Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon – Climate crusader Greta Thunberg’s “principled” trip across the Atlantic in a carbon fibre and non recyclable plastic boat is going to require at least four crew members to fly across the Atlantic.
Greta Thunberg’s two-week trip across Atlantic in ‘zero-carbon yacht’ may generate more emissions than it saves as two of the crew have to FLY to New York to bring the boat back to Europe
- On Wednesday, the Swedish eco-campaigner left Plymouth on the Malizia II
- Skipper Boris Herrmann and team founder Pierre Casiraghi will fly back from US
- The 16-year-old is set to address the UN climate change conference next month
By JACK ELSOM and DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:57 AEST, 17 August 2019 | UPDATED: 06:50 AEST, 18 August 2019Greta Thunberg’s trans-Atlantic voyage on a ‘zero-carbon yacht’ has been rocked by revelations that crew will fly to New York in a gas-guzzling plane to bring the boat back to Europe.
It is claimed that this would generate more emissions than the yacht saves and threatens to leave the 16-year-old’s plans to chart an environmentally friendly route to the United States in tatters.
On Wednesday, the Swedish eco-campaigner left Plymouth on the Malizia II for a two-week journey to the United Nations headquarters where she will address a climate change meeting.
But last night, it was confirmed that two crew will have to fly to the US east coast city to man the 60ft yacht on its return.
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Could this absurd charade possibly get more embarrassing? Next time Greta, buy an airline ticket like the rest of your fellow greens.
Is there a TV feed from the boat? I’m so looking forward to this little wan face lying in its canvas hammock berth having not eaten for three days. Take STUGERON, sweetie, less side effects than KWELLS. (Some may spot that CdeL was once a yottie)
No live feed, but you can track her progress here. Has tweets and pictures.
https://tracker.borisherrmannracing.com/
The best they can do for the poor child is taking her to Disneyland once ashore and let her have some fun and relaxation before flying her right home. She might even find more reality there than in the madness she is currently entangled in.
The parents, teachers and other grown ups responsible for scaring this child (and others) shitless, and pushing her in front of them to induce bad conscience should be charged with gross child neglect and abuse.
Amen to that.
Fun read:
The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg
Interesting that the “We don’t have time” logo appears to be a rehash of the Hammer and Sickle
The whole malarkey has decended into pure farce. There’s also the little question of how Greta and her dad will return home from Santiago. Waiting for another fast sailing boat to come along appears unpractical. So the talk is about hitching a ride on container ships. You know, those giants transporting all those climate-destroying goodies.
You couldn’t make it up.
she should have got on a freighter to go there as well.
bunker fuel be damned;-0
As expected, the CBC has published an article on Ste Greta, the sailing virgin: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/greta-thunberg-atlantic-voyage-united-states-1.5249604
The journalist Susan Ormiston is not investigating much deeper than this:
Yes, Ormiston is not even questioning that the profile of some supposedly lonely pimpled teen protester could be suddenly raised to world celebrity status in 12 months. Nope, in Ormiston’s world, all this is, well, normal. Try it at home, next time around with your own teen…
Wearing petroleum derived fiber clothing? No question from Ormiston. Riding a Monaco owned racing yacht -hardly manufactured without its own carbon footprint, nor owned by some uber-class wealthy whose carbon footprint goes through the roof- does not seem to motivate Ormiston’s investigative reflexes.
The CBC sucking up suggests the documentary film of the Atlantic crossing will likely make it on Canadian taxpayers’ funded official agitprop media.
The “united science”? This is the new brand of science and at 16, without any scientific degree, she knows this IS the truth, and she is “acting”, “communicating” it. She is a tool. But this does not concern Ormiston:
Greta is sacrificing herself for the good of Mankind (sorry in Trudeau speak Peoplekind) and to save the climate that we loved so much… Thank you Ormiston for this hagiography worthy of apostolic faith.
