Climate Messiah Greta Thunberg: “They try so desperately to silence us”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Greta Thunberg while being mobbed by reporters in Madrid complained that “they” were desperate to silence her – but the COP25 climate conference she hopes to influence is already on the verge of failure.

Greta Thunberg: ‘They try so desperately to silence us’

Matt McGrath Environment correspondent @mattmcgrathbbc

The 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.

She had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of “leave her alone” from concerned observers. 

“People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,” she told reporters.

“And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.”

This COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science. 

Since then, the urgency has given way to frustration.

Little obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries’ ambitions to cut carbon.

Indeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn’t even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference. 

We don’t have in the agenda one item that’s called ‘ambition’ and, therefore, it’s not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.”

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50680781

Who are “they” who are trying to silence you Greta? Not climate skeptics – because we want as many people as possible to hear your message.

Greta makes the people I despise squirm by exposing their hypocrisy, while she practices that very same hypocrisy herself. And the funniest part, the people she targets have to sit there and take it, otherwise they’ll be accused of not caring.

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Susan
December 7, 2019 10:08 am

Who are ‘they’ and what have ‘they’ been doing to silence Greta? She seems to have got herself heard somehow!

Cube
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 11:03 am

Projection. And in such a young age, too. Tsk tsk.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Cube
December 7, 2019 2:30 pm

Projection is the tantamount tactic of extremist mentalities. It provides them a license to continue behaving in that same manner as a “counter-measure”.

Linda Goodman
Reply to  Cube
December 8, 2019 4:56 pm

Exactly what I was thinking. No doubt instructed to by her handlers; alarmists and liberals in general are projecting like mad, along with their big lies and repetition they appear to be following Goebbels’ handbook…

“In his analysis of Nazi propaganda, Ellis Freeman identified an influence tactic based on projection: accusing another person of the negative traits and behaviors that one possesses and exhibits with the goal of deflecting blame away from one’s own misdeeds and toward the accused…the use of projection as an influence tactic is not limited to fascist regimes and its consequences can be socially devastating…”

“[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods….[T]he most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unfiagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.” – Adolph Hitler

Curious George
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 11:05 am

Why does she not listen for a change?

Gerry, England
Reply to  Curious George
December 8, 2019 12:56 am

Those who are on the path of righteousness have no need to listen, especially when it is all settled anyway.

Klem
Reply to  Curious George
December 8, 2019 1:02 am

Greta is the chosen one.

David
Reply to  Curious George
December 8, 2019 1:06 am

This obnoxious child makes one long for the day when children were seen and not heard.

Linda Goodman
Reply to  David
December 8, 2019 5:05 pm

Just imagine her in 10 years. BLECH Here’s some comic relief – the image alone provides Christmas mirth at her insufferable expense..
https://babylonbee.com/news/fun-new-greta-on-the-shelf-will-track-your-climate-sins
New Greta On The Shelf Doll Will Track Your Climate Sins

Dodgy Geezer
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 11:55 am

“…..Who are ‘they’ and what have ‘they’ been doing to silence Greta?……”

It’s ‘The Man’! The Man is keeping me down. You should stick it to The Man…..

wws
Reply to  Dodgy Geezer
December 7, 2019 1:56 pm

She should try saying that there are only two genders. Then she’ll find out how quickly someone gets silenced!!!

WXcycles
Reply to  wws
December 7, 2019 5:18 pm

Two sexes.

‘Gender’ is a BS term.

Martin A
Reply to  WXcycles
December 8, 2019 1:11 am

WXcycles
December 7, 2019 at 5:18 pm
Two sexes.
‘Gender’ is a BS term.

Absolutely

Samuel C Cogar
Reply to  WXcycles
December 8, 2019 3:52 am

WXcycles – December 7, 2019 at 5:18 pm

Two sexes.

‘Gender’ is a BS term.

That is PC this week, ……. but not last week.

Us old ferts still recognize what “context” a word is in reference too.

