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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And it came to pass that a maiden from the Norselands dwelt amongst the masses and sternly rebuked those who refused to believe.
“Woe, woe, the great tribulations will descend upon the lands in 11 years and 7 months. Not one of you will be left with the breath if life and the fishes will boil alive. Woe woe, repent and return to the caves from whence you came., only the faithful will survive and live for evermore with the climate gods. Woe, woe, woe”
Greta has become an icon. Imagine the marketing possibilities. Little statuettes, bobble-heads, t-shirts, self-help videos. Be ready for when she gets the Nobel Peace Prize.
Here’s how they did it for Che.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/32208/1/how-the-che-guevara-t-shirt-became-a-global-phenomenon
St Great Thunderbox, so called because she’s been deliberatly filled with Schist, became a martyr to Climate Change when her boat sailed deliberatively into a hurricane, and an unknown crew member sick of her vapid vacuous virtue,threw the little brat overboard.
Lacking and engine, the boat was unable to turn round and pick her up
The crew member is understood to have blamed ‘Climate Change’ for making Hir mentally unstable…
What is it with the crappy shist jokes? Its pronounced shissssst. As in no schist Sherlock. Like i say, it’s not a joke.
A modern day Joan of Arc. Now that’s progress.
The greening graphic is and interesting one and probably needs some explanation. I am pretty sure the inhabitants of central Australia (really anyone more than 500km from the coast, and in many places 1km from the coast) would be slighly bemused by the graphic.
Sadly the use of stuff like this and other unlabeled charts reduces the argument to the level of a Mann hockey stick.
agree it made me go HUH?
even in the best flood years we dont see much green for long up the topends
i guess some more scrubby weeds n spinifex got counted as greening?
https://youtu.be/yfSLuEj99d0
Tty:
I was skeptical of this claim, but found this link, which backs you up:
Large Cruise ship: 19.35 MPG per passenger
Boeing 747-400: 91 MPG per passenger
This reference (Fuel economy in aircraft gives a range of figures for different long-haul aircraft from a low of 71 MPG/seat (Airbus A330) to a high of 102 MPG/seat (Boeing 787-9) for flights exceeding 8,000 km. Shorter flights seem to have lower economy values.
The two figures are not exactly comparable: ships use diesel oil and aircraft bun jet fuel; the two have different energy content by volume, but close enough.
You also have to add it that the cruise ship passengers are consuming a lot more food while crossing the Atlantic, and all the resultant CO2 produced thereby.
So if you’re worried about CO2, fly rather than sail.
Alan:
“Large Cruise ship: 19.35 MPG per passenger
Boeing 747-400: 91 MPG per passenger”
Should it be 9.1 MPG for the 747? Otherwise, it does not seem quite logical , what you wrote.
I made airplanes but both boats and airplanes of this type require positive pressure environmental suits for the workers laying down the hull/fuselage. Don’t even get me started on the hull coating to reduce drag and biological toxicity.
I’ll wager Greta will never sail the Atlantic as announced.
She will either not sail at all and fly instead.
Or she will be ushered with a massive boat along side with a rescue crew to remove her at any time she gets discomforted.
Yes, the yacht built by hydrocarbons may not EMIT any CO2, but you must remember that nowadays all severe storms and therefore all wind is “fossil fueled”.
-gasp-
So if she is traveling by fossil fueled wind power she’s still a hypocrite.
She is just a dumb abused child. We should go for the criminals that abused her.
This and similar posts are just fine. Yet I think it would be best not to pay any attention to Greta and her histrionics.
“(though made of hydrocarbons)”
That’s the key point. This is not a zero carbon trip. Even if she sailed on a boat made of wood, it would still take energy to build, man and supply the boat…energy that came mostly from burning stuff.
The fact that this clueless little girl has become the face of the movement speaks to how empty it is.
PS I’m typing this while flying first class across the pacific. CO2 is yummy.
The kid is a liar, plain and simple. I don’t need science to explain why her claim of being able to see CO2 is complete BS. I’m not rich, but I’d bet her $100k in cash she would fail a controlled test. Kid has zero credibility, and I would be happy to tell her she is a liar, in person. I probably at best have another 25-30 years to go. Hate think it will be spent in a world dominated by evil people like that.
Who was it who said, “If wind power was the answer, the ocean lanes of the world would be full of sailing ships.”
The hurricane will form the fastest in the Caribbean Sea.
