Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade, suggesting she has no idea of the cost of what she is demanding.
“I may disappoint you but I do not share everyone’s enthusiasm about Greta Thunberg’s speech [to the UN]. You know, the fact that young people, teenagers pay attention to the acute problems of the modern world, including ecology. That is right and very good. We need to support them. But when somebody uses children and teenagers in their own interests it deserves to be condemned.
Nobody explained to Greta that the modern world is complicated, and complex, and it changes fast. People in Africa and in many Asian countries want to be as wealthy as people in Sweden. How can it be done? By making them use solar energy which is plentiful in Africa? Has anyone explained the cost of it?”
Source: Breitbart
My guess is the answer to that question is “no”.
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Global warming thumping down in the US-
US- “Now snowing in 8 states and 5 provinces – In September”
https://www.iceagenow.info/page/2/
Breaking:
Greta now campaigning in…Iowa.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1WJ12R?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%2BTrending%2BContent&utm_content=5d97702bde67360001fdc17e&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true
How many tons of CO^2 has she emitted this year?
How many electoral does Iowa have?
The US Secretary of Education must insist that Greta’s visa be revoked on the grounds of missing way too much school. She needs to go back.
Iowa has six electoral votes, but plays an outsized role in selecting presidential candidates, thanks to its early caucuses. We have Iowa to thank for Jimmy Carter, for instance.
Glad you enjoyed my sarcasm. I was touching on election interference by swede nationals upon invite of democrats.
Sweden has also banned lobsters from Maine.
Wonder if she has already been to NH, and will bless SC and NV with her saintly presence?
Nah, Iowas’ pretend primary plays second fiddle to New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Primary, about 1 week later. That doesn’t stop Iowa from trying to make their pretend primary more like a real primary, but they always get blocked.
We should swap Iowa for Greenland with Denmark.
“Poorly Informed Teenager”
More like 16 years of child abuse
To a point, we could say yes Kevin. But, she is a spoilt autistic child who has always had her way and badgered her mother to stop flying Internationally as an opera singer. Her father is a second rate actor now managing her — the best role he ever had. Greta is manufactured by powerful interests. And there is huge IKEA money behind her.
She as an Asperger who lives in a cyclical fight or flight emotional stance with a hair-trigger. How do I know this? Because I am one and know the nature…
Both parents are environmentalists and her Grandfather was the distant relative of Svante August Arrhenius, who studies in chemistry and physics lead to the connection of the greenhouse effect being substantiated by CO2. He was studying Ice Ages and developing theory — so there is a weird connection to climate and this new religion in her family, and she knows this… and will exploit this as she is exploited. She is intelligent, it is her emotional capacity for tolerance that is a weakness. do not underestimate how bright this kid is…
“In developing a theory to explain the ice ages, Arrhenius, in 1896, was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will increase Earth’s surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.[3][22][23] These calculations led him to conclude that human-caused CO2 emissions, from fossil-fuel burning and other combustion processes, are large enough to cause global warming.” –Wiki
…in the end, she is a bully and is disinformed, and hyperfocused on this issue.
The guy to look to is Ingmar Rentzhog he is Al Gore’s Frankenstein. She is Rentzhog’s Frankenstein.
The problem is that the little girl might just get it right. The hunger years are here. In ten years, that girl and the Extinction Rebellion Club may come to take the reign because they have really let people believe that the coming droughts and the ensuing famines are not natural… it is not the fault of nature, it is YOUR fault….[Click on my name to read my report – I like to hear what you think]
Your report would be better without all the religious-based statements.
jorgekafkazar
You are free to cut and paste it, as you please,
main thing is that the msg gets passed on, so people can begin planning.
Do your best. The evidence for the droughts that are coming is overwhelming.
Very good. And ignore Jorge.
Thx!
During World War 2, Russia took the leading role to stop Hitler. The unbearable situation of so many people came to an end because of Russia’s intervention.
We are urging again to Russia to stop the mess of the western world relating to CO2. After the second world war, human civilization did never face a similar crisis. So much oppression of so many people, ruining careers of so many promising scientists, leading the science of climate to a completely wrong direction by the propaganda-led false alarm. Now media, universities all are captured by that superpower with one particular agenda. Huge monetary funds are involved to organise and mobilise that false agenda and mislead people.
Putin and Russia please take the initiative! Save us all from that same Hitler-like mean attitude lead by strong will-power and controlling attitude!! Please HELP!
Actually, the USSR was allied with Hitler in starting World War II in 1939, splitting Poland between them, then invading the Baltics, Finland and other parts of Eastern Europe. Stalin only switched sides after his ally turned on him in 1941.
