Mary Margaret Olohan Social Issues Reporter
September 19, 2019 9:44 AM ET
A teen climate activist spoke to Congress Wednesday and urged members of the House of Representatives to “listen to the scientists.”
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, said to Congress she was not there to deliver prepared remarks but to present a special report on global warming. (RELATED: Swedish Student Tells People Not To Be Hopeful About Climate Change, But To ‘Panic’ Instead)
“I am submitting this report because I don’t want you to listen to me,” Thunberg said. “I want you to listen to the scientists, and I want you to unite behind the science, and then I want you to take real action, thank you.”
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Idiocracy got here much faster than Mike Judge ever imagined.
This arrogant little adolescent seems to think she is somehow better advised on climate than POTUS.
She is right about one thing, there’s no chance she will be able to change his mind , so there’s no point in him wasting his time listening to her ill-informed juvenile whining.
Apparently even her fellow Communist Swedes are turning on her:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/sorry_greta_even_your_fellow_swedes_arent_buying_the_climate_change_claptrap_anymore.html
There are lots of people who really, really, REALLY love what Greta Thunberg is doing and I’m sure these twelve (12) people are included as some of her bestest fans, to wit:
In the movie, it took 500 years. In reality, it took 500 weeks.
“listen to the scientists”
She is absolutely right! All she needed to add was the word “real” scientists!
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/
Roger
Exactly!
The worldwide protests by youth indicates the disinformation in the classroom has already tipped the scales.
Instead of shooting the messenger or attempting to correct misperception, steering their narrative to real issues and solutions seems logical.
Issue: who is qualified to factcheck climate related content for K-12 textbook publishers?
You or me or anyone who wishes to honestly evaluate the available literature. I’m serious – read it all. It’s all readily available through your search engine. Even Google, if you look past the first few pages.
Context: Greta just sailed the Atlantic, inspires her peers, and went nose-to-nose with our Congressional Representatives.
Good for her!
Yet, her passion related to Climate activism is poorly grounded.
She didn’t fail, the scientific community failed her!
Footnote: appears another is using John in comments (big surprise) I’ll use my name from now on.
Question how does Pippi Longstocking get home.?
Steerage on a Panamanian Tanker?
3rd class on the QM2?
Rowing a reproduction Viking longboat?
(Not a bad idea-eating a viking diet might do wonders for her..)
Anybody know where I can check my water for lead and flouride levels? Obviously they are dumping truckloads of both into the water supplies.
The symbolism is too great to pass up.
The fact is that she’s been clinically diagnosed as mentally ill, making her the right person for the Communist spokesperson job.
If those people get further control of the US, the US is finished.
Wally September 20, 2019 at 6:09 pm
The fact is that she’s been clinically diagnosed as mentally ill, making her the right person for the Communist spokesperson job.
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Asperger’s is NOT considered a mental illness. DH.
wiki – In 2013, the diagnosis of Asperger’s was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and people with these symptoms are now included within the autism spectrum disorder along with autism and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)
Mental disorder vs brain development anomaly.
Mostly social skills and interpretation of body language are affected. Another aspect is repetitive behavior and resistance to changes is routine. Maybe her parents are using all this fame to treat her Asperger’s and get rich simultaneously?
Hey c’mon Pop, she can’t help staring at all that enriched CO2 streaming out of your nose. Can you imagine how distracting that sort of thing can be?
Strangely funny, not for her though. The poor girl is being abused by climate extremists who may themselves have a syndrome (eg TDS). She is suffering and the activism is so much more harmful to her than the actual climate.
Right, and transgenders are no longer considered mentally ill per the DSM.
Nah just a spoiled brat.
“Mummy I am going to drop school for climate”
“Sure kid”
Greta Thunberg is the least of your worries, ….. the “little end of nothing”.
Your worries should be directed at the millions of US “school children” that “played hookey” to protest global warming.
millions?
