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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Dear Greta,
Millions of weather balloons, radio sondes and satellite data tells us that the global warming models of impending catastrophe are wrong.
Listen to the science!
Also – ask yourself – Why you have not already been so informed?
Well, Greta the mentally deficient Swedish teenager who was allowed to speak before the U.S. Congress submitted an IPCC report which she said she could not read and did not understand. She wanted everyone to “follow the science.” OK, ……
Do an Internet search for “Swedish Scientist promotes return to CANNIBALISM!! to fight Climate Change” and verify that it is a true statement.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Swedish+Scientist+promotes+cannibalism+to+fight+climate+change&t=opera&ia=news
Is THIS the “Science” little Greta the GlowBULL Warming Alarmist Oracle wants the world to pursue?
TEWS_pilot. Hold on a minute, the co2 seeing child, has not read, neither does she understand the report that she is forcing people to follow 😐. I truly do not know what to say any more
Thanks for your fascinating input Greta Thunderpants, i’ll get right on it. Hold my beer.
Opens another beer.
Tell her Santa really exists and she made the bad list using all that fossil fuel traveling around instead of raindeer.
Did Greta say the 2018 IPCC (SR1.5 report) to Congress…
If you want to hype a myth, even in Russia, don’t ask a real scientist especially an astrophysicist who knows how weather/climate works.
Stick with politicians, media personalities, and educators who teach what to think rather than how to think.
https://t.co/MqlZcnLFsw
Embarrassing. But the problem is not Greta. It’s the grown adults who somehow think she’s relevant.
If I had a 16-year-old kid who extolled the virtues of free market capitalism as the answer to poverty and the environment, these people wouldn’t give him or her the time of day.
In fact, these people would just write my kid off as parroting the right-wing ideology I’ve brainwashed him/her with. And they’d be right!
They’d never see the irony in that.
Everything about her just sends a chill down my spine.
Why are we listening to a potentially mentally impaired child? Climate change is a monstrously important and complicated subject. No matter what you believe – this is just hideous to behold.
I remember when society used to believe in protecting the week and innocent, not exploiting them.
And do we now find a mentally ill boy who doesn’t believe in climate change, and parade him around? How exactly does this story end?
I can’t help but wonder if Greta is projecting her own mental condition and thereby inflicting uncertainty and anguish on those who are well-balanced. The Media is responsible for giving her notoriety because it serves their leftist agenda. It is a sad state of affairs!
I’d love to see the scientific report she submitted. I’ll bet it has a lot of this:
The only other people that I know of that use children up front for cannon fodder is an extremist or terrorist.
“How many people, children will suffer with anxiety and depression due to a CO2 seeing child!”
She’s still got a ways to go, though; Alexandria Occasional Cortex can see cow (and probably unicorn, as well) farts. These abilities give her certainty and confidence of the sort that I haven’t seen since Karl Wallenda’s last performance.
The Scientific Report she submitted was the UN IPCC Special Report on 1.5 C Warming, according to the Guardian Report.
She said “ Listen to the scientists”.
After sledging the USA for not following the Science, she appears to have not been asked any questions of any moment.
As Markey and other members of the Climate Crisis Task Force support the Green New Deal, one may assume that Ms. Thunberg is an advocate of that course of action when she tells the Congress “do something”.
The acknowledged cost of the Special Report on 1.5C Warming is $122 trillion this Century from both private and public sources.
No one appears to even consider asking the pertinent question of the cost to her own country,Sweden, of net zero emissions by 2050.
Bjorn Lomborg in an article today “A Climate of Burning Money” (The Australian, September 21/22) says
“It speaks volumes that few governments ever establish the costs of such promises ( net zero emissions). One of the few that has is New Zealand. A government commissioned report found that aiming for net zero emissions by 2050 would cost more than the entire current national budget.”
I do not wish to attack the bona fides of Ms. Thunberg, but Senator Markey and others need to explain to her the utter impracticality of “ listening to the scientists” in the form of the UN Special Report, where the cost is trillions of dollars.
Meaning she does not know or understand the science and is just a puppet.
A thought for personnel employment interviews- casually draw out the candidate as to whether he/she believes in “global warming”.
If YES – Probably No Hire: Not capable of independent thinking.
The only hope is to panic and turn off the lights. Shut it all down. Listen to these prophets. Take away their cars, trucks, technology. Let them live in the pre-industrial world where they can live by example to show us their wary.
… and their plastic bottled water-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/very-disappointing-dozens-of-protesters-are-caught-with-single-use-plastic-bottles-while-marching-during-the-global-climate-strike/ar-AAHBssx
Hypocritters! LOL.
I see that there’s been a number of marches and demos against carbon dioxide amongst the undernourished children of India and sub-saharan Africa. Not.
But there’s great news elsewhere. “Scientists say” that 13% of global warming is caused by mobile phones and their infrastructure. There’s a bin in New York filling up with phones discarded by Extinction Activists. Not
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49756280
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-49753710
We have apologists like this here in Australia;
https://www.smh.com.au/national/children-are-right-to-youth-shame-our-leaders-20190920-p52t8z.html
A political theorist and philosopher the best kind to advise our youth.
Last time authorities took advice from 16 years old girls they ended up burning witches.
I am thinking she gets the Nobel Peace prize this year.
I’m thinking you’re right.
Hilarious that you think that means anything.
It would to her, a nice fat cheque
How many anagrams of Greta Thunberg can you find in this following text?
“Greta Thunberg was recently overheard arranging a berth for herself on a ship heading to Antarctica, on a great berg hunt, it was claimed. All her belongings she packed in a single rucksack – she called it her “green truth bag”. At the media send-off she trotted out robotically the urgent brag about impending climate disaster and coercing climate obedience from us all. Some were heard muttering the term “green brat thug”, a none too complimentary epithet for the sweet climate crusader. On and on she moralised about saving the world – more than one had clearly heard it all too many times. “Let’s sail already, bugger the rant”, one was heard muttering.
“A cousin of hers, Gareth Nutberg, was sailing with her, apparently, along with his toddler half-sisters, Grunt Hateberg and Ruth Grebegnat. Once embarked and on the open sea, certain universals of sea faring soon manifested themselves on the ship’s aft deck as alcoholic beverages appeared as if by magic and the beer truth gang sang loudly in out-of-tune Swedish late into the night. Shouting over this inebriated cacophony, the ship’s cook Hatter Eggburn together with the medical orderly, Reg Bungthreat, tried to give a speech about good eating and digestive health on board ship, but no-one paid much attention.”
Nice. I lost count at a dozen.
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What about all the energy used to power the satellite communications to enable her to post her selfies on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram????
Why you call her an “activist” ?
she is an “extremist”…
Something must be done ! The anguished cry of those who don’t know what to do over the ages.
It might also be considered that sanctimonious children rarely head up sales campaigns, I’d imagine because they get peoples backs up to the extent that sales drop ?