Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Observa; In response to Greta attacking China’s colossal CO2 emissions, China has responded by suggesting Greta is “short of sufficient academic knowledge study, and lack of sound self-judgment capability”.
The Greta tweet which upset China;
China’s response;
Thunberg may lack enough knowledge to correctly understand climate change
By Lu Xue
Published: May 09, 2021 11:08 PMChina’s annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 exceeded those of all developed countries combined, for the first time since national emissions have been measured, according to a new report from the US-based Rhodium Group. When retweeting the news on Twitter on Friday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg commented, “Yes, China is still categorized as a developing nation by WTO, they manufacture a lot of our products and so on. But that’s of course no excuse for ruining future and present living conditions. We can’t solve the climate crisis unless China drastically changes course.” It’s noticeable that Thunberg has not publicly voiced her opinion over Japan’s decision on dumping contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
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The report by the Rhodium Group, which emphasizes that China’s annual emissions exceeded those of all developed countries combined, is prejudiced. Its aim is to impose more responsibility on China. Plus the report seems to have ignored a simple fact that the combined population of the US and the EU, which are mostly developed countries, is still less than that of China.
Thunberg, who at age 15 started skipping school on Fridays for her climate protests, is merely 18 years old this year. She is short of sufficient academic knowledge study, and lack of sound self-judgment capability. Girl like her is prone to be affected or even manipulated by some political forces.
Li said, in a bid to achieve their political intents, some Western political forces manipulate teenagers, treating Thunberg as a political puppet. This practice is unethical and despicable.
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Read more: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1223004.shtml
I’m shocked at Greta’s attack on China. I thought Xi Jinping’s China is now one of the good guys, thanks to China’s recent commitment to achieve net zero long after all their competitors suffer total economic collapse.
But the puppet they installed in OUR White House is soooo very intelligent… Yeah…
The difference being
Greta = Sock Puppet (for the Woke Crowd)
Biden = Marionette (with China pulling the strings)
Punch and Judy?
Yes, but Punch wants to sniff Judy’s hair.
I would accept China’s opinion on this as accurate. After all, they are the leading experts on puppets and manipulation.
I’ve got no strings
To hold me down
To make me fret
Or make me frown
I had strings
But now I’m free
There are no strings on me
…..
Down where the Volga flows
There’s a Russian rendez-vous
Where me and Ivan go
But I’d rather go with you, hey
There are no strings on me
Speaking of strings:
Scheming demons dressed in kingly guise
Beating down the multitude and scoffing at the wise
How bo
I will dare to going beyond China: I will affirm, not merely suggest that she is a puppet.
China has more common sense than the whole United Nations.
China is actually employing common sense, while we debate wokeism. Very sad … https://newtube.app/user/RAOB/kf3DIEm
Nice link, John. Someone needs to tell Hollywood et al that they are barking up the wrong tree.
Thanks. It seems that voting is not enough, so now I make videos. YouTube’s “Ministry of Truth” is now shadow-banning my videos, which is why I primarily post on NewTube … https://newtube.app/user/RAOB
Thanks John for the headsup about NewTube. I’ve just joined up. I teach Public Speaking at a Thai University and YouTube banned one of my teaching videos about Hitler.
Not only does YouTube shadow-ban me, but they also delete all comments that I make on other’s content. It’s like being in a Communist country! At least freedom is legal on NewTube. Let me know if/when you post to NewTube and I’ll subscribe so we can help defeat the “cancel” culture. Never give up.
John,
Recent subscriber; your work is excellent! That railway line makes me ashamed for my country and the fools we are allowing to ruin it!
Thanks so much Abolition. The CCP is not my friend, but when it comes to actually following the science and common sense, China nails it. The CCP doesn’t need to mislead and fool their population with green energy promises, because they already achieved Communism. Our comical rush into green energy paradise makes us the laughing stock of modern science. Once I made my first video, I realized the Left provides unlimited material of climate insanity needing exposure … https://newtube.app/user/RAOB/3fEZDK4
Heh, woking up the wrong try!
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China is going to win this war against pseudoscience for us.
But don’t think that makes China the good guy.
