Greta Thunberg Demands Canada and Norway Stop Expanding Fossil Fuel Extraction

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Greta wants to use her alleged influence over 20% of the United Nations vote to try to pressure Norway and Canada into a climate virtue bidding war, as they both contend for a seat on the UN Security Council.

Greta Thunberg looks to UN security council election for leverage on climate 

Published on 10/06/2020, 5:01am

Youth activists have written to small island negotiators, urging them to use their vote to pressure Canada and Norway into ending oil extraction

By Megan Darby

Greta Thunberg is urging small island diplomats to put Canada and Norway’s oil interests in the spotlight as the two countries seek election to the UN security council.

Thunberg is one of four youth activists to sign a letter, along with 22 climate scientists, raising “grave concerns” about the Arctic nations’ policies to expand and subsidise fossil fuel extraction.

Canada and Norway are competing with Ireland for two seats on the UN security council, both promising to address climate change as a threat to peace and stability.

Yet their support for increased oil and gas production is incompatible with international climate goals, argued signatories to the letter, published in full below.

They called on small island developing states, as some of the most vulnerable countries to climate breakdown, to use their vote to highlight these concerns.

While their numbers are not sufficient to wield veto power, the 38 small island developing states hold 20% of votes.

Read more: https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/06/10/greta-thunberg-seeks-influence-un-security-council-election/

“No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there”Justin Trudeau 2017

I suspect Greta is overestimating her influence over small islands and the United Nations. If Norway and Canada need to win votes from impoverished island nations they’ll likely use their fossil fuel wealth to offer development aid. Cash for badly needed educational facilities and jobs will carry more weight than anything Greta and her friends have to say.

Update (EW): Michael Mann adding his support to Greta’s UN diplomacy effort;

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Chris Hanley
June 10, 2020 11:02 pm

“Michael Mann adding his support …”.
Mann Bradley Hughes 1999 — Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations — doesn’t mention ‘greenhouse gas’ or ’emissions’ etc. and the only references to CO2 are in relation to it as tree fertilization and possible confounding influence on results.
The ‘hockey stick’ result is so startling compared with the 1990 FAR H H Lamb graph and common knowledge at the time that it is puzzling that no comment or inference as to the cause is mentioned in the abstract or conclusions.
Of course the IPCC used the graph to great effect in its 2001 report and I seem to remember Mann trying to distance himself from its lurid presentation:
http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TAR-hokey_stick.png
There was also that curious alleged comment “we have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period” from someone to David Deming in 1995.
Future historians will be interested as to what stage in life Michael became convinced that fossil fuels were so dangerous to the planet that they must be eliminated from use altogether as soon as possible, if not sooner.
When was the epiphany, was it when young Michael learned of James Hansen’s 1988 address to Congress or only later when to his amazement he discovered incontrovertible evidence that the twentieth century was anomalously the warm in at least the past 1000 years and that was entirely due to human GHG emissions?

June 10, 2020 11:25 pm

Hmmm, somebody elses picture is getting painted on walls more than The Greta. Girl best be steppin’ up her game she wants some respect.

Sunny
June 11, 2020 12:34 am

She should forget about the climate scam and worry more about the immigration problem in sweden, I watched videos of the protests and they were vile, along side the mass rapes of swedish women by non swedes… Sweden is going down the toilet and she is worried about fossil fuels 😐

Andrew Lale
June 11, 2020 3:17 am

Surely it’s time for Greta to STFU? Your 15 minutes of ill-deserved fame are over.

Urederra
June 11, 2020 3:30 am

It Is June eleventh here in Spain and the temperature is 16º Celsius. It is cloudy.

I cannot imagine how cold is now in Sweden. Ant this child is worried about the planet becoming too hot?

That is so stupid.

ozspeaksup
June 11, 2020 4:39 am

someone might point out that having other sources ensures safe supply(for some) rather than be beholden to mideast consortia and at their mercy re price and supply?
hmm
stupid B*tch embarrasingly ignorant and given airtime..why?

Just Jenn
June 11, 2020 4:58 am

I hope for Greta’s sake that she has a trust fund protecting her money, that way when she becomes aware and emancipates herself from her parents and handlers that she’ll have access to pay for the therapy she will need.

As for the parents, they are no better than the freaking family vloggers on YouTube exploiting their kids for views.

Tiger Bee Fly
June 11, 2020 5:43 am

And on the subject of Antifa…

A bunch of privileged white kids, in love with violence, trying to start a race war? Hmm, sounds familiar…

https://ibb.co/vXWpbbt

June 11, 2020 6:02 am

I see they’ve found some ‘yoof’ from the Marshall islands looking for a bit of limelight, have they had their childhood stolen as well?

Has anyone told them about the typhoons of 1905 and 1918 that killed an estimated 500 people on those islands during the storms and 100’s more in the months that followed due to starvation and poor medical support.
CO² PPM around 300.