Care to back that up?
“”‘We will make them hear us’: Millions of youths around the world strike for action
By Sarah Kaplan , Lauren Lumpkin and Brady Dennis
September 20 at 8:58 PM
NEW YORK — In one of the largest youth-led demonstrations in history, millions of people from Manhattan to Mumbai took to the streets around the globe on Friday, their chants, speeches and ……………
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/20/millions-youth-around-world-are-striking-friday-climate-action/
Playing hooky will be the least of it.
Some will eventually have the bright idea that there is nothing left to live for because a 16 year old from Sweden with poor social skills tells them the world is ending in 11 years, and begin a cult of mass hysterical self harming.
Playing hooky will likely be the most of it. If the children believe they only have 12 years to live there is no reason for them to get an education. No reason to give a damn about much anything except having a good time.
My wife is high spectrum Autistic -she’s gamed her system though the years.
So it is hard to tell.
Two Degrees, I.Q. 140… Teacher.
I’m thinking we’re being gamed by Greta and her Parents..she may not be as bad
off as they want us to think….
Someone slip that girl kosher hot dog..
Wally,
The fact is that she’s NOT been clinically diagnosed as mentally ill,
‘d rather she’s tending to solipsism –
https://www.google.com/search?q=solipsism+syndrome&oq=solipsism+syndrome+&aqs=chrome.
– she’s showing the symptoms:
https://www.google.com/search?q=solipsism+etymology&oq=solipsism+etymology+&aqs=chrome.
= feeling alone, lost, no rational live “outside” her.
The natural, rational condition of toddlers.
When still prevailing with teenagers it’s called dementia praecox.
You are absolutely right – i hope i am allowed to post this stupidity?;
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The Autons are coming to a city near you!
This is my favorite;
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Like some Mayan or Inca deity demanding sacrifices (shes holding two she is about to consume)
St Greta;
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Most of these idiots don’t believe in Jesus anyway.
Here are the rest;
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/sep/20/greta-thunberg-face-of-the-global-climate-strike
Anybody here remember “Tommy the movie” He wanted his cult members to to be deaf dumb and blind like he used to be, pretty much what these idiots are.
I used to be somewhat proud of the fact that I’ve testified before House committees four or five times (I honestly can’t remember), and once before a Senate committee, all on aspects of commercial space transportation.
After seeing this, those memories now evoke the image of that sign someone put up over his automobile repair shop after Obama went to Stockholm in 2009: “Free Nobel Peace Prize with Oil Change.”
This is next level idiocracy. It makes the movie characters appear reasonable. At least they listened to smarter people.
In this next level idiocracy the idiots ignore smart people and demand you take action on their stupid ideas.
Hear me. I am holding this bomb which will devastate 80% of the worlds population through mass starvation, exposure and rioting. But I need you to detonate it. Here kill me.
She wants us to panic 😡! What utter bullshit, How many people, children will suffer with anxiety and depression due to a CO2 seeing child! This is utterly disgusting and shameful.
A lot of those same kids still believe that Santa Claus won’t leave them any presents if they don’t go to bed early on Christmas Eve. Kids will by and latrge believe anything that adults with an agenda tell them. Greta Thunderpants is only a few years removed of believing in one unprovable religious creation, now replaced by anorther.
Anyone heard of Aimee Semple McPherson, here we go again!
I am not religious in the least but how many more false profits…
Nah, these charlatans have always existed since somebody rounded up the flocks of willing fools.
They are parasites upon the ignorant and dimwitted.
Unfortunately parasites sometimes cause plagues.
This has now gone so far over the top it’s now firmly in the column of “camp.” Like a Monty Python skit done to self-parody whomever this week is taking themselves too seriously. Guess what? These little pawns are going to wake up 10 years from now in even greater comfort and prosperity than they now enjoy, and lo and behold, “Climate Armageddon” is now as quaint as past “existential threats” like “acid rain” and the “ozone hole” brought to you by the sunscreen industry. And the world will still turn . . .
