Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is looking to the world for suggestions as to how she can re-cross the Atlantic after next month’s U.N. climate summit in Chile was unexpectedly scrapped.
The 16-year-old made it from Sweden to California by yacht, train and electric car before Chile’s government announced it was canning the summit because of political unrest in the South American nation.
The COP25 summit will now be held in Spain and she is pleading for public help to make the 6000-mile trip through carbon-free modes of transportation.
“As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.
“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way.”
“Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”
As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help.
It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:)
Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November… If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.
-> https://t.co/vFQQcLTh2U— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 1, 2019
Thunberg refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions involved.
Her cry for assistance Friday came after she spent time with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio discussing ways and means to help the world struggle through what they claim is a “climate and ecological emergency,” as Breitbart News reported. DiCraprio called her a “leader of our time” and revealed they have made “a commitment to support one another.”
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Rowboat or swim.
I think she could hike, snow shoe and ski to the Bering Straight, then paddle a Kayak across (unless it’s frozen) then hike, snow shoe and ski across Siberia until she reaches civilization whereupon she could find some nice roads and trails for a bicycle. She might be a year or so late, however.
Or she could take a hot air balloon from DC.
Couldn’t do a hot air balloon.
Hot air in a balloon is usually produced by gas or maybe coal at a pinch but not by electricity or nuclear energy.
Poor Greta
I was thinking she might grab a politician or two for the hot air.
Go South, down the coast of Chile and cross the southern ocean to General Bernerdo O’Higgins base. From there she could snowshoe around the coast to Masson where she could catch a berg headed north to South Africa. From there is is a simple hike up to Cairo and a trot through Israel and up to Istanbul. From there it is an easy trek through Eastern Europe to Copenhagen, a short swim to Malmö and she is almost home.
Of course a 747 could get her from Santiago to Madrid in 12 hours for $365 one way on Iberia Air
Her personal hot air would do the trick
Au contraire, balloon filled with unicorn farts will do.
That sounds like perhaps the most possible means, unless one could walk across a rainbow.
How about a really, really big sling shot.
Use her own or de Caprio’s hot air, or maybe Gore’s very hot air.
Gerald: Gore’s very hot air will make the balloon catch fire. Sorry about the technicality.
No, she stands stands below the balloon and talks to it. Plenty of hot air. Problem solved.
“Or she could take a hot air balloon from DC.”
I presume the fact scissor mentioned DC was supposed to indicate that it is a plentiful source of hot air. However, humans breathe out about 4% CO2, so not exactly “carbon free” choice.
Not in DC! Plenty of hot air.
Stay in Chile, or a hydrogen balloon, or dirigible,
JPP
http://aeroscraft.com/airships/4575666081
Stay in Chile, and Skype.
Auto
Since when has Skype been carbon-free?
Hydrogen is generally produced by reforming methane (a GHG) with hot water vapor (another GHG) giving molecular hydrogen (H₂) and carbon dioxide (a GHG).
There is the story of Lillian Alling who hiked in the 1920s from New York across America and Canada and possibly made it across the Bering Strait with the help of some Eskimos. It took her four years.
Apparently crossings of the Bering Strait are fairly common. It is said that the Eskimos used to do it all the time.
CommieBob thanks so much for sharing this story. As an Alaska resident with parents in Maryland, I have driven back and forth the same path many times. It is amazing to imagine a woman walking this path in the 1920’s. I’ll be researching this story in a lot more details now.
If she could just hook up to a whale and get dragged across the Atlantic. I read that Jonah traveled a good bit by whale, when he was swallowed up.
Yeah, traveling by whale takes a little getting used to, but it works.
Most of the whales are with Uber now so they aren’t as hard to come by as in the old days.
Choices: water travel under or on, air travel, walk on water. Pick one.
She could just divide the oceans and walk across !
That is the obvious choice.
What did one ocean say to the other? nothing.They just waved.
Charles, I’m sure she thinks she can do #3.
She could change her gender as transportation. All explained here:
Thanks for that, Scissor. That is a really funny bit.
