By Joe Bastardi |August 1st, 2019|Climate
Climate Activist Greta Thunberg is planning to sail the North Atlantic on a boat with zero carbon emissions (though made of hydrocarbons) to attend United Nations climate summits in New York and Chile.
We’re only six weeks away from the height of the hurricane season. Relative to averages, I’ve been expecting it will be FURTHER NORTH that more tropical development than normal is expected. This makes Greta’s voyage, to put it nicely, a bold idea. Maybe that’s the plan. Draw attention to north Atlantic storms, which as we all know happen multiple times almost every year, but if it causes problems here, can be used to advance an agenda.
Now I have to be careful about any “criticisms” of this climate spokesperson, So I am not going to criticize her, but instead will ask a few questions that might get attention. If questioning is criticism, its only because the person claiming it has an agenda to avoid answering the question. I am well aware any and all criticism nowadays of someone like this can get me accused of being abusive to children or a misogynist. So no criticism, just some things I would like to see her address given her lofty position as a spokesperson for the climate
I am assuming it’s still OK to question authority in pursuit of the truth. The fact I have to waste half this post on explaining this, shows how bad things are getting.
Fair enough?
First of all, is not Greta’s chosen method of transportation an INDICTMENT of the idea we can even think about getting off fossil fuels? Who has the resources and backing to get a fancy yacht and cross the Atlantic? And how is taking the way we cross oceans back to the time of Columbus anything but counter to progress? So only under very special circumstances, extraordinary resources, and several weeks where you can do nothing, is this even possible.
As to the Current climate emergency: I would like to know what Greta opposes in the following items
Climate-related deaths
Is this not a major positive?
Personal GDP and life expectancy globally in the fossil fuel era:
How is this a negative?
More food being grown:
The earth Greener than its ever been in the satellite era:
Why are past times that were warmer than today referred to as “climate optimums?” How did that morph into a “climate crisis?”
I have more questions, but again, I don’t want to pile on. Addressing facts directly, which run counter to the missive being pushed, would be helpful if they expect skeptics like me to get “on board” an elite racing yacht anytime soon. Though I doubt you’ll see me, or 99.9% of the population of the world, have any chance to travel by yacht from Europe to the USA, then Chile.
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Thanks, Joe. That was refreshing.
The inhabitants of the world into which Greta was born are so much better off than those of the one you and I were born into way back when (I’m a few years older than you)…all thanks to progress powered by fossil fuels.
Regards,
Bob
PS: I still watch your daily updates and Saturday summaries at Weather Bell. Link for those who don’t:
https://www.weatherbell.com/
That word has seriously fallen out of usage. It’s like we have lost our vision of a better future.
We are living in a golden age. We should be grateful. People like Greta have no clue and therefore have no gratitude.
The idiots who think we should end western culture don’t have a viable alternative. So, that’s my question for Greta. What alternative do you have for western civilization?
We are becoming the first generation of humans to go backwards – seemingly out of choice.
Not quite.
Only some humans (most of us) will be required to go backwards. The folks calling the shots will be just fine.
Which brings us to the whole “choice” issue. A tiny minority persuade the majority to chose to go backwards….i suspect things might not turn out quite like that….!
No we are not.
Where are Roman Britons now? Where are the Mayans, that Aztecs, The Toltecs, The hittites..
Civilisations come, develop, become too stupid to run themselves and collapse back to peasant subsistence farming, every few hundred years.
“Catastrophes” misspelled on the first slide.
CommieBob perhaps we shouldn’t be taking the people pushing this agenda at their word.
I don’t think ‘The idiots who think we should end western culture don’t have a viable alternative’ because I think they think they’re really good people that are ‘saving’ the planet.
And the ones that really do think we should end western culture aren’t doing so inadvertently, aren’t idiots and don’t want us to have a viable alternative.
Anyone wondering who they might be and where they’re located, follow the carbon dioxide. Hint: Its where one finds Eastern culture.
And yet those who lose all the comforts of life because they choose to will be the first to cry and complain about all they lost. Especially when they realize all their climate efforts were for nothing.
I once debated with a hard core anarchist who was convinced that the biggest mistake mankind ever made was to abandon the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
The fact that people who lived that lifestyle eagerly gave it up when they had the chance was completely lost on that guy.
