Essay by Eric Worrall
Greta Wazzername trying to remain relevant in a world which has largely forgotten her.
Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’
Greta Thunberg Sat 8 Oct 2022 19.00 AEDT
Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around
Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t sound that bad. The word “change” resonates quite pleasantly in our restless world. No matter how fortunate we are, there is always room for the appealing possibility of improvement. Then there is the “climate” part. Again, it does not sound so bad. If you live in many of the high-emitting nations of the global north, the idea of a “changing climate” could well be interpreted as the very opposite of scary and dangerous. A changing world. A warming planet. What’s not to like?
Perhaps that is partly why so many people still think of climate change as a slow, linear and even rather harmless process. But the climate is not just changing. It is destabilising. It is breaking down. The delicately balanced natural patterns and cycles that are a vital part of the systems that sustain life on Earth are being disrupted, and the consequences could be catastrophic. Because there are negative tipping points, points of no return. And we do not know exactly when we might cross them. What we do know, however, is that they are getting awfully close, even the really big ones. Transformation often starts slowly, but then it begins to accelerate.
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We cannot live sustainably within today’s economic system. Yet that is what we are constantly being told we can do. We can buy sustainable cars, travel on sustainable motorways, powered by sustainable petroleum. We can eat sustainable meat and drink sustainable soft drinks out of sustainable plastic bottles. We can buy sustainable fast fashion and fly on sustainable aeroplanes using sustainable fuels. And, of course, we are going to meet our short- and long-term sustainable climate targets, too, without making the slightest effort.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/08/greta-thunberg-climate-delusion-greenwashed-out-of-our-senses
Greta, I’d love to hear your explanation of what flavour of communism could replace “today’s economic system”, to allow us to live sustainably, but not enough to buy your book.
In any case, since you skipped so much school, I could probably learn more about economic systems watching my pet fish, than reading or listening to your half baked juvenile economic theories.
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I am no psychologist but have read much and have a lot of experience.
I note that in the image of Greta here, her Left eye is pointing up, which to me indicates that she using her Lefthand side brain in formulating what she is saying.
Now, I understand that the left hand side of our brains is mainly concerned with empathy, emotions, feelings and wishes rather than harsh, logical reality.
In a well balanced individual the two sides of the brain usually work together but can create tensions which need to resolved.
IMO the image of Greta here gives strong indication that something is wrong and she is likely to be talking rubbish, albeit articulate.
one trick pony . . she needs new management
No she just needs that pony her Green parents refused to get her when she was ten.
“The AP has, for example, received an $8 million grant to do
climate advocacy “reporting””
MSM’s trying to use “farce checkers” to help Green groups get Steve
Milloy deplatformed as they’re complaining to Big Tech social media
that his posts are “akin to hate speech & lies about Covid-19”.
These billionaires’ orgs. are giving $8M to AP- Hewlett, Howard Hughes,
James Murdoch, Rockefeller & the Walton Family. Since they couldn’t
disprove what he said on one Tweet, all they could do was draw an “X”
over the Tweet which Steve had based on a WUWT graph.
https://junkscience.com/2022/10/new-push-to-de-platform-climate-dissent-fueled-by-junkscience-tweets/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/29/after-hurricane-ian-no-trend-in-florida-landfalls-global-activity-trending-down/
Go get ’em, Steve!
How pathetic are the alarmists. They can’t come up with an argument that refutes skeptics claims, so their only alternative is to deplatform and shut up their tormentor.
But they can’t change the facts. The facts say there is no evidence that CO2 will do any harm to anyone.
Greta changed her storyline to include sufficient time to save the world for unproven reasons, yet her message is identical.
No dice child!
Even after denying the known world, heat, food, cooling, transportation, etc. none of the governments can reduce CO₂ enough to meet your demands or to reduce temperatures.
Grow up and get a job.
ATheoK: “Grow up and get a job.“
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Better yet, go back and get your H.S. diploma… then get a job.
‘The word “change” resonates quite pleasantly in our restless world.’
Of course it does, sweetie.
‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.’
– Barack Obama
I wonder what Obama was doing in Ukraine?
Good question.
The New Congress needs to look into that.
They need to investigate everything the Obama-Biden administration did in Ukraine and elsewhere, and they need to investigate the Biden-Harris administration. Both administrations are corrupt and traitorous and the American people need to know all this.
And don’t leave Hillary out of the investigation. She’s in the corruption and traitorous behavior up to her neck.
The last three Democrat administrations need to be held accoutable. Of course, that is made easier since most of the criminals in the current Biden administration were also in the Obama administration and many were in the Clinton administration. All corrupt. All seeking to create a Democrat Dictatorship in the United States by hook or crook.
All their nefarious activities need to be exposed for all to see. Otherwise, we lose our Republic.
It takes years of studies and hard work to acquire a skill in any field, be it plumbing or climate science. But to acquire a skill of a scoundrel you don’t need to spend much time. All you need is to have no shame. Greta is practicing the art of being a scoundrel.