And some wiseass can‘t be changing the “meaning” of a word just because they are “learning disabled”.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  WXcycles
December 8, 2019 1:13 pm

WXcycles
At first I was tempted to give you a bad time. However, I decided to look up the definition of “gender.” Certainly the new definition (not the one I originally learned) of gender is a load of politically-correct balderdash. I’m surprised at how quickly all the major dictionaries jumped on the band wagon and endorsed the changed definition. Humpty Dumpty would be pleased to see that its approach to defining things has been so widely accepted.

Latitude
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 12:06 pm

I think it’s the Chinese………

Gums
Reply to  Latitude
December 7, 2019 1:48 pm

Salute!
NO!
It’s the Russians, dontchya know?
Gums sends…

czechlist
Reply to  Gums
December 7, 2019 5:28 pm

The Russians are funding her through NGOs
Russia/Putin wants Europe dependent on her natural gas.
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/12/russians-spent-95-million-to-ngos-to-feed-shale-fear-and-anti-fraking-campaigns-most-of-the-west-fell-for-it/

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Latitude
December 7, 2019 3:18 pm

Lat, might that be the infamous Cho Ho, who my wife keeps insisting she ain’t?
(As in: “get it yourself, I ain’t Cho Ho!”)

Taphonomic
Reply to  Latitude
December 7, 2019 3:21 pm

Greta could walk to China or India to protest their increasing CO2 emissions. But she chooses to use boats and have the crews fly on jets to increase emissions.

noaaprogrammer
Reply to  Taphonomic
December 7, 2019 4:11 pm

She should even feel quite comfortable living in N. Korea. I understand that their use of electricity is so small, that one can readily discern N. Korea from S. Korea in night-time satellite photos.

Hot under the collar
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 4:26 pm

They must have stolen her voice, how dare they!

Hot under the collar
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 4:29 pm

Another teenager with a more sensible view.

Private Citizen
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 5:31 pm

It’s just exactly the same conspiratorial devolutional cycles we find on the other side, you know, …. the no-way-its-carbon, anthropogenic climate-change denial side of this circus. “They” are the enemy and anything that might not work out for us is because of “them”. In this case, the reference is to the right-wing media, big oil, gas, coal industry, and the war dogs that detest the narrative and imposition of the climate armageddon tribal factions.

Robert of Ottawa
Reply to  Private Citizen
December 9, 2019 5:13 pm

You should be demoted Private,

yarpos
Reply to  Susan
December 7, 2019 9:16 pm

I dont think she knows who “they” are in her weird little mental cinema. Neither would she be able to describe how this silencing is enacted when AGW gets a free run on media everywhere. She would need to ask her handlers for some details on that one. Seriously, at 16 you dont know your elbow from your ar$e, or how anything in the world really works. Its sad she is being put through this wringer.

Jacques Lemiere
Reply to  Susan
December 8, 2019 1:16 am

sure it must be translated , not talking on tv is being silenced…

Goldrider
Reply to  Susan
December 8, 2019 7:30 am

Greta is the living definition of a “pseudo-event.” Media creation in toto.

Joel Snider
Reply to  Susan
December 9, 2019 8:57 am

I was thinking the same thing – looks to me like she’s been provided a pedestal to stand in front of the whole world – just possibly, it’s what she has to say that’s being rejected – not the fact that she hasn’t got her message out.
Go figure.

Sara
December 7, 2019 10:11 am

The 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators ….

And she thinks people are trying to silence her? I am certainly not trying to silence her. She’s the epitome of what is wrong with that entire philosophy. No one dares question anything, no matter how silly it is.

No, please, let her rattle on. Phenomena do not have prolonged spans of time….

KcTaz
Reply to  Sara
December 7, 2019 10:39 am

The 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.