That was awesome Scissor. And so cool that some people are still willing and able to have non-PC humor. Have bookmarked right, hadn’t laughed like this in a while.
Di Caprio has a boat she could use! And it’s a proper super yacht. Just like the craft he likes to party on in exotic fossil fuel pumping locations all around the world with all those eco-friendly super green chicks who swallow……his environmental credentials! Sadly, a bit more CO2 unfriendly than the CO2 unfriendly boat Greta actually used on the way out to the States (with an equally climate unfriendly support boat, plus equally climate unfriendly airborne boat retrieval crew) but, hey ho, what do Climate hypocrites care about that? Do as I say, not what I do, seems the message from our media hyped ‘betters’ these days. P.S. No ‘climate’ was actually hurt in any of the above ‘movements’, except in the febrile imaginations of suitably indoctrinated climate Pharisees.
A great post. This high and mighty actor came to Canada to shoot a film around Calgary and told everyone he experienced climate change first hand when a chinook flew into the area they were filming in.
What an idiot. Calgary has chinook’s often at certain times of the year , common place there. Anyway great suggestion.
Considering any transportation involves a ‘carbon footprint’, and that getting across the Atlantic in a super yacht, with the result that 60 mean had to fly in order for that to happen , anyone with sense would advise this mouthpiece that taking one plane out of necessity is ok. Especially as she has a cosy friendship with one of the worst ‘carbon footprints’ – Di Caprio, who also has a private jet she could fly in.
My honest opinion is that her refusing to fly has nothing to do with the emissions and a lot to do with
a. Simple fear of flying and/or
b. Afraid of being enclosed with a lot of people for the duration of the flight.
She might actually have to listen to somebody for once, instead of just haranguing everybody in sight.
Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/this-greta-thunberg-thing-is-child-abuse
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“The case of Thunberg is even more egregious. She began suffering from depression as a child, by her own admission, in part because she learned about climate change at age 8. She was later diagnosed with autism and obsessive compulsive disorder and gradually became despondent as she obsessed over her fear of climate change. She developed mutism and an eating disorder so severe that she once went two months without food, and she stopped going to school. Her only sibling, a sister named Beata, also suffers from Asperger’s and OCD, as well as ADHD. ”
“Now tell me, does it seem healthy to place a child with this many mental illnesses under the spotlight of public scrutiny, with a sole focus on the very phenomenon and associated alarmism that triggered her in the first place?”
Charles the Great M,
This brings up a number of top-line issues:
– how many children have been exposed to Al Gore et. al. And UN Climate nonsense?
– of those exposed to the nonsense, what percentage have developed mental disorders?
– does the WHO (world health organization) track the impact of the UNFCCC programs?
… And the list goes on…
Greta is a child, if she understands the carbon footprint she should conclude flying back to Spain is carbon neutral as she just spent 2 weeks on the Atlantic without any footprint (including electricity and toilets) to get to the USA.
“she once went two months without food,” … yeah, pull the other leg.
You actually read my post and think its funny?
The issues are a misery and consequences of crap media and crap Science!
I agree with Eve on this one. Row home.
My first thought was of the two Nordic immigrants who were not happy with the New World and wanted badly to go home. They were the first (as far as we know) to row West to East across the Atlantic Ocean.
I guess we could count Greta’s forebears the Vikings in the “rowing” category. They had square sails to assist.
They left some Runes as guidance for their descendants. We should translate them to see if it includes a shopping list for the journey.
well shes vegan? or vego so using animal skins for a coracle, would also “upset her”
so she can source some hemp some beeswax and a couple of fallen branches and DIY
and float her lil boat over the oceans
I gather some irish “saints” mamaged to get to canada? doing similar
time frame may be a tad uncertain..but really if she never made it , the world would be a better place
According to my math, given that planet earth is a globe, if Greta went half way around the world in the wrong direction, she would have ended up in exactly the same place had she gone in the “right” direction.
I think a lot of her supporters would think her capable of just walking across.
