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.”
Wish upon a Star?
(Oh wait. Leonardo’s methods of transportation all guzzle fossil fuels.)
Consult the Goracle. Rub his ball and see what comes up?
(Oh wait. The ModSquad might snip that.)
Take a long walk off a short pier. Use your braids as a flotation device when you realize you can’t walk on water after all.
Consult the Goracle. Rub his ball and see what comes up?
(Oh wait. The ModSquad might snip that.)
I think Tipper beat them to it long ago.
True.
That’s why “ball” wasn’t plural.
Maybe get a ride on an oxygen/hydrogen fueled ICBM?
All that water vapor they produce won’t contribute to “Climate Change” since it’s “Carbon-Free”!
(Of course, all the world’s governments will need to be warned that bomb headed their way isn’t nuclear.)
Poor, Greta. She should fly home, and plant a tree when she arrives to make up for the CO2 she used.
Willis, if you see this please seriously consider using your sailing experience to help young Greta make her journey if that’s at all possible.
She actually strikes me as an honest and intelligent person who’s too young to have learned that you can’t trust everything you read.
What better chance to have a series of thoughtful discussions than during a long cross-Atlantic voyage, away from the media and the pressure to summarily dismiss any ideas that aren’t in line with what she perceives as “settled science”?
Nobody in his right mind sails across the North Atlantic in winter, much less takes a child along.
Take a look at the Plimsoll mark on a ship. It defines the maximum permissible load under various conditions. The lowest line (smallest permissible load) is W NA. It means “Winter North Atlantic”.
Smarten up Greta
Simply order that the conference be now held in San Francisco
This would be a great chance for President Trump to gain some woke cred by commanding the Navy to send a nuclear sub to pick her up and take her to Spain. I am sure she would be grateful for the Co2 free trip.
Take a flight. Buy solar cookers for refugees in Chad to offset the carbon footprint.
https://flygrn.com/carbon/calculate?type=return&seg%5B0%5D%5Bfrom%5D=LAX&seg%5B0%5D%5Bto%5D=MAD&persons=1&class=Y
She could trek to Kansas get sucked up by a tornado end up on the yellow brick road, which I believe goes directly to Madrid.
Well, once in Oz, all she’s needs do is click her ruby slippered heals 3 times and say “there’s no place like home” to return home. Sounds like her best carbon-free bet.
Seasoned travellers know that the secret to survival is flexibility. When your plans are disrupted you have to be prepared to make alternate arrangements to get where you want/need to go asap. If only she hadn’t painted herself into a corner by refusing to fly, Leo or another celebrity green friend would have been able to fire up the private jet and whisk her across to Madrid, no worries… and probably someone else could organise an all mod cons (wifi incl) place for her to safely stay while she big notes herself at the climate lovein.
By train to Alaska, by boat across the Bering Strait to Vladivostok, by Transsiberian railway to Europe, done.
Wasn’t she declared to be the new incarnation of Christ by some church lately? What’s the problem then? She can simply walk on the water and go wherever she likes. She will be a bit lonely as mere mortals cannot perform the same act and would have to accompany her in a rowboat.
The plea is a stunt. There is a massive PR and if needed, money machine behind Greta’s parents, and arranging travel is nothing, buttons, to these people. Still fools will line up.
You know that somehow, the family become very wealth over a short period somehow, magically.
You should read her mother’s book, they (parents) messed up the younger child too, not my opinion, read the book. The mother is imo highly neurotic.
This whole save hte planet thing, to this family is a proxy for saving the absolute mess that the family is (the mother’s description, not my opinion).
Boy oh boy, when Greta is no longer relevant, there is going to be one hell of a mental crash!
Carbon credits (“shifting”). As good as, or better than, carbon free. It’s how the Green revolution happens.
Can anybody seriously believe that Greta would set off for North and South America without having any idea how she was going to return to Europe? Especially given her public refusal to fly?
Of course I believe it. Her entire body of “work” makes it not just plausible but mandatory. Nothing she has done is rational or proceeded from actually examining the facts of reality. If anything, this was always the plan: concoct some reason to have to “plead for help” in order to gauge the depth of public support for her lunacy.
Use Justine Trudouche’s magic unicorn.
As the wind currents go from west to east a hot air balloon would suit your purposes admirably . You can fill the balloon with your anger, CO2 and the misinformation that you have retained.
I think it’s a fantastic idea that she go carbon free to the conference. And following her example all the other delegates should also row, swim, walk to the venue, which should be held in the open air. At night they should climb some trees, if they can, and sleep on the branches.
And during the day they can forage for food. No catered buffets for this crowd. That should leave very little time for the b.s. conference.
Well, a stupid offered to row her across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver BC to Victoria BC, so she would not expend carbon travelling by ferry boat. Then he walked backward to offering to use a small sailboat instead. Yes, in winter when even the big ferry boats have difficulty some days.
Irresponsible I say.
Tip: so she doesn’t become a martyr, someone tell her that land travel from the US into South America is probably hazardous these days due to the criminals in some Central American countries.
BTW, beware that some claims about what she wants are false, such as the one from a Marxist city councillor in Victoria BC that she wanted to avoid expelling carbon to get to there from the mainland. She publicly denied that.
In the event, she did not come because she was too busy.