Usually, when there’s a mob of reporters around, they are trying to get someone to speak, not silence them. I fear Greta suffers from, among many other mental ailments, a persecution complex. I’d love for her to identify even one person who is “trying to silence her”.

rah
Reply to  KcTaz
December 7, 2019 12:38 pm

So you think Greta actually writes her speeches? I don’t. She is a sock puppet.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  rah
December 7, 2019 3:30 pm

But, she has super-angry-bird-carbon-vision! 😵

shortus cynicus
Reply to  rah
December 8, 2019 10:19 pm
Mr.
Reply to  Sara
December 7, 2019 10:55 am

Maybe G’s handlers have decided it’s time for her to stfu because even the media are starting to realize that she really doesn’t have anything new to contribute to the agw apoclypse?

rah
Reply to  Mr.
December 7, 2019 4:21 pm

LOL! Who thought she ever did? Did Leo DiCaprio have anything new to share when he found time to speak before the UN on the dangers of Climate Change between trips on his mega yacht and private jet to check out the new sea side resort he was building on some Caribbean island?

Reply to  Sara
December 7, 2019 12:40 pm

We ought to give her all the time and rope she desires.
I see my part in this as calling the play-by-play, as it happens and as I see it.

As usual, when a leftist speaks, whatever they say is true, just reverse the roles.
She is on record demanding that anyone who has another view than the one she adheres to must be silenced.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Sara
December 8, 2019 10:38 am

“And she thinks people are trying to silence her? I am certainly not trying to silence her.”

I think Greta is confused. People who disagree with her about human-caused climate change, is not the same as trying to silence her. There’s a difference between arguing with someone, and telling that someone to shut up. Noone is telling you to shut up, Greta.

No, Greta, you are not being silenced, you are being challenged about your beliefs. You are free to respond as much as you desire.

December 7, 2019 10:11 am

Who cares about Pippi Thunderpants Thunberg? She provides no information and is merely a creation of the media. If I never read her name again it will still be too soon. Go away….

Reply to  Michael Moon
December 7, 2019 10:17 am

Thank you, Michael.

Ditto.

Regards,
Bob

Kenji
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 7, 2019 12:34 pm

See! You’re both trying to SILENCE gentle, loving, caring, concerned, victimized, little, defenseless, Greta. You MEAN old white men!

#metoo

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Kenji
December 7, 2019 3:37 pm

She needs to realize how they are trying to silence Will Happer, that mean old white man…

nw sage
Reply to  Kenji
December 7, 2019 5:36 pm

Who said he was/is old?
lol

Coeur de France
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 7, 2019 2:45 pm

The frightful BBC is inviting her as Guest Editor (wot’s that? ) on the flagship Radio 4 Today programme. I shall send in complaint about child abuse.

MLCross
Reply to  Michael Moon
December 7, 2019 11:26 am

Said the World’s loudest victim of speech suppression.

Scissor
December 7, 2019 10:16 am

Can’t get enough of Greta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golAjKMDuVk

Sunny
Reply to  Scissor
December 7, 2019 11:14 am

Scissor

This needs to be shared by everybody..

EPIC 😂😂 Sweden is the mecca of…… Well it’s just Mecca LOLOLOLOL A B D’s and 2+2=5 😂 she’s set on poltergeist mode LOLO

Thank you for that, Its so nice to see the truth coming out about the climate scam 😀👍

Scissor
Reply to  Sunny
December 7, 2019 12:07 pm

Cheers. If you have about 20 minutes, boost the playback speed and enjoy the entire performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo8qXxnFuRQ

Will Franken might have a screw loose or two but he’s brilliant.

noaaprogrammer
Reply to  Scissor
December 7, 2019 4:31 pm

If the panning of the audience was done in sync’ with Franken’s lines, did you notice how some of the people were not laughing? I s’pose humor can’t even bring sense to true believers.

Scissor
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
December 7, 2019 4:50 pm

Some religious people don’t like to be ridiculed.

John F. Hultquist
December 7, 2019 10:16 am

What is on the agenda of this UN Party?
What are all these folks doing?

– – – insert Josh’s drawing of everyone asking everyone else “Where’s my money? – – –

Can the UN and friends get any more pathetic?

Reply to  John F. Hultquist
December 7, 2019 10:26 am

John F. Hultquist, asked, “What is on the agenda of this UN Party?”

