On Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to paint his hoped-for election to the presidency in apocalyptic terms, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden said the survival of the planet depends on ousting President Trump from office. He issued a tweet that indicated he thinks President Trump can destroy the planet in the next five years. Biden wrote:
<blockquote>Hottest summer on record: 2019 
Hottest September on record: 2019 
Hottest October on record: 2019 
There is no time to waste. We must get Donald Trump out of the White House and address the climate emergency. The survival of our planet depends on it.</blockquote>
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Hottest summer on record: 2019 Hottest September on record: 2019 Hottest October on record: 2019
There is no time to waste. We must get Donald Trump out of the White House and address the climate emergency. The survival of our planet depends on it. <a href="https://t.co/0ex6xguIIQ">https://t.co/0ex6xguIIQ</a>
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1192157702916431872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Biden was referencing a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-just-experienced-its-hottest-october-ever/">CBS News</a> report which stated, “Last month was the hottest ever October on record globally, according to data released Friday by the <a href="https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-september-2019">Copernicus Climate Change Service</a>, an organization that tracks <a href="https://cbsnews.com/feature/climate-change">global temperatures</a>. The month, which was reportedly 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average October from 1981-2010, narrowly beat October 2015 for the top spot.”
Notice the organization apparently has recorded temperatures since 1981, not all of recorded history, and not even for the last 100 years. As physics professor Mike van Biezen noted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-comprehensive-assault-global-warming-ever-mike-van-biezen">The Daily Wire</a> in 2015:
<blockquote>The all-time high temperature record for the world was set in 1913, while the all-time cold temperature record was set in 1983. By continent, all but one set their all-time high temperature record more recently than their all-time cold temperature records. In the United States, which has more weather stations than any other location in the world, more cold temperature records by state were set more recently than hot temperature records.
When the temperature records for each state were considered for each month of the year, a total of 600 data points (50 states x 12 months), again cold temperature records were set in far greater numbers more recently and hot temperature records were set longer ago. This is directly contradictory to what would be expected if global warming were real.</blockquote>
Van Biezen added, “Current temperatures are always compared to the temperatures of the 1980’s, but for many parts of the world the 1980’s was the coldest decade of the last 100+ years … The world experienced a significant cooling trend between 1940 and 1980 …There is a natural inverse relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels: Contrary to what would be assumed when listening to global warming banter or while watching “An Inconvenient Truth,” higher temperatures increase atmospheric CO2 levels and lower temperatures decrease atmospheric CO2 levels, not the other way around.&#8221;
He also noted, “The CO2 molecule is a linear molecule and thus only has limited natural vibrational frequencies, which in turn give this molecule only limited capability of absorbing radiation that is radiated from the Earth’s surface.”
And most tellingly, “Even in the 1990 IPCC report a chart appeared that showed the medieval warm period as having had warmer temperatures than those currently being experienced.”
University of Houston professor Larry Bell, the founder and director of  the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, wrote in <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/08/21/the-new-york-times-global-warming-hysteria-ignores-17-years-of-flat-global-temperatures/#85c88272a4ca">Forbes</a>:
<blockquote>While global warming has been trumpeted as an epic climate change crisis with human-produced CO2, a trace atmospheric “greenhouse gas” branded as a primary culprit and endangering “pollutant,&#8221; remember that throughout earlier periods of Earth’s history CO2 levels have been between four and eighteen times higher than now, with temperature changes preceding, not following atmospheric CO2 changes. Has there been “recent” warming? Yes, the global climate has definitely warmed since the Little Ice Age (about 1400-1700 AD), and it will likely continue to warm for another 200-300 years, in fits and starts, towards a max temp roughly matching that of the Medieval Warm Period. That time followed a colder period before the founding of Rome between about 750 BC to 200 BC &#8230; Although temperatures have been generally mild over the past 500 years, we should remember that significant fluctuations are normal.</blockquote>
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Thirty-six environmentalists were four weeks into their &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/americas/chile-climate-voyage-canceled-scli-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2019-10-31T20%3A30%3A12&amp;utm_source=twCNN">grueling voyage</a>&#8221; by sailboat to Chile for a United Nations climate change summit, COP25, when they leaned the event had been canceled.
The activists, known as the Sail to the COP group, took a cue from young climate change figurehead Greta Thunberg and opted for a sailboat ride over a plane ride. According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/americas/chile-climate-voyage-canceled-scli-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2019-10-31T20%3A30%3A12&amp;utm_source=twCNN">CNN</a>, Thunberg expressed her approval of Sail to the COP via Twitter at the end of October.
The activists, who left from Amsterdam, were halfway to Chile when they found out the devastating news.
&#8220;After a long assessment process, the Chilean Government has made the painful decision of not to host the Climate Summit COP25,&#8221; the COP25 Twitter account posted Wednesday.
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After a long assessment process, the Chilean Government has made the painful decision of not to host the Climate Summit COP25. <a href="https://t.co/bH0f1nOv0R">pic.twitter.com/bH0f1nOv0R</a>
&mdash; COP25 (@COP25CL) <a href="https://twitter.com/COP25CL/status/1189621397032783872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As noted by CNN, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera pulled out as host of the summit &#8220;amid protests that have left at least 20 people dead and led to the resignation of eight cabinet ministers.&#8221;
&#8220;The Sail to the Group participants prove to be a strong and reliant group after four intense weeks of sailing,&#8221; the climate change activists posted in a <a href="https://twitter.com/sailtothecop/status/1189868224093073410">statement</a> on Thursday. &#8220;After the initial shock and sadness the news brought, everyone came together determined to continue what we started: putting the climate impact of aviation on the international agenda.&#8221;
Sail to the COP is now headed for Belém, Brazil, instead.
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📢UPDATE: We are continuing our journey to Belém, Brasil today, while our thoughts are with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chile?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chile</a>! 🌊🌊From there we can still make it to a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP25?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COP25</a> held in Costa Rica or Bonn, most likely options at the moment. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateAction</a> is unstoppable! 🌏 <a href="https://t.co/DP7u9TYYYh">pic.twitter.com/DP7u9TYYYh</a>
&mdash; Sail to the COP (@sailtothecop) <a href="https://twitter.com/sailtothecop/status/1189868224093073410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable">Before the cancellation, the group boasted online of its journey — on what appears to be a very small sailboat for 36 adults.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable">&#8220;We are doing the first ever [Global Climathon] on the Atlantic Ocean! Spread out over three days (instead of 24 hours) due to sailing tasks, we will finish tonight with a big pitching event in the ship’s saloon,&#8221; one tweet said. </div>
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We are doing the first ever <a href="https://twitter.com/GlobalClimathon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GlobalClimathon</a> on the Atlantic Ocean! Spread out over three days (instead of 24 hours) due to sailing tasks, we will finish tonight with a big pitching event in the ship’s saloon 🌊🍸🏆<a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateKIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ClimateKIC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateCrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateEmergency?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/flyless?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#flyless</a> <a href="https://t.co/n4LxIT4Fk5">pic.twitter.com/n4LxIT4Fk5</a>
&mdash; Sail to the COP (@sailtothecop) <a href="https://twitter.com/sailtothecop/status/1188079258851258369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg, leading the charge for climate change extremism focused primarily on the West, gave a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-thunberg-over-mass-extinction-ryan-saavedra">radical speech</a> at the UN in September, where she warned of &#8220;mass extinction.&#8221;
&#8220;My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; warned the 16-year-old. &#8220;This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet, I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.&#8221;
Thunberg continued: &#8220;How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions with today’s emissions levels that remaining CO2 budgets will be entirely gone within less than 8 and a half years. There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.&#8221;
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Greta Thunberg

OUCH: Activists Four Weeks Into Boat Ride To U.N. Climate Summit Learn It&#8217;s Cancelled