Meanwhile, normal people everywhere don’t waste a moment on this nonsense; it’s one reason why any decent YouTuber now has more views than CNN, and NPR has to panhandle to stay on the air. Ditto for “mass extinction,” “plastic phobia” and “toxins in everything.” Starts looking like Charlie Brown’s “pantophobia,” as Lucy explained, “the fear of EVERYTHING!” Not enough problems? Make some up!
Sounds like “first-world” BS to everyone without a gross excess of time and money on their hands.
Kindly offer your children a second opinion on the Marxist crap they learn in school, OK?
Now many are saying she is Jesus retuning! Proving once and for all that Climate Change IS a religious cult! The media giving credence to a kid with major mental issues is embarrassing and dangerous. Her parents should be charged with child abuse!
Her “umm and ahh” answer with no actual evidence, when asked by a senator about whether she knew anyone affected by CC, was even more painful than this video.
She’s more like the Pope, being a communist and all.
Greta Thunderbird flies into action again … “Don’t just sit there on the Climate … Panic!”
I saw a clip on the News the other night of one of the Congresswomen asking a simple , courteous question about the people Greta had said she had seen suffering because of CChange. The Congressman ask for a couple of examples. She was flustered, could not answer it, she looked left and right as if looking for support.
So it just shows us most of what she says is scripted or prepackaged. She is being manipulated .
I’d like to see that.
She saw them in the same way & place that she sees CO2.
Mebbe when she looked left and right she was looking at the invisible suffering people …
Maybe just dumb people?
I’m not a fan of Greta, but I didn’t think it was quite that bad. Here is the transcript from C-SPAN. Sorry for the all-caps. That’s how it is in the original:
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-VA: YOU MENTIONED APART FROM THE SECURITY ASPECT OF THINGS, THAT YOU HAVE SPOKEN WITH MANY WHO HAVE FACED DISASTERS AT HOME, DUE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. COULD YOU PERHAPS GIVE A COUPLE EXAMPLES, JUST FOR THE COMMITTEE TO HEAR OF THE STORIES YOU’VE HEARD?
Greta: YES. I HAVE MET PEOPLE WHOSE COMMUNITIES, WHOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WERE DESTROYED BY NATURAL DISASTERS. WHO WERE AMPLIFIED BY THE CLIMATE CRISIS. I HAVE MET PEOPLE WHOSE FOOD AND WATER SUPPLY IS BEING THREATENED BY ENVIRONMENTAL OR CLIMATE RELATED CATASTROPHES. IT IS JUST SO SAD, SO INCREDIBLE, MANY PEOPLE, SO MANY EXAMPLES, THAT IT IS JUST HORRIBLE, BECAUSE SO MANY WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS AND SO MANY WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM THIS TODAY, I MEAN, WE ARE ALREADY SEEING THE CONSEQUENCE. UNACCEPTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS TODAY AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE THE LONGER WE DELAY ACTION, UNLESS WE START TO ACT NOW.
I have doubts about the level of her ‘issues’ as well as the ‘spontaneity’ and origin of her protest:
Rebecca Weidmo Uvell, an independent journalist,
has obtained an email that reveals Bo Thoren, the leader
of a group called Fossil Free Dalsland, was searching
for fresh green faces.
In February last year, he invited a group of environmental
activists, academics and politicians to plan “how we can involve
and get help from young people to increase the pace of the
transition to a sustainable society”
(Translation: The Adults of the West are increasingly aware this
is a false crisis, so we should get the kids involved)
The family’s story is that Greta launched a one-girl “School Strike’
at the Swedish Parliament on the morning of August 20th last year.
