President Donald Trump responded Wednesday to a radical speech from teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, suggesting the activist &#8220;focus&#8221; on nations with rising emissions instead of spending her time bashing the United States.
Trump said at a presser on Wednesday that he did not watch Thunberg&#8217;s speech, though he would have &#8220;loved to,&#8221; while challenging the teen to focus on entire continents and countries producing dramatically rising emissions.
&#8220;Some people put it at a level that is unrealistic, to a point that you can&#8217;t live your lives,&#8221; Trump explained. &#8220;We want to have the cleanest water on earth, we wanna have the cleanest air on earth. Our numbers, as you saw, we had record numbers come out very recently. Our [environmental] numbers are very, very good.&#8221;
&#8220;We have to do something about other continents, we have to do something about other countries,&#8221; POTUS continued. &#8220;When we&#8217;re clean and beautiful and everything is good, but you have another continent where the fumes are rising at levels that you can&#8217;t believe. I think Greta oughta focus on those places.&#8221;
&#8220;We are doing better right now than we&#8217;ve ever done in terms of cleanliness, in terms of numbers,&#8221; Trump emphasized.
&#8220;We have a beautiful ocean called the Pacific Ocean with thousands and thousands of tons of garbage flowing toward us, and that&#8217;s put there by other countries. And I think Greta has to focus on those other countries,&#8221; the president concluded.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-attacks-u-s-admonishes-world-leaders-i-said-i-wanted-you-to-panic">The Daily Wire</a> on Tuesday, Thunberg ripped President Trump&#8217;s decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord, despite the United States leading the world in CO2 emissions reductions, during her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“One year ago I came to Davos and told you that our house is on fire,” Thunberg started her radical address. “I said I wanted you to panic. I’ve been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do. But don’t worry. It’s fine. Trust me, I’ve done this before, and I can assure you it doesn’t lead to anything.&#8221;
“The fact that the U.S.A. is leaving the Paris accord seems to outrage and worry everyone, and it should,” the teen continued. “But the fact that we’re all about to fail the commitments you signed up for in the Paris Agreement doesn’t seem to bother the people in power even the least.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/06/greta-thunberg-says-school-strikes-have-achieved-nothing?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco">The Guardian</a>, “greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 4%” since the Paris Accords were signed, while the U.S.&#8217;s emissions have dropped.
Thunberg typically avoids mentioning China when offering her screeds against world leaders on climate change, despite the nation leading in carbon emissions. Notably, the activist has also yet to visit China to give one of her lectures.
“With the world’s largest population and for decades one of the fastest growing economies, China is far and away the world’s top CO2 emitter,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/china-us-countries-that-produce-the-most-co-2-emissions/39548763/">USA Today</a> reported this summer, using data collecting in 2017. “Close to 10,000 million metric tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by the superpower in 2017. On a per capita basis, China’s CO2 emissions of 7.1 metric tons per person trail that of most countries on this list but still rank in the top 50 worldwide.”
“Driving China’s CO2 emissions is the nation’s massive coal production,” the reported added. “China’s generation of electricity from coal has dropped slightly from 75% in 1992 to 70% in 2015. Still, overall coal production has tripled since 2000 to nearly 4,000 million metric tons – approximately half of all global coal production.”
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Actor John Cusack is a big fan of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; particular brand of socialism. In fact, as the &#8217;80s actor made alarmingly clear at a Bernie rally in Exeter, NH on Saturday, he believes if we don&#8217;t stop &#8220;predatory capitalism&#8221; in the next &#8220;ten or twelve years,&#8221; we&#8217;re all toast.
&#8220;[T]he billionaires are getting nervous and all the corporate media is — they hate us, they don’t hate us, they&#8217;re confused. And it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here,&#8221; declared Cusack, in remarks reported by <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-john-cusack-we-have-10-12-years-save-planet-climate-capitali">Grabien</a>.
&#8220;We know this form of capitalism takes and takes; it takes whatever, whenever, however it wants,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’ll take our lives, it’ll take our labor, our spirit, our air and water, even our earth.&#8221;
Cusack then echoed an alarmist line often repeated by global warming activist Greta Thunberg, but specifically tying the sentiment to Sanders&#8217; policies.
