A climate skeptic answers the fiery rhetoric of the Left’s star climate alarmist
Opinion by JACQUES VOORHEES (from his Facebook page)
Note: Greta’s speech is reprinted below. Her quotes are in italic, mine follow each quote. If it turns out there were errors in transcription—as seems likely—I’ll try to update with corrections. I apologize for the snarky tone, but if a 17-year-old can dish it out, I think she can take it.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.”
So in your first paragraph you confess that what you’re doing is wrong, and you shouldn’t be doing it. You note you should be back home and in school. OK, so far we’re 100% in agreement. Next?
“Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you?”
Not sure where you’re getting your information. No sentient adult goes to young people “for hope,” whether they’ve been “dared” to or otherwise. Normally, when adults consider young people like yourself, the operative word is “despair.” And if you’re unfamiliar with that word, it means “absence of hope.”
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words…”
Wow, you must have had very fragile dreams, and an even more precarious childhood, if mere empty words could steal them. Even words loaded with meaning shouldn’t be able to take down someone’s dreams that easily, if the dreams are even a little bit deeply held. But empty words? Greta, you need to find better dreams and cling to them with more determination. As for your stolen childhood, this makes me suspect you didn’t exactly win the lottery when it comes to parents, did you? Just sayin’.
“…and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.”
OK, sounds like someone’s been playing too much of the computer video game Civilization. Yes, in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI people are suffering, people are dying, and entire ecosystems are collapsing. Meanwhile back in reality, none of that is occurring. Well, none of it that is caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide at least. Greta, try to spend a few hours each day actually off your computer, so you can experience the world as it really is, not as your scary online world, and your handlers, are convincing you it must be.
“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction…”
Now it seems you’ve fallen into a time machine which has transported you back to the Yucatan Peninsula, sixty-five million years ago, when the comet was about to annihilate the dinosaurs. Either that or someone is doing a very good job of filling your head with utter nonsense. Shame on them, for scaring the socks off you. There is no evidence that we’re at the beginning of a mass extinction–certainly not of any life forms we care about.
“…and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you?”
Um, did your speechwriter not know the audience you’d be addressing today? You’re speaking to diplomats in the United Nations General Assembly. There is probably no group of people on Earth less interested in economic growth than these folks. They don’t really care about money, either, as they’re all on generous expense accounts and—thanks to diplomatic immunity—can park anywhere they want in Manhattan without worrying about being ticketed or towed. First rule of public speaking: Know your audience.
“For more than 30 years the science has been crystal-clear.”
Did you bother to look at any of that science? Thirty years ago they were saying Manhattan would be under water by now. Most every prediction so called “climate scientists” have made during the past thirty years has failed to come true. This is not science being crystal-clear. It is shamanism being crystal-clear. You need to learn the difference. A science that is not able to make what are called “useful, non-obvious predictions” is not science. It’s religion. And, I’m sorry, but you’ve become ensnared in the climate cult’s terrible clutches.
“How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.”
Another rule of effective speaking: don’t contradict yourself, especially within a single sentence. If the “politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight,” what exactly are you expecting these UN diplomats to do, beyond what they’re already doing? If the solutions are truly nowhere in sight, you’re certainly not going to get them from this crowd.
“You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.”
Greta, on this one, best go with “evil.” Again, you’re addressing the core members of the United Nations, arguably the most worthless organization on the planet today. Even if they did believe something was an urgent problem, they’d not have the collective will to do anything about it. Actually, a better description than evil in this case would be “utterly f…..g worthless.” Remember, these are the very folks who commissioned the IPCC itself, and told it to make reports…every six years. You’d think if the world was about to end, reports of it happening could be slightly more frequent.
“The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. 50% may be acceptable to you but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution, or the aspects of equity and climate justice, they also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So, a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us, we who have to live with the consequences.”
Are you aware that you’re quoting alarmist predictions from the very scientists who’ve yet to be right about any of their predictions? Does that not concern you?
“How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions with today’s emissions levels that remaining CO2 budgets will be entirely gone within less than 8 and a half years.”
Well, ignoring that the sentence itself is gibberish, what exactly are you wanting anyone to do? You just told us that there are no solutions anywhere in sight. You’re very good at saying what you’re angry about. But we haven’t yet heard the grand plan that will solve everything. If you don’t have it, do you really think these diplomats sitting in front of you do?
“There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.”
Your rhetoric is slipping into the category of deranged, verbal nonsense, but I do find it interesting that you—a seventeen year old—“dares” (if we can borrow your favorite word) to tell an audience of people over twice your age, that they are insufficiently mature. Rarely does insulting your audience achieve desired results, in public speaking. Might be time to consider firing your speech writer.