You can still book travel on ocean liners bound on routes between the UK and North America. What could be better than a nice, stately cruise across the Atlantic on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Breakaway or the RMS Queen Mary 2. I may be old-fashioned, but I would rather travel by ship or by rail, since they are both still available, than by air. Because air passengers can be so obnoxious now, the only place I can think of that I”d like to visit is Poland, a NATO country where we have a new base under construction.
Ocean liners produce way more CO2 per passenger mile than modern aircraft.
Excellent! Making the planet green is the green thing to do. (Carbon dioxide is plant food.)
During 2017 more than 4 billion people traveled by air. In 2020 more than 5 billion people are expected to fly. I wonder how many sailing ships this translates to.
I wonder how much co 2 comes from prudusing a sail boat like that 1 ??
yeah;-) I DO hope Gretas boat owners/insurers and crew and she are signing a NO rescue unless its not fossil fueled also clause?
Missing the point slightly there Sara.
Yes you can book very nice stately cruises from A to B. Likewise you can book very nice stately rail journeys from A to B. The journey itself becomes the holiday experience because these methods of transport cannot compete with the transport methods (flying) selected by those who believe the destination is the holiday.
This topic came up in conversation with some people in my social circle yesterday. We were talking about interstate train travel in Australia and it was pointed out that that rail passage on the Ghan (Adelaide to Darwin) now costs $7000. In context you can travel to London and back for that money FOUR TIMES and still have comfortable change to pick up your duty free plonk.
The other point to be made here is if the Midnight Sun Monster/Nordic Thanos has her way and flying is banned then it does not automatically translate that international travellers will automatically transfer to nice stately cruises in honking big ocean liners. It translate to international travellers transferring to third class passage in nautical cattle class AND still using massive amounts of evil nasty fossil fuels and carbon.
i remember the old ghan and people could afford to travel on it because it was safer and cheaper than driving.
now its the rich and tourists only
I believe the comment was meant to apply to everyday travel such as business travel.
commieBob, how about ravens twisting heads sitting on tombstones at cemeteries in the howling night winds. Twisting heads.
Alternatively.
Greta can see CO2, according to her mother. Some respect please. Just because you can’t see the carbon, doesn’t give you the right to criticize those who can.
The main question to Great Greta, is this one. Why did you choose a tiny little boat of only 60 ft to bring you over the Atlantic ocean. As an experienced mariner, I know very well that the sea out there is often awful. I don’t know if you suffer from airfright (i.e., am frightened of flying in aircraft, or it is the shame of flying, that many Swedes seem to suffer from nowadays). Anyhow, I would at least think twice, if not thrice to cross the Atlantic in a 60-footer. Remember that the waves will be up to 5 – 6 m high, they will have lengths of between 80 and 120 m, and will be travelling at speeds up to 80 km per hour. It is not the wave height or length that is the worst, but the duration and speed. If you have to cross through a typical north Atlantic cyclone, it is pretty rough. Afte about 5 hours in the seasaw, you’re body will start to give up and you are left with fright and homesickness, perhaps even the dreaded sea sickness. However, the only comfort is that when you step ashore, you will start feeling good again. Especially if you go to the nearest bar / pub and take a beer to level yourself off, as most seafarers do, when they come ashore. Good luck Great Greta ! And bless the weather and the climate on your way over there…
And then there’s the monster waves. Up to 60 meters, ~180 feet.
One of my friends, who has extensive experience in this, suggested that a nuclear powered submarine, under the waves, is really the best way to travel the high seas. The CO2 release qwould be zero but levels inside can get quite high!
Tim; I think the US Navy tries to keep the co2 level in a sub below 8000 ppm.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/17/claim-co2-makes-you-stupid-as-a-submariner-that-question/
It is. We used to say in the RN Submarine Service “That happiness is 500ft in a storm force 12” and I’ve crossed the Atlantic several times underwater.
It will certainly be interesting to follow Greta’s voyage, I suppose she will keep her flock updated on facebook, if she is in a state to write anything, that is. But I really wonder if she understands what she is headed for (she has now left Stockholm for UK by train). It is no problem to stage an evacuation from the yacht if the hardship gets too much for her, but with her stubborn state of mind, will she accept it? Will it be too much of a loss of face to be rescued by a co2-spewing ship, or (even worse) a helicopter? The propaganda effect would be lost, she would the object of ridicule. But if she stays on board, during a long, hard voyage, her health may be affected. Did her family consider this, I wonder?
Judging by her ideology, she would refuse assistance from a Coast Guard helicopter.
