Essay by Eric Worrall
In the wake of Greta being forcibly removed from a coal mine expansion protest in Germany, young activists have vowed to protest in the streets “in huge numbers”.
Climate activists vow to take to streets to stop fossil fuel extraction
‘Cease and desist’ letter signed by over 650,000 people sent to oil and gas CEOs follows removal of Greta Thunberg from coal protest
Damian Carrington and Damien Gayle
Tue 17 Jan 2023 05.05 AEDTHundreds of thousands of young climate activists have said they will continue “protesting in the streets in huge numbers” against fossil fuels, a day after Greta Thunberg was removed by German police from a condemned village atop a massive coal deposit.
In a cease-and-desist letter to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies, youth campaigners accuse them of a “direct violation of our human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, your duties of care, as well as the rights of Indigenous people”.
“This cease-and-desist notice is to demand that you immediately stop opening any new oil, gas or coal extraction sites, and stop blocking the clean energy transition we all so urgently need,” the letter says.
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Read more: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/climate-activists-vow-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-fossil-fuel-extraction
It gets funnier – the Greta arrest was actually staged (h/t ctm);
I doubt a few angry hippies and their kids will deter Germany from their coal mine expansion. Despite their green pretensions, the German nation is in a desperate situation, they really need that coal.
Germany’s Energy Crisis Sends It Tumbling Down Investment Rankings
By Irina Slav – Jan 16, 2023, 2:48 AM CST
The energy shortages plaguing Europe’s largest economy since 2021 have affected its attractiveness as an investment destination.
According to a report in the German daily Augsburger Allgemeine, Germany now ranks 18th out of 21 countries, falling four places in the ranking produced by the German economic research institute ZEW, Reuters reported.
The institute cited higher energy costs and a labor shortage for the revision of Germany’s place in the ranking, along with the slow pace of innovation and a complicated bureaucratic environment.
Soaring gas prices have shaken the German industry and prompted the government to spend billions of euros on helping businesses, as well as households, survive. Even with the state aid, however, many German businesses are curbing their activities or moving them to lower-cost energy locations such as the United States and Asia.
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Read more: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Germanys-Energy-Crisis-Sends-It-Tumbling-Down-Investment-Rankings.html
Personally I’m not expecting “huge numbers” to protest, maybe one or two protest marches if they are lucky. Europeans withering under skyrocketing energy prices have too many other problems on their plate, to worry about whether Greta got manhandled, or whether more coal gets mined.
In any case, it is way too cold for a proper street party.
grown ups in france about to show these kids how to strike
Surround their little protest with Yellow Vests chanting Cheap Energy NOW…
From the article: “The energy shortages plaguing Europe’s largest economy since 2021 have affected its attractiveness as an investment destination.”
I can’t say I’m surprised.
I think it is inevitable that if a nation cuts off the lifeblood of industry, that industry will leave and move to where they can get their lifeblood (in this case oil, natural gas and coal).
What kind of ranking does the UK have? Their politicians are just as stupid as German politicians over their unreasonable fear of CO2, and they are doing a pretty good job of destroying the economy in the UK, too, because of it.
Fear makes people do really stupid things. Greed makes people do really stupid things. The narrative of Human-caused Climate Change incorporates both.
story tip:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-gore-goes-unhinged-rant-about-rain-bombs-boiled-oceans-other-climate-threats-davos
Al Gore goes on ‘unhinged’ rant about ‘rain bombs,’ boiled oceans, other climate threats at Davos
Gore claimed climate change could ultimately end mankind’s ability for ‘self-governance’
I”m surprised the Polizei played along with the charade.
A really stupid staged PR campaign with Greta Thunfish for FFF-Gretins, green leftists and other morons! You can tell who is co-governing in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, and that the Greens are using the police for this ridiculous show!
The governing eco-fascists are unwinding our country for their “climate protection” nonsense, called “Energiewende”! Now, just before they shut down the last nuclear power plants, they are realizing that the “eco powers”, wind and solar, do not generate enough electrical energy for an industrialized country and they are forced to continue expanding the large brown-coal-mines.
This is politics made in
GermanyDumbland by daft, idiotic, stubborn Greens!The grotesque joke is that the climate doesn’t really care (if any) about the bit German CO2, because China and India build three new ones for every closed German coal-fired power plant!Greta unmasked as just another publicity-hungry leftie.
The (indigenous) villagers were paid to abandon the place about 2 years ago.
The activists came for the protest event. Who cares?
Not me and not The Climate™.
Lützerath – Wikipedia
Bravo Germans, now rip the useless wind & solar farms out too
will be funny if she ends up on a no-fly list…
For her a ban on trains would be more consequential.
Four things that are often either unknown or ignored that show why CO2 has no significant effect on climate:
1. The average amount of time that passes between when a CO2 molecule absorbs a photon and when it emits one (called the decay time) is 1.1 seconds. It only takes a few microseconds for absorbed energy to be shared with surrounding molecules (relaxation time) by gaseous conduction.
2. Although radiation is omnidirectional from a molecule, because of the population gradient in water vapor (WV) molecules the distance that an emitted photon travels before it encounters another IR active molecule is more when the photon is directed towards space. At 2 km and higher, outward directed photons from WV molecules can make it all the way to space. The result is net energy flux towards space. Gaseous conduction causes energy absorbed by CO2 molecules to be conducted to replenish the energy radiated to space by WV molecules. The redirection of energy wrt wavenumber is described further at https://energyredirect3.blogspot.com
3. Water vapor molecules at ground level outnumber CO2 molecules 23 to 1 and have been increasing about 7 times faster than CO2 molecules so there are always plenty of WV molecules to conduct to.
4. At high altitudes, energy from non-IR-active molecules is conducted to CO2 and other IR active molecules which can radiate it to space; an effect which counters planet warming.
If you can put these facts together, you can understand why radiation also comes from CO2 molecules but CO2 has no significant effect on climate.
“it is way too cold for a proper street party.”
Q. Why don’t Americans protest in the winter?
A. The television cameras freeze up.
This cease-and-desist notice is to demand that you immediately stop opening any new oil, gas or coal extraction sites
Well if I understand this one correctly, this is the EXPANSION of an existing mine, so not in breach of their demands.
Greta can only wish she would get man handled.
The crazier they get the better.
Protest pantomime.
Our Green idiot Liz May here in canada did the same,
The martyrdom
The funniest part of this is that the Germans are expanding this coal mine BECAUSE of the green policies of shutting down nuclear and installing renewables.
I just wish Greta was smart enough to grasp that
Today twitter is full of clips showing that the “arrest” was entirely staged. At ease… camera… Action! … OK, Cut! Relax…
Example
https://mobile.twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1615731896515981315
You gotta check out “bad catitude” on substack for this meme-fest LOL
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/malign-creativity-greta-edition
Do read the comments. Some very funny stuff.