Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Read the description, then watch the video clip.
Greta Thunberg joins climate change activists filing complaint at UN summit against carbon-polluting countries
By Claire Knox, wires
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has captured the world’s attention in a fierce and passionate speech at the United Nations headquarters, accusing world leaders of failing to act on climate change.
The Swedish campaigner’s brief address electrified the start of the Climate Action Summit in New York.…
More than 50 global leaders — with the exception of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump — were set to take part in the summit by announcing climate finance measures and transitioning from coal power.
Mr Trump dropped in briefly and listened to one of the speakers. Ms Thunberg stared down the US President when the two crossed paths.
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Read more (includes video): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-24/greta-thunberg-speech-climate-change-un-summit-how-dare-you/11541300
I’ve got to admit I’m a little disappointed.
I was expecting to see some great staring contest between Greta and the President, tension crackling in the air, one of them finally dropping their gaze, but watching the video I’m not sure President Trump even knew she was there.
I always understood a “stare down” to mean something which involves both parties.
Maybe one of the President’s secret service tipped him off, “don’t look now, it’s that kid…”.
Update (EW): h/t Breitbart President Trump has complimented Greta on her happy face;
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Great speech writer – emotive – just exactly what is required.
Guilt, laid on thick in a spectacular way.
That girl is good.
Overacting is never good. This particular performance was EXQUISITELY bad, a masterpiece of tear-jerking self-pity.
peyelut
The Left keep stretching, reaching, grasping higher and higher levels of weirdness and hypocrisy.
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” – ROTFLMAO. The “Troller in Chief” is hitting the ball into the upper deck. OMG does he troll people. Only in my dreams I can troll like he does. I am so jealous.
That was a sublime piece of trolling.
Leftist Socialist Authoritarian types use propaganda tools all the time. With Greta we have the LAYERING of 2 propaganda tools.
We have this bizarre (and not very persuasive) propaganda tool of this girl emotionally promoting the Climate Crisis which is another propaganda tool used in the Lefts quest to destroy Western Capitalist Civilization.
They falsely believe that they can destroy capitalism and then consume all the wealth that capitalism produced to build up a Utopian Society with them in control.
All that wealth will be gone in a decade (half of the wealth will flee the country in the first year). But the reeducation camps will be flourishing and the death camps will be busy once again.
I know that some of her fans probably think that instead of virtue-signalling sail across the Atlantic she should have walked, but I do wonder how she’s getting around NYC?
Any video of her getting in out of a limo? Or a taxi? Or the subway? Dismounting a horse?
And where is she staying?
And for my next trick . . .
I wonder who wrote the speech that she read? She is right in that she should be in school but she has only her self to blame.
The reality is that, based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the climate change that we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. That in a nutshell it the real science involved. Greta does not know any better because she has not even finished high school and has only a general science mentality.
Those that believe that the use of fossil fuels is bad should stop making use of all goods and services that make use of fossil fuels. Greta has not done that. She is apparently wearing store bought clothes and eating food that has been moved by truck. I hear the she will be flying back to Sweden and that a new crew has to be flown in to take the sail boat back to Europe.
“Staring someone down” has always required eye contact. Until this “journalist” got a hold of it.
Stink eye!
Really feel sorry for the kid, a pawn in the new age of Animal Farm. The reaction to the delusions says a lot about the shameful manipulators around her, the very low intellectual abilities of the climate fanatics who follow her and also about Guterres and the UN who seem to be reduced to considering public policy by unsubstantiated and spiteful rant and tantrum. The kid needs psychological help, the manipulators should be put away for child abuse, the socialist climate fanatics maybe sent to North Korea or Venezuela to rehabilitate AND the UN should be shut down before they do too much more damage to poor people in poor countries.
I agree. It is surreal.
It is Left wing out of control fascism.
The angry 16-year person is basically a Young Zombie.
Angry message.
Get angry.
Tell our politicians to send $100 billion/yr. to the corrupt UN. The UN will then dish out a small fraction of the $100 billion/yr for purposeless climate change projects in fail to launch countries.
… and tell our politicians that they must borrow a gazillion dollars to fight climate change. It does not matter that Germany has shown sun and wind gathering does not work. We too must prove that.
It is almost as if the media have lost touch with reality.
… Impeach a President because he is requesting an investigation into …
… son of Presidential candidate takes $50,000/month job from corrupt Ukraine company, yet he has no knowledge of Ukraine or anything except he is the son of a vice president
… and same son along with son of Kerry, who have no investment experience, get a cool billion dollars for his investment fund from China when vice president visits
https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/the-troubling-reason-why-biden-is-so-soft-on-china/
… In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two to China. Less than two weeks later, Hunter Biden’s firm inked a $1 billion private equity deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China. The deal was later expanded to $1.5 billion. In short, the Chinese government funded a business that it co-owned along with the son of a sitting vice president.