The Red Army crushed the Nazis. But that didn’t make Stalinist CCCP the good guys.
For better and worse, the Chinese communists and their patrons subscribe to a pragmatic philosophy.
Yes but. Try showing an image mainland China that doesn’t include Taiwan and they will come unglued.
Again, yes BUT. They were content to work hard and allow some free enterprise while they were building up their country, but once things start to level off (like their population) they are going to start eating their own, to maintain control and fight over the juicy portions. Dictatorships aren’t stable, leads to civil wars and coups.
I hate to say it, but I agree, at least about economics and planning for industry and infrastructure for a prosperous future. They’ll kill you if you step out line, but if you’re a sheep you’ll live long, fat and with a shiny car.
The puppets have puppets that have puppets that have etc.
This one turned on one higher up the “chain”.
The Thousand and one puppets of Bartholomew Alarmist.
Alternatively, it’s puppets all the way down.
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Unlike almost all other climate alarmists, at least she’s consistant.
I think it was child abuse to use a teenager with Asperger’s as a sock puppet.
Except in support of a “noble” cause, then it’s perfectly okay.
Sock puppet?
How DARE you?!?!
I expect that China will now declare they are ‘missile ready’ to respond to Greta’s interference in their glorious ‘People’s Republic’.
“China Suggests Greta Thunberg is an Ignorant Political Puppet”
How dare you….
Who knew?
(Besides us.)
Looks like we finally may have some common ground with Communist China?
Naw just choosing 1 evil over the other
Remember, the Allies joined with Stalin to defeat the H-man. Sometimes you’ve got to do the unthinkable.
What the Germans call “realpolitik”.
Your enemy’s enemy. Temporary non-friends with benefits.
“The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy. No more, no less.”
Racists
I knew she was racist. And against black Africans getting electricity too.
“China Suggests Greta Thunberg is an Ignorant Political Puppet”
No more than any other woke moron that ignorantly prattles on and on about climate change because of the resultant warm fuzzy feeling.
Funny how they didn’t say anything until Greta turned in their direction
I am shocked that they would put down such a nice little girl like Greta. A murdering, oppressive like China being so critical of a brilliant young woman-to-be. Unbelievable.
While I appreciate the dripping sarcasm, many others don’t get it.
Greta linked to a tweet from Naomi Klein without deleting the linked tweet and is now under attack to spread accusations against Israel.
She answerd later on twitter:
To be crystal clear: I am not “against” Israel or Palestine. Needless to say I’m against any form of violence or oppression from anyone or any part. And again – it is devastating to follow the developments in Israel and Palestine.
Friday For Future is said to link to antisemitic contents
In German news is told, the international branch of FFF calls for an Israel boykott. Also is told, FFF deleted the post but screenshots exist.
Worth reading article about:
In the final stages of infiltration
The article I linked as last writes about a movement called BDS
Thats what Wiki writes about, didn’t know it either before.
You have to be really careful who you link to nowadays. The article you like might be on a site that once put out a report that upset someone, or it might have a murky past.
The woke left may well put a ban on the UK’s BBC, for example, if they find out that its head honcho once admired Adolf Hitler:
“BBC’s first director-general had ‘worrying admiration for Hitler’”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1419581/bbc-news-tim-davie-bias-director-general-john-reith-world-war-2-adolf-hitler-spt
Hitler was an environmentalist, and he made the trains run on time – “achievements” which attracted support from far beyond Germany. But of course he was also a mass murderer.
Hitler once wrote a letter to US environmentalist and racist Madison Grant, author of “The Passing of the Great Race”, saying “this book is my bible”.
There is no doubt Madison Grant was an environmentalist, in addition to being a racist scumbag. Grant is credited with creating the the Bronx Zoo, campaigning for Bison to be saved, and establishing Glacier National Park.
It does not seem a stretch to suggest Grant may have inspired his fan Adolf Hitler’s push to plant trees and venerate nature in NAZI Germany.
Madison Grant was also a tidy freak from what I can see, though this is not entirely clear from documents I have seen.