“You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.”
Well, if change is coming whether they like it or not, why are you even bothering to give this speech? And by the way, what change is coming? You’ve already confessed there are no solutions in sight. This would seem to suggest change is not coming, at least anytime soon. And as for the eyes of all future generations being on the UN General Assembly, good luck with that. Even the eyes of today’s generation aren’t on anything the UN General Assembly does—much less will be the eyes of all generations unto the end of time. But I’m sure the people you’re addressing right now wish they were that important.
Anyway, Greta, a word of advice. You’re clearly a very upset and angry young lady, with endless dedication to your goals. Rather than hurl hate-filled rhetoric at a room of old folks whom you rightly predict won’t do what you want them to do, why don’t you roll up your sleeves and try to make a difference yourself? I think we can all agree that public speaking is probably not your best contribution to the Cause. Go back to school, take some atmospheric physics, basic chemistry, and geology classes. Maybe dabble with the design of that machine that’s going to suck all the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Trust me, it’s not yet on anyone’s drawing board. You can be the first!
And a bonus. If you truly study this issue that has so captured your attention, pretty soon you’re going to learn that the whole thing is one gigantic hoax, the greatest hoax in human history, being perpetrated by the government-educational-industrial complex. You’re going to learn that pretty much everything that’s been indoctrinated into your head is false. You’re going to learn that real scientists, tens of thousands of them, have already learned this and have gone on record as acknowledging it. You’re going to learn you’re being used by adults to turn you into a propagandist for shamanistic alarmism, and you’re going to realize that because of it, you’ve been the victim of massive child abuse.
When you learn all this, I predict that your present anger is going to look like a calm, tranquil lake compared to how you will feel then. I predict at that point you’ll decide to write your own speech. And no matter who’s in the audience when you give it, I predict it will be scathing.
Ms. Thunberg’s speech at the U.N. – video:
Full transcript:
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Wait, I thought this was the transcript of her speech:
“I hate you! I’ll never speak to you again!”
(sound of bedroom door slamming, followed by sound of child sobbing on bed)
From now on, the picture of the angry teenager at the top of this post will forever be the most apt symbol representing Warmunism, and there’s nothing the climastrologists can do about it.
Little Greta’s childhood and dreams were stolen by the climate scaremongers who taught her to fear the future. She’s right that she should be in school, learning about photosynthesis in high school biology class, by which plants pull CO2 out of the air, water out of the ground, and energy from the sun to make sugars that feed all the animals and people of the world. She might learn that plants grow faster with more CO2 in the air, meaning that in a high-CO2 future the Earth will be greener and more fertile than it is now.
Little Greta thinks that there is some limit or quota on how much more CO2 can be emitted before some catastrophe occurs. If she studied some physics and chemistry, and did a mass balance on the atmosphere, she would discover that CO2 concentrations in the air are only rising half as fast as would be predicted if all human CO2 emissions remained in the atmosphere. There are already natural processes “sucking” CO2 out of the air, half of total human emissions.
According to Le Chatelier’s Principle, a chemical reaction speeds up if the concentration of a reactant increases. This means that any reaction that removes CO2 from the air will speed up if the CO2 concentration increases, so eventually the CO2 removal rate will catch up to the emission rate, and the CO2 concentration will level off, at a level which promotes rapid plant growth and high crop yields.
Little Greta, why would you be afraid of this?
first line and , my opinion, it is important WE are watching YOU…
who is WE ?who is YOU??
some applauded in the room…they felt belonging to what group? THEM or US?
As everyone else, Greta cannot find hope and peace in this world. But she can find hope and absolute peace now thru Christ Jesus.
If one of my children ever talked like that, they’d be rowing home!
For the nerds:
peak GRETA occurred at 7AM 24 sep and we are now already at 50% peak. It is predicted that this phenomenon will show a rapid decline going back to background noise disturbance in a few days.
Longer term predictions are more difficult, but it is currently forecast that we will not see much activity beyond the start of 2020.
Ja. Ja.
I have read it all before
here is my response
http://breadonthewater.co.za/2019/09/22/revisiting-the-87-year-gleissberg-solar-cycle/
but I gather most of you donot get it.
Letr me know if you do?
Ja. Ja.
I have read it all before
here is my response
http://breadonthewater.co.za/2019/09/22/revisiting-the-87-year-gleissberg-solar-cycle/
but I gather most of you donot get it.
Let me know if you do?
I truly feel sorry for Greta. The fascists have already stolen her childhood such that she cannot enjoy a single day of her life while she worries about her future.