Climate Change

United Nations

Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who dominated headlines last month after her speech to the U.N. declaring that we are &#8220;in the beginning of a mass extinction,&#8221; was offered an award this week from the Nordic Council for &#8220;breathing new life into the debate surrounding the environment and climate at a critical moment in world history.&#8221;
But on Tuesday, the 16-year-old told the council that they could keep their climate prize and issued an ultimatum: she will not accept an award from them until they move on from &#8220;bragging&#8221; and using &#8220;beautiful words&#8221; to acting &#8220;in accordance with what the science says is needed&#8221; to combat global warming.
Thunberg issued her official rejection of the award and rebuke of the council via an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ns7PQpE5C/">Instagram post</a> Tuesday. The council has since confirmed that she indeed turned down their prize, which is worth a little over $50,000.
&#8220;I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize,&#8221; wrote Thunberg. Noting that she&#8217;s  traveling through California and thus unable to deliver her message in person, the celebrity activist wrote out her rejection speech.
&#8220;I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;But the climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science.&#8221;
Thunberg then specifically called out the Nordic countries for what she characterized as their self-congratulatory hypocrisy.
&#8220;The Nordic countries have a great reputation around the world when it comes to climate and environmental issues,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There is no lack of bragging about this. There is no lack of beautiful words. But when it comes to our actual emissions and our ecological footprints per capita — if we include our consumption, our imports as well as aviation and shipping — then it’s a whole other story.&#8221;
She then got more specific, hitting the Nordic nations for not doing enough to eliminate fossil fuels: &#8220;In Sweden we live as if we had about 4 planets according to WWF and Global Footprint Network. And roughly the same goes for the entire Nordic region. In Norway for instance, the government recently gave a record number of permits to look for new oil and gas. The newly opened oil and natural gas-field, &#8216;Johan Sverdrup&#8217; is expected to produce oil and natural gas for 50 years; oil and gas that would generate global CO2 emissions of 1,3 tonnes.&#8221;
&#8220;The gap between what the science says is needed to limit the increase of global temperature rise to below 1,5 or even 2 degrees — and politics that run the Nordic countries is gigantic. And there are still no signs whatsoever of the changes required,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The Paris Agreement, which all of the Nordic countries have signed, is based on the aspect of equity, which means that richer countries must lead the way. We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing.&#8221;
She closed with one of her trademark ultimatums. &#8220;So until you start to act in accordance with what the science says is needed to limit the global temperature rise below 1,5 degrees or even 2 degrees celsius, I — and Fridays For Future in Sweden — choose not to accept the Nordic Councils environmental award nor the prize money of 500 000 Swedish kronor,&#8221; she concluded.
As reported by <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/greta-thunberg-declined-a-climate-award-because-the-world-needs-more-action-fewer-awards/ar-AAJydfk">CNN</a>, the Nordic Council confirmed in a news release Tuesday that Thunberg did indeed reject their award.
Dressing down world leaders has become Thunberg&#8217;s modus operandi. In late September, the climate alarmist issued a similar statement to the United Nations which painted an apocalyptic picture of the world and included digs about the leaders being &#8220;not mature enough&#8221; to be honest about the dire situation.
&#8220;My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; she said in a speech that went viral, in part due to critics pointing to its hyperbolic claims. &#8220;This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-activist-groups-attempt-to-shame-conservatives-over-greta-thunberg-meme-backfires">Left-Wing Activist Group’s Attempt To Shame Conservatives Over Greta Thunberg Meme Backfires</a>

Greta Thunberg Rejects Climate Award, Rips Countries That Gave It To Her

Environmentalism

Norway

Sweden

The following is satirical.
Hurrah! Here in the socialist state of California, Kommissar Gavin Newsom has gifted us with rolling electrical blackouts that glorify the great progress we have made under Marxist rule.
The blackouts will prevent high capitalist winds from blowing over PG&amp;E’s rotting equipment and causing even more of the glorious forest fires which are all part of the genius of the wonderful socialist programs which have lifted our state to greatness over the past 30 years.
Under our socialist rule, the state’s Public Utilities Commission has forced PG&amp;E to spend as much as $500 million a year to meet our glorious five year plan of reducing the cost of wind and solar energy to low income households.
Thus, our socialist overlords have guided the electric company to join the heroic workers’ fight against evil capitalist climate change which, as our infallible socialist computer models have predicted, will surely destroy the world by seven years ago.
Of course, spending all that money on green energy means PG&amp;E has no money for repairing the rotten electrical equipment with which billionaires indulge themselves in useless luxuries like electric lights and cooked food. And since PG&amp;E can’t repair its equipment, it often blows over and starts the beautiful forest fires which, in turn, serve our glorious socialist aims by forcing capitalist running dogs to abandon their energy-inefficient single-family homes.
Under our brilliant socialist plan, the fires also spread to our cities so that they can chase away the rats that have been gathering there due to our deep socialist charity to the poor who would have no place to sleep or even go to the bathroom if we did not let them sleep and go to the bathroom on our streets. And of course fire is a wonderful way to purge our air of the evil capitalist bubonic plague that the rats carry.
And so, comrades, under socialism, California is eliminating plague, rats, homelessness, houses and electricity by burning the entire state to the ground.
Once again: Hurrah! Now on to Texas!
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-fire-ravages-wealthy-la-area-lebron-james-forced-to-evacuate">New Fire Ravages Wealthy LA Area: LeBron James Forced To Evacuate</a>

Gavin Newsom

Glorious Socialist Plan Saves California By Burning It To The Ground [Satire]

California

Satire

Socialism

Some of the brightest stars in the pop culture galaxy want to ride Greta Thunberg’s teen coattails.
The Swedish activist generated media cheers this month for her fight against climate change. She’s not a scientist, nor does she have access to data that other people lack. She’s merely a distraught girl telling us the world will end soon if we don’t drastically change our lifestyles.
Greta’s cry coaxed Jane Fonda to get <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jane-fonda-climate-change/">arrested on a regular basis</a> to wake up the world, even if the Oscar winner’s own lifestyle is far from Greta approved.
Now, a gaggle of fellow stars are joining the fray. Only they have a confession to make in the process. Yes, we’re eco-hypocrites, but we have no other choice thanks to our fossil fuel culture.
A new <a href="https://rebellion.earth/2019/10/16/celebrities-backing-extinction-rebellion-say-yes-we-are-all-hypocrites-in-open-letter-to-media/">open letter</a>, signed by such luminaries as Thom Yorke, David Byrne, Jude Law, Mel B of Spice Girls fame, Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”) and Benedict Cumberbatch, insist we shouldn’t judge them on their actions.
Led by the group Extinction Rebellion, the stars want to weaponize their collective clout to counter climate change. And, thanks mostly to new media outlets (like conservative news sites, Twitter, and Facebook), they know they’re viewed by many as pure, unadulterated hypocrites.
Busted.
The mainstream press doesn’t call them that, of course. A few British papers do, now and then, but most stateside reporters are loathe to admit it to their readers. Instead, they regurgitate celebrity talking points without skepticism, even when stars like Fonda suggest we’ll have to coerce any government unwilling to take the climate change pledge.
In short, these stars don’t want their inconvenient lifestyle choices to be held against them.
“We live high carbon lives and the industries that we are part of have huge carbon footprints. Like you – and everyone else – we are stuck in this fossil-fuel economy and without systemic change, our lifestyles will keep on causing climate and ecological harm.”
If the world is truly on fire, as they claim, shouldn’t they skip their next tour or movie project to do their fair share? Couldn’t “Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo commit to a cyber-press tour rather than jetting across the globe? Did anyone fear “Avengers: Endgame” wouldn’t make a gazillion dollars, with or without a killer Ruffalo quote?
Haven’t they all made enough money, to paraphrase a former Commander in Chief?
The signatories won’t let criticism or labels stop them. “The stories that you write calling us climate hypocrites will not silence us,” they warn.
They’re also imploring the media to do more to back their efforts, as if reporters need any more urging to do just that.
But will it force these eco-warriors to change their lifestyles? It’s doubtful if it hasn’t happened yet. How many of those aforementioned celebrities live in the lap of proverbial luxury? How many travel hither and yon on private planes, sometimes just to scratch that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2981991/I-fly-coast-cheeseburger-Harrison-Ford-s-passion-flying-seen-amass-huge-collection-vintage-modern-aircraft.html">cheeseburger itch</a>? Just how large are their carbon footprints, anyway?
Leonardo DiCaprio, the most vocal star on the climate change issue, knows most reporters won’t scold him for his private planes or yacht adventures. They didn’t after he made a <a href="https://variety.com/2016/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-speech-climate-change-1201717970/">climate change plea</a> following his Best Actor win for 2015’s “The Revenant.”
What these stars really want is carte blanche to keep on wagging their fingers at us sans complaint. Things are different now, though. Stories stifled by the American press have a way of wriggling free, no matter how many social media platforms crush dissent. And, in the wake of Lebron James’ catastrophically tone deaf defense of China’s dictatorial ways, we’re even less eager to be lectured by our celebrity betters.
No open letter will change that.

Emma Thomson climate change.