Head of the media platform ‘We Don’t Have Time’ happened to be
passing.Inspired, Rentzhog posted Greta’s Photograph on his own
facebook page. By late afternoon, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter had
Greta’s story and face on it’s website, The rest is viral
But this isn’t the full story. In emails, Rentzhog told me he
“met Greta for the first time” at the Parliament and “did not know
Greta or her parents” before then. Yet in the same emails, the
media entrepreneur admitted to having met Greta’s mother
“3-4 months before everything started” – in early May last year,
when he and Malena shared a stage at a Stockholm Conference
called the Climate Parliament.
Nor did Rentzhog stumble on Greta’s ‘protest’ by accident. He
now admits to having been informed “the week before via a
mailing list from a climate activist” named Bo Thoren.
This is the best she can do ?
…urged members of the House of Representatives to “listen to the scientists.”
This carefully-programmed juvenile message-bringer could well tell the wise solons to start their listening with one Dr. Judith A. Curry.
Listen to the scientists…what about Judith Curry and Roy Spencer…NO! Not those scientists!
Our Congress is about as thoughtful a deliberative body as your average short bus kindergarten.
Listen to the (Governments appointed) scientists.
+1000
P.S. I do not pick on children but back in the day there was the wood shed. Time to bring it back.
Ja. Ja. I told you. There is your next and probably last anti christ. She will come to great power once the bread basket in NA has been wiped out due to the drought times that can last for a decade. Mind you, it will be due to natural climate change, but by that time: who cares. And then she will make an alliance with the false prophet…no wonder they know more in Dubai about AI then anywhere else. …
It requires a mind blowing amount of carbon to build a sailboat. I have owned 16 new cruising sloops.
Dacron,nylon, mylar and kevlar sails can’t be recycled. Epoxy/fibre hulls can’t be recycled. The coatings are toxin. The anti-fouling bottom paint is a toxin. Boat transit runs 5 mpg delivering a yacht on a lowboy trailer.
Anodizing and hardening the spars is a toxic procedure. Having said that sailing is a sport, competitive deemed as superior to any kind of Psych counseling known to man, You just can’t go to work Monday angry.
I suspect most boats are not being sailed but are not hauled to the dump. Sailing is done away from the city and light pollution. It lacks noise and sound pollution.
I know nobody that sails for virtue signaling.
Hiking messing around in a cabin, anything off the grid is healthy.
Windmill blades are even worse!
she did not cause the yacht to be built – it was built for racing. her crossing the atlantic did not produce any significant co2.
The boat was then trying for an atlantic crossing record on its way back to Europe.
Flying 6 crewmembers back and forth across the Atlantic most definitely spewed WAY more co2 than if Greta had just flown in the first place. Virtue signalling at its finest.
Yes she is in company with Gore now.
If you take the boat that contains approx 7.5 tonnes of carbon fibre and just calculate the emissions with making said carbon fibre, you will get about 240 tonnes of emissions.
Give the boat and 250000 km lifetime and take account of the distance Greta took, and you get 6.5tonnes just for the boats embedded emissions.
Obviously conservative. A very Carbon intensive trip.
https://politics.ie/threads/the-stunning-hypocrisy-of-the-pr-machine-behind-greta-thunberg.272724/
How many Congress critters were in the chamber when she did that?
So, is she doing enough damage that we can criticize this poor little lamb yet?
No, but then she isn’t making much of a controbution, either!
This is child abuse. They keep comparing this to WWII. I remember it well, and if our ancestors had done to us, even if we only had a few years, and actually at the beginning there was concern in that direction, what they are doing now, they would have been in serious trouble. I knew someone who was in the German Youth Corps, he didn’t want to talk about it.
And in another story posted today, the Senate (purportedly senior to the House) is listening to third-graders.
So I wrote a letter to our members of parliament in Canada.
Why do they not ask me to speak?
She knows nothing about climate and weather, I have decades of it.
Shows how gullible the media and politicians are.
Listen to the scientists, but only those scientists who agree with me.