It’s called the “World Totalitarianism Fund” or the WTF to most of us.

Regards,
Bob

Ossqss
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 7, 2019 12:43 pm

+1,000 LOL

Harry Passfield
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 7, 2019 1:46 pm

Previously known as the WWtF charity.

Rod Evans
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 7, 2019 2:52 pm

Hey Bob, I thought it stood for World Totalitarian Front. I don’t think any of those involved in WTF have any intention of “funding ” anything. They think we, the normal people will provide all their funds.
When I heard there was yet another COP meeting involving yet another 30,000 freeloaders is it only 25 COP meeting so far? I thought WTF. When I heard it was going ahead despite the Chileans rioting in anger at the cost and waste of public funds involved and thinking they had stopped it, some EU big noise says, “lets have it in Madrid, Spain has lots of money to waste and the hotels are always a bit quiet in early December”. Another WTF moment. Followed by St Greta sailing across the ocean, not having mastered the walking on water trick yet, getting star billing….WTF is going on in the world?

shortus cynicus
Reply to  Rod Evans
December 8, 2019 10:50 pm

… the Chileans rioting in anger at the cost and waste of public funds

What? They are the communists in the streets protesting against working people not obeying the authority of the better ones.

December 7, 2019 10:18 am

Yes, guilty as charged. Can you just shut up about your ignorant climate doom? We’ve heard it a million times already. It’s stupid, annoying, and boring, and I don’t care about your obsession. I think there’s medication for that. I’ll have a beer. It helps me with your whining.

RCA
December 7, 2019 10:19 am

i pity this poor deluded child… and despise the parents/schools/MFM that created her.

KcTaz
Reply to  RCA
December 7, 2019 10:44 am

Her creation was no accident. Big money and Soros created her, funds and supports her.

Greta’s Soros Connections
September 28, 2019
http://bit.ly/2oJXGmU
…However, the young girl’s sudden ascent to prominence is not happening by chance. She has deep connections to the globalist elite and activist parents who are supporters of the far-left domestic terrorist group ANTIFA.
Thunberg’s frequent handler is Luisa-Marie Neubauer, an operative from the ONE Movement. Neubauer can be seen behind Thunberg at many of her public events.

…Thunberg was forced to apologize this summer for wearing an ANTIFA t-shirt by mistake. She claimed on her Twitter account that she did not realize that the t-shirt was advertising a violent extremist organization. However, her parents – Svante Thunberg and Malena Ernman – have been photographed wearing the exact same t-shirt, casting serious doubt on her explanation…
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisa-m-neubauer/?locale=en_US
The article continues with more information. It is truly depressing that the Media support Soros in this and refuse to call him out.

Sunny
Reply to  KcTaz
December 7, 2019 11:36 am

KcTaz

This is the Information we need, the more the better, the greta scam needs to be shown. Its funny that she can see co2 and knows the world is going to end, after reading and understanding complex science papers on weather, yet she doesn’t know what antifa stands for 😐

Fergie
Reply to  KcTaz
December 7, 2019 5:47 pm

Interesting to read even more information on the parents exploiting their handicapped child for their own selfish purposes, whatever they may be.
I repeat here what I posted in a previous post here a few days ago:

“I completely agree that her being made a symbol of our eminent demise is ridiculous and terrible.
However, it is my understanding that as a younger child she was diagnosed with Asperger’s disease (currently lumped in with the all inclusive “autism spectrum disorder” [ASD] by our brilliant and wonderfully effective mental health community ) that is characterized by being intelligent, but overly obsessive, compulsive and lacking in abilities to interact socially. Once these people get something in their heads, it tends to stay there obsessively.
If this is true, then she is to be pitied as a tool of the warmists and they and her artist parents should be charged with child abuse.”

As for Soros, no heinous act by an organization is too vile to fund if his global objectives are furthered. If you want an up close and personal view of his amoral views of the world, just watch this “60 Minutes” interview with him back in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyczwuTQfo

His disassociation from any responsibility in the holocaust is unbelievable.