&#8220;Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a ten to twelve year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;And as we can see literally every day, the house is on fire.&#8221;
Bernie, suggested Cusack, is our only hope in these desperate times.
&#8220;But as Bernie tells us, this is no time for despair, it&#8217;s no time for anything but action,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because if we stand together, with him, the future is still indeed unwritten. And there’s nothing more powerful than a movement whose time has come.&#8221;
Cusack then invoked a vaguely defined &#8220;movement,&#8221; by which he appears to mean democratic socialism, which he says is now finally &#8220;close&#8221; to power.
&#8220;We have never had a movement candidate this close to power with a revolutionary movement he’s led and built, ready-to-go, all the way to change the country and help heal the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;With people of every race, creed, gender, everybody stands together in solidarity when all of us whose labor powers this economy, stop the profiteering and tell the billionaires and the  corporate tyrannies that it&#8217;s time to start treating all human beings with respect and dignity.&#8221;
Video of Cusack&#8217;s remarks below (via <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-john-cusack-we-have-10-12-years-save-planet-climate-capitali">Grabien</a>):
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Other celebrities who&#8217;ve made millions from Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;predatory capitalism&#8221; have resorted to Thunbergian rhetoric about climate change in recent months, including &#8220;Aquaman&#8221; (which blew up at the box office) star Jason Momoa, who told the United Nations in September that humanity is &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-aquaman-jason-momoa-says-we-are-a-disease-infecting-our-planet-rips-trump-at-u-n">a disease that is infecting our planet.</a>&#8221;
&#8220;From the atmosphere to the abyssal zone, we are polluted,&#8221; said the &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; star. &#8220;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;
&#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 said. &#8220;Island nations contribute the least to this disaster but are made to suffer the weight of its consequences.&#8221;
Similar to Cusack, Momoa laid the blame at the feet of capitalism and failure of the government to intervene enough.
&#8220;Our governments and corporate entities have known for decades that immediate change is needed, yet change still has not come,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;And when the front line is gone, we are doomed. There is no undoing. 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;
Momoa&#8217;s speech the U.N. below:
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On Thursday, a Facebook glitch revealed who&#8217;s posting on climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg&#8217;s Facebook page: her father Svantes Thunberg and &#8220;Climate Crisis activist&#8221; Adarsh Prathap.
&#8220;[A] bug that was live from Thursday evening until Friday morning allowed anyone to easily reveal the accounts running a Page, essentially doxing anyone who posted to one,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-bug-page-admins-edit-history-doxxing/">Wired</a> reported Friday.
&#8220;We quickly fixed an issue where someone could see who edited or published a post on behalf of a Page when looking at its edit history,&#8221; Facebook responded to the controversy in a statement. &#8220;We are grateful to the security researcher who alerted us to this issue.&#8221;
&#8220;Still, despite the Friday morning fix,&#8221; Wired explained, &#8220;screenshots circulated on 4chan, Imgur, and social media appearing to show the accounts behind the official Facebook Pages of the pseudonymous artist Banksy, Russian president Vladimir Putin, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, the hacking collective Anonymous, climate activist Greta Thunberg, and rapper Snoop Dogg, among others.&#8221;
Screenshot circulating online show Svantes and Prathap behind the teen climate activist&#8217;s Facebook page.
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A recent Facebook glitch revealed the accounts posting for Greta Thunberg: her dad and Adarsh Prathap. Greta addressed the criticism on FB: &#39;All texts posted on my Facebook page has of course been written by me, just like everything else.&#39; <a href="https://t.co/abAkdW9RqA">pic.twitter.com/abAkdW9RqA</a>
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Seemingly confirming the screenshots, Thunberg addressed the issue on Saturday.
&#8220;Some people have been asking who manages this page. First of all, since last spring I only use Facebook to repost what I write on my Twitter and Instagram accounts,&#8221; wrote the teen.
&#8220;Since I have chosen not to be on Facebook personally ( I tried early on but decided it wasn’t for me) I use my father Svantes account to repost content, because you need an account to moderate a Facebook page,&#8221; explained Thunberg.