I’m not suggesting all environmentalists and tidy freaks are NAZIs, but there are some disturbing connections between Environmentalism and anti-humanism, and some unsettling cases of people who seem rather too willing to overlook Hitler’s murderous faults when praising his alleged “virtues”.
I thought the “trains run on time” thing was Mussolini, but if it was Hitler Germany could do with him back to day, on that particular issue of no other!
Apologies for autocorrects. Can’t edit.
It was certainly attributed to Mussolini but as neither of them actually managed to do it, it’s fairly academic, don’t ya think?
Or that Attenborough is the patron saint of a think tank that wants to cull 75% of the population.
I say cull because no matter how you look at it, people will not volunteer.
Curiously, the woke should start at the top – with the abdicated King for example.
The very woke Markle did say something about that well documented Royal problem.
“Die Welt” or “Welt online” is a nationwide German newspaper foundet by the Allied after WW2 in 1946 in Hamburg. 1953 it was transferred to Axel Springer.
Duh!
Don’t usually comment on this sort of thing. Making an exception here.
I think Greta Thunberg will shortly prove to be a BIG warmunist liability. Three separate but equally valid reasons.
All in all, not good climate optics up against the likes of, say, Steve Koonin.
She’s also rapidly approaching the age where it will become difficult to pull off the little girl shtick so beloved of Euro Totalitarians.
However, Al Gore is an old guy who also 1) knows nothing of real substance, 2) does not relate well and 3) is petulant rather than persuasive, and he’s still active, so who knows?
And made a lot of $$$$$$ pedaling his doom and gloom
Hmmm, Greta’s parents are also making $$$$ pedaling Greta
Greta still has to buy a beachfront manor, complete her journey to total climate hypocrisy, like Obama and Al Gore.
Elon Musk claims to Asperger’s. Musk is his onwn made man. A genuine idiot savant like his Tesla car namesake.
But I doubt Ms Thunberg will ever rise to anything but someone else’s sock puppet. A sock puppet for their own enrichment while she just gets the scraps from the table tossed to her as long as she performs on cue.
Musk inherited a fortune, right?
¨Asperger¨ means today a spectrum of problems the white coats do not understand – so they dole out medication. People make far more noise about vaccinations than this deadly drug trade. Result – patients are in danger. I hope Musk, and Greta, know this.
You are a massive fool. Yes, there are incompetent social workers and psychiatrists that just want to medicate people on the autism spectrum, but there are a lot of good people working in the field as well that really help people suffering from this condition. I have personal experience in this area and your contemptuous dismissal is an affront to everyone that has been impacted by this very difficult problem.
And as to Elon, no, he did not inherit a fortune. He earned it the hard way: by expending great effort, maximizing his talents, and making sacrifices. Go crawl back under the rock you were hiding under, nobody wants to hear your vile bleating.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-elon-musk-defends-subsidies-20150601-htmlstory.html
I think you are correct. Elon did not inherit a fortune.
The above link proves it.
Wikipedia makes a reference to Musk using $100 million from an inheritance to start SpaceX
No, it does not. “With $100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp., traded as SpaceX, in May 2002″
Follow the link to the reference and it says “ASK Elon Musk what he wants to do with his life — after having amassed a $300 million fortune from the Internet — and the answer is surprising”, and “Mr. Musk wants more, and he has put $100 million of his fortune on the line to try to get it.”
Nothing about inheritance.
Greta is already a gigantic liability for climate alarmism. Who enjoys being lectured by somebody who knows much less than they do?
Rud,
I have just watched the BBC special,“Greta Thunberg:A Year to Change the World”.
It was sad to see a young girl so misinformed as she is.
If she only read the science she continually tells us to follow.
She should go to SPM1 in WG1 of AR5 (2013) to see the divergence between what the scientists actually say and what she hears from the media and activist zealots.
You watched it all? You obviously have a stronger stomach than I do.
With a clear conscience, I can say that Greta Thunberg and the Chinese Communist Party deserve each other.
It’s a marriage made in heaven, if there is such a place.
Give it 18 months or so and it can be a marriage made in ‘Heavenly Palace’!
It’s noticeable that Thunberg has not publicly voiced her opinion over Japan’s decision on dumping contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
I like how China doesn’t pass on the opportunity to throw a jab at Japan. LOL.