Fergie
Reply to  Fergie
December 7, 2019 6:06 pm

Sorry, the interview was in 1998, not 2016. My error!

Kenji
December 7, 2019 10:20 am

Well … we’re doing a pretty shitty job of “silencing her”. Or “silencing” anyone else in the great CAGW scam.

Hugs
Reply to  Kenji
December 7, 2019 12:06 pm

If you compare the journalistic millimeters of Greta, a schoolkid with a powerful PR backing operation, and a real climate scientist activist such as the world famous alarmist James Hansen or very moderately alarmed warmist, Dr Roger Pielke Jr, the schoolkid is getting much morepositive coverage per week and journalists even print what she says.

I don’t even care to mention how her supporters have silenced scientists and officials making sure they don’t talk (or are not heard when talking) against unfounded alarmism.

So, in my opinion, this is yet another example of guilty herself what she blames others for. Far-left Leftism in action. Well funded and designed agit prop. Which brings me to the final conclusion: the age of CAGW cultism will end in 10 to 15 years. We have seen the peak.

Latitude
Reply to  Hugs
December 7, 2019 12:23 pm

true….need to start beating the drum about what a $c@m it is…how China and the developing world are responsible for all the increase in CO2

If we can convince them that China is responsible for all of it…the game’s over

Kenji
Reply to  Hugs
December 7, 2019 12:41 pm

Peak Climate alarmism! Love it … but what FRACKING climate alarmism? What about shale climate alarmism?

Latitude
Reply to  Kenji
December 7, 2019 12:22 pm

true….need to start beating the drum about what a $c@m it is…how China and the developing world are responsible for all the increase in CO2

If we can convince them that China is killing us all…the game’s over

WXcycles
Reply to  Kenji
December 7, 2019 5:13 pm

Perhaps she has begun to realize she’s got nothing much to add but looking grim, glaring and pouting so is making excuses as to why she’s got nuffin’ but the tumult of 3 weeks of angry ocean inside to propel her sanctimonious spleen-venting?

I’d give her full marks though if she plaited a whip instead of pigtails and drove all the money-changers and lying hypocrites out of the UN Temple then declared herself the literal Daughter of Gaia.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  WXcycles
December 7, 2019 6:12 pm

She won’t be riding my donkey into town, palms up or palms down…

Silentbrick
December 7, 2019 10:22 am

Well, aren’t you /special/?

Nobody wants to silence you, we just want to laugh and point and mock. You are free to babble whatever nonsense you desire, just as we are free to make fun of you.

If we were really going to silence these people, they’d be /silent/. But they just aren’t worth that kind of effort.

Bill Powers
December 7, 2019 10:26 am

You gotta love this: A microphone wherever she goes. MSM coverage round the clock. NYTimes Sponsorship. Yet what does she do but step to the microphone and declare she is being silenced.

Is there anyone on the planet within reach of a TV, Radio, Newspaper or internet access that doesn’t know who she is? Plenty may wonder, why does she have such a loud voice but nobody is asking – who is Greta? This isn’t a disillusioned child. This is a delusional one. She needs psychiatric help.

Sunny
December 7, 2019 10:34 am

Wait a minute, how did she get from her fossil fuel made boat to the venue? I read it was a 9+ hour drive and public transport was around the same time?

Has anybody looked in to her parents finances? How rich have they become after greta became a u.n. puppet?

Also what changes is she taking about? Is she going to join the 40+ thousand slave children working in Congolese colbart mines? (Unisef 2019) She hasn’t even given up her mobile phone or plastic wrapped food, yet she wants us to starve and live without any technology, which includes solar panels and wind generators as they to use plastic seals and electronics 😐 Vile greta and her get rich scam needs to stopped.

Fonseca-Statter
Reply to  Sunny
December 7, 2019 1:27 pm

She took the train from Lisbon to Madrid.

Sunny
Reply to  Fonseca-Statter
December 7, 2019 2:29 pm

Fonseca-Statter

I didn’t know that spain has solar or wind powered trains… Vile greta the constant hypocrite!

