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.
So ya …
Thought ya …
Might like to …
Go to the show …
To feel that warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
Greta isn’t well she stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along, as a surrogate band
We’re gonna find out where you fans really stand!
Are there any deniers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
Against the Wall!
There’s one in the spotlight … he don’t look right to me!
Get him up against the wall!
Against the Wall!
That one looks sane!
And that one’s a loon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one joking about windmills,
And another eating cow!
If I had my way, I’d have all of them SHOT!
In The Flesh – Pink Floyd
“Swedish lawmakers nominated activist Greta Thunberg for a Nobel Peace Prize”
The same goofballs that had nominated Al Gore and whatshisname?
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/05/31/a-nobel-prize-for-service-to-humanity/
Weird ! Although Holm and his comrades are 100% off track (not only on this topic) there has not been a single letter on this alleged ‘nomination here in Sweden. Fake news?
Kind of fake news. Nominations are not made public from the Nobel Committee until 50 years after the event. – See my notes somewhere else.
Henrik Svensmark can’t live too far away from little miss muffet. She should visit him and get some real education on how ‘ climate’ happens. Being on the same land mass she could probably walk there.
The land mass (greater Stockholm) has negative RSLR. Not long ago there was very thick ice there compressing the land mass. No Greta can harvest potatoes in her garden, swim in the fjords and BBQ elg (those big animals with long legs getting drunk in the apple trees – yes, true story). Reminds me, not far from where I live in Sweden, you can get elg-burgers. The elg-burger taste really good, but need a lot of salad and dressing to go with them, otherwise they are too dry.
Most of Scandinavia has too.
The bright side to this, is that she may in fact turn most against the AGW fraud if all they can come up is this!
Do we actually know if the Nobel Committee has Greta nominated – No!
From their website: https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Nomination/Confidentiality
“Proposals received for the award of a prize, and investigations and opinions concerning the award of a prize, may not be divulged until 50 years have elapsed.”
and further:
“The Nobel Committee does not itself announce the names of nominees, neither to the media nor to the candidates themselves. In certain cases names of candidates appear in the media. These advanced speculations are either the product of sheer speculation or information released by the person or persons behind the nomination.”
You can read the full text at the above link.
Her continued nomination is solely advertising, we will first know in 50 years time, if she was actually nominated – if the Nobel Committee adhere to their own rules.
the damnfool pollies are the ones announcing THEY nominated her
media stunt
wether the nobel mob accept it?
prob will, for their own media kudos
Seems odd to suggest a “peace” prize should be given to someone who is single-handedly (!) causing even more division; not only have we now got alarmists and rational people on the climate debate, she’s personally got supporters and haters on both sides of the argument!
We didn’t steal her childhood – she’s suffering from climate change psychoses. She, however, is stealing what is for many of us, our golden years, having to fight this (fill in the blank).
Greta Thunberg’s claim that her childhood was ‘stolen’ is sheer, disingenuous projection. If she wants to see children – much younger then her – who have lost their childhood she should join a few of them in their ramshackle hell-hole Cobalt mines in DRC. There, if she had any understanding of these things, she would see that her movement’s desire to move the world away from F-F and oil and into battery-power on the basis of a scam, is what is robbing huge numbers of African children of their childhood.
If there was an ‘Anti-peace prize’ her parents would win it hands down.
The Swedes do love to take the pi** with their neighbours.
A mentally ill girl who has externalised her psychosis with a belief system.
Doing so absolves one of responsibility, guilt, and self criticism. Your problems are now someone else’s fault.
It is an easy way out, and occurs often in the minds of sick people from Hitler to the ultra religious/ideologist.
Meanwhile in the real world, this quote from Jonova’s account of the Stae of the Union speech:
-“John Hindraker:
This puts the Democrats in a tough spot. Through the first half of the speech, President Trump reeled off one item of good news after another: Record low unemployment! Lowest black unemployment ever! Lowest Hispanic unemployment ever! Rising wages, especially at the bottom! Median net worth skyrocketing! And so on. The Democrats greeted all of this with stony silence. When Trump announced that in the last three years, 10 million people have gotten off welfare, the Democrats looked as though they were ready to cry. …
Trump bragged about American energy production and said nothing, not a syllable, about climate change. As it should be.”
http://joannenova.com.au/2020/02/trump-state-of-the-union-win-til-you-are-sick-of-winning/
Saint Greta –
“She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility,
absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.”
George Orwell 1984
Well, they surely can’t nominate her for the Nobel prize in science….that would require, er, scientific achievement (at least in theory).
Greta Thunberg a silly little glove puppet of a girl who has not compeleted her secondary education and knows less about the science of climate change than a box of rocks. In my opinion, if she is awarded the Nobel Peace prize this means that the awarding commitee are so insane that they are completely off their collective trolley.
Judging by the reactions, I’m thinking we may have hit Peak Greta ?
As for Swedish politicians, its not too much of a stretch to think that their surprise will be just as great as was that of the burghers of Lindisfarne when Swedish voters react to bombing and grenade attacks now being experienced on an almost daily basis.
Sir David Attenborough (age 93 and 3/4) would be gutted.
Here ,, Great video on the motives of the Elite,, like Soros pushing climate change and why
How can unsubstantiated verbal threats warrant a Peace Prize?
What on earth happened to Sweden?
Puts her in there with the do-nothings, the warmongers and all those before her that were damaging to the world. After Yasser Arafat, the prize was reward for violence and leftist behaviour. After Obama, it was for do-nothings. After Gore, it was leftist partisan awards for lies and propaganda. So they are nominating Greta for the same award warmongers and do-nothings receive. Seems appropriate. It’s not an award for merit or helping the world. Just makes the winner a million richer and some drooling psychophants will increase their love of the loser. Its’ award for a loser, not a winner.
(Occassionally, a real winner, like Malala Yousafzai is chosen. Truely deserving people do occassionaly slip through and receive the award.)
Progress of a kind.. back in the Medieval area they want us to revert to, Scolds were fitted with a metal gag and dunked in the river….
Now they get nominated for an award….
So lobbying government to use its police power to jam your pseudo-religion down everyone’s throat is somehow supportive of peace? What next? Leftist Blackshirts beating their opponents get a peace prize?
Isn’t it a little early for an April fool’s jape?
The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Perhaps it can be recycled… repurposed (spoil the document, spare the energy) to help the planet or improve sanitation.
I nominate whoever was behind the two meetings in the Eastern Congo held recently, involving a total of 77 leaders various factions and tribal groups, that resulted in a broad, strong commitment to cease all hostilities.
This pair of events seems to have been transformational and might bring a substantial improvement and draw to a close one of the worst, most inveterate conflicts in African history. It has been going for decades and has witnessed some of the most appalling crimes ever.
Stoked by outsiders interested in grasping and carting off the local resources, it has included widespread child slavery, hideous massacres and extensive gender violence. Anyone who manages to bring that to a peaceful end should be recognized with a nomination.
Children launching crusades against the wind are not in the same league. Peace is about ending wars, not starting them.
Arguably, St Greta of Stockholm has accomplished more to “earn” a Noble Peace Prize than Barack Obama, who was awarded the prize essentially for not being George W Bush.