Neither rowing nor swimming. All that high effort CO2 being exhaled would upset poor Greta too much. She would have to admonish herself and that would never do.
Nuclear submarine – no CO2 at all.
Hand her a bag of Cheetos, and tell her start swimming.
It’s long swim, she’ll need a snack.
Solar-powered aircraft. AOC has it all worked out on p. 10,695 of her Green New Deal!
A Really Really Big Catapult
I suppose a swim from Long Island is out of the question. What a shame.
No, she must attempt the swim. Anything else would be hypocrisy.
I’m not sure I could kick her that far, but I’d be glad to give it a try.
How about shoe leather?
Harness the power of nature. Ask Aquaman to borrow some dolphins or flying fish.
Sailing eastwards across the North Atlantic at this time of year is most definitely not for the faint hearted. Maybe she should just continue heading west with the Tradewinds around the globe and then hitch a lift through Asia and Europe? Sure there’ll be plenty of celebrity owned mega yachts in California just waiting to get her on board!
How is her boat she took going west getting back? Surely, like a good chauffeur they have waited for her; otherwise they would have been deadheading going home; extraordinarily inefficient in the new Green world.
Usually they get loaded onto a boat carrier. Safer and quicker than the sailing that way.
Last time I looked, it was in Normandy, Le Havre waiting to start some race or other. They zoomed back across the Pond a few weeks ago after a two week stopover in Nova Scotia because of “inclement” weather. I believe they are now back out at sea so maybe they have arranged a rendevous with our little heroine somewhere mid Atlantic?
She could always try swimming – it’s a great exercise and I am sure she will find lots of interesting things along the way, including very cold water.
Oh, I’m afraid that swimming, walking, or any other self-propulsions are no good to disburse her extreme guilt either. She will have to eat food for these that has been planted, harvested, transported by fossil fueled machinery. Don’t you see that on close examination there is no way to evade your dependence on these energy sources by just choosing a particular mode of transportation (and never look deeply into what it takes to come up with and recharge an electric car). Greta, it’s simpler than you have yet considered. You truly have but one option. Don’t move a muscle and stay right where you happen to be now, deary!
Doc, you know, that is a viable option. Many people before her crossed the Atlantic never to return.
Why is attending COP25 so important anyway? She is not a country representative and has no standing in any NGO. Her parents are members of ANTIFA which is hardly a global warming group. They are on the verge of being declared a terrorist organisation.
If she wants to “feel at home” she would do well to go to Minnesota where the culture is distinctly Nordic. It was featured hundreds of times on “The Golden Girls”. She could also go back to school to learn how the world works.
Win-win as far as I can see.
She could clean up some plastic while she’s at it, I bet.
Good god, what has the world come to, have the rich and famous truly become stupid? Have the youth of today become so bored that they want to follow a crying co2 seeing child lead them in to the stone age? How will they survive?! leo flys everywhere, and has a yacht 😐 One film he stars in, must produces more of the magical co2 then I will in my whole life time… A leader, since when has greta become a leader 😐 and who does she lead?? Why doesn’t leo give her a lift on his yacht?!
she spent time with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio discussing ways and means to help the world struggle through what they claim is a “climate and ecological emergency,”
Swim.
you have to admire a man who can solve the worlds problems with one word answers.
K.I.S.S.
What she has done is the classic crawling out on a limb and then sawing it off behind her. By refusing to fly she is demonstrating to the whole world why air travel will NEVER go away despite these shrill cries of climate doom. I guess she is too immature to understand how silly she has made herself look.
What a sick joke, our young Greta must live in a fantasy world. So how many extra flights and nasty co2 will it cost this time to arrange her yacht crew etc ?
OH and driving in EVs doesn’t save much either when you add nasty co2 emissions from the fossil fuels that help to charge your vehicle.
Building the car and battery is also a big problem when you try and sell the car and work out how to dispose of all the toxic materials.
What a fra-d and yet these silly con merchants always get a free ride by the ever compliant MSM.
I suggest she fly to COP25, because she’ll probably generate less co2 emissions than her previous trip.
Is she old enough to broom it there?