Guilty Celebrities: Ignore Our Massive Carbon Footprints … Please

Hollywood

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cried on Friday during a climate alarmist speech in Copenhagen at the C40 World Mayors Summit where she claimed that her &#8220;dreams of motherhood now taste bittersweet because of what I know about our children’s future.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez began her alarmist speech by claiming that humanity was at a crossroads of &#8220;extinction or opportunity,&#8221; adding that there is &#8220;no middle road&#8221; on climate policy.
&#8220;The climate crisis is already here,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;On this note I speak to you not as an elected official or public figure, but I speak to you as a human being — a woman whose dreams of motherhood now taste bittersweet because of what I know about our children&#8217;s future, and that our actions are responsible for bringing their most dire possibilities into focus. I speak to you as a daughter and descendant of colonized peoples who have already begun to suffer.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not a coincidence that these disasters get relatively little media coverage, and that even less of the coverage dares to mention climate change,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. Media coverage of natural disasters often get significant coverage, with &#8220;climate change&#8221; being one of the <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2019/09/05/media-flood-hurricane-dorian-reporting-climate-alarmism">top points</a> parroted by the media.
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>, near tears: My dreams of motherhood &#8220;now tastes bittersweet&#8221; because of global warming <a href="https://t.co/hwNUSxtp3l">pic.twitter.com/hwNUSxtp3l</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1182692870010093569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It is not a coincidence that the truth is controversial,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;None of this is a coincidence because climate change is not a coincidence or a scientific anomaly. Climate change is a consequence. It is a consequence of our unsustainable way of life.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez then suggested that capitalism promotes &#8220;lawbreaking pursuit of profit&#8221; and that capitalism only benefits “the very few,” despite the <a href="https://fee.org/articles/extreme-poverty-rates-plummet-under-capitalism/">fact</a> that capitalism has lifted more people out of extreme poverty than any other economic system.
Ocasio-Cortez then admitted that her far-left <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-new-deal-would-cost-93-trillion-or-600g-per-household-study-says">$93 trillion</a> plan is really about “chang[ing] society” and “winning” in politics, and that the desired outcomes are to fix “injustice” and promote &#8220;equality.&#8221;
This is similar to what Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former chief-of-staff Saikat Chakrabarti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aocs-chief-staff-admits-green-new-deal-about-ryan-saavedra">admitted</a> during an interview.
The Washington Post reports:
<blockquote>Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” [Sam Ricketts, climate director for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D)] greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” [emphasis added]</blockquote>
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Socialist Ocasio-Cortez:
-Humanity facing “extinction” due to climate
-“No middle road” on climate policy
-Success of Green New Deal (GND) measured in “injustice &amp; equality”
-GND about “chang[ing] society”
-GND about “winning” politics
-Capitalism benefits “the very few” <a href="https://t.co/g1EURwJf1y">pic.twitter.com/g1EURwJf1y</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1183104443694252032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s speech comes a couple of weeks after far-left climate activist Greta Thunberg gave an even more extreme speech while speaking at the United Nations, a speech that was widely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-australian-pm-blasts-those-who-exploit-childrens-anxiety-on-climate-change">condemned</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/10/02/putin-belittles-greta-thunbergs-impassioned-un-speech-at-energy-forum/">criticized</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-thunberg-over-mass-extinction-ryan-saavedra">mocked</a> by world leaders while simultaneously championed by most in the media.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg began. “Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering; people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
&#8220;How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions,&#8221; Thunberg continued. &#8220;There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line. The world is waking up, and change is coming whether you like it or not.&#8221;
WATCH:
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This speech by far-left activist Greta Thunberg is absolute madness <a href="https://t.co/RFyIPZlajQ">pic.twitter.com/RFyIPZlajQ</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1176149492698992641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC CRIES: Earth Facing ‘Extinction,’ ‘Dreams Of Motherhood Now Taste Bittersweet’

Green New Deal

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, &#8220;Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.&#8221; Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity?
As reported in The New York Times (Aug. 1969) Stanford University biologist Dr. Paul Erhlich warned: &#8220;The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you&#8217;re dead. We must realize that unless we&#8217;re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.&#8221;
In 2000, Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at University of East Anglia&#8217;s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become &#8220;a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren&#8217;t going to know what snow is.&#8221; In 2004, the U.S. Pentagon warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be beneath rising seas. Britain will be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020. In 2008, Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap would be gone in a mere 10 years. A U.S. Department of Energy study led by the U.S. Navy predicted the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016.
In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that &#8220;we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.&#8221;
Peter Gunter, professor at North Texas State University, predicted in the spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness: &#8220;Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. &#8230; By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.&#8221;
Ecologist Kenneth Watt&#8217;s 1970 prediction was, &#8220;If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000.&#8221; He added, &#8220;This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.&#8221;
Mark J. Perry, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan&#8217;s Flint campus, cites 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970. This time it&#8217;s not about weather. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold and silver would be gone before 1990. Kenneth Watt said, &#8220;By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate &#8230; that there won&#8217;t be any more crude oil.&#8221;
There were grossly wild predictions well before the first Earth Day, too. In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior predicted that American oil supplies would last for only another 13 years. In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous energy claims, in 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey said that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas. However, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that as of Jan. 1, 2017, there were about 2,459 trillion cubic feet of dry natural gas in the United States. That&#8217;s enough to last us for nearly a century. The United States is the largest producer of natural gas worldwide.
Today&#8217;s wild predictions about climate doom are likely to be just as true as yesteryear&#8217;s. The major difference is today&#8217;s Americans are far more gullible and more likely to spend trillions fighting global warming. And the only result is that we&#8217;ll be much poorer and less free.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

Smoking earth.

WILLIAMS: Idiotic Environmental Predictions

Al Gore

“Save the Planet, Eat the Children,” reads a T-shirt at a congresswoman’s townhall. Meanwhile, a teenager skipping school and in obvious emotional distress makes the Nobel Peace Prize shortlist for berating world leaders about a supposedly looming mass extinction.
The most privileged generation in human history — enjoying the longest, healthiest, wealthiest, and most comfortable lives men and women have ever lived — thinks the world is collapsing around us.
What a time to be alive — literally.
By nearly every measurement, from <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFV-qmLZ0NuudYAuYJ2Rzm28twpLw">child mortality</a> and <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHePsamAKl6ekYQcrrY5TLm1R0Pug">life expectancy</a> to <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGENUK1bk7Q4MhL78k-Xp4EtpShNQ">poverty</a> and <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEGEd-ZWikheMRExDu_5hxw3pe3mQ">education</a>, quality of life around the globe is better than it’s ever been. In much of the world, subsistence living is a thing of the past and humanity is flourishing — especially those with ready access to electricity.
The Industrial Revolution, when an unprecedented boom of technological innovation transformed agrarian America into the nation we know today, wasn’t just a time of economic change and scientific progress. It propelled humanity to the most prosperous time in our history.
Once a rare treasure, electricity now powers everything we touch. It provides the essentials like clean running water and warmth in the winter and the luxuries like Instagram and Amazon Prime. It powers the institutions we depend on: Our banks, law enforcement agencies, doctor’s offices, farms, plants, stores, and schools. Similarly, affordable and dependable cars allow us to travel freely, farther, and more often than our ancestors could have fathomed, giving us the ability to do business over long distances and travel for mere pleasure.
Not everyone in the world enjoys these benefits. <a href="https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/october/population-without-access-to-electricity-falls-below-1-billion.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/october/population-without-access-to-electricity-falls-below-1-billion.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGkBVWKl3QRg9HP7wmzsfImII-E4Q">Nearly a billion people</a> still don’t have access to electricity or any of the benefits that come along with it. These are communities where medieval-sounding diseases like cholera and dysentery still reign — where life expectancies lag 20 to 30 years behind those of the developed West.
Lest we think this fate is reserved for the third world, Venezuela represents a cautionary tale on the consequences of losing the precious resource that is electricity. In March, a week-long blackout in Venezuela <a href="https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/denuncian-ongs-apagon-deja-al-menos-43-pacientes-muertos-en-venezuela" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/denuncian-ongs-apagon-deja-al-menos-43-pacientes-muertos-en-venezuela&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcSsuVM7gANRn37W58N2RuVZdTQg">left more than 40 people dead</a> because hospitals couldn’t provide basic medical care, including routine procedures like dialysis. Even now, electricity and critical healthcare infrastructure are spotty at Venezuelan hospitals, leading one doctor to <a href="https://www.voanews.com/americas/venezuelas-health-system-crumbles-pregnant-women-flee-colombia" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.voanews.com/americas/venezuelas-health-system-crumbles-pregnant-women-flee-colombia&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTereS0PNjj9eddTaMm_sysA3llA">turn pregnant patients away</a> and send them instead to neighboring Colombia.
These are the dangers we should be worried about — real threats to human health and safety — not the overblown dangers of slightly warmer weather.
For all the environmentalist movement’s hand-wringing, you’d think our extinction was scheduled to commence tomorrow. But despite the wildly popular and equally wildly misinterpreted trope that all scientists agree the world is ending, there is no concrete evidence right now to suggest climate change will be anything but mild and manageable, or that we won’t be able to handle it.
Humans are becoming more resilient to mild changes in average temperature. Migration trends show Americans are readily moving to warmer states. Even more crucially, deaths due to climate-related natural disasters have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bjornlomborg/photos/a.221758208967/10157523426118968/?type=3&amp;theater" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/bjornlomborg/photos/a.221758208967/10157523426118968/?type%3D3%26theater&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHYbbVUXNuE7QAthyq61foEpYcXIw">declined by a providential 98.9%</a>. That is thanks to our modern-day technology, which allows meteorologists to more accurately predict storm patterns and near-instant communication keeping the public better informed and prepared. It’s the reason the Great Galveston Storm of 1900 claimed more 8,000 lives, but a recent storm of similar magnitude on the Texas coast — Hurricane Harvey — killed <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAP7yUHs6AskA77v_va6sZyGkWdQ">just 68</a>. We can and should work to improve disaster readiness, but we should do so without the fear-mongering.
Given how much society has transformed since the Industrial Revolution, the potential of future generations to spread the health and prosperity we enjoy around the world should be limitless.
Yet climate change hysteria is plaguing an entire generation with a crippling fear of the future. Not only is foisting this burden on today’s children and young adults <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11776098/climate-change-despair-is-real-this-is-how-you-fight-it" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kqed.org/news/11776098/climate-change-despair-is-real-this-is-how-you-fight-it&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGiBAxEYtUOfmSaYQxv_1-VnmeYtg">unhealthy</a> — it’s simply unfair to limit the younger generation’s potential to contribute to the innovations that will drive the future. Young leaders should be empowered to pursue their passions and encouraged to experiment with new solutions, just as the greatest innovators of the past have done.
We live in the healthiest, most prosperous, most resilient time in human history. It is unfortunate that climate alarmists can&#8217;t see how far we’ve come — or how bright humanity’s future can be.
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Katie Tahuahua is Communications Manager for Life:Powered, a national initiative of the <a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a> to inform policymakers and the public about the value of abundant, reliable and affordable energy to the human condition.