A sixteen year old who does not attend school. Third graders who can’t spell climate or find ice on the globe. We are in deep trouble. These are not prophets and they have nothing to offer. They are pawns being used. Their parents should be ashamed of the brain washing they are getting.
However, the parents are NOT ashamed of the brain washing given to their children, in fact they adamantly support it.
How many of these parents are aware of the Royal Society’s 1660 motto “Nullius in verba”?
Sorry, stupid question, I apologize.
covfefe anyone
Why is Congress listening to the whims of a mentally ill child? Why are her parents not giving her the treatment she desperately needs?
They listen to AOC. Why not her?/sarc
Asperger’s is NOT considered a mental illness. DH.
wiki – In 2013, the diagnosis of Asperger’s was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and people with these symptoms are now included within the autism spectrum disorder along with autism and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)
weird isnt it?
cos not speaking not eating and not talking without aspergers IS considered mentally aberrrant..
hell of a lot of american kids are on ssri meds from 4 upwards for similar issues
and since the Idiot NOT savant Greta came along?
a sh*tload more will be whacked on meds for stress over a pile of garbage and lies like this daft bint is ramping up
ozspeaksup September 21, 2019 at 6:33 am
cos not speaking not eating and not talking without aspergers IS considered mentally aberrrant..
hell of a lot of american kids are on ssri meds from 4 upwards for similar issues
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says a lot about the USA – SSRI stands for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor. SSRI antidepressants are a type of antidepressant that work by increasing levels of serotonin within the brain. FROM 4 YEARS!!!!! Yikes. thankfully we have the NHS where profit is not a motive.
I work with children (not indoctrinated in CAGW), and I take care of some austitic ones, and it certainly is a mental dis-ease, except in rare cases. Let’s not be blinded by words, a mental disorder is essentlially the same thing as a disease or an illness.
I used to think medieval Europeans were incredibly stupid for believing that the Children’s Crusade was a sensible act. I now realize that modern people are no more intelligent than they.
Do witches sink or float? I don’t recall, but a test might be in order.
If one was accused of being a witch then the test was to weight them down and throw them in the water.
If they floated, then they were a witch and burned at the stake.
If they didn’t float, then they were not a witch and were not burned at the stake.
Of course, they were dead. But at least everybody knew the accusation was false.
(Sort of reminds me of all the, sometimes 30+ year old, sexual harassment claims made against certain people. All for an “asterisk”.)
Author Terry Pratchett’s ‘witch finder’ (she sought out potential witches for training) had practiced underwater knot untying and underwater swimming!
“present a special report on global warming.”
The link above was to a USAToday story. USAToday is negative information. It sucks information out of your head.
does anybody have a link to the real report?
Walter Sobchak September 20, 2019 at 3:43 pm
“present a special report on global warming.”
The link above was to a USAToday story. USAToday is negative information. It sucks information out of your head.
does anybody have a link to the real report?
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Try
“I have not come to offer prepared remarks at this hearing,” the teen activist said in a one-page statement. “I am instead attaching my testimony. It is the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C [SR1.5] which was released on October 8, 2018.”
download pdf –>
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA14/20190918/109951/HHRG-116-FA14-Wstate-ThunbergG-20190918.pdf
Thunberg asked House lawmakers to read the report from scientists rather than review her own written testimony.
download pdf –>
https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf
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Presented in
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/461846-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-submits-global-warming-report-to
How on earth can they do this to a poor kid ?
Partial explanation here, the political agenda of a no-mercy ideology: https://youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE
Well, boys and girls, right in keeping with the US Congress listening to a 16-year-old being exploited by her parental units, I found a forecast from 2018 by an astrologer (oh, shush!) who says the following about what will happen to the climate.
Here’s astrologer Theodore White’s forecast from 2018 regarding geophysical events for Earth. Date is 10/20/2018, almost a year ago.
In January 2020, Saturn and Pluto will meet in a new global conjunction, ending the influence of their previous conjunction of 1982.
