Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greta Thunberg’s band of future burger flippers have reaffirmed their determination to ensure the children of evil exploiters get the best jobs and university courses.
From Fridays for Future;
SEPTEMBER 24
GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE
ON SEPTEMBER 24, WE WILL STRIKE TO DEMAND FOR INTERSECTIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE! JOIN US!
#UPROOTTHESYSTEM
The climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum. Other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, class inequality, and more amplify the climate crisis and vice versa. It is not just a single issue, our different struggles and liberations are connected and tied to each other. We are united in our fight for climate justice, but we must also acknowledge that we do not experience the same problems; nor do we experience them to the same extent.
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The time to join the masses and follow the lead of the environmental defenders and workers has been long overdue. Reparations to MAPA must be paid for the historic injustices of the richest elite, drastic emission cuts in the Global North, vaccine equity, cancellation of debt, and climate finance are only the beginning of these. Together we will fight for a just future where no one is left behind. The historical victories of collective action have proven the need for the youth to stand united with the multisectoral, intergenerational struggle for a better future for all; a future where people and planet are prioritized.
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Read more: https://fridaysforfuture.org/september24/
The referenced Google Drive document is even funnier;
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We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, and more. The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and white-savior narrative that portrays people from the Global South as underdeveloped, poor, and voiceless. Industrialized countries of the Global North have been doing this for centuries through colonialism, imperialism, the perpetuation of systemic injustices and their fixation on everlasting growth. However, people from the Global South or the most affected areas are not underdeveloped, poor, or voiceless, but battling with the consequences of colonization and neocolonization while actively being silenced. They are strong, fearless and conscious as they have been fighting and addressing the root cause of these crises for centuries, that is the systems of oppression and injustice created by the richest of the Global North.
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We must unite, follow the lead of defenders and workers, amplify MAPA voices, and demand more ambitious action from Global North representatives. Together we will fight for a just future where no one is left behind, because our liberations are tied together. The historical victories of collective action have proven the need for the youth to stand united with the multisectoral, intergenerational struggle for a better future for all; a future where people and the planet are prioritized over profit.
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Read more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b25qhqIf0E-4h6NQDzLX40YifD6khpgee3Vl6g7nNSE/edit
One thing I’m curious about, I regularly receive letters from people who mostly seem to live in the global south, from grieving widows explaining they have millions of dollars inheritance locked away, they just need help from an honest person in another country to unlock it. They even sometimes offer a share of the cash to the kind person who agrees to help them.
Surely if people in the global south need more money for climate adaption, instead of pushing Greta to demand the industrial North pay vast reparations for the crime of providing the modern world, why don’t the leaders of the global south simply ask the grieving widows to to come forward, so their cases can be investigated, so all money in their frozen up bank accounts can be put to work?
Greta could lead the charge, to help all those widows and other unfortunates who keep writing to me access their frozen accounts, so they can invest their money into climate resilience projects.
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Stupid, brainwashed kids, out for a one-day holiday, making idiotic “demands” so that they can feel good about themselves. Imbeciles.
These “Stupid, brainwashed kids” will very soon have to deal with their own Stupid, brainwashed kids. And the wheel goes around and around. An intellectual vortex with a state/Party marxist Dictatorship coming out at the bottom .
An intellectual vortex with a state/Party Marxist Dictatorship coming out at the bottom .
This will inevitably fail once all the massive wealth they coveted is squandered in the attempt to make bad ideas work. Of course, the orchestrators will be enriched once again, while the masses try to recover some of what they lost.
These political documents just confirm that Human-caused Climate Change is a political issue.
Overthrowing Society as is suggested in the text, is the aim of Karl Marx and the Marxists.
Is Greta a Marxist? Did she write any of that word-salad garbage?
There is only one person who benefited from Marxism … Karl Marx, which was the intent in the 1st place.
Why on earth is Greta Thunberg the poster child of the green movement?
Childish ✓
Ill-informed ✓
No science education ✓
Intellectually challenged ✓
Borderline personality disorder ✓
Anger management issues ✓
Oh, Ok then…
It was written …
“Napoleon holds a dinner party for the pigs and local farmers, with whom he celebrates a new alliance. He abolishes the practice of the revolutionary traditions and restores the name “The Manor Farm”. The men and pigs start playing cards, flattering and praising each other while cheating at the game. Both Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington, one of the farmers, play the Ace of Spades at the same time and both sides begin fighting loudly over who cheated first. When the animals outside look at the pigs and men, they can no longer distinguish between the two.”
Oh, deary, deary me (as my paternal grandma used to say)! Dontcha just wonder how these buffoons are gonna survive without warm places to stay and food to eat, come winter?
If they want a “walk-out” or strike or whatever, fine. We can watch the parade. Is there a walrus haulout we can send them to?
I have yet to see the mass extinction of anything other than the newly-sprouted grass in my lawn that shut down a few days later because we had chilly weather overnight – deliciously chilly weather, the kind that makes the kitties come and snuggle up next to you.
I really do want to know just how willing Greta and her followers are to suffer real-time, real-world stuff, like a week-long blizzard where you can’t even push the door open. I do not believe any of them have what it takes to put up with deprivation of any kind, whether it’s food or shelter or the loss of their electronic toys.
Mr. Worrall: My highest praise for the headline!
It’s long for a headline, but every word packs a punch. Jonathan Swift couldn’t have done it better.
The ubiquitous K-T atmospheric heat budget diagram contains two egregious errors.
https://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/trenbert/trenberth.papers/TFK_bams09.pdf
The diagram depicts 63 W/m^2 of LWIR upwelling from the surface – TWICE!