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TAHUAHUA: The Debilitating Pessimism Of Climate Change Alarmists

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) took a shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) signature Green New Deal proposal on Sunday, joking that the self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; congresswoman &#8220;gives us the best things to talk about.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a saying we have in the military, it&#8217;s &#8216;work smarter not harder.&#8217; That would have been some good advice on the Green New Deal,&#8221; Crenshaw told conservative commentator Candace Owens during an appearance on her podcast.
&#8220;We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that — how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It’s something we can get behind,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Young people especially — conservatives and liberals alike really want to hear that message.&#8221;
While Democrats have largely rallied in support of the Green New Deal, it has proven to be a wedge issue among voters due to its radical policy prescriptions. With a goal of moving toward net zero emissions over a 10-year period, the proposal calls to &#8220;totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, [and] build out high-speed rail at scale where air travel stops becoming necessary,&#8221; according to the now-deleted section of Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s website.
The expansive climate and economic justice package, however, has faced massive scrutiny and mockery for prescribing <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/ten-most-insane-requirements-green-new-deal/">unrealistic and vastly burdensome</a> requirements such as the banning of cow farts, the gutting and rebuilding of every building in the country, eliminating 99% of cars, and providing every American a house, a job, an education, and even free money. The Green New Deal notably failed to receive a single vote in the Senate when it was brought to the floor.
&#8220;The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too,&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;Basically it&#8217;s just a wish list of socialist utopias, as was admitted by [Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti]. But fundamentally, it is a dogmatic approach to environmentalism, which is solar and wind.&#8221;
&#8220;Everything has to be solar and wind, there can&#8217;t be anything else, including nuclear,&#8221; Crenshaw continued. &#8220;When you start banning nuclear, that&#8217;s how you know they&#8217;re not serious about climate change.&#8221;
The Texas congressman noted that despite the absurdity of the Green New Deal, Republicans still have a duty to propose a response.
&#8220;Our approach has to be a common sense approach,&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;It has to be developing newer, cleaner technology that helps our economy and also helps the world. This is the way that I like to phrase it: we want to focus on 100% of the problem, and you can only focus on 100% of global emissions if you have technology that is exportable, clean, reliable, and cheap.&#8221;
&#8220;If you want to just focus on 15% of the problem, which is what the U.S. emits as far as a global share of carbon emissions, then yeah, destroy our economy,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Destroy our economy and you&#8217;ll erase 15% of emissions and guess what? You&#8217;ll do nothing.&#8221;

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LISTEN: Dan Crenshaw Has Some Advice For Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Green New Deal

Dan Crenshaw

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump cheered on a Twitter user who posted a critical message of teen climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg. 
Captioning a video clip of Thunberg&#8217;s recently delivery of her grim doomsday-type message about the environment at the United Nations, the Twitter user posted: “What an actress! &#8216;I should be in school.&#8217; She’s getting the best education socialism can steal. I won’t be held hostage by someone who just got a learner’s permit. Sorry kiddo! Tell Al to try again.”
“This is all wrong. I shouldn&#8217;t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg says in the CNN clip posted by the Twitter user. “Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!”
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What an actress! “I should be in school.” She’s getting the best education socialism can steal. I won’t be held hostage by someone who just got a learner’s permit. Sorry kiddo! Tell Al to try again. <a href="https://t.co/1VIaJoIyBA">pic.twitter.com/1VIaJoIyBA</a>
&mdash; Kellie (@Opinion8dKellie) <a href="https://twitter.com/Opinion8dKellie/status/1176182239954186240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump quote-tweeted the post and added, “Keep up the great work Kellie!”
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Keep up the great work Kellie! <a href="https://t.co/PcAnK009EW">https://t.co/PcAnK009EW</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179710734030249984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg’s extreme U.N. speech claimed that “people are dying” and “entire ecosystems are collapsing” due to mass inaction on climate change. 
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she said. “And yet I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
“How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight,” Thunberg continued. “You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.”
“You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal,” she added. “The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.”
Trump remarked on Thunberg’s alarmist speech, sarcastically tweeting about how cheerful and happy the teenager seems. 
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” the president posted. 
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She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! <a href="https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO">https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176339522113679360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg reasoned with a change to her Twitter bio, which now reads: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-greta-swipes-back-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a>, Thunberg’s radical U.N. speech was praised by the Left and, to a large extent, their allies in the mainstream media. But critics in the middle and on the Right took issue with the use of Thunberg as a “<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/23/tucker-carlson-greta-thunberg-leftists-power/">human shield</a>” for their extremist political agenda. Others, highlighting Thunberg’s obvious irrational anxiety over the climate, likened her use in the movement to a form of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">child abuse</a>.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52150/backlash-critics-lambast-melodramatic-greta-ryan-saavedra">BACKLASH: Critics Lambast Melodramatic Greta Thunberg Speech As ‘Child Abuse’</a>