Fonseca-Statter
Reply to  Sunny
December 7, 2019 2:55 pm

It was a Portuguese train (you know, from Portugal… that country next to Spain). Most Portuguese rail lines are electrified, but the train used (in part of the itinerary) was powered by diesel. As a joke, a Portuguese association offered her a donkey, an offer that was declined.

Newminster
Reply to  Sunny
December 7, 2019 1:41 pm

Wasn’t there an offer of a donkey?

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The only problem I can see with that is the methane!

Fonseca-Statter
Reply to  Sunny
December 7, 2019 2:10 pm

She took a train from Lisbon…

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Sunny
December 8, 2019 1:33 pm

Sunny
It is spelled “cobalt.” There is no “r” in it.

Johann Wundersamer
Reply to  Sunny
December 18, 2019 7:47 am

Sunny, “Congolese colbart mines” aren’t that common. More likely “the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mines” –

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+fog+on+the+tyne+is+all+mine&oq=the+on+the+Tyne+are&aqs=chrome.

David Chappell
December 7, 2019 10:43 am

Hong Kong has entered the stupidity stakes with a 10-year old Greta wannabe.
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/lance-lau-interview-hong-kongs-student-climate-activist-i-want-my-future/

kcTaz
Reply to  David Chappell
December 7, 2019 11:29 am

OMG! Now, the press, if you can call GQ the press, is fawning over a 10 year old child in Hong Kong which has far, far greater and more immediate problems than climate change to which China is contributing more than any other nation if you believe CO2 is evil and is the epitome of what the Alarmists want, total control of the people.
His far more immediate problem is freedom from Xi’s diktats and attempts to subject Hong Kong to the same dictatorial control he exercises in the rest of China not to mention the horrendous real pollution and environmental disasters created by, among other things, their mining of rare earth metals for “green” windmills and solar without any environmental safeguards at all.
His parents must be on Xi’s payroll.
In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale
https://dailym.ai/2kX87Sm

As more factories sprang up, the banks grew higher, the lake grew larger and the stench and fumes grew more overwhelming.

‘It turned into a mountain that towered over us,’ says Mr Su. ‘Anything we planted just withered, then our animals started to sicken and die.’
People too began to suffer. Dalahai villagers say their teeth began to fall out, their hair turned white at unusually young ages…
But, sure, let’s not go to school because of CO2. Good grief!

Megs
Reply to  kcTaz
December 7, 2019 11:16 pm

What makes this worse kcTaz is the amount of CO2 actually created for the life cycle of wind and solar!

All forms of transport from mining, processing, manufacturing, transport to ports, shipping and transfer to points of installation! They all use massive amounts of ‘fossil fuels’ thereby producing CO2. All for nothing! The power itself doesn’t even produce reliable power. Added to the ecological damage being continued even today, it’s nothing short of criminal!

The greens claim that wind turbines and solar power will save the world with it’s ‘clean energy’. Meanwhile they are spewing exponential amounts of the very thing they are seeking to reduce, CO2, into the atmosphere.

Arable land is being destroyed, people living near these industrial plants, some covering more than a thousand hectares of countryside, often have no say. There is nothing positive or even useful about wind and solar. It’s intermittent, has a short life and then they start all over again. And there is very little recycling done anywhere in the world. No-one, unless it’s mandated is really keen to pay for the huge amount of infrastructure required and an unknown profit margin. Then of course, I don’t think anyone has decided what to do with the toxic waste that results from this additional process.

We know it’s all a farce, we need to think about what we can do to get this sort of information to the MSM.

Thanks for the link kcTaz, I hope that enough people see it to feel the need to take some form of action!

Bill Taylor
December 7, 2019 10:46 am

she is NOT a sane child……

tweak
Reply to  Bill Taylor
December 7, 2019 12:33 pm

Her hormones aren’t firing correctly.

Staffan Lindström
December 7, 2019 10:46 am

Bill Powers at least one person in London, UK didn’t know who she was November 19 this year…Do WE???

