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.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3096708/The-Jesus-gym-1-650-gadget-lets-exercise-walking-water.html
Begging for another free ride…. Gee, I thought her parents were raking in money from her appearances. MaybeI missed something, or maybe she’s just letting us all know that she sponges off of anyone who is silly enough to give her what she demands. She’s quickly turning into a public parasite. What’s next? Appearing on Cleopatra’s throne from the movie? Lawsie, just spare us, okay?
If she wants to go to Spain, let her find her own way there. I doubt she’s unaccompanied, in any case.
A good swift kick might give her the lift she needs.
I may be naive, but are you not supposed to have a return ticket when entering the US without a work permit?
Isn’t there a replica of the Mayflower? – Maybe MS G. Thunberg (no, not Motor Ship) and daddy could have a Mayflower replica manned for a historic return to Plymouth. It should be sail-able with a crew of 30, has no engines, probably oil lights (Greenpeace approved green whale oil usable too) and those who originally sailed the Mayflower called themselves Saints.
So there you go my dear Saint Greta, I am sure your many followers into the stone age will fund the project, before they go extinct.
How is it that we KNOW she has asked for assistance..?
Oh – the INTERNET….. I see….
What happens when she realises that the ELECTRICITY which runs the Internet is COAL POWERED..??
Will she stand in the middle of the continental United States and SHOUT..?
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.
Dog sled over the pole to Norway, lucky you there’s a tunnel-bridge from Sweden to Denmark.
How about a Nuclear Sub? It’s the only logical choice.
Maybe she will become a Nuclear Advocate!
How Dare You…
She could just fly with Leo, and blame HIM for all the carbon used…
She could probably generate the amount of power it takes to carry her little frame on a jet airliner using a stationary bike and some balloons.
The margin of error in filling the center fuel tank on such planes weighs about 8x what she does.
Look at her US Immigration paperwork to see what date and method of exit she declared she was booked on, before they let her in?
How about going back to Sweden and enroll back in school? She needs to be better educated and exposed to different views than what her extreme parents are providing
You clearly know nothing about the swedish school system, currently in a state of virtual collapse.
Esperanza is currently in South America!
Greta, I am sure Greenpeace will offer to take you to Europe with Esperanza. You would probably have preferred Rainbow Warrior; however, she is currently in Europe. Have a chat with the captain.
Reminds me of when Munckton spoke to a young woman during COP15 2009 in Copenhagen. They were discussing the weather, sorry climate, when Monckton asked something like: “Where do You get get the scientific evidence from” and the woman answered: “From Greenpeace!”
If Greta did the math she would learn that less co2 would have been released if she had traveled by comercial air ( or possibly by private charter) than all of the various transportation and trips required to provide this faux virtue signaling show.
“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.”
You can easily travel by airplane, would you believe it.
Greta: No, how dare you
Ok, would you believe by two boy scouts in a row boat?
Go down to a port and hold out your thumb. Or just stay where you are and settle in. Then you can make yourself a pain in the ass for that country.
Someone who competed in the Tour de France should lend her his bicycle, so she can bike her way along I-80 to New York. While she watches all the cars passing her, she might start thinking that she would be a lot less tired riding in one of those CO2-belching monsters.
Then she can hop in her yacht in New York and sail under the Verrazzano Bridge (named for the first European to sail to New York) and sail to Spain with the prevailing westerlies at her back most of the way. What could go wrong?
Then she could take the bike out of the yacht and ride it from a Spanish port to Madrid.
But what about all the CO2 she will exhale while biking over two Sierra Nevadas (one in California, one in Spain)?
She can avoid both sierras by going through the Mojave desert and up the Guadalquivir valley respectively. Harder to avoid breathing though.
However she presumably can do it. Since she can see CO2 she must somehow be able to do without breathing as she would otherwise keep blinding herself with exhaled air with 50,000 ppm CO2 in it.
50,000 ppm is only 5%, while annoying it wouldn’t be blinding. It would be no worse than looking through the screen on a screen door (probably somewhat better, as the mesh of the screen blocks more than 5% of the visible light, depending on the size of the mesh)
She should just geta cardboard box and live a low carbon-footprint life on the streets of San Francisco.
She can’t live her own life without asking for help from others, yet has the audacity to tell others how to live theirs. Shame on her.
I hear the Pinta is available and it’s still a fine ship.
I hear the Northwest Passage is just beautiful this time of year.
There is always orca riding.
I suggest she go by the most fuel-efficient method available: tourist class on a widebody jet.
Just about all other suggested metods (ocean liner, airship etc) are much less fuel efficient. The only things that might beat the jet is to go as a supernumerary on a slow freighter or drift across in a free baloon (alone of course, otherwise the crew would have to fly back).
Technically I believe you when you say flying is one of the most fuel efficient way of traveling long distances.
It is peoples intuition that is playing with them. The plane may use 20 ton fuel per hour and you can see and hear the big engines, but the plane is also going 800km/h or so and carry many hundred passengers. When they go on a passenger ship, they hardly hear and never see all the machinery on decks way down there.
The same story with the coal or NG fired battery cars. They are newer near the coal mountains supplying the charge, before they go out on the ride.
Out of sight, out of mind.
As I recall, the amount of fuel per passenger mile when flying varies tremendously, and is more efficient for some planes and distances than for others.
For very long flights, the efficiency may decrease somewhat due to needing to carry more fuel at takeoff.
But in general, flying is very fuel efficient, assuming things like full planeload of passengers, newer model jetliner especially, winds (it makes a big difference if you have a 200mph jet stream at your back vs. in your face), and distance all being favorable for flying.
walk east until you reach the coast, then swim you spoilt, petulent brat.
…and then explain in ten words or less how your mum and dad got home in time to ride your coat-tails to the hot-air fest.
She should give Laura Dekker a call. At 16 years of age in 2012,, this young lady single-handedly circumnavigated the globe in a in a 12.4-metre (40 ft) two-masted ketch.
She however had the sense not to go by way of the North Atlantic. Even in summer.
In the live action Popeye movie with Robin Williams, I seem to recall a scene in which he apparently rowed across an entire ocean by himself, so I know it is possible.
She is gonna need lots of spinach and hit the gym to work on those forearms.
You do know that Popeye is a fictional character and the Popeye movie is not a documentary. Robin Williams didn’t actually row a boat across an entire ocean. So that movie is irrelevant to whether or not it’s a possible thing to do.
That said two Norwegian-born Americans, Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo, where the first to successfully row across was the Atlantic in June 1896. It took them 55 days and 13 hours to get from Battery Park to the Isles of Scilly (They continued to row to Le Havre, France).