Prathap, Thunberg explained, founded the official Greta Thunberg Facebook page &#8220;long before&#8221; she knew it existed. Since folks already thought it was her real page, she said, she decided to co-manage the page.
&#8220;The rest that is shared on Facebook is reposted from Twitter and Instagram by the guy who founded the Greta Thunberg Facebook page long before I knew it existed,&#8221; wrote Thunberg. &#8220;His name is <a class="profileLink" title="Adarsh Prathap" href="https://www.facebook.com/adarsh.prathap?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARBgb2ffBiAKOEkdGLrIbzbwHqidP9d6_2CVf2ragIlXVo85GXnlYCWK5S19t80UVLV4_sAMByqx4V08&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD-WyACegA-8xa3IYEA-u5laJLlSwtYJ7YbGNQPo8d5Ua8OMKI0v4HY62BYc2kuyywugcSEKQjvTlKdxwHnPVqYGnqOsC1aqUZ17IoNzqK-E6eamelRGdGoSJHC_UWoYiYgk0Ub5KyozBSZUeT8wAmdFbdtsf3CSH103Tyb3imlImEH-Q2g-hN2S8AgcBraP4EWro5axnKtwPIPybpFVcXQdSkP-fXUBzwzcwITrH4NWeVpsuvR1TwLNleR0WJVCKCWa_R3r-IvMNmwWsRqUONf5Z6v7jpBLy_foWss-bnYMCH5XmPhjqAbZc3MTVeU4BSv09xv18G0XL4-rgNS_g" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001563536174&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBgb2ffBiAKOEkdGLrIbzbwHqidP9d6_2CVf2ragIlXVo85GXnlYCWK5S19t80UVLV4_sAMByqx4V08%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Adarsh Prathap</a> and he lives in India. Since a lot of people thought it was my official page in the beginning I asked if I could co-manage it and he said yes.&#8221;
&#8220;All texts posted on my Facebook page has of course been written by me, just like everything else,&#8221; claimed Thunberg.
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&#8220;Thank you for clarifying, Greta,&#8221; responded Prathap. &#8220;It&#8217;s my pleasure to help you out as much I can.&#8221;
&#8220;And a word to people who are running behind Greta and now me to attack on twitter and facebook,&#8221; he added, &#8220;Let’s talk about climate breakdown and solutions. Let’s support each other to overcome this crisis together!&#8221;
Earlier this month, Svantes revealed that he initially thought his daughter&#8217;s far-left &#8220;activism was a &#8216;bad idea&#8217; and that he and his wife were &#8216;not&#8217; supportive of it,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gretas-dad-climate-change-a-question-her-activism-a-bad-idea">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“She decided to do this. We said quite clearly that we would not support it,” Svante told the media. “Well, obviously we thought it was a bad idea, putting yourself out there with all the hate on social media and the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself on the very front line of such a huge question like climate change.”

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While speaking at a climate change rally on Friday, award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix targeted the meat and dairy industries for being &#8220;the third leading cause of climate change.&#8221;
Standing alongside controversial activist and actress Jane Fonda, who organized the event, Phoenix took to the mic to blast the industries while nonetheless admitting his role in an expanding carbon footprint. For example, Phoenix had to fly a plane to the rally, something the actor suggested was out of his control.
&#8220;Something, I think, isn&#8217;t often times talked about in the environmental movement, or the conversation about climate change, is that the meat and dairy industry is the third leading cause of climate change,&#8221; started the &#8220;Joker&#8221; actor, fresh off his Golden Globes win.
&#8220;And, um, I think sometimes we think, what can we do in this fight against climate change, and there&#8217;s something that you can do today, right now, and tomorrow by making a choice what you consume,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I struggle so much with what I can do at times,&#8221; Phoenix added. &#8220;There are things that I can&#8217;t avoid — I flew a plane out here today, or last night, rather. But one thing that I can do is change my eating habits.&#8221;
&#8220;So I just wanna urge all of you to join me in that,&#8221; closed the actor.