God will save her…
A man is trapped on a rooftop in a flood…
As the flooding waters reached the lip of the roof, A boat pulled up
“Get in, we’ll take you to safety”
“That’s OK, God will save me”
2 hours later the water is up to the Chimny and another boat arrives
“Get in, we’ll take you to safety”
“That’s OK, God will save me”
Another hour later and the water is up to the Man’s chin, A helocopter arrives
“Get in, we’ll take you to safety”
“That’s OK, God will save me”
20 minutes later the water tops the man’s head and he drowns.
He goes to heaven and confronts God.
“I am devout. I prayed daily.
Why did you forsake me and let me drown?”
To which God replies…
“I am uncertain what you mean,
I sent you 2 boats and a Helocopter”
God replied
For her sake as well as hours, we have to hope she isn’t martyred.
Beer? But beer contains an awful lot of carbon dioxide (typically 100cl of CO2 for a 33cl can).
Perhaps Greta may be able to understand this explanation as well.
https://rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/ever-been-told-that-the-science-is-settled-with-global-warming-well-read-this-and-decide-for-yourself/
Cheers
Roger
Are you not asking the wrong person? Shouldn’t you be asking her parents and the ‘climate change communicators’ who are using her for propaganda purposes?
Greta has fixated on (whether due to Autism or not) the alarmist, worrying nonsense they have filled her head with. If any young person was informed, and became convinced, that they had no future and the world was going to end because of fossil fuels, manufacturing and climate change, they are likely to become depressed and damaged over the lack of potential future; which they should be encouraged to look forward to; not encouraged to get depressed about. Her parents and the alarmists using her are transferring their own fears and prejudices onto her. It is a form of child abuse, just the same as constantly telling a child they are evil, bad or naughty just because you think they are, because eventually they will lose all self esteem. Greta is able to regurgitate; without question or doubt, whatever they fill her head full of, which makes her very useful for the purposes of propaganda. Other children who have been fed this nonsense have merely become clinically depressed and attempted self harm or even suicide. You occasionally see video of them breaking down and crying about their perceived lack of future when they are interviewed. In Greta’s case, she likely feels she has a use by informing everyone that the end is nigh; unless we take a few thousand years back-step in development.
lets not sugar coat it, she’s a retard
I wonder how Greta; and her parents; have been travelling around Europe? I doubt if it was on a bicycle or horse and cart.
A BROOM would the most fitting means of transportation for Greta and her entourage.
If we need the imput from a 16 year old truant to advise the world, we must be in a very sad state.
Yes we are in a very sad state
Joe, you and other skeptics aren’t the only ones you won’t see on a racing yacht (aka sailboat with diesel back-up). Imagine all the 144 celebrity jets not flying into Sicily, but rather a flotilla of sails. (There were some yachts, but I don’t think any of them were sailboats.) Just imagine how much the work of Climate Change, Inc. would slow if they all had to use sail boats to meet up. That might cure the whole Global Climate Change crisis in itself.
Sailing over the oceans caused a lot of deaths in earlier times, wiil someone back in these times passed fortunately ?
There are sometimes you just have to be on the side of pirates 🙂
LdB August 5, 2019 at 8:13 am
There are sometimes you just have to be on the side of pirates
_______________________________________________
caesar+held+by+pirates+pledge:
Cesar laughed at his pirate capture warden and pledged he will all of them let hung.
Then he sent home for bail.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&q=caesar+held+by+pirates+pledge&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaveHHtezjAhWkxYUKHa7ZCPoQ7xYoAHoECAsQAg&biw=360&bih=518
It has been pointed out that these people who travelled by super yacht and private jet to Sicily to scold the world for using fossil fuels are perhaps the biggest hypocrites in the history of the universe.
” There’s no hypocrite like a rich, jet-setting anti-global-warming one.
…
It is impossible not to mock this.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-theres-no-hypocrite-like-a-rich-jet-setting-anti-global-warming-one
Of course, many of the rich people who have mega-yachts don’t actually travel ABOARD the yacht. They hire a captain and a crew, chefs, maids, servants who travel in the yacht to a destination, and anchor there, at which point the owner comes jetting in on an airliner or private jet, and joins the yacht in situ, say, in Cannes, France, for the Cannes Film Festival, or in Monoco for the Grand Prix, or in the Greek Islands. That’s not to say none of them ever travels aboard their yacht. But most do this rarely, for only limited time, usually carrying along an entourage of invited guests who likewise, fly to meet the yacht. In this model, you get not only all the CO2 of air travel, but the added CO2 emissions of moving what amounts to your privately owned luxury hotel rooms to your preferred site with very large diesel engines. It’s probably a very nice life if you can afford it. Since CO2 emissions are a good thing, this is a win-win for almost everyone. People get employment, the crew, the builders and designers, ports and marinas get rents and sell fuel and supplies. Bikini designers and Brazilian waxers make out like bandits. Free enterprise is a lovely thing.