Trump Cheers On Post Critical Of Greta Thunberg

Twitter

Yay, Al Gore&#8217;s won another award!
Wait, this one&#8217;s not so great.
The former vice president has been declared the winner of the top &#8220;Climate Hypocrite Award,&#8221; presented annually by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK).
Inhofe revealed his top five candidates in reverse order, so when he got to Gore, he said: “Last, but certainly not least, Al Gore has earned the grand prize of America’s greatest climate hypocrite. Whether it’s Gore’s chartered jets around the country or the fact his home uses up to 34 times more energy than the average American household, he’s never wavered in his calls for everyone else to ‘ … make [environmental] changes in their own lives.’ The actual ‘Inconvenient Truth’ is his hypocrisy — it is beyond absurd but typical of Hollywood elites.”
Inhofe linked to an article by the <a href="https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2017/08/01/al-gores-inconvenient-reality-the-former-vice-presidents-home-energy-use-surges-up-to-34-times-the-national-average-despite-costly-green-renovations-by-drew-johnso/">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> that listed off a bunch of Gore&#8217;s hypocrisies. Many dealt with Gore&#8217;s 10,070-square-foot Colonial-style home in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, the eighth-wealthiest neighborhood in the country.
<blockquote>In powering his home, Gore still greatly outpaces most Americans in energy consumption. The findings were shocking:
• The past year, Gore’s home energy use averaged 19,241 kilowatt hours (kWh) every month, compared to the U.S. household average of 901 kWh per month. 
• Gore guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years. 
• In September of 2016, Gore’s home consumed 30,993 kWh in just one month – as much energy as a typical American family burns in 34 months. 
• During the last 12 months, Gore devoured 66,159 kWh of electricity just heating his pool. That is enough energy to power six average U.S. households for a year. 
• From August 2016 through July 2017, Gore spent almost $22,000 on electricity bills. 
• Gore paid an estimated $60,000 to install 33 solar panels. Those solar panels produce an average of 1,092 kWh per month, only 5.7% of Gore’s typical monthly energy consumption.</blockquote>
Ouch.
The second-most hypocritical politician was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the former bartender turned expert climatologist.
“Today’s award goes to proud socialist and Democrat standard-bearer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is well known for bad ideas but also for climate hypocrisy. Despite <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez_the_world_is_going_to_end_in_12_years_if_we_dont_address_climate_change.html">claiming</a>, &#8216;the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,&#8217; she doesn’t seem to have any problem frequently utilizing rideshare apps or airfare over &#8216;eco-friendly&#8217; public transit and walking. Her radical Green New Deal would put countless Americans out of work — it would end America as we know it — but AOC doesn’t think twice about living lavishly in her luxury apartment building, taking a car one mile to work, and believing her $174,000 taxpayer-funded salary should be higher.”
AOC&#8217;s $93 trillion Green New Deal wants to get rid of farting cows, as well as planes and automobiles. But like any socialist, she doesn&#8217;t want any of that to apply to her. From April to late-June 2018, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign spent around $4,000 on 160 Uber rides in California alone. Her campaign also spent $2,500 on more than 90 rides on Juno, another ride-sharing option.
The New York Post did an expansive takeout on AOC&#8217;s Uber habit, and found this:
<blockquote>Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustion-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office. She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone. In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.</blockquote>
Climate Conference Attendees picked up the third-place award, and Barack Obama came in fourth.
&#8220;Despite stating ‘[r]ising sea levels threaten every coastline,’ that didn’t stop former President Obama from reportedly acquiring a 29 acre, $15 million ocean front estate on Martha’s Vineyard. His actions clearly show he doesn’t believe his own rhetoric, but this is all too common for elite, liberal climate doomsdayers who say one thing but do another.&#8221;
Rounding out the top 5 was Michael Mann. “To kick off Global Climate Week, it seems most fitting to first recognize Michael Mann, the architect of the <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/403256/global-warming-bombshell/">discredited</a> ‘Hockey Stick’ graph who tells people to believe the science but was implicated in manipulating data in Climategate and refuses to provide the data to back up his graph.”

Al Gore Beats Out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez For Top Climate Hypocrite Award

The entire American left — the mainstream media, the environmentalist movement and Democratic politicians in particular — are celebrating the involvement of teenagers and even younger children in protesting the world&#8217;s &#8220;inaction&#8221; with regard to global warming.
And not just the American left, of course. The left throughout the world is celebrating. A 16-year-old Swedish girl whose contempt for adults is breathtaking is an international hero. Congressional Democrats invited her to testify in Congress, and the United Nations has likewise invited her.
The mayor and city council of New York City further politicized their city&#8217;s public schools by allowing students to skip school to actively participate in a global warming protest.
The message of young climate change activists is: &#8220;You adults aren&#8217;t doing your job. As a result, we have no future.&#8221; As a sympathetic reporter — are there any non-sympathetic reporters? — for the Los Angeles Times put it, &#8220;(T)eens are still waiting for a sign that their elders get it.&#8221;
The Times&#8217; coverage is typical. It reported: &#8220;Underneath the activism lies a simple truth: Young people are incredibly scared about climate change. They see it as a profound injustice and an existential threat to their generation and those that will follow. &#8230;
&#8220;&#8216;They do worry, and they worry kind of a lot,&#8217; said Maria Ojala, an environmental psychologist at Orebro University in Sweden. &#8230;
&#8220;Arielle Martinez Cohen&#8221; — an 18-year-old Los Angeles activist with the youth climate group Zero Hour — &#8220;remembers reading a report from an Australian think tank that warned the human species could face extinction by 2050 if society doesn&#8217;t get its act together.
&#8220;&#8216;I almost imagine, like, an apocalypse-type thing happening,&#8217; Arielle said.
&#8220;Many young people say they can&#8217;t fathom bringing kids of their own into the world. &#8230;
&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s not ethical. It&#8217;s literally a burning house,&#8217; Lana said.
&#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s not realistic,&#8217; agreed her twin sister, Yena.
&#8220;And how can they even think about college or contemplate their careers when faced with so much uncertainty?
&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s something I feel every single day,&#8217; Yena said. &#8216;I work really hard at school and I do all these things, and I&#8217;m like, &#8220;What am I working for? Do I have a future?&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;
It is critical to remember that hysterias — such as Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, &#8220;endemic and systemic racism in America,&#8221; the heterosexual AIDS &#8220;crisis&#8221; in America and the &#8220;rape culture&#8221; on American college campuses — are to the left what oxygen is to biological life. No oxygen, no life; no hysteria, no left.
Apparently, however, the left-wing hysteria about global warming leading to the virtual extinction of life on Earth has not moved enough adults. Many adults who do not deny that the Earth is getting warmer — such as Danish writer and environmentalist thinker Bjorn Lomborg — do deny that the threat is &#8220;existential&#8221; and do believe that the left&#8217;s solutions, such as the Green New Deal, will damage the world far more than will carbon emissions. Proof that the left is hysterical is its unwillingness to promote nuclear power — a completely clean, non-fossil fuel-based source of power. It provides France with 70 percent of its energy. Anyone who really believes life on Earth is endangered would grasp at the nuclear power lifeboat. That they do not proves what many of us have believed from the beginning: The &#8220;existential threat&#8221; scenario is another left-wing falsehood used to whip up hysteria that will lead to the left&#8217;s control of the economy and society.
And that takes us back to the children: If you can&#8217;t sell your hysteria to adults, try kids. And that is what the left has done. After all, no one is as malleable or as easily indoctrinated as children.
Consider this: If the left didn&#8217;t tell them the world is going to end, they wouldn&#8217;t worry about it. They&#8217;d be enjoying their young lives, maybe even learning to appreciate that they live in the freest country at the most prosperous time in human history. Instead, thanks to leftists (who are children in adult bodies), they live in their grip of &#8220;existential eco-anxiety.&#8221;
This is but one more way in which the left abuses children (along with telling them they are neither boys nor girls but whatever they later choose to be; teaching them contempt for their country; and depriving them of the greatest source of morality, meaning, community and happiness — any of the Judeo-Christian religions).
It&#8217;s depressing, and it&#8217;s frightening.
The scariest movies are those featuring brainwashed children. This horror show is happening in real life.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Great Thunberg.