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Joaquin Phoenix: &quot;I struggle so much with what I can do [to combat climate change] at times. There are things that I can&#39;t avoid &#8212; I flew a plane out here today, or last night rather. But one thing that I can do is change my eating habits.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/RaZILYq0La">pic.twitter.com/RaZILYq0La</a>
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During his Golden Globes award acceptance speech on Sunday, Phoenix also zeroed in on climate change, taking a jab at Hollywood for its collective hypocrisy on the issue.
“It’s really nice that so many people come up and sent their well wishes, but we have to do more than that, right?” Phoenix said, referring to the fires in Australia. “I have not always been a virtuous man. I’m learning so much — so many of you in this room have given me multiple opportunities to get it right.”
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/update-dozens-more-arrested-in-australia-for-deliberately-setting-wildfires">The Daily Wire</a> earlier this week, dozens of alleged arsonists have been arrested in connection to the raging fires in Australia, reportedly setting at least 100 fires.
“It’s great to vote but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I hope that we can do that — we don’t have to take private jets to Palm Springs sometimes or back, please.&#8221;
“I’ll try to do better and I hope you will too,&#8221; he added.
Earlier in the speech, as noted by <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/joaquin-phoenix-golden-globes-speech-joker-1203456066/">Variety</a>, Phoenix &#8220;lauded the Globes for switching to a vegan meal for the ceremony, thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press for &#8216;recognizing and acknowledging the link between animal agriculture and climate change. It’s a very bold move, making tonight plant-based.'&#8221;
Phoenix&#8217;s stand against meat and dairy has long been a cause of <a href="https://www.peta.org/living/food/10-things-wish-everyone-knew-meat-dairy-industries/">PETA</a>. &#8220;If you’re concerned about the creepy marketing, environmental damage, health risks, economic problems, or ethical issues that plague the meat industry, you can take action immediately,&#8221; the extreme animal activist group says on its website. &#8220;Make a choice to buy less meat (including fish) and fewer eggs and dairy products — or better yet, give them up completely. It’s one of the most powerful things that you can do.&#8221;

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Svante Thunberg, Greta Thunberg&#8217;s father, revealed during a recent media interview that he initially thought what she was doing with her far-left activism was a &#8220;bad idea&#8221; and that he and his wife were &#8220;not&#8221; supportive of it.
In the interview with BBC Radio 4 Today released Sunday, Thunberg also notably referenced climate change as a &#8220;question,&#8221; suggesting he is not as bought in on his daughter&#8217;s cause as she is.
&#8220;She decided to do this. We said quite clearly that we would not support it,&#8221; Thunberg said. &#8220;Well, obviously we thought it was a bad idea, putting yourself out there with all the hate on social media and the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself on the very front line of such a huge question like climate change.&#8221;
The BBC asked, &#8220;So, it’s not that you have pushed her to do this? Because that question often gets asked of young people in the public eye … you haven’t pushed her to do this?&#8221;
&#8220;No, on the contrary, we said if you are going to do it then you’re going to have to do it by yourself, you’re going to have to be incredibly well prepared, you have to have all the answers to all the questions and she says ‘OK’,&#8221; Thunberg responded. &#8220;So she made this leaflet of like 35 facts and with all the sources to all the facts, to all the reports and stuff and she had those leaflets on the ground and whenever the journalists came along she would answer all their questions and that was the surprising thing because she didn’t speak to anyone at the time. She only spoke to me, my wife, her sister, and one of the teachers.&#8221;
Thunberg also opened up about the depression that his daughter has struggled with and how crippling it was to her life.
