Chris White Tech Reporter
February 03, 2020 9:46 AM ET
Swedish lawmakers nominated activist Greta Thunberg for a Nobel Peace Prize Monday in the belief that the teenager will help save the Paris climate agreement.
Thunberg “worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis,” Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, both members of Sweden’s Left Party, told the Associated Press. They believe the 17-year-old activist’s work prodding officials to take the deal seriously is worth the prize.
“Action for reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace,” Holm and Svenneling said. (RELATED: Greta Thunberg’s Father Says ‘She Is Happy,’ But He Is Worried)
Thunberg is receiving heaps of praise after she appeared at the United Nations’ climate summit in 2019. She won TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in December 2019, making her the young person to receive the honor since the magazine started naming people of the year in 1927.
She traveled to the U.S. from her home in Sweden in August on a racing yacht to avoid taking jets, which activists argue are responsible for spewing tons of carbon emissions. Her visit was designed to galvanize support for action on global warming ahead of September’s United Nations climate summit.
Thunberg’s emotional speech at the summit appeared to be the catalyst for much of the praise.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones,” she said at the summit. “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
UN climate officials struggled to find a spark after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement in 2017. The deal required the U.S. to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. China only committed to “peak” emissions by 2030 while India made no promise to curtail future emissions growth.
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President Trump’s presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh at tonight’s State of the Union address was a far more rational act than giving Greta the Scold anything other than a tardy slip. The “official” world is berserk, and needs to be rebuked sharply.
Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trumps speech copy was classic cognitive dissonance. And those who left early were having a discomfort avoidance tantrum.
True derangement is really setting in on the Democrats now. 3 years of refusing to move on past Hillary’s 2016 defeat is having serious mental health consequences for many of them.
Re The handshake thing. I dont think it was intentional it looks likeTrump did not even notice that Pelosi put out her hand as he handed a copy of the speech from his right hand (his hand shaking hand was occupied) and turned immediately towards the podium my 2 cents worth….
He also missed Pence trying to shake his hand so you are right
Craggy Nancy should do everyone, including her self by, retiring from politics as it is clearly becoming beyond her mental capacity.
On the other hand, the longer she remains the face of the Democrats in the Senate, the stronger the Republicans get.
Next thing you know, letting the Dem take over the House was conspiracy to destroy their party for good…
The guy who said that Trump broke them is right.
The Nobel Peace Prize died a humiliating death when they gave it to Obama for being elected US President in 2008.
Well past time to re-name the prize; how about “The Nobel Taking-thePiss Prize”?
Not bad, Ian E. Could use a little work, but it’s a good start.
Maybe we could work in “People’s Hero of The Glorious Revolution” somewhere, along with “Taking-The-Piss”.
At a minimum, we’re going to need a rather longish paragraph to get in all the Regressive tropes that describe the true below-the-sub-basement value the current Nobel Peace Prize has sunk to. It has a long way to climb to get back to “Total Joke” status.
NPP THE LIE WITH THE LONGEST LEGS… [Language edited. Mod]
Sorry Ian, it doesn’t have legs.
NPP: National Princess Prize <– all knuckleheads deserve a trophy
Best,
John
John, how about the ‘National Princess PARTICIPATION prize ( . . like the ‘participation trophies’ handed out to everyone so no one feels slighted . . )? 🙂 🙂
Greta didn’t participate. She scolded.
H.R. You could fit in all the regressive tropes you want to by using a large inventive ACRONYM_FTW!
Stephen Rasey February 4, 2020 at 10:31 pm
The Nobel Peace Prize died a humiliating death when they gave it to Obama for being elected US President in 2008.
It was dead before that:
Yasser Arafat Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Peace
Stephan, Ian, and Steve, you guys are shooting and scoring! How the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded is an a priori proof that Nobel is playing with dynamite.
My recollection of it is that the Peace Prize is not really anything to do with the Nobel Committee. Just a thought.
The only one unhappy will be Mikey because he doesn’t have a real one.
LdB: Mikey doesn’t have a real one. Fake works for the neo-left. They’ve really made the Nobel Prize fake anyway. Someone will eventually fund a competing prize that will be only for ‘solid’ excelence. They will drop the left’s wifty-poofty peace prize. It essentially is a lefty agenda-loaded handout. Several hundred million people have been killed in wars and under the cover of wars since the Nobel was created. No one has deserved this prize from the beginning.
yeah arafats award did it for me too
I wasnt even very politically aware then but i sure knew he didnt deserve it
theres an aussie version
the IG-Nobels
she deserves one of those;-)
see Boris saying no ICE cars tobe sold in UK after 2030?
present rate of sales is 1.6%
reckon a LOT of old cars will be staying on rds and resale will be high
and silly bugger reckons UK should have a green new deal
i spilt my coffee, didnt think he was that stupid
I was wrong
Chairman Mao could still win it posthumously, maybe even Lenin and Stalin.