The majority of the fighting between Russians and Germans was to push the German army out of Russian territory.
Indeed, if Russia hadn’t had to fight off a German invasion starting in 1941, there would be no so-called “Russian intervention” as Russia would have remained an Ally of Germany (reaping the benefit of ceded Eastern Europe territory) rather than join the other side in the war.
Mark, intervention makes it sound like Russia joined from a position of having no stake in the matter prior. The fact is Russia was, in the very beginning, on the same side as Hitler (In 1939 they divide Poland between them). Ever hear of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact? or the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty?
It wasn’t until after Germany launched a surprise attack on Russia in June of 1941 that the Russians because an enemy of the Axis and joined the Allies (or “intervened” as you euphemistically put it).
Putin speaks better on his feet than his underling servant Trump…but Trump’s reaction to Greta was more effective…Trump basically ignored her with a short bland off topic statement.
By ignoring the Climate Fraud, Trump reduces the reaction that the usual useful idiots would launch against him. All the Alarmist’s efforts haven’t moved the needle significantly so far (forget polls…just look around and see what people are doing).
Turns out that Chicken Little is not a very good political spokesman.
I don’t see any adults talking or acting like they are really concerned.
It is such a shame to see top Climate Scientists and politicians feel so proud to photograph with Greta. They even post those photos in twitter thinking that it will raise their profile. Scientists want to show that they are with the same camp and hence more funding. What a society we are heading!
This should be required reading for all school children:
http://www.roadmaptonowhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RTN-Jan-11-2018.compressed.pdf
Did Greta see this?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rte.ie/amp/1081124/
Lets do a running daily calculate of her emissions from the start of her trip to when she arrives home
Here is Greta’s travel plans after she departs the US. She will be on this vacation for at least 9 months and will not be returning to school for at least that amount of time.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/24/us/greta-thunberg-whats-next-trnd/index.html
Every country that she travels to should chech to see what they were paid in each country for taxation purposes and verify if they have WORK visas.
Here is Greta’s travel plans after she departs the US. She will be on this vacation for at least 9 months and will not be returning to school for at least that amount of time.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/24/us/greta-thunberg-whats-next-trnd/index.html
Every country that she travels to should chech to see what they were paid in each country for taxation purposes and verify if they have WORK visas.
Let’s also look at how much carbon was generated making the Yacht she came across in and how much carbon will be generated for the owners crew to fly to the US to retrieve said yacht.
Malizia II is an IMOCA 60 monohull sailing yacht, designed by VPLP and Guillaume Verdier and constructed by Multiplast in France.[1][2]
Malizia II
Other names
Gitana 16
Nation
Germany
Class
IMOCA 60
Designer(s)
VPLP design, Guillaume Verdier
Builder
Multiplast, Vannes
Racing career
Skippers
Boris Herrmann
The boat served as a transport vessel for Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth to New York City in August 2019 without causing carbon dioxide emissions. France 24 reported that several crew would fly to New York to take the yacht back to Europe.[3] The trip was led by Boris Herrmann. Thunberg’s crossing of the Atlantic started on 14 August 2019, and concluded on 28 August.[4] The value of the boat has been estimated to be around 4 million pounds.[5]
At this time she has no idea how she is getting home. Does deportation sound reasonable?
We need to set up an exchange program for those who wish to live a low-carbon lifestyle! Let them exchange living arrangements with somebody in the Third World. I’d like to see how long the average Swede would last in South Africa! Just pack your clothes and a few personal belongings (leave your phones and computers) and you’re off to a life of excitement and adventure in Africa, Asia or South America. You can write to tell us about the wonders of a low-tech life; I’m sure many will be convinced by your example. Snarc/
It is sad that we couldn’t find a better relationship with Russia, however. After studying Russian in high school I became certain that the Russian and American peoples are very much alike; big countries with lots of ethnic diversity and natural resources. It’s our leaders that are the problem! Too bad the Clintons sold the country to the criminals and gangsters, but I guess they needed the money to set up the Global Initiative and their pay-to-play schemes. Putin may be a crook but I think he would rather work with us to rein in China than the other way around.
Indeed, the relationship was better during the days of Mikhail Gorbachev, ironically before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Strange Bruce how when Mr. Gorbachev leaves Russia on speaking tours in the west he is lauded as the great man that he is — yet under Putin, he is a sell-out to the west and a pariah. I find this terrible, he truly wanted to bring freedom to the Russians.
@John Tillman on USSR and World War 2 :
What you wrote is not the complete story. Actually, Stalin wanted to attack Germany through a Polish corridor and sought France and Britain’s help to convince Poland. But they only sent mid-ranking officers to meet Stalin. Poland declined and famously said ‘With the Germans, we will lose our independence; with the Russians, we will lose our soul’ (because USSR was a socialist country). Then only Stalin was forced to sign a Non-aggression pact with Hitler.