&#8220;Like 3 or 4 years before she went on the school strike she fell ill and she stopped talking, she stopped eating, and all these things,&#8221; Thunberg said. &#8220;She stopped going to school, she was basically home for a year and she didn’t eat for 3 months or 2.5 months, which of course was the ultimate nightmare as a parent. You have food and you need food to survive, and your child can’t eat it.&#8221;
&#8220;Is there ever a moment when you think, I would just like us to go back to being an ordinary family before all of this began?&#8221; the BBC asked. &#8220;Or do you have the same sense of purpose that she does?&#8221;
&#8220;I can see Greta is very happy from doing this and I saw where she was before, I mean she didn’t speak to a single person, she could only eat in her own home, and when she went on the school strike, I think day 3, someone came along and gave her like Pad Thai vegan and she ate it and that was like, I can not explain how much, what a change that meant to her and to us and it was just like she changed and she could do things that she could never have done before and now she’s just like any other,&#8221; Thunberg responded. &#8220;You think she’s not ordinary now because she’s special and she’s very famous and all these things but to me she’s now an ordinary child. She can do all the things like other people can and she’s happy. She dances around, she laughs a lot, we have a lot of fun and she’s in a very good place.&#8221;
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Svante Thunberg, father of <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a>, talks to us about the journey his daughter has been on &#8211; from a time when she rarely left the house or spoke to anyone outside her family, to campaigning globally on climate change. <a href="https://t.co/wMHvNpJoQG">https://t.co/wMHvNpJoQG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/r4today?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#r4today</a> <a href="https://t.co/WQdDNZS86X">pic.twitter.com/WQdDNZS86X</a>
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Greta’s Dad: Climate Change A ‘Question,’ Her Activism A ‘Bad Idea’

In a bizarre interview on Sunday, David Remnick, author of “The Bridge: The Life And Rise Of Barack Obama” and editor for The New Yorker magazine, expressed his frustration with Trump voters to CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter. 
Responding to a question about whether anything will change following President Trump’s impeachment by House Democrats, Remnick stated that, “We’ve seen the Republicans stuck where they are. Their illusions about Trump remain,” adding that “the stakes here are immense.”
The Media Research Center <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/12/22/new-yorker-editor-future-earth-hangs-trumps-impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports</a> that Remnick began to connect the impeachment hearing to the “future” of the planet, thereby linking it to one of the Left’s biggest political issues: Global warming.   
“It’s not just about the political future of one man, Donald Trump — it’s about the future of democracy and democratic process. And this is a trend throughout the world. It’s about the future of the Earth. We have a party that has decided to be disbelieving about climate change. It’s about issues as essential as that,” he said. 
Of course, Stelter did not bother to ask how global warming is somehow connected to the House Democrats’ move to impeach President Trump. Instead, allowing The New Yorker editor to continue to pontificate, Remnick went to discuss how the mainstream media are at a loss as to why President Trump remains popular in certain sectors of the country. 
“Right now, you have a country that is split, and to the great frustration of people like you and people like me, we don’t somehow understand,” he opined. “We don’t understand why the evidence of things, why facts don’t penetrate so many of our brothers and sisters in the United States of America. And it’s a source of great frustration for the press and for anybody who is thinking about these issues that are so important.”
He emphasized, “And this is a source of great frustration for the press. And for anyone who is thinking about these issues that are so important.”
Stelter echoed the sentiments, repeating, “for the press.” He then asked about the “eclipse of reason” of the Republican Party.
“Let’s not be deluded here. It&#8217;s not as if reason and fact and truth-telling were pervasive in any political party, much less the Republican Party. But things have gotten markedly worse,” Remnick answered. “So much of the Republican Party, their candidates, their leadership know the score. Everybody in the Senate and the House knows this is a man of low character, of ethical, of ethics run amuck. &#8230; Nobody in the Republican Party thinks this is a good and decent man. These are people who are looking to their political advantages. They think if they act against him somehow or speak against him, they&#8217;ll lose their seats. So, the only people speaking against him are people set to retire.”
This interview highlights a lack of self-awareness that is prevalent across large swaths of the news industry. As they try to connect global warming to the vote to impeach Trump, many Americans grow weary of such showboating by the press and congressional Democrats. 
The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klavan-cnn-accidentally-reveals-that-its-a-cult" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Andrew Klavan</a> has previously commented on the direction of the media and of Brian Stelter’s program, in particular. 
“I mean, it is comical that they can’t see themselves,” he said. “So it drives the Right crazy, it drives me crazy. This is the news. You turn on the news, CNN, the most trusted name in news, but that’s what you see on the news, and it drives you crazy.” 