I guess Hillary could give her a lift on her broom.
Yeah, Greta could slip aboard her wicca basket.
Yep. Or Naomi Oreskes has the Harvard deluxe model broom.
(Non-serious problems deserve ridiculing replies.)
Bicycle catamaran..
She should get a lawnchair and tie it to lots and lots of pig intestines filled with helium. Can’t use plastic of course or any synthetic fabric. Then she can float her way to where she wants to go. For steering, she can have a little hand cranked fan. I’m sure she’ll make it.
Does Helium come as an escaped gas from oil drilling? That may be another fossil fuel dependent transportation.
Windmill-electrolysis generated hydrogen …
Di Caprio could give her a ride on one of his private jets, surely? He offsets, and he can do that for her.
I did read that the Spanish government are offering to transport her. (Once upon a time transportation implied a one way trip to penal colonies). We should keep a close eye on all the emissions involved if they send a ship across the Atlantic to collect her.
Whichever way, I think there is likely ot be a lot of hypocrisy (CO2 emissions) involved.
Using what, ye olde Spanish galleon?
Hot-air balloon. Might even make it.
What would make it hot?
A Michael Mann speech?
Couldn’t they use a wood stove to heat the hot air balloon? Or better yet a wood pellet burner then any extra pellets could be shipped to UK for the ecological power generation.
Wood pellets are made of …. WOOD, which is made of carbon.
But if it’s burned in the Drax magic box you get
…’ green CO2′ & she cant see that !!
Wood pellets are made of …. WOOD, which is made of carbon.
There you go, she’s a witch!
Sir Vladimir: What do you burn apart from witches?
Peasants one: More witches! (Peasants two nudge Peasants one)
(pause)
Peasants three: Wood!
Sir Vladimir: So, why do witches burn?
(long pause)
Peasants two : Cuz they’re made of… wood?
Richard Treadgold
November 3, 2019 at 2:33 pm
No, no Richard, not hot air…haven’t you heard…hydrogen’s all the rage these days. And Our Dear Little Leader is way too young to know about the Hindenburg.
Alastair Brickell
November 3, 2019 at 3:05 pm
You’re right, hard to match it. Though that might be construed as inflammatory.
I wonder if she’d accept help from Marc Morano???
Whatever became of HB-SIA a.k.a. Solar Impulse, Picard’s multi-engine solar kite ?
Back then it was supposed to quickly become the flying norm and lead Switzerland to a prosperous aeronautical future, create thousands of jobs, blow Airbus and Boeing to bankruptcy, kick Embraer in the nose.
Picard, who once sold his school appearances upwards of 30’000 $ for a 45 minutes talk is suddenly silent. Come-on Bertrand, how can you miss such a stunt ? Winter ops over the pond, think of it, a once in a lifetime occasion to fly the green wunderkind of all times.
Sorry Solar Impulse can take no payload. And it needed more than one year to circle the globe.
Blimp
hitch with a manta ray
If she crosses he finger behind her back, she can fly “carbon free” for ever.
This one will always be headed the wrong way.
Click her heels three times and recite, “There’s no place like home.” All she needs are ruby slippers and it’s a done deal.
Cheers
Max
The trick is don’t go. If not producing CO2 is that important then live where you are. If it gets cold weave clothes from flax or hessian. Eat fruit and nuts from the trees and bushes. Drink from the rivers. Cast off the trappings of evil technology. Live simply. Enjoy.
Exactly. If you truly believe the alarmist chatter, then this is exactly what you need to do.
Alternative.
Hitch a ride on the ship carrying woodchips for DRAX. That must be carbon free surely. From England she could catch trains assuming they are powered by the the same carbon free DRAX Power Station.
No nooo – Drax burns carbon just like all the other boiler operating power stations – its just GOOD carbon – ie renewable – get with the program….
Hopefully she and her acolytes will learn that society is like the weather, both are totally unpredictable past the blink of an eye.
I wouldn’t lift a finger for her. And nobody should. Let her stay there until she outgrows her stupidity. Easy as that.