I’ll never understand why people think diluting radioactive material is a bad thing. Why on earth would anyone want it in concentrated form where it can be dangerous?
I think it’s true to say that the vast majority of people view radioactivity as a mysterious magic property that us humans don’t understand … that we wouldn’t even exist without continuous low levels of it bombarding us.
Isn’t her real target the WTO?
China knows the truth …
http://phzoe.com/2021/05/11/warming-near-coal-plants/
Like two divas wrestling in a hog wallow, whichever wins, it will still smell bad.
I’m never going to be able to scrub that image from my mind… 🙂
In 2024, a woke Oilympic event! Merkel as the East German judge.
I figured she would be representing Germany in the event.
She’ll compete and be a judge in the same event.
The ultimate in German efficiency.
‘Greta is “short of sufficient academic knowledge study, and lack of sound self-judgment capability”’
Well there you have it watermelons. The Chief Lefty and Fearless Leader has spoken.
A fun competition would be a basic science test (say 12th grade) between Greta and AOC.
My money would be on Greta.
Second grade. Tantrum throwing required at that level.
AOC recently came under fire for naming her new dog Rolex. “It’s a watch dog idiot,” was her response.
Steve: Thanks for that story. It shows she’s a lousy leftist (also a typical leftist). As a warrior for the poor and working class, when AOC thinks “watch”, she thinks of the wildly over-priced luxury item that would look good on her as she leads the poor to a better world. A good leftist would have gotten the optics, and named the dog “Timex.”
Thanks, Chinese Captain Obvious!
This is the Popcorn requiring fight that had to happen sometime, but three months straight of cool weather in the Northern Hemisphere appears to have her flailing. When summer comes she can remind us all how horrible we all are for making summer hot.
I’m repeating myself but if Greta can then so can I.
Here are the number of Coal fired power stations in various countries with the numbers in bold signifying planned and population size in brackets:
……4 ……..0….UK…………………..(66,600,000)
….19 …..60….Philippines …(108,100,000)
….56 …..93….Turkey ………….(82,000,000)
….58 …..26….South Korea …(51,710,000)
….79 …..24….South Africa ..(58,560,000)
….90 …..45….Japan ………..(126,300,000)
…241 ……4….US ………………(328,200,000)
…468 ….27….EU ……………..(446,000,000)
…589 ..446…India ……….(1,366,000,000)
2,363 1171…China …….(1,398,000,000)
The two countries that get special attention for ‘destroying the planet’ and demands for reparations for ‘climate crimes’ are the UK and US. While China wins hands down for twice as many coal fired power stations than the rest of the planet. Also, China with over 700,000,000 middle class and over 100,000,000 wealthy is redefining what ‘developing’ nation means.
To Greta: Now your education starts.
Might be more impactful if you showed how many coal coal plants per 10,000,000 population for each country.
Yah, it’s crazy. China has more than double the amount of plants per million pop. than the US – must be a lot of sh!tty small inefficient smog machines. Good thing they are building new modern ones!
Are you math challenged? Population sizes are known.
Here are the same numbers but ordered by population size. There are a number of ways of looking at this but it is the same whichever. The west, particularly UK and US are being screwed.
….58 …..26….South Korea …(51,710,000)
….79 …..24….South Africa ..(58,560,000)
……4 ……..0….UK…………….…..(66,600,000)
….56 …..93….Turkey ………….(82,000,000)
….19 …..60….Philippines ..(108,100,000)
….90 …..45….Japan ………..(126,300,000)
…241 ……4….US …………….…(328,200,000)
…468 ….27….EU ………….…..(446,000,000)
…589 ..446…India ………..(1,366,000,000)
2,363 1171…China ………(1,398,000,000)
I think it sad that a Chinese reporter actually felt inclined to respond to her dimwitted remarks. They must be short of real news.
Yes do not give them a platform….use their strategy against them.
I don’t think the Chinese reporter had much choice in the matter. The ruling elite in China take umbrage at any perceived or imagined slight to China. Responding isn’t optional, it’s required.
That’s one thing I can agree with China.