PRAGER: If You Can&#8217;t Sell Your Hysteria To Adults, Try Kids

Progressivism

Actor Jason Momoa delivered a speech at the United Nations on Friday in which he described humanity as &#8220;a disease that is infecting our planet&#8221; and took a thinly veiled shot at President Donald Trump for pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.
Momoa, whose blockbuster DC Universe film &#8220;Aquaman&#8221; brought in <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dcfilm0617.htm">$335 million</a> domestically and over $1 billion internationally last year, delivered the speech on behalf of &#8220;all island nations.&#8221;
&#8220;Aloha. Your excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,&#8221; Momoa told those gathered at the United Nations on Friday. &#8220;Today I stand before you as a singular representative of all island nations. I&#8217;m honored to represent those who continue to fight as stewards of this planet.&#8221;
&#8220;As a native Hawaiian born to a mother from Iowa, I have seen how one place can be oblivious to another,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The issues facing an island can feel far-removed from a place that is land-locked in the middle of our country. However, with a foothold in two worlds, I quickly began to see how a problem for one can become a problem for all.&#8221;
&#8220;As a human family, through innovation and creativity, we have elevated ourselves and perceivably stand as the most powerful beings on earth, yet our ego, our fear, and our relentless drive for profits have made us the only species willing to force disharmony with the natural balance of our world,&#8221; he stated.
&#8220;We are the living consequence of forgotten traditions. We suffer a collective amnesia of a truth that was once understood — the truth that to cause irreversible damage to the earth, is to bring the same unto ourselves,&#8221; he asserted.
&#8220;We the island nations  and all coastal communities are the front lines in this environmental crisis,” the actor continued. “The oceans are in a state of emergency. Entire marine ecosystems are vanishing with the warming of the seas. And as the waste of the world empties into our waters, we face the devastating crisis of plastic pollution.&#8221;
&#8220;We are a disease that is infecting our planet,&#8221; Momoa declared.
&#8220;From the atmosphere to the abyssal zone, we are polluted. It is a known fact that the great garbage patch floating in the Pacific is larger than the country of France. Even at the depths of the Mariana Trench we are discovering nano plastics. And shockingly, there are more particles of plastic in the ocean than there are stars in the Milky Way. It is shameful.&#8221;
Then, like fellow celebrity activist Greta Thunberg earlier in the week, Momoa got to climate change.
&#8220;Yet, the greatest threat to small island developing states is that entire islands are drowning into the sea due to the enormous volume of emissions generated by the first world countries,&#8221; he claimed, adding: &#8220;Island nations contribute the least to this disaster but are made to suffer the weight of its consequences.&#8221;
&#8220;Our governments and corporate entities have known for decades that immediate change is needed, yet change still has not come,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;And when the front line is gone, we are doomed. There is no undoing.&#8221;
&#8220;If you continue to watch unsympathetic to the issues of island nations, this realization will soon come — that you stood by and witnessed the world cross the critical tipping point, ushering in the death of our planet,&#8221; he warned, echoing Thunberg, in telling them, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">we are watching</a>.&#8221;
Momoa also made a point of condemning the Trump administration for walking away from the Paris Agreement in 2017.
&#8220;Three years ago in Paris, the world stood united and vowed to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees of warming,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We pledged to hold ourselves to a higher standard, and to do what is right. I’m standing here today because I am ashamed that not all of our leaders have honored this agreement.&#8221;
&#8220;Delegates, I ask you now, do we still stand in unity for this cause?&#8221; he charged. &#8220;Do you intend to honor the commitments for a betterment of mankind? Or will you continue to chase short-term profits above our children’s basic human rights to live on this earth? Change cannot come in 2050, or 2030, or even 2025. The change must come today. We can no longer afford the luxury of half-assing it as we willingly force ourselves beyond the threshold of no return.&#8221;
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Momoa&#8217;s speech follows the much-publicized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">statement</a> delivered by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg on Monday in which she claimed that we are &#8220;in the beginning of a mass extinction.&#8221;
&#8220;My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; she told world leaders. &#8220;This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-greta-swipes-back-james-barrett">Trump Trolls Greta Thunberg; Greta Swipes Back</a>
Partial transcript via <a href="https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/09/27/video-jason-momoa-addresses-united-nations-on-climate-crisis/">Big Island Video News.</a>

Jason Momoa

WATCH: ‘Aquaman’ Jason Momoa Says ‘We Are A Disease Infecting Our Planet,’ Rips Trump At U.N.

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about President Trump’s speech to the United Nations warning about the dangers of globalism. Video and partial transcript below: 
President Trump went to the UN yesterday, and he tackled this issue head on. Because what the Left wants you to believe is that there is a scientific consensus — as though science were made by consensus — that the world is going to end in 10 years. Nobody thinks that. No scientist, not one actual scientist thinks that the human race will be extinct in 10 years, even though that&#8217;s what politicians are selling us, even though that&#8217;s what half of young voters apparently believe. 
Totally unscientific, but what the Left wants you to think is that climate change is [just a] scientific issue. Look, it&#8217;s just the science, no politics involved. And hey, coincidentally, because of that science you need to give us higher taxes, redistribution of wealth, reparations for slavery — for some reason that&#8217;s in a lot of the Green-New-Deal-like proposals, not sure why, but it is. You need to give us open borders, you need to give us greater international control of government, you need to surrender some of your sovereignty, you need to surrender some of your power when it comes to negotiating trade deals, you need to do all of this because of the science. So what does any of that have to do with science? They say no, no, you just have to, that&#8217;s the natural progression. And so the UN is a great place to do this, this is why the UN has led the way talking about global warming. It just coincidentally — the global warming alarmism — achieves all of the UN&#8217;s goals for a very long time.
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So President Trump goes to the UN and he&#8217;s not fooled by this false distinction without a difference. He goes at it head on, and he says, using one term, “globalist,” he sums it all up, and he makes clear the future does not belong to the globalist areas. 
<blockquote>TRUMP: The truth is plain to see: If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty; and if you want peace, love your nation. Wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first. The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots, the future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors, and honor the differences that make each country special and unique. </blockquote>
Absolutely beautiful, spot on. You know there is a defeater for this whole climate change argument to begin with. What we&#8217;re told by the global climate change movement is we&#8217;ve got to stop Trump; Trump is destroying the world. That&#8217;s what some people have said, even on television, Trump is destroying the world. Yet, they blame Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, they said &#8230; that&#8217;s going to ruin the whole world. A year or two after Trump pulled out of that global climate accord, they looked at the numbers; turned out, the United States not only didn&#8217;t put more carbon into the air, it didn&#8217;t pollute more than they had previously. The U.S. actually led the world in reducing their carbon emissions even as they pulled out of the global climate accord. Actually, a number of nations, including Western European nations who signed on to the global climate accord, not only didn&#8217;t follow what they agreed to, they actually increased their polluting.
So what Trump is saying, a system of free and sovereign nations with self-government is the best way to have a good peaceful future. I mean, that applies apparently, quite literally, to the climate change issue. Because what is the opposite of a free and sovereign nation? You&#8217;ve got China: Leftism taken to its logical extreme, an actual communist country, leading the world by many multiples in their pollution. We could all stop polluting tomorrow. We could all just sit and stop breathing and hold our breath, [and] it wouldn&#8217;t do anything because China has such a disproportionate effect. 
That&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s about. It&#8217;s not about the environment. [It’s about] the globalism, it is the Leftism, it is — use whatever term you want to use. Trump sees that, and for people who say Trump is a dolt, he doesn&#8217;t know anything about politics, he doesn&#8217;t really know about his opponents to know what he&#8217;s doing. That is a sophisticated conclusion to reach, not a lot of people understand that relationship — that climate change hysteria is socialism [through] the backdoor. Not a lot of people have put their finger on it, [but Trump] has. He gets it. He&#8217;s speaking very bluntly, and he&#8217;s speaking about protecting the country. It&#8217;s a beautiful thing. 
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KNOWLES: Trump Just Proved Again He Understands Why The Left Pushes Climate Hysteria

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate &#8220;activist&#8221; alarmist Greta Thunberg is all the rage right now. Thunberg, who has indubitably benefited from no shortage of formal public communication training, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1176149492698992641">speaks</a> with the moral certitude and dripping condescension so characteristic of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">broader pagan cult</a> that is &#8220;climate change&#8221; alarmism. Oppose the proposed totalitarian, socialist &#8220;remedies&#8221; for such a purported pandemic and one is called a &#8220;climate denier&#8221; at best — or a depraved madman at worst. While evidence is thus far lacking, the <a href="https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/greta-thunberg--how-big-is-the-influence-of-your-mentor-.S1bXoGcuV.html">circumstantial totality</a> suggests the real possibility that, much like the well-organized Left during the Kavanaugh confirmation imbroglio, there may be a <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/24/not-to-put-too-fine-a-point-on-it-but/">&#8220;well-orchestrated and well-funded P.R. campaign&#8221;</a> here whose over-arching goal is the shaming of free market-oriented dissenters into submission at the pagan altar of enviro-statism.
The notion that policymakers ought to consider proposing policy due to the fraught and hysterical pleas of a 16-year-old is, naturally, <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/24/we-should-not-set-global-policy-based-on-a-16-year-old-with-a-developmental-disorder/">insane</a>. And the use of Thunberg herself — who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/this-greta-thunberg-thing-is-child-abuse">apparently began suffering</a> from depression as a child — as the leading global enviro-statist prop is, as Amanda Prestigiacomo put it, downright unethical.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">What Greta Thunberg&#8217;s stage parents are doing to her is unethical. <a href="https://t.co/3gluUhS8LN">https://t.co/3gluUhS8LN</a> <a href="https://t.co/GRvqvsZ9Ad">pic.twitter.com/GRvqvsZ9Ad</a>
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1176536341187878913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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My Daily Wire colleague Matt Walsh is correct that the deification of Thunberg amounts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">child abuse</a>. Indeed, the use of Thunberg as an emotionally compelling prop for zealous socialists foaming at the mouth for any excuse to enact anti-capitalistic policy ought to harken us all back to the last time leftists glommed onto malleable teenagers for use as political props: The aftermath of the school shooting in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27443/watch-dana-loesch-called-murderer-cnn-gun-control-james-barrett">Parkland, Florida</a>. Then, as now, the Left cynically decided that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/17662/stop-alinskyization-american-right-josh-hammer">easiest means</a> by which to accomplish its ends was via the public trotting out of minors as spokespersons to emotionally manipulate a gullible public.
But such a tendentious use of minors for the promotion and advancement of a political agenda is not just wrong. It is affirmatively evil.
One can tell a lot about a society by how it treats children. In the United States, the eradication of mass legalized child labor via the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act represents that rare FDR/New Deal-era policy achievement about which even conservatives can be proud. Contrast that with the <a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/worst-countries-for-child-labor.html">ubiquitous child labor</a> that still exists in much of the Third World, and one sees a paradigmatic example of what sets apart the more advanced from the more barbaric civilizations. The darker <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-live-to-tell-inside-the-world-of-child-sex-trafficking-and-ashton-kutchers-high-tech-approach-to-saving-victims/">world of child sex trafficking</a> is, of course, far more harrowing still.
The <a href="https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0161.xml">innocence of children</a> is something that every proper society ought to cherish and nourish. Tim Lott <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/10/what-is-childhood-innocence">described</a> well this sort of innocence for The Guardian in 2013: &#8220;Innocence goes deeper than ignorance. It is some mysterious operation of the imagination, the part that can enter into mental universes from which one is soon to be forever excluded.&#8221; Societies that aim to maintain the pristine nature of childhood — with its lack of adult responsibility, simplicity, carefree nature, and purity all remaining intact — are societies that ought to be lauded. Societies that disabuse children of their innocence and foist upon children the responsibilities and sundry pitfalls of adulthood are societies that ought to be chastised. Even Hollywood, with its longstanding lionization of the child actor, is worthy of no small amount of scorn.
By all means, teenagers ought to be encouraged to think deeply about issues of global importance. They ought to be encouraged to educate themselves on current events and begin the slow, lifelong process of discovering the nature of truth. But to cynically prop up a teenager as an avatar for a political movement so as to better emotionally manipulate the masses as to the correctness of your political position is no act of valiance. It is an act of cowardice, an act of innocence deprival, an act of evil.