Trailer Trash
December 7, 2019 10:50 am

It would be interesting to have a Greta-counter that clicked every time someone posts another story or comment on global warming anywhere on the internets. It would be a continuous buzz right now, with the big party in Spain. I wonder how much background radiation, err, climate noise there would still be in a month.

Sheri
December 7, 2019 10:56 am

To Greta and her sycophants: NOT ALL CHANGE IS GOOD.

Hivemind
Reply to  Sheri
December 7, 2019 2:13 pm

I think you may have meant “NOT ALL CHANGE IS BAD”.

Colin Walshaw
December 7, 2019 11:00 am

Well thanks Great Thunderpants!
My 12 year old granddaughter doesn’t want to go to school anymore, “there’s no point I will be dead before I am 25, so I want to enjoy my life “.
Who’s going to pay for her therapy?

Alan
December 7, 2019 11:01 am

The only desperation on our side is the fight to keep our voices heard. And protect the growing number of scientists and academics who are beginning to see the Climate Alarmists for what they are.

Miha
December 7, 2019 11:01 am

Sadly it’s people like Naomi Seibt who are getting minimal coverage by the MSM

Naomi in Madrid earlier this week.

Private Citizen
Reply to  Miha
December 7, 2019 1:06 pm

Heartland! It should be ashamed of itself. Breitbart unceasingly castigates the people handling and leveraging Greta for their own interests as exploiting children.

Hypocrites.

WXcycles
Reply to  Private Citizen
December 7, 2019 6:01 pm

She’s 18 years old and a free agent to do anything she pleases and speaks her own views. What could be more acceptable than free speech?

And note the bright honest open attitude and body language, the relative pride in being a human, in being part of a modern civilization and society, free to pursue as she pleases a genuine open stymied scientific inquiry and exploration of the real complexity of the natural world, compared to the misanthropic, simplistic false angry accusations and fake-crisis conjuring of alarmists who want to eliminate real science and genuine natural curiosity to understand the world and humbly communicate.

My former university was overflowing with girls like Naomi.

But now the girls are auto-suppressed, censored, attacked and goaded, driven-out by lunatic Greenies and anti-science thought-police fanatics who can’t face that science is actually about freedom to inquire, and freedom to associate and communicate openly with others. Instead, girls at universities are pre-‘taught’ at school by ‘teachers’, to fear real scientific knowledge, the truth of complexity and uncertainty, and to shy away from questioning, and flock together in groups of victims, and to feel bad about people and focus on imaginary future catastrophes.

Thank goodness people like Naomi have rejected all that and show mentally abused girls everywhere what a normal, smart intelligent girl really looks and sounds like.

Reply to  Miha
December 7, 2019 1:51 pm

She could get “arrested” in Germany for her thoughts about climate change !

JPP

Martin Howard Keith Brumby
December 7, 2019 11:02 am

Never mind Greta, “Matt McGrath Environment correspondent @mattmcgrathbbc” just picked up a £100,000 bribe to keep on spouting Gang Green’s agit-prop drivel. And that’s on top of his salary and index-linked pension, entirely paid for by the BBC’s “Licence Fee” payers.

If you watch TV in the UK, you either pay £155 a year to the British Bullshit Corporation (watch it or not), or you end up in Court.

Emrys Jones
Reply to  Martin Howard Keith Brumby
December 7, 2019 12:40 pm

I live in the UK, I haven’t had a TV license for 18 years. I don’t watch TV, ever, and I have never been to Court. If I want to watch sport I go to the pub, which is a much better place to watch it.

I do get a constant stream of threatening letters, but they are never addressed to me (always ‘The Householder’), so I ignore them.

David Chappell
Reply to  Emrys Jones
December 7, 2019 5:13 pm

You should return them marked “Not known at this address”.

shortus cynicus
Reply to  Martin Howard Keith Brumby
December 8, 2019 11:12 pm

Have an terrible idea: can you lose your license by not paying that fee?