Or Harry Truman.
Right. I thought then that it couldn’t be devalued further. But now…….
Stephen,
Don’t forget the terrorist Yasser Arafat, an earlier recipient.
What climate crisis?
Funny thing is that I have never listened to her speeches. I’ve heard about them. Not interested in listening to the prattling of a child.
Her words aren’t even the prattling of a child, she just reads from scripts, written by her parents and other handlers. She’s a victim, not a ‘leader’, and I have nothing but contempt for those who have pushed this child into the public view.
It’s official. The insane are managing this asylum. Chesterton and CSLewis both understood that insanity has a dreadful and self consistent logic when seen from the viewpoint of the sufferer, but totally lacks the mind and soul freeing dimension of imagination.
just one question for this baby (as in young ) how will she stop volcanos ???
That peace prize is a curse, not a blessing for those who actually received it at a young age. The meaning of the Peace Prize was destroyed when they gave it to Obama in 2009 for doing nothing of substance. He did nothing after that to earn it post hoc. And his abysmal legacy as US President has been completely erased by Trump.
So if they want to destroy an 17 yr olds life, then give Greta the Peace Prize next fall. Everything else in her life will be failure. Like some teenage Hollywood actress who flames out and finds nothing after 18.
Aung San Suu Kyi was the best ever … didn’t that blow up in there little lefty faces.
The actual Nobel SCIENCE prizes also have their comebacks! I once read an expression by a Nobel winner, that went something like: “The Nobel is awarded for something you did in the past, and is so set up that in the future, everything conspires to prevent you from ever doing it again!”
I’m sure Greta is having a fine time now, but that can’t last. I don’t think that the world is going to transition from fossil fuels. I think that renewable energy systems like wind and solar will be exposed as expensive failures within five years. I think that the pop of the Tesla market bubble is going to make a very loud noise. I don’t think that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has any great effect on the climate. The whole thing is a doomsday story, and you know how those usually go. Meanwhile, the people who are now enjoying (and that is the apt word) the prospect of the approaching end of the world are going to age.. Ten years of aging is going to do a lot more damage to Greta Thunberg than ten years of climate change. Twenty years is really going to bite, and thirty years is going to sting quite a bit more than she can possibly imagine at age seventeen.
What ever happened to Helen Caldicott, who was similarly determined to head off the end of the world? The world didn’t end, and Dr. Caldicott eventually shut up and went away. That’s what will happen to Greta Thunberg.
Good one! I doff my hat to you squire.
While having been grateful for Helen Caldicott’s effort to put an end to the threat of nuclear war and to stop the waste of money that stockpiling these weapons causes, the damage done to Australians lives on in their intense fear of nuclear energy.
https://stopthesethings.com/2020/02/03/setting-it-straight-nuclear-power-sets-the-gold-standard-for-safe-reliable-power-generation/
What ended the treat of nuclear war was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nothing more, nothing less.
The efforts of individuals, especially individuals from third countries was nothing more than virtue signalling.
So long as the Soviet Union posed a threat, the rest of the world had to respond. Facts are brutal, but they remain facts.
I tbought the prize was for achievement. She has done nothing but midinterpret (misunderztsnd?) good climate science.
Her parents would get the money, yes?
She was just nominated a few months ago for a Nobel , so how is she nominated again so soon? Unless it is in a different category now…or perhaps they just give out this useless prize now every few months. I can just imagine her parents are eager to get their hands on those monies. Naming her the Time person of the year was also a mistake, but then who reads Time magazine anymore anyway. She has made no contribution to climate science in general, and has spread a lot of misinformation about science, which in all honesty she knows nothing about. It is all just a PR stunt and that certainly deserves no Nobel Peace Prize, although that would put her in the same company as Yasser Arafat who was a straight up probably can’t say that word on here. A lot of respect for the Nobel has been lost giving these coveted prizes to people who don’t deserve them.
She didn’t get the prize last time, so she gets re-nominated. They’ll keep this up until they get what they want. It’s what leftists do.
The question is simply why? She has not accomplished anything of substance. Apart from stirring up some hysteria about something which only exists in some computer models she’s done literally nothing. Hardly an achievement worthy of any recognition let alone a Nobel prize.
Oh c’mon Pete, surely re-Greta is a home grown shew-in for that prize, having worked hard defending her dreams in emotive grimacing alone for a minor. Well OK not as hard as any coal miner, but then the Nobel in this consummately dreamy category has become a participation trophy and fitting kiss on the forehead.