With all due respect… and appreciation for the effort put in this post here, and the effort shown in the most of comments, still from my point of view this stands as a clear case of showing the proper lack of getting the point and entirely missing it.
First, regardless of how “hot” or direct the speech, I fail to see or detect any judgmental or
prejudice position there, where in contrary, lots of it I see here, in consideration of that speech… what or why could that be?!!
Second, even when that speech, very dense, highly concentrated and very “heavy”, in the consideration of the issue and the place, seems to me to be quite balanced in it’s context and subject matter.
I think, and hopefully I am not wrong in this, that if carefully “seen”, heard, and carefully considered, without prejudice, then
it actually may taken as pointing the finger clearly at the madness of the climate political crisis.
The UN chart, as far as I can tell does not include, not as yet at least,
“The eternal salvation of the World or the Planet, or propagation toward some phony thing like Eternal economical growth”.
Any platform or actions, that diverges, obstructs or considerably misdirects the UN from discharging the duty as per the merit of it’s charter, must not be, or must be abandoned, as else further persistence in that direction, renders UN as a phony institution and well within the consideration of the clause of “betrayal”, quite useless and with no merit.
Oh, well, I just maybe happen to be wrong with this, but no harm there I think.
cheers
A fun read. I thought of doing something similar but I could not have done it as well as this response. Enjoy …
She’s fighting a holy war as useless and idiotic as all the others in history.
If Greta Thunberg is 16 now, in a short time, she will be 18, which will mean the transition to adulthood, and she has nothing to show for her life other than reading a scold to people at the UN. I see no abstract ideas or concrete solutions in her speech. It’s just a scold – how DARE you! – and nothing else. Okay, she got a chance to vent in public and now what?
I doubt that she has any real-world knowledge of anything in the natural world, period, whether we’re speaking of biologicals or the weather or anything else. It is obvious from her prepared speech that she only “knows” about a very limited part of the planet and certainly has no real idea how it functions. She comes off as just literate, but there are some indications that she does not really understand what she’s talking about. And reading a scold at a group of people gathered to hear her “message” – well, that’s not particularly effective with me or with most of the reasoning adults I know.
There is nothing – zero, zip, nada – in that prepared speech that is definitive or addresses real-world concerns such as wildlife habitat being appropriated for housing or industrial use when it isn’t necessary to do so, and other properties could be put to that kind of use. Doing that leaves the wildlife areas alone.
There is no substance at all to her speech. It is just a tantrum in writing, an angry spat at the world in general, with no real substance to it, the use of a collection of buzzwords and catch phrases, and clearly indicates a complete lack of understanding of environmental sciences, period.
She’ll be an adult in a short time. Her “charms”, if she ever had them, are wearing off. At some point, her lack of ability to function in a normal way will bring an end to this business. I would be more impressed if she had kept her temper under control, but she does not know how to do that, which is not uncommon in people with Asperger’s. Therefore, when she really throws a screaming fit in public, she will lose her audience completely.
Her parents should be taken to task for what they’ve allowed to happen with her. When they’re gone, she will be lost. I doubt that she can function without them.
LOL. Sooo cruel… But I think you got a couple of things wrong, she may be young, and ignorant, but I don’t think she’ll ever be a “lady”. And I doubt very much that she’ll take your advice to become a scientist.
But while I was guffawing shamelessly (happens so seldom in our current politically correct era), I was sobered by the thought of so many thousands of young marching morons with evidently no sense of humour.
So thanks for a good laugh. Made me think of the song ” Short People are BAD”. It’s probably lucky that I can’t remember the lyrics or the show it was in, except that it was sung by a very short balding black guy, because the way things are going, singing a song like that (or even having a copy) may soon get you prison or lynched.
Short People by Randy Newman
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live
They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Round here
Short people are just the same
As you and I
(A fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It’s a wonderful world)
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick ’em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They’re gonna get you every time
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
‘Round here
Thanks Weylan.
Got to find the music now, and remember not to wear “black face”.
Am still trying to remember where I saw it performed. Maybe Ally McBeal?
An Hysteric whipping up mass hysteria
These two links go a long way to explaining the “sudden” emergence of Greta and her fame.
The first explains why Greta, due to her mental disorders, made the perfect candidate for the face of their Climate Alarmism efforts. The second explains The Plan and how they implemented it.
Thread offers devastating insight into why the Left’s weaponization of Greta Thunberg is particularly egregious
http://bit.ly/2mWK86v
The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Political Economy of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex [ACT I] –
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
The comment section of the 2nd linked article is completely filled with nutty environmentalist comments.