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HAMMER: Using Children To Advance Your Political Agenda Isn’t Just Wrong. It’s Evil.

Children

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Parkland Shooting

On Monday, climate change activist Greta Thunberg gave a much-publicized speech in front of the United Nations in which she chastised world leaders for supposedly bringing us to &#8220;the beginning of a mass extinction.&#8221;
While Thunberg&#8217;s alarmist speech was widely praised by the Left, it was met with widespread backlash from the Right. Many critics blasted the use of children as &#8220;<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/23/tucker-carlson-greta-thunberg-leftists-power/">human shields</a>&#8221; in political debates and condemned the climate fear-mongering that has so clearly terrified the 16-year-old — who has been formally <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/greta-thunberg-is-the-climate-heroine-we-need">diagnosed</a> with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome coupled with high-functioning autism and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) — as a form of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">child abuse</a>.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52153/trump-trolls-greta-thunberg-over-mass-extinction-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported, among those on the Right who responded to Thunberg was President Trump, who issued a trolling tweet referencing the young activist Monday night.
&#8220;She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!&#8221; Trump wrote in a tweet dripping with sarcasm and linking to a video of her speech.
In apparent reponse, Thunberg changed her status on Twitter. &#8220;A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,&#8221; it now reads (screenshot from New York Times&#8217; reporter Astead Herndon below).
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— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1176521476545138689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In front of the United Nations Monday, Thunberg warned world leaders &#8220;we&#8217;ll be watching you&#8221; and condemned them for supposedly forcing her to appear in front of them instead of being &#8220;back in school on the other side of the ocean.&#8221;
&#8220;You all come to us young people for hope,&#8221; she said. &#8220;How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!&#8221;
Claiming that the science has been &#8220;crystal-clear&#8221; for over 30 years, Thunberg charged, &#8220;How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you&#8217;re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.&#8221;
&#8220;You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil — and that I refuse to believe,&#8221; she said.
She then declared that cutting carbon emissions in half by 10 years is &#8220;simply not acceptable&#8221; to her generation.
&#8220;The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting of irreversible chain reactions beyond human control,&#8221; she said. &#8220;50% may be acceptable to you, but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution, or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So, a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us, we who have to live with the consequences.&#8221;
&#8220;How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions with today&#8217;s emissions levels that remaining CO2 budgets will be entirely gone within less than eight and a half years,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.&#8221;
&#8220;You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;The eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52150/backlash-critics-lambast-melodramatic-greta-ryan-saavedra">BACKLASH: Critics Lambast Melodramatic Greta Thunberg Speech As ‘Child Abuse’</a>

Trump Trolls Greta Thunberg; Greta Swipes Back

Greta Thunberg famously sailed to America on her climate crusade. One wonders why she didn&#8217;t go to China. One wonders why, by and large, Western countries have to absorb the brunt of the finger-wagging lectures from climate activists. On Monday, legions of concerned and thoughtful climate activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52135/watch-most-memorable-moments-shut-down-dc-climate-emily-zanotti">swarmed the streets</a> of Washington, D.C., to twerk and throw trash. Why don&#8217;t they take their traveling show to Indonesia or India?
Indeed, there is a giant, gaping, Asia-sized hole in our correct conversation about climate change. I tend to agree with George Carlin&#8217;s negative <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c">assessment</a> of the &#8220;save the planet&#8221; rhetoric, but if the planet really does need to be saved, and if we really are capable of saving it, all of our efforts will be for naught if Asia does not join the crusade. Really, Asia should be leading the crusade, as they are the ones causing most of the problem. Far be it for me to finger point, but most of the planet abuse is happening in its Eastern hemisphere.
As Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-than-the-u-s-and-eu-combined/#3c09e88a628c">notes</a>, China alone produces more carbon dioxide than the U.S., Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the U.K. combined. Add India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Japan into the mix, and the Asia Pacific region accounts, by itself, for 50% of the world&#8217;s carbon emissions. The air pollution is so severe in China that solar panels there <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90375916/chinas-air-pollution-is-so-bad-solar-panels-no-longer-work">don&#8217;t work</a>. After all, it&#8217;s difficult to harness the energy of the sun if its rays can&#8217;t sufficiently penetrate through all the toxins and filth in the air.
It&#8217;s even worse with water pollution. While Americans are scolded for their plastic straws and utensils, Asia continues to dump millions of tons of garbage into the world&#8217;s water supply. Five Asian countries put more plastic in the ocean than every other country on Earth <a href="https://oceanconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/full-report-stemming-the.pdf">combined</a>. Many rivers in Asia function as glorified conveyor belts for trash and human waste. The <a href="https://ibanplastic.com/top-10-most-polluted-rivers-in-the-world/">majority of the filthiest rivers</a> on the planet are in Asia. It&#8217;s bad enough that a fisherman in Indonesia <a href="https://www.chron.com/weird/article/Indonesia-Citarum-fishing-dead-body-Jakarta-12969867.php">recently</a> thought he hooked a big fish, only to find a decomposing human body on the other end of his line. That river, the Citarum, <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/indonesias-citarum-the-worlds-most-polluted-river/">absorbs</a> about 20,000 tons of waste every day. All of it is then ferried into the ocean. We could load every plastic straw in America into a giant cannon and shoot the whole bundle into the sun and it wouldn&#8217;t even make a dent in the water pollution problem. Overall, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html">95%</a> of the plastic deposited in the ocean from rivers comes from Asia or Africa. That leaves just 5% to divide between the remaining one-third of the world population.
All of this leads back to my first question: Why isn&#8217;t Greta Thunberg delivering her sermons in China or India? Why do environmental activists focus almost all of their ire on exactly the regions of the world that contribute least to the problem? The answer, of course, is optics. The media wouldn&#8217;t feel quite so warm and fuzzy about the spectacle of a white girl screaming at a non-white audience. An American environmentalist who goes to Indonesia to scold its inhabitants for treating their rivers like garbage cans will not be as widely celebrated as one who stays here in the states and rages against plastic cups. And at the end of the day, environmentalism has little to do with the environment. It is more about money and power for politicians and self-aggrandizement for the activists blocking traffic in D.C.

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WALSH: Asia Is Responsible For The Vast Majority Of Air And Water Pollution. Greta Thunberg Should Go Lecture Them.