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-says-trumps-impeachment-is-about-the-future-of-the-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News</a>’ Brian Flood noted how the Remnick interview was mocked on social media, with Brit Hume pointing out, “Fortunately for the country and the planet, people seem to have sense enough not to believe this sort of claptrap.”
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Fortunately for the country and the planet, people seem to have sense enough not to believe this sort of claptrap. <a href="https://t.co/X9KyPyhiFy">https://t.co/X9KyPyhiFy</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1208931836161904641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The 2019 New Yorker Festival &#8211; Terry Gross Talks With David Remnick

New Yorker Editor David Remnick To Nodding Stelter: ‘It’s A Great Frustration’ Why People Vote For Trump

2019 in Washington

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Far-left climate alarmist Greta Thunberg urged political leaders on Sunday to connect the fires that are raging in Australia to &#8220;the climate crisis,&#8221; while ignoring the fact that the <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/arson-mischief-and-recklessness-87-per-cent-of-fires-are-man-made-20191117-p53bcl.html">overwhelming majority</a> of Australia&#8217;s fires are man-made, many of which are intentional acts of arson.
Thunberg made the remarks in a retweet of a video from a local Australian news outlet, writing: &#8220;Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible? Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the #AustraliaFires That&#8217;s what has to change. Now.&#8221;
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Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible? Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustraliaFires?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AustraliaFires</a> That&#39;s what has to change. Now. <a href="https://t.co/DQcZViKJQz">https://t.co/DQcZViKJQz</a>
&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1208682929855041538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg&#8217;s tweet takes aim at the wild fires that have raged across the continent over the past few months, many of which investigators allege have been started by people, both intentionally and on accident.
In Australia, those responsible for starting fires, especially if done so in a deliberate act, are often referred to as &#8220;firebugs.&#8221;
&#8220;As firefighters remained on high alert, police revealed 103 of the destructive fires that had lashed Queensland since September were deliberately lit,&#8221; The Brisbane Times <a href="https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/dozens-of-firebugs-blamed-for-destructive-queensland-fires-20191220-p53m1i.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Figures obtained by AAP revealed police had dealt with 98 people &#8211; 31 adults and 67 juveniles &#8211; for deliberately setting fires.&#8221;
&#8220;More than 120 fires are still being investigated and more people could be charged,&#8221; The Brisbane Times added. &#8220;The firebug revelations come as fire crews continue to face challenging conditions as a strong upper ridge sweeping across the south-east combines with fresh east northeasterly winds on Friday.&#8221;
Several years ago, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-21072349">noted</a> that &#8220;firebugs&#8221; are &#8220;arsonists who set alight bushfires, and who often strike on days when soaring temperatures and high winds combine to create the most hazardous conditions.&#8221;
On Twitter, some pushed back on Thunberg&#8217;s assertion that &#8220;the climate crisis&#8221; was to blame for the wild fires in Australia.
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Sorry, Greta, but fires are *not* evidence that trace CO2 causes fires. 
&quot;Arson, mischief and recklessness: 87 per cent of fires are man-made&quot;; fire has been in a long-term *decline* globally. <a href="https://t.co/Pg0T8nsWbz">https://t.co/Pg0T8nsWbz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateTwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateTwitter</a> <a href="https://t.co/ilhA6LaAWn">pic.twitter.com/ilhA6LaAWn</a>
&mdash; Tom Nelson (@tan123) <a href="https://twitter.com/tan123/status/1208720790805532677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Sydney Morning Herald <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/arson-mischief-and-recklessness-87-per-cent-of-fires-are-man-made-20191117-p53bcl.html">reported</a> last month:
<blockquote>There are, on average, 62,000 fires in Australia every year. Only a very small number strike far from populated areas and satellite studies tell us that lightning is responsible for only 13 per cent. Not so the current fires threatening to engulf Queensland and NSW. There were no lightning strikes on most of the days when the fires first started in September. Although there have been since, these fires – joining up to create a new form of mega-fire – are almost all man-made.