Once sourced from the 161 net, net solar energy that arrives at the surface from the sun minus the upwelling sensible and latent flows. Since it is not shown and MUST be there maybe it fell behind the sofa.
Second as part of a theoretical, “What if?” S-B BB calculation for a surface temperature of 16 C used to calculate emissivity, i.e. 63/396=0.16, and with no actual physical meaning.
When the music stops the solar 63 has chair in which to sit.
The theoretical, “What if?” calculated 63 does not.
The greenhouse effect is a fifth-grade math error.
Graphic.
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0.16 emissivity? WTF Nick ? If emissivity was 1.0, then 396 corresponds to a reasonable surface temp of 16C and 333 to a cloud base temp (or sky/outer space average) of 3 C. The net average radiative transfer of 63 from surface upwards is reasonable, even on the high side a bit….your double accounting claim is pretty FUBAR.
And what’s this got to do with Greta anyway ?
16 C, 289 K, 0.16 emissivity = 63 W/m^2.
396 is more energy than arrived at ToA from the sun in the first place. WTF?
333 downwelling is not possible w/o adding work.
Can’t have two 63’s.
The whole global arming/climate change/Greta et al carnival is a house of cards.
Well, that house of cards still stands despite your ignorant huffing and puffing.
A rant all ya got?
Even the naive can balance their checkbooks unlike you and Willis.
The “checkbook” is harmed if one makes up a number for the emissivity of the earth. Figures don’t lie but liars figure.
I know, I know, guys; one shouldn’t attempt to reason with a crank that has an undefeatable (to the crank) screwball theory that he pushes incessantly.
Christ, not again! The sad part is naive people believe his bullshit.
the majority of the worlds billionaires are all in greta’s camp . and will probably fly in aboard their private jets to march with her against over consumption and social inequality .
it would be interesting to see greta’s tax returns . with all the gifts , donations and you tube money ( I’m guessing ) she must be a 1% by now . I don’t think she’s too worried about finding a job anyway …a recent Tony Heller video showed young teen activist Severin Suzuki impersonating greta in the 90’s addressing a UN environmental confab . according to wiki she’s now worth $23 million made from environmental activism .
For socialists it’s all about exploiting others’ people misery
Climate confused child: “Mommy mommy, I want to be a Climate Justice warrior when I grow up”.
Bad parent response: “That is great, honey, I’m so proud of you”.
Good parent response: “Shut up, and do your homework”.
Good parents never use words like “shut up” talking to their children.
Good parents never send their children to indocrinaing camps (“public schools”) so they don’t know the very word “homework”.
“white-savior narrative” You mean like Greta?
Time to roll coal.
This is an excellent opportunity to have parasites self-identify. Give them the Reagan Air Traffic Controllers treatment and don’t look back.
It is difficult to endure the ravages of Klimate Breakdown…
“The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and white-savior narrative…”
Excuse me, but isn’t that girl Greta the perfect embodiment of the “white-savior narrative”? Or are Swedes people of color now?
has greta ever participated in one practical hands on project to help anyone ? if she went to Haiti for instance she could do some real good there to help some downtrodden suffering people . it doesn’t take much personal sacrifice or altruism to be an internet hero .
“The climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum. Other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, class inequality, and more amplify the climate crisis and vice versa.”
Feminists made the same mistake. Instead of focusing on women’s issues, they got intersectional, taking on every conceivable progressive cause. Not only did this make them less effective — some would say completely useless and often counter productive — but the conflicts between these various causes has ripped feminism apart at the seams.
NON-WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
What a bunch of fruitcakes and oaded with nuts. Now linking other issues to try and strengthen their failing position.
So kinda a reverse Atlas Shrugged?
Ugh. Word salad for breakfast with lame comment dressing.
“MAPA”??? Is that Make America Poor Again?
I’m starting to think this has nothing do do with Science.
Now there’s some very deep irony, right there. Starting?
Well, more sarcasm. I’ve been saying this is almost all about pushing progressive policies since about 2004
I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I was merely questioning the word starting. It has had nothing to do with science from the very beginning. By 2004 the politics was so entrenched, the true believers haven’t bothered with anything even resembling science.
All of these ideologies have been held by a small fringe minority – the guardian reading vegan loonies. When climate change and the MSM gave them legitimacy and brought their views into the mainstream, it opened the floodgates on all the other views they hold.
We’re now being squeezed between two manufactured crises … “climate change” and covid. If one becomes ineffective, there is always the second. It will take some real focus to resist such pressure to conform.
Lucy to Charlie Brown: “Liberal scientist can prove that climate change is real”.
Charlie Brown to Lucy: “They can’t even tell the difference between boys and girls”.
What is “MAPA”? I must have missed it somewhere along the way.
May the Master of the Universe (or Mistress of the Universe) save us from the likes of Greta and the Woke folk.
Little Miss Thunberg is from Sweden, which according to most maps is part of the Global North. Why doesn’t she lead by example, and pitch in the first million?
Identifies as female. Check.
Is white. Check.
Is rich and entitled. Check.
Comes from a rich Northern country. Check.
Conclusion: She is her own sworn enemy.
I’m confused.
You disagree with this:
My own view is I don’t like such broad generalities so I prefer to say that the global South, is on average less developed, is on average poorer, and on average the voices from the global South don’t get heard as much as voices in the global North, but I don’t think your objection is the generality when you retort:
If so, what’s the problem?
You claim they are battling with the consequences of colonization but if they are not underdeveloped, poor or voiceless, there is no need for action.
You also claimed they are silenced but not voiceless. Sounds like a distinction without a difference.
Please try putting together a coherent summarization of the problem.