Miss Ormiston’s investigative journalism is as dead as the famous Monty Python parrot. As for the CBC, a member of the ICIJ consortium, its “investigative team” remains famous for having called George Soros office when the name of the billionaire philanthropist appeared in the Paradise papers, just to tell us that their call was not returned, EOM.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Considering the core premise seems to be that anything post industrial revolution is bad, surely this voyage should have been conducted in a replica of an 18th century ship with all the attendant lack of anything remotely civilized. Might instill a dose of reality.
With hardtack made of organic flour.
At least we’re growing more hemp these days.
Baltimore or Yankee Clipper ships would have been a better choice.
Actually if the climate cabal was serious about CO2 and no air travel’ commissioning a few dozen of these type of ships to be constructed and conference goers required to use them would e a good thing . they are after all wasting natural resources.
Hardtack “aka” Yankee crackers yes but of course nothing better or more wholesome
michael
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/clipper-ships
Oh, what tangled web they weave, when first they practice to deceive….
I’d bet she’s in for a learning experience.
So, it’s all good.
what did one ocean say to the other? nothing.They just waved.
#lamejokes
The Owl and the pussy-hat sailed to sea
in a beautiful carbon free boat
they took some honey and plenty of money
wrapped up in a gravy-train coat.
The Owl looked up at the stars above
and typed to a small keyboard
‘O lovely messiah, my Theta my love’
What a lovely messiah you are ,
you are
What a lovely messiah you are.
They sailed away, for a year and a day
To the land where the UN Bong tree grows
And there in a crowd, talking aloud
was the Gore with a very large nose
Gore said to the Owl, ‘you deplorable fowl’
But how terribly well you sing
Do not be scoffing, tis time to be troughing
and they started doing their thing, their thing
they started doing their thing
When virtue signaling, reality matters not at all.
Most of the press will concentrate on the trip in the carbon fiber racing yacht and will ignore the crew’s multiple trans-Atlantic flights to allow Greta to virtue signal. The will also ignore the carbon footprint of building that racing yacht.
I hope Greta does not succumb to sea sickness. Projectile vomit on a racing yacht would be messy.
yeah and if she goes on deck her “tickets” might blow away too.
wouldnt that be sad;-)
Yep, they don’t look at the big picture or they dont want us to look at the big picture. Mathematics can be deceiving.
Plastic boat??? I thought only bad people throw plastic junk into the oceans?
Here about the ship that ran aground carrying a cargo of red paint and black paint?
The whole crew was marooned.
#lamejokes
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I have to confess I actually laughed at that one maybe because there is little in the news (in the UK) to relieve the overpowering sense of imminent disaster from our totally useless politicians.
What if, God forbid, the yacht was dismasted and drifting and the first rescue vessel to arrive to save her was an oil tanker?
How is she getting from the boat to the UN and where is she staying? She should not be making use of any goods and or services that make use of fossil fuels. I always see her wearing clothes that were apparently transported by the us of fossil fuels. How is she going to get back home?
Hm, doesn’t all climate activist come in private jets, just to tell that «we» (meaning you) must stop flying, stop driving cars and go on full vegan diet?
I must say I respect Gretha for not being a hypocrite – that is a rare sort among the so-called environment activists.
Except that she is a hypocrite and much more CO2 will be emitted than if she had simply flown or better yet stayed in Sweden.
I don’t see her as a hypocrite. She says the she is not telling people what they cannot do, but she want to show that there are alternatives.
I find that reasonable.
Of course, everybody know that that doing exactly the same is not a viable alternative, and using a 60 foot sailboat for a singel passenger is not green, unless you are hitchhiking with it.
However, it demonstrates that sailing is an alternative.
Huge passenger sailboats may come back some day.
Jan
Jan Kjetil Andersen
Not a hypocrite, just badly educated.
Greta is on the autistic spectrum which usually comes with learning difficulties.
However, even were she a normal 16 year old she would be highly unlikely to have achieved any meaningful scientific qualifications.