http://www.yachts123.com/photos/121-supermodels-babes-on-yachts-thumbs/babes-sunbathing-on-anchored-yachts-05.jpg
“Climate Activist Greta Thunberg is planning to sail the North Atlantic on a boat with zero carbon emissions (though made of hydrocarbons) to attend United Nations climate summits in New York and Chile.”
Wonder if she’s prone to seasickness…
What happens when its time to go back?
Presumably its a round tripe.
Back on the boat is it?
Round tripe indeed.
Birdynumnum: Thanks for “round tripe.” Sums up this Greta mess rather aptly.
Dan
Tripe?
Finding a sailing yacht going back across the North Atlantic in winter may be a tad difficult.
Going from New York to Santiago de Chile and back by land or by sea isn’t going to be trivial either.
I agree. In particular this was built for racing and not during the best months to sail the Atlantic to New York. I hope she makes it OK, but I am not sure that she is the one who made this decision.
“Wonder if she’s prone to seasickness…”
She went two months without eating once (they say), so she can go two or three weeks without eating again. Does she know the five stages of seasickness? denial, nausea, sick, I think I will die, I want to die. That might really be child abuse.
Feeling green — it should come naturally for her.
I’d ask her PARENTS why they have allowed their daughter to travel on such a dangerous form of transport at her age. Isn’t this a form of child abuse?
The parents are the puppeteers- well known ultra woke upper class Swedish progressive elite.
And yes, this is child abuse by any definition and should be called out as such unreservedly.
We are dealing with the exploitation and abuse of a minor who – like my second grandson- is at the the “milder” end of the autism spectrum.
By definition emotionally and socially challenged special needs children, who because of their handicap cannot gauge other people’s and their own emotions but who through therapy can be socialized into rote behaviour and use of language.
Greta fits the mould to a T and her automaton like demeanour is being abused for propaganda purposes. Revolting.
” … abuse of a minor … ”
She is 16. Made to look younger. 16 is not a minor in many jurisdictions. I have been involved in the “intervention” (deprogramming, de-brainwashing) of a person who was very like Greta. I feel sorry for her. One day when this scam has finally fallen apart, the sycophants will abandon Greta. She could become more disturbed, possibly suicidal, or perhaps even vengeful. I hope she gets the help she needs but has always been deprived of.
Waddya mean, allow?! Her father at least is going with her. He’s making a film or writing a book about it all, or something.
It’s Mommy and Daddy that are pulling the strings here.
To Newmister
I think you are right. At least the father is going.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/europe/greta-thunberg-sailboat-scli-intl/index.html
The experience of the father (???) on a racing sailboat in the Atlantic at the time they will be sailing to New York???
There is no doubt about the sailboat crew capabilities and experience. However for a child like Greta??? I don’t know. This is not a boat with dining room, spa, music etc.
Good luck with this.
It is not a dangerous form of transport if you know what you’re doing. The yacht isn’t the problem. The problem is that its Hurricane season.
I doubt she’s literate in English? Here’s another question. What level of CO2 in the atmosphere would she like to see and how long might it take to get there? (The silly Guardian paper chronicles today’s level and says 350 is ‘safe’ )
Have you forgotten that she can see CO2 ? Ask what color it is.
Clear and Wavy
It obscures her vision with every exhalation
I would bet her English is much better than your Swedish.
https://youtu.be/FWsM9-_zrKo
Her English is excellent – upper class level in fact. She was taught by an expensive tutor.
I watched her spiel in Paris and was surprised at how Diana-level her vocabulary and Diana-level pronunciation was.
The spiel standard ‘all scientists agree, you must listen to the Science’ stuff
She is entirely likely to be airlifted off this boat after the first bit of bad weather.
A hurricane is another thing entirely. Had her parents taken the time to read ‘Left for Dead’, the true story of one man’s tragedy, surviving a hurricane which hit the 1979 Fastnet Race they would not let her go, and I’m surprised the authorities, never mind the crew, have allowed her to participate in this voyage.
