climate catastrophe’; and all those who deny her ‘teachings’ are ‘sinners’.
Seriously, is this dude sick in the head or something!? Greta is no God. I wouldn’t worship her, I’d slap her parents and get some much needed psychological help. She is autistic like me, and autistic people get taken for a ride because its easy to exploit our minds. Its because of me being autistic that has made me fear all the stuff I read about climate change, be it in the papers, the TV, or online. I had a severe mental breakdown one night after someone thought it would be funny to tell me that there is no hope for mankind and that the glaciers will be gone soon and something else I couldn’t quite fathom (Something about a gun). I made enemies that night trying to push my skepticism; which only made me feel worse.
Then, in a desperate attempt to find solace and closure I somehow stumbled upon WUWT, which has helped me in a way recover from my ordeal. I still have fear over all the crap I read because my mind won’t let me get over it, but at the same time WUWT has helped remind me that the media is biased and manipulated.
And this is how Greta got to where she is, her parents exploited her autistic spectrum, and uses it for fame, fortune, and the blue yonder alone knows what else. We are easily exploited, and that is a sad but true situation.
I thought Autism was just a way of describing what is just one of the ends of the normal male spectrum as “an illness”. Indeed I think feminists view all “maleness” as an illness.
Autism is also used incorrectly to describe stupid people, which I hate.
“sent by God”?
The same God that gave us abundant oil, gas, coal, uranium? The God that gave us the ability to make nuclear energy, electricity, etc.?
I would say no.
Yes exactly. Whoever wrote that comment was a lunatic. Greta is no God. In a few years time she will be irrelevant.
I did jack rabbit starts at all stop signs and traffic lights today in her honor.
Her ignorant parents have caused her to be screamingly stupid.
She’s young enough to end up embarrassed as she lives the future when she sees none of her dooming crap come true.
The next 30 years will be no different than previously with the same random variations in localized, regional and global weather.
At 2030 the entirety of looking back 10 years and projecting 10 years forward will be remarkably similar to 2010.
Or so.
Gretta will be older and presumably a bit smarter?
But I’ll wager she will never have a regular job.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49156223
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/teen-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-wins-france-s-first-freedom-prize
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/europe-s-record-heatwave-threatens-greenland-ice-sheet
It might be of interest to hear that the french trash satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ (yes the one from “we are Charlie”, that you would see as rabid leftists)) has also published a handful of errh…very unkind cartoons of Sankt Greta, the captions criticizing the dictatorial flavour of the phenomenon : “those autists who rule the world : their networks, their finances, their beauty tutorials”, or “heil greta !”
Just about there being a lot of things in the Heavens and on Earth ;-))
Why is nobody taking seriously my repeated warnings here and elsewhere that Little Ms. Thunberg is actually channelling Rosa Klebb?
I don’t know if she’s autistic or any of the other descriptions of her.
What I know is that she has the obvious sociopathic SMIRK.