The following is satirical.
The Left has hit on a brilliant new plan called &#8220;Selling Bad Ideas Through Child Abuse.&#8221; Left-wing activist Connie Heartless extolled the new strategy to a meeting of beneficiaries of left-wing policies living in tents under the Manhattan Bridge. Ms. Heartless said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why we didn&#8217;t think of this before. All these years, we&#8217;ve been trying to seize people&#8217;s guns and take over the economy through spreading panic about violence and climate change among adults. We missed the obvious flaw in that plan: adults have fully developed brains and the capacity to reason. But children can be easily terrorized by our propaganda and then used as spokespeople to spread that terror to others.&#8221;
When asked whether terrorizing teenagers into pushing gun and climate panic wasn&#8217;t a form of child abuse, Ms. Heartless said, &#8220;What sort of evil right-winger would pick on these poor children when they are clearly being abused for political purposes. Instead we should be celebrating the courage of those children who have overcome the fact that they&#8217;re being abused by climate change activists in order to become spokespeople for the climate change activists who are abusing them.&#8221;
In a speech to the Organization of World Leaders Trying to Seize Economic Power by Spreading Climate Panic — or U.N. for short — Ms Heartless said, &#8220;How dare we pull these children out of school to spread panic about climate change when they could be in school not studying because we&#8217;ve convinced them they&#8217;re all going to die because of climate change.&#8221; As Ms. Heartless spoke, she proudly pointed to several climate change spokes-children curled up in a corner sucking their thumbs and rocking themselves compulsively.
Ms. Heartless also added her praise of traumatized children being used to spread panic about guns, saying, &#8220;If we don&#8217;t abandon the Constitution to stop these young people from being abused then we must go on abusing them.&#8221;
Ms. Heartless&#8217;s speech brought the U.N. audience to their feet, chanting, &#8220;Give us all the power or we&#8217;ll continue to abuse your children.&#8221; It was a triumphant moment. For child abuse.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">WALSH: Greta Thunberg Is A Child Abuse Victim</a>

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Left’s Brilliant New Strategy: Selling Bad Ideas Through Child Abuse [Satire]

After far-left climate activist Greta Thunberg gave an extreme speech at the United Nations on Monday, the Left worked overtime to brand anyone who criticized Thunberg or her speech as a vicious bully picking on a child. The Left used similar tactics after the media repeatedly trotted out teen survivors of the tragic Parkland high school mass shooting last year to promote gun control.
But teens are only off-limits when they are promoting left-wing causes, it seems. Earlier this year, Catholic students at Covington High School were ripped apart and smeared by liberals after an out-of-context clip of a confrontation with Native American activist Nathan Phillips went viral online. More footage of the encounter would later show that the teens were the ones confronted by Phillips and endured nasty, racist taunting from another group of activists moments before.
Nonetheless, here&#8217;s how the Left treated 16-year-old Nick Sandmann, who became the face of the incident, and his fellow students.
&#8220;Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid&#8217;s?&#8221; asked former CNN host Reza Aslan.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s? <a href="https://t.co/jolQ7BZQPD">pic.twitter.com/jolQ7BZQPD</a>
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1086806539552284672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I hate this! It makes me sick to see those smarmy self-congratulatory expressions on their faces!&#8221; wrote left-wing actress Mira Sorvino.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I hate this! It makes me sick to see those smarmy self-congratulatory expressions on their faces!
— Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiraSorvino/status/1086664163995279361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What I wouldn’t give to smack the smug little look off this guy&#8217;s f***ing face,&#8221; &#8220;Riverdale&#8221; star Lili Reinhart wrote.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">What I wouldn’t give to smack the smug little look off this guy’s fucking face
— Lili Reinhart (@lilireinhart) <a href="https://twitter.com/lilireinhart/status/1086730772050980864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King predictably leveled racially charged smears against the teens.
&#8220;I am so deeply grieved and angry by this as young kids in MAGA hats surrounded and mocked a beloved Native American elder yesterday,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;When your power is centered in your whiteness, mocking others who are unlike you makes you feel strong. But it’s weak. And despicable.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I am so deeply grieved and angry by this as young kids in MAGA hats surrounded and mocked a beloved Native American elder yesterday.
When your power is centered in your whiteness, mocking others who are unlike you makes you feel strong.
But it’s weak. And despicable. <a href="https://t.co/38FtzGtowL">pic.twitter.com/38FtzGtowL</a>
— Shaun King (@shaunking) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1086686777732186112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN analyst and self-styled Republican strategist Ana Navarro smeared the teens as &#8220;racist.&#8221;
&#8220;Must Watch: Native-American elder taunted by racist MAGA-hat wearing teens, speaks and cries for America, the country he defended and sacrificed and wore the uniform for. It is people like Nathan Phillips who make America great,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Thank you for your dignity, sir.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Must Watch: Native-American elder taunted by racist MAGA-hat wearing teens, speaks and cries for America, the country he defended and sacrificed and wore the uniform for. It is people like Nathan Phillips who make America great. 
Thank you for your dignity, sir. <a href="https://t.co/Kae7lgAFrk">https://t.co/Kae7lgAFrk</a>
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1086699541611581441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sports journalist Molly Knight ripped &#8220;white dude&#8221; Sandmann for his &#8220;smugness.&#8221;
&#8220;The smugness of knowing you can flaunt your lack of humanity and float through life with no consequences because you’re a white dude is the core of Trumpism. This is it,&#8221; she posted.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The smugness of knowing you can flaunt your lack of humanity and float through life with no consequences because you’re a white dude is the core of Trumpism. This is it. <a href="https://t.co/R0H9dfcCOI">https://t.co/R0H9dfcCOI</a>
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) <a href="https://twitter.com/molly_knight/status/1086744832494555137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Comedian and left-wing activist Kathy Griffin risked endangering the teen boys&#8217; lives via doxxing.
&#8220;Name these kids. I want NAMES. Shame them. If you think these fuckers wouldn’t dox you in a heartbeat, think again,&#8221; Griffin <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/high-schoolers-accuse-comedian-kathy-griffin-of-harassment/">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;Names please. And stories from people who can identify them and vouch for their identity. Thank you,&#8221; she later added via Twitter.
Porn star and anti-Trump resistance hero Stormy Daniels suggested, &#8220;I&#8217;m suddenly in favor of building a wall…around Covington Catholic High in KY. And let&#8217;s electrify it to keep those disgusting punks from getting loose and creating more vileness in society.&#8221; The tweet has since been <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stormy-daniels-wants-build-wall-around-disgusting-punks-filmed-taunting-native-american-protestors-140746359.html">removed</a> from Twitter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49980/judge-dismisses-nick-sandmanns-lawsuit-against-paul-bois">Judge Appointed By Jimmy Carter Dismisses Nick Sandmann’s Lawsuit Against Washington Post</a>

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FLASHBACK: Here’s How The Left Treated 16-Year-Old Nick Sandmann And The Covington Boys

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President Donald Trump hilariously trolled far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg on Monday night after Thunberg gave a widely criticized speech at the United Nations.
Thunberg delivered a melodramatic speech in which she repeatedly condemned adults, saying, &#8220;how dare you!&#8221; while claiming &#8220;we are in the beginning of a mass extinction.&#8221;
Trump responded to the speech by tweeting: &#8220;She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! <a href="https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO">https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176339522113679360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Leftists instantly went into freakout mode over the tweet, declaring that Trump had &#8220;officially broken&#8221; them.
Willie Garson <a href="https://twitter.com/WillieGarson/status/1176345253667696640">tweeted</a>: &#8220;He has now officially broken me. A horrible evil world leader, trolling a 16 year old with Asperger&#8217;s, for passionately discussing scientific facts. And the comments support him. I&#8217;m done, these people are not decent, Patriots, or humans. We are amidst monsters.&#8221;
Amr Khalifa <a href="https://twitter.com/Cairo67Unedited/status/1176340385607667713">tweeted</a>: &#8220;The most unfeeling &#8216;person&#8217; on earth bullying a teenager who has done more with her life at 16 than he has done in 4 times the lifespan. #GretaThurnberg&#8221;
John Aravois <a href="https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1176343943979708417">tweeted</a>: &#8220;Tell me again why Trump’s minor son can’t even be mentioned by name while he attacks a 16 y.o. girl.&#8221;
Charles Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/1176345830065766402">tweeted</a>: &#8220;This is the president of the US, joining in the right wing attacks on @GretaThunberg. You knew he would, but damn.&#8221;
Transcript of Thunberg&#8217;s speech:
<blockquote>My message is that we&#8217;ll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn&#8217;t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.
For more than 30 years the science has been crystal-clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you&#8217;re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.
The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting of irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. 50% may be acceptable to you but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution, or the aspects of equity and climate justice, they also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So, a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us, we who have to live with the consequences.
How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions with today&#8217;s emissions levels that remaining CO2 budgets will be entirely gone within less than 8 and a half years. There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52150/backlash-critics-lambast-melodramatic-greta-ryan-saavedra">BACKLASH: Critics Lambast Melodramatic Greta Thunberg Speech As ‘Child Abuse’</a>

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