“It had been Nick Ward’s childhood ambition to sail in the Fastnet Race, and being asked to join the crew of the 30-foot yacht Grimalkin was a dream come true. But then the storm hit. Grimalkin was capsized again and again. With the skipper lost overboard, after hours of struggle three of the crew decided to abandon the boat for the liferaft. Nick and another crewmember, both unconscious, were left on the beleaguered yacht in the middle of the Irish Sea. Both were presumed dead. Gerry died a few hours later, and Nick was left to face the storm alone.” (Amazon.)
The race is held barely a few miles offshore yet 15 sailors across the fleet lost their lives.
An utterly harrowing book. Nor did the boat simply capsize, Nick later figured out the Grimalkin pitchpoled (meaning turned end-over-end).
Not dissimilar to Susie Goodall, participating in a 30,000-mile solo race around the globe which saw the total loss of her yacht when it also pitchpoled during a ferocious storm with 60-knot winds, leaving her stranded 2,000 miles west of South America’s Cape Horn, with help two days away.
She told rescuers by Sat Phone that “I was thrown across the cabin and knocked out for a while. The only thing left is the hull and deck which remain intact.”
“Goodall’s misfortune actually came after she’d emerged from another storm….”The seas were coming from four directions and I kept being knocked down,” she said at the time, noting “it took me a week to recover.” “TOTALLY AND UTTERLY GUTTED,” “CLINGING ON IN MY BUNK,” “IN NEED OF A GOOD CUPPA TEA,” read her tweets.” (https://www.newser.com)
Nick and Susie were experienced sailors. I have no idea what level of sailing knowledge or ability Greta has, but during weather even approaching that Nick and Susie endured, she will become a liability if she hasn’t been sailing since a very young age.
“I have no idea what level of sailing knowledge or ability Greta has”
But you can be sure that she will be telling the crew how to do it.
ALL swede have sea / ocean experience, the socialist in extremes:
Breivig Utoya Island –
https://www.google.com/search?q=breivik+island+video&oq=breivig+island&aqs=chrome.
Hope “epic” is appropriate in PV.
Odds are, she”ll wind up just being ballast. And perhaps do a little Chumming along the way.
Hopefully the crew will have enough sense to turn around once they see the storms off to the west.
I really do hope she makes it OK though. Imagine a world where you can cross the atlantic by boat and NOT encounter Rough Sailing from the Stormy North Atlantic.
The question I would ask Greta; has she ever seen the movie “”the perfect storm”.
also is she aware that in winter, the storms on the Great lakes can sink steel cargo ships.
next has she taken into consideration that if they run into a truly bad storm her little “stunt” will be putting the lives of flight crews sent to rescue her at grave risk?
Does she know how many coast guard crews have been lost trying to save the crews of ships that had a real need to be out on the seas.
michael
Maybe the on-board PA system should entertain Greta and the crew with “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” as the yacht leaves the harbor.
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
If Greta runs into trouble at see and has to be saved by fossil-fueled rescuers, that wouldn’t be such a bad story.
Thank you Joe, your weekly update and daily brief are the reference I use to try to get people to really look at and understand the weather. I’m finding that liberal arts majors go glassy-eyed quickly, but those in the hard sciences love the information. I hope that WeatherBell is getting commercial subscriptions as a result.
Keep it up! Semper Fi!
Let the lunatics do their thing, it’s helping bigly.
I’m curious how much food will be brought over on the sailing voyage, and more specifically, how much organic carbon will be contained in that food. Then we can trace that organic carbon back through the food chain to ‘discover’ that it was all sourced from atmospheric CO2.
CO2 feeds life, even when you’re on a sailboat.
Maybe they’ll see a blue whale at sea:
Blue whales consume Krill
Krill consume phytoplankton
Phytoplankton consume CO2
Lest we forget that fossil fuels save the whales from extinction …
If she wanted to sail completely carbon free then she should cross the Atlantic in Ra III.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heyerdahl-sails-papyrus-boat
That’s where a “carbon-free” society is headed.
Except papyrus is not “carbon free”
You’re right!
Maybe build Ra III out of pumice?
Well put, Joe!
“Inquiring minds need to know….”
If we get rid of our jet airliners, then one possible solution for carbon free international travel would be to construct a fleet of thirty-five knot nuclear powered ocean liners — at least for those who aren’t averse to traveling in close proximity to a nuclear reactor for two to three weeks at a time.
NOTHING is ‘carbon’ free…just not possible in this world.