Therefore, she is wholly unable to question the science of climate change. Much like most other schoolchildren going on ‘strike’ because they have been taught by adults with no ability to critically analyse the science.
How many teachers do we see on this blog seeking clarification so they can better inform their pupils?
None I know of.
This trip will bring her closer to nature what she may not have comprehended so far. She will now be able to feel how vast our oceans and atmosphere are. The ocean and land ratio of the world is 3:1. The atmosphere is on top. Troposphere covers upto 18km high. Hence anyone can imagine how much contribution human can make to the whole atmosphere. In the atmosphere, there is enough proportion for water vapour and the rest is air. From that air part, CO2 constitutes only .03%. Again out of that .03% CO2, only a nominal part for anthropogenic CO2.
Thus her long sea voyage will teach her a very practical lesson- how tiny contribution we human can make to the vastness of nature. Is it possible to see the tiny fossil-fuel CO2 in that vastness?
It will give her an opportunity for transformation. Hope she will now be able to differentiate between reality and manipulation.
As others,above,comment,this is farce writ large.
Saint Greta of the Cult of Calamitous Climate is a huge own goal, did the creators of 10-10 contribute their wisdom?
Stupidity and wilful gullibility of this intensity reaches even the disinterested voter.
When faced with the fantastic,one can ask themselves;”Could I credibly create this,as a work of fiction?”
There is no bottom to how low the Climate Cult will go,their lust for power and wealth is insatable.
Saint Greta of the Carbon Fibre Yacht is parody beyond belief.
The Press mock themselves as they promote this poor child’s delusion.
Nothing says Fighting Carbon Pollution like using a Carbon Fibre High Tech Toy.
On the other hand, Mr. Pierre Casiraghi is also a wannabe race driver sponsored by Gazprom, car collector and frequent miles private jet flyer with that much biz-jet and helicopter charter outlets on speed dial.
He’s also a kingpin of Monacair, the main helicopter operator and VIP carrier of Monaco.
So yes, he needs some virtue signaling to keep kerosene flowing.
Poor Mickey Mann, ‘distinguished professor’ and pseudo-Nobel laureate has been massively outclassed by the teenage prophet hell-bent on saving humanity from itself.
https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1106947335068807168
The other Greta said: “I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.”
Look at Mann’s Twitter picture. He cuts off a significant portion of his balding head (talk about hiding the decline). I believe this is Freudian.
I am currently building a custom made yacht for Greta which will alleviate any concerns regarding its construction techniques and materials used.
The hull will be made from used latte stirring sticks that I am collecting from inner city trendy cafes and I have 20 kg already but need another 20 tonnes, donations welcomed.
The sticks will be stuck together with glue made from whale blubber mixed with pulveridpsed yak hooves. The sails will be constructed from the lining of Patagonian goat intestines stitched together with hair from the tails of Egyptian trotting wildebeest.
You should contact Democratic U.S. Presidential hopeful Joe Biden to help with construction. This is supposed to be a photo of Joe Biden proving that, like Jesus Christ, he, too is a pretty good carpenter.
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A Kon-Tiki raft perhaps? No wait a minute the blighters had to cut down some Ecuadorian rainforest balsa trees for that. That won’t do so let me see…any thoughts Greta?
You can’t make this stuff up…
She’s got a typical leftist sneer of authority on it’s face. She’ll make a good leftist ‘squad-like’ candidate some day.
I think there is too much talk about Greta and too little talk about children in general. I find it very worrying that children are being taught such dubious “science” at school. It’s making them afraid of the future.
dunnooo
August 18, 2019 at 3:21 pm
Yes, that’s right…this is the real tragedy in all the non-science being preached.
So if the current schoolkids aren’t getting fed decent science the whole mess just propagates into the next generation.
BTW, what comes after Generation Z? Do we start on numbers, superscripts or go backwards until we get Gen A? Who made up that nonsense anyway?
ZZ?