PJB
December 7, 2019 11:17 am

Pretty easy to foresee: She proclaims that we must follow the “science”. She will be “silenced”. The “science” of the IPCC’s SPM will be declared the gold-standard to which poor Greta, the “climate martyr” (TM) referred and we will be expected to honor Greta’s wishes and cough up the cash. 🙁

Reply to  PJB
December 7, 2019 12:46 pm

Whenever anyone on the left talks about their adherence to science, ask them how many genders there are, and ask them when human life begins.
The instant silence will be deafening.

Fonseca-Statter
Reply to  Nicholas McGinley
December 7, 2019 1:32 pm

Really?…

Reply to  Fonseca-Statter
December 10, 2019 10:58 am

Yes really.
Be careful to wear ear plugs or some other type of hearing protection whenever you attempt this maneuver, because the silence will hit your ears so hard and suddenly it can easily rupture the tympanic membrane and cause permanent damage.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Nicholas McGinley
December 7, 2019 10:51 pm

Better yet, ask them how many sexes there are. Genders are simply behavior, and pretty meaningless.

Reply to  Jeff Alberts
December 10, 2019 10:48 am

Gender is what has been redefined and expanded up.
Trans people refers to being transgender.
Biological males competing in women’s sporting events refers to people choosing to identify as another gender.
Gender is what it at issue with the whole pronoun flapdoodle.
Gender is what the left now claims there are over 78 of.

Besides, the whole issue has now been obfuscated into incoherence by redefining words in ambiguous and poorly thought out but completely non-negotiable ways.
Look up the distinction, and we find crap like this:

“What is the difference between a transsexual and a transgender?

Definition. Transgender refers to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex while transsexual refers to a person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex.”

OK…wait, what?
One refers to personal identity and gender, while the other refers to emotional state and psychology…IOW to state of mind.
What the hell is the difference?
And in the first one, gender does not correspond to birth sex, while in the second one, a person feels like they belong to the opposite sex.
Hmm, well now. That is as clear as mud.

This and similar definitions make the question more complicated, and clears up nothing.
In fact, the biggest shift is in defining gender away from the concept of a binary choice.
Hence, when one signs up for Facebook, and they ask what gender one is, there are something like 78 or more choices. Whatever nonsense someone makes up causes the list to constantly expand.

On top of that, using the word sex raises the possibility of some people failing to distinguish sexual orientation from gender identity.
For example, in the unlikely circumstance that I am sent to prison, I will identify as a female, with the sexual orientation of lesbian. I am certain this will result in a far more agreeable period of incarceration.

But all of this is rather beside the point.
There are in reality two genders, no matter what anyone says, except to the extent that people can create new definitions for words and then if enough people agree to use these definitions, it is a semantic reality.
But it is not a biological one.
I have made a point of keeping up to date on this nonsense, to the point that I have already been able to discern that many on the left who live by this nonsense are nonetheless not particularly well informed as to what exactly these various words mean on any particular day.

And no one can claim any of it is in the least bit scientific, because it is not.
It is just made up fantasyland as hoc bafflegab.

MarkW
December 7, 2019 11:22 am

It’s standard leftism.
Failure to worship with sufficient intensity is indistinguishable from hatred.

Walter Sobchak
December 7, 2019 11:25 am

How can we silence her, when she won’t shut up?

WXcycles
Reply to  Walter Sobchak
December 7, 2019 6:08 pm

Now imagine you just traveled across the Atlantic with her for three weeks with no sanctuary?

Would you be in a hurry to do that again?

rah
Reply to  WXcycles
December 8, 2019 11:00 pm

I wouldn’t be doing again because when the yacht arrived I would be the only one on it!

EternalOptimist
December 7, 2019 11:26 am

There is an errant alarm going off where I live. ‘Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa’
We cant think straight
Cant sleep properly
Cant enjoy life

‘Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa’
‘Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa’

and now it seems to be saying we are trying to silence it

‘Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa’

I wish

n.n
December 7, 2019 11:26 am

The empathetic appeals are strong with this one.

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