A 2015 satellite analysis of 113,000 fires from 1997-2009 confirmed what we had known for some time – 40 per cent of fires are deliberately lit, another 47 per cent accidental. This generally matches previous data published a decade earlier that about half of all fires were suspected or deliberate arson, and 37 per cent accidental. Combined, they reach the same conclusion: 87 per cent are man-made. &#8230;
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Make no mistake, the current weather conditions in Australia are causing the fires to spread and are making them harder to combat, as December is one of Australia&#8217;s hotter summer months, but that does not mean that climate change is necessarily responsible for igniting all of the fires.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said climate change was “one of many factors” that was contributing to what was going on, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-22/australian-pm-downplays-climate-change-as-cause-of-deadly-fires">saying</a>, “I have always acknowledged the connection between these weather events and these broader fire events and the impact globally of climate change. But I’m sure people equally would acknowledge that the direct connection to any single fire event, it’s not a credible suggestion to make that link.”
Some news publications have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191223110854/https://news.sky.com/story/australia-bushfires-not-much-left-of-town-near-sydney-as-pm-apologises-for-hawaii-holiday-11893737">reported</a> that climate change was a &#8220;major factor&#8221; in the fires, but did not elaborate or give any evidence to back their claims.
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Based on preliminary analysis, yesterday, Australia recorded its hottest day on record. The nationally-averaged maximum daytime temp was 41.9 °C exceeding the record set on Tuesday, 40.9 ºC. You can view the top ten highest daily maximum temps here: <a href="https://t.co/Cdqm9vD1cI">https://t.co/Cdqm9vD1cI</a> <a href="https://t.co/DRDK9LAvrg">pic.twitter.com/DRDK9LAvrg</a>
&mdash; Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) <a href="https://twitter.com/BOM_au/status/1207539156483792897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In September, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released data that showed that forest fires are not becoming more prevalent, in fact, they are on a decline across the globe.
“Any reader of the New York Times and other mainstream media outlet would be forgiven for believing that fires globally are on the rise, but they aren’t,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/08/30/forget-the-hype-forest-fires-have-declined-25-since-2003-thanks-to-economic-growth/">Forbes</a> reported. “In reality, there was a whopping 25 percent <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90493/researchers-detect-a-global-drop-in-fires" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90493/researchers-detect-a-global-drop-in-fires">decrease</a> in the area burned from 2003 to 2019, according to NASA.”
“For the last 35 years, the world has been re-foresting, meaning new tree growth has exceeded deforestation,” Forbes continued. “The area of the Earth covered with forest has increased by an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined.”

Greta Thunberg: Connect Australia’s Fires To Climate Crisis. Here’s What’s Actually Happening.

Australia

Climate change hysteria has brought people to such lowly depths of despair that they are now refusing to have children in order to protect the environment.
In an op-ed for The Huffington Post, guest writer Mariana Keen declared that she feels a &#8220;responsibility not to have children&#8221; in order to combat the world&#8217;s &#8220;unsustainable population size,&#8221; thus seeming to offer support for something that conservatives have alleged for years: Climate change hysteria can sometimes simply mask an insidious leftist/Malthusian movement for global population control.
&#8220;The world population is growing by approximately 83 million people every year, largely due to a high birth rate and falling death rate, and this is having a devastating impact on the planet,&#8221; argues Keen.
In Keen&#8217;s mind, not to mention <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/scientists-call-for-population-control-in-mass-climate-alarm">the scientists who have echoed</a> her sentiments, having children simply translates into &#8220;multiplying my impact on the environment&#8221; — which is further compounded by our &#8220;increased life expectancy.&#8221; The question of having children has weighed on Keen for years and has now reached an apex, given her age of 36. However, after careful consideration, she has decided that children will not be in her future.
&#8220;I don’t want children, and a major deciding factor for me has been the impact this would have on the environment,&#8221; she argues. &#8220;Of course, such a major life decision is multifaceted. I’ve made a lot of choices in response to environmental concerns, but the matter of kids has certainly been one of the more challenging topics to ponder because I’m interested in balancing my duty to our planet with making enriching life choices.&#8221;
Keen says her choice stems from two factors: Seeing that her friends are no more happier after having children and her responsibility to the environment.