You are right in that criticism of Greta is largely pointless. She’s just an ignorant kid and a tool. It’s the adults that promote and shower her with adulation that should be questioned and held accountable.
Mr. Bastardi, the questions you pose are very good but irrelevant because it only matters how Greta feels about climate change.
Arguing with Climatistas like Greta Thunberg is a total waste of breath. This is a religious, faith-based movement in which Mankind is fallen, and must atone to be redeemed.
“This is a religious, faith-based movement in which Mankind is fallen, and must atone to be redeemed.”
Redemption will occur when we are all transformed into Mann-kind.
Some people enjoy poking at the wasp nest.
How many resources will the yacht crew and passengers consume in the 20 day crossing as compared to the 8 hours by jet?
I would assume that they crew will consume about 20 days of food during those 20 days. Why is it important to attribute where they eat other than to note that for extended trips extended provisions are needed and require ability to transport the supplies with the expedition. That requirement only determines the ratio between the size of crew and vessel.
If I were planning on going nowhere for 20 days I would still need 20 days of provisions regardless of my location.
Such a statistic could be calculated but would be rather meaningless as the people involved will still be eating regardless of their locations.
Rather think of it as a goal proposition rather than a process. One, one way trip across the Atlantic can either take 20 people 20 days of which only a few are passengers versus pilots and flight attendants totaling 10 or so to complete a trip in 8 hours for hundreds of passengers.
The point is that the yacht has a per passenger trip carbon footprint orders of magnitude greater than is being portrayed.
And how their food is cooked. LPG? Diesel electric? Or maybe they plan to subsist on hard tack, pork fat and a lime a day like the 18th century Royal Navy. Hard to believe they would use a wood stove on such a state of the art fiberglass built, nylon or (horror!) carbon fiber sail powered (except for the diesel backup) and probably polyurethane painted vessel like that.
Come on, Greta! If you really want to revert to the 18th century, go all the way. Wood ship, canvas sails and 3 knots average speed and 2 months at sea. Or better yet, a Viking longship and row your way across like your ancestors did to Greenland, back in the warm days when there were trees there.
Except for how the food was grown and transported. Tractors, trucks, container ships, beef, pork, chicken, all CO2 free?
This Voyage will end before it starts when she finally gets to see inside the boat. It’s only slight hyperbole to suggest it was more comfortable being cargo on the middle passage, or as the propulsion system in an Ottoman galley.
The young person wouldn’t be alive if it were not for the industrial revolution, and she thinks that was a bad thing.
Thank you Joe for an informative and useful posting – showing us information that the serial incompetents and dissemblers at the BBC will make sure the British people are never allowed to see.
Why is she sailing at all? Just what aside from sight seeing, fancy dining and luxurious spa treatments will any of these elitists accomplish traveling to New York and Chile?
Anything they need to discuss or discover is available through the internet and if they need to conference about it they can use skype.
They certainly don’t need Greta the mascot to figure out a way to solve their “Crisis” Which is never a serious discussion at these conferences because there is nothing they can do to control GST. But all this travel provides fodder for the media to regurgitate the same hyperbole about the end being nigh The media alarmists never ask any real questions of these con artists in the climate industrial complex. And they will certainly never allow reports on the benefits of fossil fuel to hit see the light of day.
“We’re only six weeks away from the height of the hurricane season.”
We could only hope…
We could only hope that the leftist religion does not acquire a young martyr who will be reported to have died from the effects of climate change.
I hope she makes it safe and sound without a storm in sight
“See how calm the seas are thanks to a little additional CO2?”
I see that the graphs for personal GDP, life expectancy and food supply are genuine hockey sticks!
We know the boat has a diesel engine. Do we know if there is a back up crew either sailing alongside or coming by plane?
As a brit I remember our virtue signalling prime minister cycling to No 10 whilst a car followed discreetly behind carrying all his official papers. Is there going to be something similar here. All joking aside it is a very dangerous and some might say irresponsible thing to do to sail the atlantic in a small boat at this time of the year. Rather pointless as well, because as a society we can’t turn the clock back 500 years and do everything in slow motion
tonyb
It’s a “no-lose” scenario for greenmunists…. she makes the trip and is lauded for her green ethic…..or she goes down with the ship or is extracted from it due to adverse weather, showing that climate change is a serious threat….even if she decides not to go so that she doesn’t miss any speaking engagements….still a press those “Donate” buttons opportunity….