Can you imagine the headlines if this was to happen today.

Go check out early satellite images (google earth) of Majuro Atoll or any of the Marshall islands, or even older WW2 aerial photos and compare with images of today, and apart from some unwise increases in urban development, and the odd movement of sand, there really is no change at all.

Typhoons, and severe tropical storms are part of life in that neck of the woods, and it has always been that way.

You really think stopping Norway getting a seat on the UN is going to prevent that?

June 11, 2020 6:14 am

Greta’s controllers are poorly informed about Canada.
The federal government with Quebec have essentially shut down Canada’s oil and gas industry.
Which passionate insanity,

Art
Reply to  Bob Hoye
June 11, 2020 9:26 am

They aren’t necessarily poorly informed about Canada, I suspect they are very well informed, not only about Canada but also about the truth of the global warming scam. But they have a political agenda, and will use any and all misinformation to achieve it.

Tiger Bee Fly
June 11, 2020 7:10 am

And on the subject of Antifa (redux)…

A bunch of white kids, in love with violence who want to intimidate their political enemies and seize power through window-smashing and running street battles with police? Hmm, sounds familiar…

https://ibb.co/K5dZ4Lx

Art
June 11, 2020 7:20 am

I don’t care what Thunberg “demands”. I don’t take orders from puppets.

Art
Reply to  Art
June 11, 2020 9:28 am

Hey, what the…

I didn’t post this!

You mean there are two of us?

Mind you, I do agree.

Mickey Reno
June 11, 2020 7:42 am

Sorry Eric, but for those of us who care accuracy, should not the headline over this article say:

Greta Thunberg’s DAD Demands Canada and Norway Stop Expanding Fossil Fuel Extraction

TomR
June 11, 2020 8:48 am

Do you know Spiteful Mutant theory by Michael Woodley (popularized by Edward Dutton)? Does Greta fits in this category?

James Bull
June 11, 2020 11:36 am

So she wants to live in a world without heat, light, modern clothes and medicines.
Sounds fun NOT.
She can try it if she wants but I’ll pass keep all the wonders of modern life provided by fosil fuels and their derivatives.

James Bull

ResourceGuy
June 11, 2020 12:30 pm

Who’s going to stuff a cork in this rift zone? Would that be Zeus and Princess Greta?

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/c-cf-nsr060420.php

Martin Pinder
June 11, 2020 2:04 pm

What an expression of hate on Thunberg’s face in the picture at the beginning of this article.
On another tack, some of these ‘Small Islands’ have discovered their dependence on the tourist industry, & may be less hostile to fossil fuels (which power aircraft which bring in the tourists) than St. Greta would expect.

john
June 11, 2020 2:46 pm

Greta should get on board with this new cause

Academics nationwide #ShutDownSTEM because science is ‘weaponized against black people’

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15022

Tiger Bee Fly
Reply to  john
June 12, 2020 10:59 am

Not yet it isn’t. 😉

Seriously though – my heart really does go out to any sane people still left in the USA.

Staffan Lindström
June 11, 2020 5:56 pm

Urederra, June 1st, 2 stations in Sweden, southern Norrland REPORTED 30 C for some nanoseconds probably…
The SVT state television meteorologists think 30 C in south of Spain in mid June is “warm” , just like the BBC ones… Frosts some place(s) in Sweden 8 out of 12 June nights, in a “normal-warm” period… One of these nights
the temperature was taken by “Vägverket” probably not SMHI 4-5 days ago SMHI forecast for Stockholm county
“around +10” as minimum nightly temperature…IN REALITY +1 to +3 In the inner city of Stockholm the forecast wasn´t that bad…BUT: DEFUND SMHI or at least REFUND it… Some auditing is needed for sure….

June 12, 2020 4:10 am

Just that? Only about not expanding oil extraction? And she forgot to mention the racism of oil extraction?
She may be in big trouble.

https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/06/11/racism-and-climate-change/

Steve T.
June 13, 2020 4:21 am

Imagine the Unlucky person that marries or hooks up with her?
Maybe we should start a Fund-Their-Exit website.

Russ Wood
June 13, 2020 6:53 am

I liked the Photoshopped skit of Greta with a speech bubble : “Bugger climate change! I’ve found a boyfriend!”
Might do her some good, at that!

Freeda Bees
June 19, 2020 3:11 am

Greta is being totally unreasonable. How does she expect Norway to achieve the EV nirvana of a 100% EV fleet if they don’t export oil to earn the money to pay for this unquestionably worthy aim? Can’t she see the benefit to a country of significantly cutting it’s CO2 emissions by exporting oil and having someone else produce those CO2 emissions instead? If every oil producing country followed Norway’s example, which Greta with her noted influence should actually be encouraging, then total global CO2 production would be lowered signifi… bu​gger!