Yes Pete on that basis, the Kardashians would be a shoo-in for a Nobel
The leftists are using Greta as a marketing tool Peter, nominating her at all for the Nobel prize simply devalues what was once considered an honor, it’s now simply farcical. It seems that it’s been a leftist pick for some time now.
Stupid girl is lucky to have any dreams.
And we haven’t stolen them: the people that are using her have simply given her nightmares instead.
Can anyone please explain what her utterings have to do with peace?
Ian,
When we stop using fossil fuels and only have about 1/8 of the energy needed to sustain world population, there will be peace and quiet in the abandoned cities, especially in northern countries like Sweden, where deaths from cold will be “optimized” (from the anti-human socialist viewpoint).
As Stephen Rasey above mention, the Nobel Peace Prize is no longer in the name of Peace.It became clear when former President Obama got the Peace Prize and when Greta Thunberg last year was nominated for the Peace Prize.
Now the Swedish left are at it again as they nominate Greta Thunberg for the prize again.
So, what has she done to deserve this honor?
She has widened the cliff between the left and the right political arena, extended the tension between nations and made scientific work within many faculties impossible or a joke.
But, worst of all, Greta Thunberg has caused pandemic angst and delusion among several generations, starting with children as young as five years old.
Greta’s father, Svante Thunberg, aught to be so prudent as to calm this whole circus down, starting with denouncing the nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize and ending with an excuse to the world that he assisted his daughter in this inhuman vendetta.
Well if the peace prize wasn’t tarnished enough already. with Gore, Obama, Arafat, and many more unworthies, now they want to add Greta?
NB have the Democrat Party managed to fix their Iowa voting system yet? Have they managed to get their preferred candidate to top the poll, or are they still trying to fix it….?
Last realisation: the world is rulled by unlimited boldness.
I honestly think the Peace Price died in 1978. With regards to young Miss Thunberg, anyone who listens to the Swedish radio station P4 (understanding Swedish is an advantage) and their interview with Bo Thoren (the G.T. architect), will know that she is a complete construction. The leftists in the comity in Oslo should be ashamed of what they have turned Alfred’s legacy in to. He would rotate in his grave if he could or at least wish he could blow up something more important than his brother Emil.
So you get a peace prize for skipping school and being petulant? As for stealing her dreams- isn’t one of her dreams to live in some medieval, emission free utopia? Surely we’re well on the way to fulfilling that one…
Typo. For “peace” read “p1ss” Ooops happened again!
That prize is going down the drain. When it has been awarded to the undeserving many times in the past, the real peacemakers could do their struggling without the recognition they deserve. Where do you read anything in-depth about last year’s laureate? Ignored by the MSM, who gave us Greta instead.
Nomination does not mean she will get it. And isn’t the peace prize determined in Norway?
The trip by the Thunbergs spewed out over 20 Tonnes of carbon emissions, if using IPCC methodologies, where fuel and embodied emissions are assigned per unit of use e.g. per km or per L of fuel, to the user. Not the owner or first purchaser, but to the current user. Fuel associated emissions are easy to define but embodied emissions are obviously a little harder.
However, for the trip, the embodied emissions were dominated by that of the Malizia 2. Knowing that these boats are expected to last 20 years and the emissions in manufacturing carbon fibre, it is straightforward to calculate a 9 T CO2 embodied emission cost for the 10,000 km trip (there and back).
The route across the USA and Canada in a Tesla is easily drawn up from twitter tweets and so the fuel cost can be estimated based on the states fuel mix. Many states had high levels of coal and gas. What may surprise people is that this section only accounted for ~2 T CO2 (1 T fuel, 1 T embodied approx). Using a ford puma would have resulted in a similar CO2 cost.
The embodied emissions of the Vagabonde as essentially 0 when compared to the Malizia but all of the diesel in their tanks was used, when they landed. That is another 2 tonnes.
Finally crew flights, according to the IPCC methodologies, must be assigned to the trip. Give or take, 7 tonnes for 8 flights.
And this is being low carbon?
Tis a strange world, my masters , where a young woman , absconding from a school for Those of Special Needs acquires a fortune of millions of dollars by demanding poverty from others , is awarded a doctorate without any prior degrees or published work or thesis, and is nominated for a Peace prize for spitting hatred at elected world leaders and threatening to put any dissenters “up against the wall”.
mikew:It’s related to Fake News! It is postmodern fluff. It’s not about what is actually real, but what people have been made to believe is real. Hey, activist climate science itself is a product of this paradigm.
Unbelievable.
But then again at least as deserving as Obama.
At home with the Thunbergs
Good sketch, might even be true 🙂
Strange though:
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Would that have something to do with censorship?