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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I don’t understand why Greta won’t travel by air. After all, the plane was going there anyway. In fact leaving an empty seat increases the per-passenger fuel consumption, meaning Greta’s virtue comes at the expense of increasing the sins of others. I wonder if she considered that?
Anyway, I hope she makes it to the COP in time to urge all the delegates to pass a resolution forbidding air travel to all future COP meetings. Seems to me Greta should expect a little more help, example setting-wise, from the very people who expect the rest of us to do the same.
You are assuming that there will be empty seats on the junket express flight. I’m pretty sure there will be some conscientious public servant prepared to make the sacrifice of attending the conference to ensure the flight is fully booked.
There’s another aspect to consider. From whatever she had said in public, Greta is a visibly deranged person.
I would not be comfortable to have her on board without medical certificate and competent escort. Just imagine the commotion if she looses it and starts shooting “How dare you?” around the cabin. Crews don’t need that on transatlantic routes.
Furthermore I’m not convinced that an airline would be really happy to take the risk or PR aftermaths from flying Greta.
Walk.
Of course – she’s so damn self-righteous that walking on water should be no problem for her.
Other than that, rowboats are carbon-neutral.
Rowing a boat is easy, getting the sheep to row it for you may take a little PR.
Yes. The availability of sheep to do the rowing is the problem. When people don’t have the resources for their pet projects, they always revert back to slavery.
Greta has expectations formed in a hydrocarbon-based world that are unrealistic in her self-imposed carbon-free world.
exactly….serious question…she has to go home sometime somehow…..how?
..she’s obviously here on some sort of tourist visa…when does that run out?
Well there you go. She can stay here till her visa expires then ICE can pick her up and ship her back on the next flight over whether she likes it or not.
Sailing this time of year could get a little dicey.
OK, a lot dicey.
As in, you can die.
This should be interesting.
I think the vast majority who sail across the ocean have a motor and fuel for when the wind dies or storms must be avoided.
Hard to believe she is requesting help publicly.
Wealthy beggar.
In that case, she definitely needs to sit very very still and stop emitting CO2. Bye, Greta.
Why spend any thoughts abought how she couldt come to spain ? 😀
Better had reflected before 😀
The Russians might offer her a lift on a nuclear submarine.
I was about to say “she can catch a ride on a nuclear submarine”, though not necessarily Russian.
Raft made of re-cycled solar panels. What’s not to like?
That will not float.
So?
She know less about anex 1 and non anex countries ambition and political shift of world.
For those, like her, who believe in fantasy tales a supersonic unicorn might be best.
Call her good friend in Russia (or France) and go by nuclear submarine!
If I remember correctly the Swedish church declared her a saint a month or two ago. She can Officially walk on water, no?
Shows she has been skipping school.
Not so good at Geography.
She was off to Chile. It is coming into Southern Hemisphere Summer, right?
Proceed as follows –
Just jump on electric bike and head south through Tierra del Fuego. Notice how warm and pleasant it is getting?
Rowboat to the Antarctic peninsula, although it is all melting there should be a bit of warm ice to walk on (if you forgot the electric bike).
Keep on south, left turn, avoid all the sunbathing polar bears and partying penguins, keep up with the factor 50 and your sunglasses. An easy trip round and then a short rowboat trip to Capetown.
Follow all the friendly migrants who will be delighted to guide you north to Morocco and from there into Spain is easy. They’ll be waiting for you with open arms!
What could go wrong?
If a polar bear is getting a bit too friendly, just glower and say HOW DARE YOU??
Griff said there wont be any polar bears the global warming has made them extinct.
Polar bears are already extinct in Antarctica… :))
“Griff said there wont be any polar bears”
There certainly won’t be any Polar Bears in the SH…. 😛
Unless they are stuffed.
theres a couple in zoos still ,I think;-)
If she really wanted to minimize here impact, she should go by freighter, but that’s not nearly as glamorous as a solar-powered catamaran.
Yes, I crossed from UK to Canada and back as a boy for a sea scout regatta, courtesy of the Beaverbrook paper freighters. I still have my discharge papers as I was signed on as crew… and my shilling wages! Quite feasible and under the radar.
Either she’s a brat or the poor kid is brainwashed by the liberal left wing environMENTAL establishment or both!
Travel without fossil fuels really kind of sucks, doesn’t it?
Thunberg. Her last name sounds like a combo of thunder and iceberg. Hmmm….
Pedalo.
Too fast.
People with Aspergers Syndrome are notoriously easy to deceive and manipulate. The freaks pulling her strings need to be prosecuted for child abuse.
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“…DiCraprio…” Unintentionally intentional?? I don’t expect an answer… 🙂
Spain has already offered to help, but other than buying her a plane ticket, I don’t see how else. Realistically, with less than a month to go, I don’t see her getting there any other way than by flying. But that would make her an obvious hypocrite, even if she were to purchase “carbon credits”, and would damage her brand. Talk about the horns of a dilemma. My guess is that, rather than risk damaging her brand, she will opt out of going, unless she can find space on some cargo ship (doubtful).
Cargo ship was my suggestion too in a previous WUWT post, but even if she could get a ticket, they have the right to cancel it until the last minute before sailing, due to more important last minute passengers.
President Trump recently hosted the winners of the Little League World Series in the Oval Office. The team was from Louisiana, where President Trump was scheduled to appear later that day. So he gave the kids a ride with him on Air Force One.
Maybe he’d be willing to provide Greta a ride home on the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The ship itself unquestionably has a zero “carbon footprint.” What would be entertaining to see whether Greta’s head would explode when her zero-carbon transport had airplanes taking off from and landing on it daily.
That’s so cool. Those kids will remember that experience for the rest of their lives.
Right. The Eisenhower’s 114,000 tons of displacement is mostly steel and a honker pair of Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors. No CO2 used in the manufacture of those components. 😉
She might just go for it. They’ll use on-deck rubber bands for the sorties, and perhaps give her a ride or 2.
Call your friend Leninardo DiCrapio , he has a big boat
Young Greta sailed across the sea
whilst sitting on a bucket
The people at COP 25
Looked and said ‘aww f*** it’
And now she wants a second trip
because she is so special