Mark
There was no ”forced’ ‘ about it. The molotov/ Ribbentrop pact of 1939 gave a supposed 10 year breathing space in an alliance that suited both countries and broke a pact the Russians had earlier signed with the French. Not only did the Russians thereby ensure that hitler would turn his attentions elsewhere (they thought) but importantly guaranteed land in eastern Europe would be ceded to Russia.
Russie supplied parts and coal to Germany and the pact was only broken by hitler in 1941 when he attacked Russia. If hitler had not attacked there was no reason why the pact would have been broken. So their undoubted bravery at Stalingrad was only necessary due to their actions earlier in the war.
My neighbour was one of those that had to bail out the Russians when arctic warming had opened up the north east passage and supplies were sent to ice free Murmansk by the royal navy. He served on one of the ships and said how unfriendly the Russians were as they didn’t like to ask for help.
Tonyb
Mark,
You overlook the decades of cooperation between Weimar Germany and the USSR on military technology, when the Treaty of Versailles limited indigenous German development. Please see 1922 Treaty of Rapallo and 1923 Treaty of Berlin.
Naturally, this cozy arrangement was upset by the USSR’s and Nazis’ supporting opposite sides in the Spanish Civil War. But then Britain guaranteed Polish sovereignty, which enraged Hitler, driving him into the arms of his fellow socialist dictator Stalin, previously allied with the German government from 1922-33.
Just to make sure that I understand you, you blame the victims, ie the Poles, and their desperately peace-seeking, democratic Western allies, for their brutal, murderous subjugation by the Nazis and Communists?
Is that right?
If so, may you be haunted nightly by the tens of thousands of Polish officers, the cream of the nation, its teachers, doctors, poets, musicians, scientists, murdered by Stalin, and its ordinary people, including most of the Jewish population, worked to death or exterminated by the Nazis.
And Stalin’s invasion and occupation of parts of Romania and Finland and all of the Baltic States, as per his secret deal with Hitler, those actions too were because of the evil Western Allies and Polish nationalists?
All will be revealed…….just as soon as I figure out how to keep the skunks from underneath my shed.
I know the Israelis could do it in 2 seconds flat.
Kinda hate to use that marker.
“Nobody explained to Greta that the modern world is complicated, and complex, and it changes fast.”
Well they tried… but she skipped school that day.
Hitler was unstoppable until USSR stopped him. Battle of Stalingrad was the absolute turning point of World War 2, where Hitler experienced his first defeat.
We expect a strong role of Russia on propaganda-led Climate Change alarm. Putin’s statement on Greta is very much welcome.
And Russia only “stopped him” because he attacked Russia first! You act like Russia fought against him out of the kindness of their hearts not because their former ally turned on them.
“The enthusiasm for the boys and girls, who are suddenly “politically involved”, is pure hypocrisy. No one who has his senses together would have an appendectomy by a sixteen-year-old, whose parents donated him/her an anatomy atlas for Christmas. No one who wants to build a house for himself and his family would hire a sixteen-year-old architect who has built only sand castles so far. And no one who can distinguish a hedge fund from a home savings contract would trust a sixteen-year-old’s advice on his assets. But when it comes to the climate and the world in which we live, noisy children suddenly mutate into valued prophets of impending doom”
german journalist Henryk Broder recently wrote in the swiss WELTWOCHE. (translation via Google an partly myself, I hope it worked well). He could be right…
Science teacher in Iowa gets into hot water for social media post re: Greta.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2019/10/waterloo-teacher-on-leave-after-sniper.html?m=1
He should have refrained and questioned authorities about income being derived by her and her parents for these appearances.
Foreign nationals who are not American citizens or lawful permanent residents of the US need a work visa, as well as a permit to work, officially known as an Employment Authorization Document (EAD), in order to work in the USA.
Ah Greta. Here’s the take of our Belgian neighbours
He makes the point that people who use children deserve to be condemned. The people who are using G.T. are doing it because people who attack children are universally seen as bad. What needs to happen is for people to see that people who use children to argue their case for them are bad.
@John Tillman and @Tonyb:
My comments in highlighting Russia’s role in WW2 does not support, for instance, Katyn Massacre of Polish people, notorious Russian Purges. Having said that Red Army, however, rescued inmates of Auschwitz Concentration camp.
You were blaming Poland (the victim of German and Russia aggression) for Russia’s alliance with Hitler’s Germany. John and Tonyb’s comments were fair responses to that.