Pippi Långstrump was fun when she was a little girl. She’s boring now.
No. It is too late we can’t save ourselves so leave us alone and let use be rich and comfortable until your projected terrible end takes us all away.
Greta the green goblin should go forth and never multipy
Ye gods, the horror: little Gretalings infesting the planet.
“.. In any case, since you skipped so much school, I could probably learn more about economic systems watching my pet fish, than reading or listening to your half baked juvenile economic theories.”
Really, you think she wrote anything??
Good one!
Those “half-baked juvenile economic theories” aren’t hers. They belong to her mature handlers
What we do know, however, is that they are getting awfully close.
Go on, give us some dates. I dare you.
Greta: I know I told you the world was going to end, but I could have been mistaken.
I felt sorry for her some years ago when she was a very young girl drop out from school. She was telling the world what to do but did not understand anything of the matter herself. Here we are, the young girl har become a young adult and still don’t understand much of climate science…
there are TWO words we need to remove from dictionaries and useage
sustainablility
and
unprecedented
Oz, I agree!
I stridently reject “sustainability” at every turn in my work in higher education administration. Sustainism is the realm of small-thinking, woke busybodies, accomplishing nothing but virtue signaling and greenwashing, and leaving destruction in their wake. Sustainists are almost uniformly (97%, maybe?) cut from the same lunatic fringe, socialist cloth.
Rather, I push environmental stewardship, working in support and in concert with growth and development.
As for “unprecedented,” that word is rolled out as a lazy substitute for the lack of historical research and perspective. As King Solomon (it is believed) said in the Book of Ecclesiastes, “there is nothing new under the sun.” Unprecedented is simply an attempt at sensationalism to garner attention.
Saint Greta has spoken. So let it be written, so let it be done!
The pandemic killed the popular green movement. After trying a year with no job, no travel (only walking and cycling approved), stuck at home with only TV and clapping for comfort people said NO. They have seen what green communism offers and they don’t want it.
Greenwashing is so yesterday. Now we have sustainablewashing, which is so much better. Poor Greta. Trying so hard to remain relevant in the Cult of Calamitous Climate. Maybe she could get some lessons from Al Whatshisname.
The word “might” always reveals a lie.
Why give this item the oxygen of publicity?
yeah I posted something I should not have so edited.
can’t delete it.
If she ever has kids I will write a letter of protest.
The Penetration Problem. Part I: Wind and Solar – The More You Do, The Harder It Gets
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-penetration-problem-part-i-wind-and-solar-the-more-you-do-the/edit
From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc.
There is a belief, by mostly among energy illiterates, increasing the level of wind and solar systems will get easier as more and more wind and solar systems are added to the grid.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Think of expensive grid expansions and augmentations all over the US
Think of super-expensive grid-scale battery systems
Think of increasing capacities, MW, of existing power plants operating at variable outputs (less efficient, just as a car in urban areas) to counteract the increasingly larger up and down quantities of wind and solar outputs, 24/7/365
The challenge may be better understood as akin to pushing a huge rock, which is getting heavier and heavier, up a steeper and steeper slope, while the ground below is getting slicker and more unstable.
The drawbacks associated with increased penetration of wind and solar totally swamp any potential benefits that might be achieved through economies of scale, as Europe, which practiced an expensive, decades-long, wind/solar experiment, made possible by:
1) Huge subsidies,
2) Low interest rates,
3) Low inflation rates
4) Stable fuel and materials prices
5) A plentiful supply of low-cost oil, coal, and gas from Russia.
Items 2, 3, 4 and 5 have drastically changed, due to the predictable blowback of the EU’s hasty, vengeful, ill-considered sanctions to punish Russia, which will certainly caused a European recession, and may cause a worldwide recession.
The bulk power system has traditionally been strong and very robust, with a 99.98% reliability of service.
Adding minor percentages of wind and solar, say 5% of each, causes only minor problems.
Wind and solar rely on the electrical system for support, because they could not be admitted to the grid without it.
Wind and solar do not support the electrical system, as do almost all other generating plants tied to the grid.
The electrical system has a limited spare capacity to accommodate the variable outputs from wind and solar systems, which would displace some fossil fuel generation.
At low penetration of wind and solar, say 3 to 4%, one kWh of solar/wind may displace the CO2 of about 0.9 kWh of fossil fuel generation, due to minor system inefficiencies
At high penetration of wind and solar, say 16 to 18%, one kWh of wind/solar may displace the CO2 of only about 0.6 kWh of fossil fuel generation, due to major system inefficiencies.
Read more by opening URL at the top.
Greta should sell tapes of her ramblings to sleep clinics. While she is at it she could sell autographed copies of that gaping-mouth, frowny-faced portrait to descendants of the Grimm brothers who want to renew the scary fairytale industry.
I find it hard to believe a dropout wrote that screed!
Sure the science was mixed up but the prose was too sophisticated.