…The centerpiece of these deals is Rosemont Seneca Partners, an investment firm controlled by Hunter Biden and his associates: Chris Heinz, who is John Kerry’s stepson, and Heinz’s longtime associate Devon Archer. The trio founded Rosemont Seneca in 2009 and quickly began making deals through a series of overlapping entities under the Rosemont name.
They were just trying to catch up to the Clinton Foundation.
Greta is so angry she’s melting faster than the Arctic.
Where have I see that “stare” before … oh yeah, here!
Still no answer to the question. Who is suffering from continual climate change?
Me! Me!
Climate change turned me into a newt!
You read and type very well for a newt.
So good on yah for that!
Perhaps you will get better.
Ask “Rob”, the registered scientist of the last 50 decades, he knows someone who has apparently but he will tell only after I pay him through PayPal. He even offered a $200 bonus because I am mental…or something.
More than 50 global leaders — with the exception of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump
More than 50. And only TWO exceptions. Surely a few more were absent? or is my arithmetic failing me? Wiki tells me 193 member states of the UN; so who else was missing?
I bet creepy gropin’ sniffin ‘Joe woukd love to get a sniff of her hair…
I would say Trump did well. He never got into an argument about climate.
I think that alone must pee off the detractors!
Ignorant brat.
https://youtu.be/oxNjLuifZD8
I wonder who wrote her speech? Makes for good sound bites but the science is absent. Why did nobody challenge any of her assertions which have zero basis in fact?
Does anybody think she wrote that speech?
Ha! Walter, my wife was watching a clip of Greta’s speech. Out of the blue my wife said, “Who writes this crap for that kid?”
Mrs. H.R. has no clue about anything ‘Greta’ nor who the heck she is. The name ‘Greta’ registers an absolute zero with my wife. I once tried mention Greta’s yacht trip and her eyes glazed over as the words I was saying whizzed past her. She didn’t know that it was Greta speaking in the clip.
Zero Greta interest. Zero Greta knowledge, but Mrs. H.R. can sure spot a puppet on stage from a mile away.
Who is actually gullible enough to believe that a simple autistic Swedish over-emotional 15 (when she started this) year old girl is capable of speaking in front of a UN assembly with the English eloquence and polished delivery of a Shakespearian actor? Well, I’ve heard emotional tales from15-year-old girls before–
“A key event in generating momentum for the first U.S. War on Iraq, “Operation Desert Storm” was a fraudulent report of the murder of Kuwaiti babies by Iraqi soldiers. On October 10, 1990, the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a hearing on the subject of Iraqi human rights violations. The centerpiece of the event was the emotional testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name, Nayirah. Her full name was supposedly being kept secret to protect her from Iraqi reprisals. The girl relayed a shocking story while sobbing.
I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital. While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die.
The massacre never occurred. The girl was actually the daughter of a Kuwaiti emir, and had been coached by the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton to give persuasive false testimony. ”
Greta Thunberg, like so many who speak with coached emotion and eloquence, has no knowledge of what she speaks. She has no understanding of thermodynamics, has never plotted a temperature record, can’t work with Boltzmann equations, and apparently has never even read the children’s book Chicken Little to the end yet. She is going to be the spokesperson for the future??
Anyone in that UN hall who believes her speech, just like those in the US Congressional Human Rights caucus in 1990, have no business occupying the seat in which they sit. I’ve come to the point of concluding that the entire UN is now more of a detriment than an asset; it should be abandoned in its entirety, the building demolished, and everyone working within and associated with it sent home to get a real job that helps boost their country’s economy instead of wasting it.
She desperately needs to get a life. I wonder if she even has girlfriends, let alone a boyfriend. She needs a lot of age-appropriate activity, not this crap she’s clearly been brain-washed with. I am not sure she can ever be a normal kid-going-on-young-adult. She should go home and recuperate.
I think being “home schooled” may be a problem where she is, literally, locked away from the outside by her parents. She sees their world view.
All she needs is a little black mustache and voila the perfect Climate Hitler
When asked in around 2005 if he would meet with Bono, PM John Howard looked tersely at the reporter and said, “The Commonwealth of Australia does not take advice from pop stars”, then turned and walked away.
And that’s exactly how politicians should have responded to The Revelation of Saint Greta the Divine, she merits even less consideration than Bono.