During 2020, that will be followed by three (3) Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions in tropical Capricorn before mid-December 2020, when Jupiter and Saturn conjoin to complete the inauguration of the new era of the decade of the 2020s.
These transits call on the historic era I have forecasted for years as the ‘cardinal crisis decade’ of the Twenty-Tens and the ‘cardinal climax years’ of 2019 and 2020 highlighting major cultural, economic, demographic, generational, political, geophysical and religious changes just ahead (of 2018).
The Sun’s Grand Minimum will soon get underway and in this new climate of global cooling we are entering a mini-ice age as the Earth becomes cloudier, wetter and cooler. (Note: Sun is in a solar minimum now.)
The weather of global cooling will last into the early 2050s, and so it is incumbent upon anyone reading this to think long and hard before moving to coastlines which will suffer great damage from frequent storms.
My major concern is also torrential rains and floods under which is going to mark the years and decades ahead in the climate of global cooling.
Most regions worldwide at mid-latitudes will be powerfully affected by the extreme weather – both rural and urban.
Now, since White made that forecast in October 2018 and we can look back on the last 12 months to compile a list of REAL events that occurred, weather-wise, would you rather listen to this guy (who seems to have a modicum of sense)? Or would you run to a 16-year-old who is being exploited by her adult parents as some sort of Messianic interpreter of invisible gases?
Seriously, I’ll take the astrologer ahead of the kid, and I do not mean any offense toward Greta by that. She is a victim of parental exploitation and greed. They are despicable. She may mean well, and she was quite polite when she read her message to Congress, but her usefulness will fade over time, and we all know it.
Any questions?
Astrology ? Wow, I’ll talk our weather guy into considering it as a viable alternative to costlier methods.
Astrology is not much different than the scientific study of the sun, planets and their relative positions. It is well studied and documented today and was likely studied by those before us.
Take a peek at this
https://youtu.be/2fZOqOH__8Y
There is an alignment expected in the next ten years that is very similar to a planet alignment during the Maunder Minimum. With our current solar minimum and coming Grand Solar Minimum, I believe it is hardly a coincidence.
It may be fun to dabble in Astrology, but at least do it as an informed participant.
Subjective Validation
The Forer Effect (also called the Barnum Effect or Subjective Validation Effect) refers to the tendency to accept vague or general statements as being very personal and accurate. The Forer Effect is a serious consideration in hand analysis, for both the professional and client.
Psychologist Bertram R. Forer ran a series of tests in which he gave people a personality profile and asked them to rate its accuracy. Forer actually gave each person the exact same profile, with statements like:
You have a need for other people to like and admire you
You tend to be critical of yourself.
At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision.
You become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved.
Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.
The test was repeated many times, with an average of about 85% of people rating the personality profile as very accurate. Remember that each person received exactly the same profile as everyone else.
The Forer Effect can explain why so many “pseudosciences” continue to flourish, despite having a questionable validity. When a person starts off with hope or expectation that the astrology, biorhythm, rune stones, tarot, (or hands) will reveal “special” details about them, they’re much more ready to believe the words and advice. Something general is mentioned, and the information is taken as specific and personal. This seems to be just another part of human nature, but a tendency we need to be aware of.
Now, now, FL, there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. And besides, he doesn’t seem perturbed by invisible gases nor does he manifest a need to say he sees invisible gases to get attention. 🙂
“Any questions?”
Yes. Did you run out of meds? You don’t honestly believe that garbage, do you?
“there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
That doesn’t mean Astrology has any usefulness besides making gullible people feel amazed.
Well, Jeff, what do you prefer? A 16-year-old girl who sees an invisible gas and is being compared to Jesus by some people who are worshiping the very ground she steps on? Or would you prefer someone who made a forecast nearly a year ago – based on “that garbage”, yes, but whose forecast matches what HAS been happening in the “real world”?