In just 10 to 15 years she could be in a position where she is attacked by the new generation of young peoble.
Excuse me oh short sighted one. But you have some major problems with your assumptions. First problem is that you are being fed a line of garbage. CO2 is what plants use for food. During the Pliocene Era, which preceded our life cycle, the earth was actually cooling. This was after the dinosaurs ruled the land, when it was a lot hotter. Back then, CO2 levels were about 20 time higher than they are presently. So, you as well as most of the people who are advising you, are completely WRONG. Sorry, that’s just the way it is.
Wayne- keep taking the brawndo – its what plants crave – it has electrolytes.
‘She should be getting treatment’: Leading Australian psychologist says he’s worried about the mental well-being of ‘entitled’ autistic climate change poster girl Greta Thunberg
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7501829/Psychologist-says-hes-worried-mental-wellbeing-climate-change-activist-Greta-Thunberg.html
This calls to mind a book covering the Cultural Revolution in China called “The white Swan” or somesuch (I forget).
Chairman Mao , with his Little Red Book galvanised the students and children to call to task their teachers and parents who failed to toe the communist line. Tales of extraordinary humiliations and consequences dealt out to these teachers and professors were described where children of Greta’s ilk formed disciplinary committees armed with the sanction of this Red Book.
Well worth a read the next time the Extinction Rebellion takes to the streets particularly if you happen to be a teacher. There but for ——?
It’s Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang. Who also wrote Mao: The Unknown Story and others about what China (and its vaunted Red leaders) was really like.
aspects of equity and climate justice
And that right there makes all of her scientific-sounding blather meaningless. Even if she were right about the causes of any global warming and the effects of it (CO2 budget? *eyeroll* ), that right there is the tell – it’s all about marxism and destroying western civilization.
And, I don’t take my direction in life – scientific or otherwise – from a 16yo. Not ever. But especially not when it’s as ill-informed and immature as that coming from Mz Greta.
(This is ~exactly~ why an entire era was defined by “Children should be seen and not heard.”)
TO: JACQUES VOORHEES … Reply to Line by line response to Greta Thunberg UN speech:
YOUNG GRETA THUNBERG FROM SWEDEN HAS SHOWN GREAT COURAGE IN FOLLOWING HER CONVICTIONS, BOTH BY THE WAY SHE LIVES HER LIFE (NO MEAT) AND NOW WITH THIS EXCURSION SCROSS THE ATLANTIC IN AN 18M SOLAR POWERED YACHT TO ADDRESS A WORLD SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
WAS HER U.N. SPEECH EMOTIONAL & DRAMATIC? … ABSOLUTELY … BUT IF WE OBSEVE THAT GRETA IS JUST “THE MESSENGER” AND A TEENAGER, OF COURSE HER DELIVERY IS GOING TO BE EMOTIONAL WHEN ITS SOMETHING SHE FEELS SO VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT … AND BEING PASSIONATE IS BEING HUMAN, NOT A SIGN OF MENTAL ILLNESS AS SOME WOULD FALSELY CLAIM
AND FURTHER IF WE OBSERVE THE “MESSAGE” WRITTEN ON THE HULL OF HER VESSEL MALIZIA II, WE WILL ALL CONTINUE TO WISE-UP AND GET…
“UNITED BEHIND THE SCIENCE”
IMAGINE YOU MAY HAVE NO ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE EDUCATION OR DEGREES, EXCEPT FOR MAYBE GEOLOGY & DIAMOND MINING, AND IF THAT’s WHAT YOU DO BEST, FOR PITY SAKE GET BACK TO IT BECAUSE YOUR RESPONSES TO GRETA’s SPEECH SADLY REVEAL THAT YOU MAY WELL BE A NUMB SCULL …sorry
MW … Sydney … 27/9/19
FYI…most people will not read an all caps yelling comment.
And just about everyone will decide it is very annoying without even reading it.
Lovely Greta Climate maid
where would we be without you ?
Had a posse cross her shoulder
made her look so much older .
Lovely Greta climate made
Give us a pout and jet your gang away .
She’s 16-year-old and obviously raised with Astrid Lindgren –
https://www.google.com/search?q=astrid+children%27s+author&oq=Astrid+the+children+&aqs=chrome.
What to expect from children growing up with Astrid Lindgren’s works.
Sure ALL European children, with that activism aims, were grown up with the works of Astrid Lindgren.
Reading Astrid Lindgrens books about “Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump” it’s absolutely understandable
– this children have to be that way.
– they’ll never be accessible to arguments.
– they’ll never get “reeducated”.