Just askin’, because I’m quite skeptical about a lot of things myself but his forecast matches the forecasts we’ve seen here by science peeps, in addition to the results of those forecasts, so I’d much prefer something that makes sense because IT MATCHES WHAT HAS HAPPENED, over the pronouncements of a teenager who says she sees an invisible gas.
Think about that for a minute, okay? She sees invisible gases. He makes a forecast nearly a year ago, which turns out to be within reasonable limits of long-range weather forecasting.
Are you saying you prefer to listen to psychobabble about invisible gases, over a reasonably close long range forecast?
To be clear, I don’t have much interest in astrology per se, but in this case, which one is worse? The astrologer or Greta?
“Well, Jeff, what do you prefer? A 16-year-old girl who sees an invisible gas and is being compared to Jesus by some people who are worshiping the very ground she steps on? Or would you prefer someone who made a forecast nearly a year ago – based on “that garbage”, yes, but whose forecast matches what HAS been happening in the “real world”?”
I’m not trying to rag on you, Sara, honestly. I have a lot of respect for you and read all of your comments. But you’re offering a false choice. I don’t have to choose either one of those.
Astrology is like the broken clock…
Sara,
I appreciate your efforts. However I have never seen angels hitch-hiking on a cloud. At most, close calls with non-civilian flying objects or distracted crews, probably busy reading their horoscopes.
Every day I have two modest wishes. One is not to prove horoscopes being wrong by the facts as it happens when planes go down and all perish regardless of their signs. Because, happens, in my pax & crew, there might be also signs with forecasts for a great day which would be cancelled if we mess things up.
My second wish is to promote freedom and prosperity for our kids and their descendants. Mainly by proving wrong all zealots, extremists, climate scammers, sold-out scientists and their supporters.
Freedom and prosperity will triumph, hopefully quickly enough to spare civil wars and other things not so nice where, regardless of their signs & related horoscopes, tyrants get to taste their share of events.
Oh, I understand completely, Flight Level. That was the point of my question: which would you prefer, the false messiah or the other guy?
“My second wish is to promote freedom and prosperity for our kids and their descendants. Mainly by proving wrong all zealots, extremists, climate scammers, sold-out scientists and their supporters.”
Which one of the two offers anything but a dim, unpleasant future? We can snicker at the astrology guy, but he isn’t threatening us.
The other one, the false messiah, offers doom and destruction, unless we follow her mindlessly. And when I look at her blank, soulless eyes, I see another Jonestown forming, which is far more threatening than the other person. The only advantage we have nowadays is that thanks to electronic media, we are quickly forewarned and can get out of the way of the mindless throng.
Well if we have come to the point of taking orders from an abused and visibly deranged kid, then, the situation is beyond messianic considerations.
There are 3 options left. One, we get somehow wiser and drop this climate crap down the drain.
Two, we slowly and painfully destroy all we have and surrender our freedom to those who tricked us into it.
Three, we quickly destroy all, obliterating all conceivable benefits to any future governance.
Our society is infected by a clever parasite. A fine breed of bolshevism and Nazism.
A terrifying destructive power that feeds on our own flesh.
We will either prevail by intelligence or perish by stupidity.
The kid has just got that look.
Ya know She’s gonna pull the football away just before you kick it 🙂
Maybe Greta should head home, as the Scandinavian region has missed it’s autumn and moved rapidly to cold winter conditions.
Brrr! Cold morning across Fennoscandia. -8.1°C recorded in Salla is now the season’s lowest reading in Finland so far. https://t.co/bfLWEJlRs5
— Mika Rantanen (@mikarantane) September 19, 2019
and in Sweden …
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/b5WLmv/sno-i-varmland–tidigaste-pa-20-ar
The world has truly turned upside down.
For some background on the organization who had been marketing several kids before they got lucky with Greta @ur momisugly https://bit.ly/2m2d0Kb
The site is in German so the link is to Google translate.