&#8220;This, for me, means not adding to my home city’s population density, global population growth, and further destruction of our planet,&#8221; she emphasizes.
Keen then cites a 2009<a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/jul/family-planning-major-environmental-emphasis" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk"> study by statisticians at Oregon State University</a> to support her claim, which argued that &#8220;having one less child in the U.S.&#8221; would dramatically impact the output of greenhouse gas emissions.
&#8220;The study found that under current conditions in the U.S., each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent ― about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for an average person worldwide,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;For me, this impact has been worth considering. Just as I can do my bit by recycling and limiting my waste, I can help to curb the population by limiting the number of children I have.&#8221;
&#8220;So considering the environmental impact I can have in my lifetime, I’ve decided not to have kids,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;There are so many great people in my world with whom I can share love and companionship, so I don’t feel the need to have my own child in order to feel fulfilled.&#8221;
While certain segments of the climate change activist community have called for more population control, other segments have cautioned against it. The feminist <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2019/09/24/population-control-isnt-the-answer-to-our-climate-crisis/">Ms. Magazine</a>, of all places, even argued that population control would not solve the supposed problem.
&#8220;Today, arguments for population control are reemerging in mainstream and even liberal discussions around limiting women’s fertility in the name of environmental sustainability,&#8221; the article stated. &#8220;This isn’t the first time women’s bodies have been treated as a means to a demographic end. Recall such ugly initiatives, all mainstream in their day, to forcibly sterilize Black, Latina, and Indigenous women, to treat Puerto Rican women like lab rats in contraceptive trials to keep the island’s population down and to fund sterilization camps in India.&#8221;

Activists protesting outside IFEMA, where UN Climate Change

HuffPost Op-Ed: I’m Not Having Kids Because I Care About The Environment

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Far-left climate alarmist Greta Thunberg threatened to put world leaders &#8220;against the wall&#8221; last week over her claims that they were not trying to save the planet. She made the comment while also proclaiming last week that she was not &#8220;political&#8221; — a claim that was contested by many online.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sometimes called &#8216;political&#8217;. But I&#8217;ve never supported any political party, politician or ideology. I communicate the science and the risks of failing to act on it. And the fact that the politics needed don&#8217;t exist today, neither to the right, left nor center,&#8221; Thunberg claimed in a pair of tweets. &#8220;If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view &#8211; then that says more about that person than about me. That being said &#8211; some are certainly failing more than others.&#8221;
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If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view &#8211; then that says more about that person than about me. That being said &#8211; some are certainly failing more than others.
&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1205220369411518466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong highlighted some of Thunberg&#8217;s meetings with political leaders, which showed that she only met with leftist leaders.
In one tweet, Cheong highlighted Thunberg&#8217;s meeting with former Democrat President Barack Obama, a meeting in which Obama told her, &#8220;You and me, we&#8217;re a team.&#8221;
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According to CNN: &quot;Before the two fist-bumped, Obama said to Thunberg: &#39;You and me, we&#39;re a team.&#39;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SzIfUOlCqj">pic.twitter.com/SzIfUOlCqj</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1206484380614479873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet highlighted Thunberg&#8217;s meeting with socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who Thunberg called &#8220;incredible.&#8221;
It&#8217;s worth noting that in her meeting with Ocasio-Cortez, which was published in The Guardian as a back-and-forth dialogue, Thunberg dispelled any notion that she is not political and that people are using her.
&#8220;The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on,&#8221; Thunberg <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-greta-thunberg-hope-contagious-climate">said</a>. &#8220;And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?&#8221;
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&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1206486912464146432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet highlighted Thunberg meeting fellow climate alarmist Al Gore, a failed Democrat presidential candidate, whom she said it was an &#8220;honor&#8221; to meet because he was a &#8220;true pioneer.&#8221;
Gore is a well-documented hypocrite when it comes to the climate. While he warns of impending doom that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/environmental-apocalypse-predictions-have-failed-for-half-a-century">does not happen</a>,  he flies around the world on <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/09/hypocrisy-climate-change-activist/">private planes</a> and lives in a home that devours <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-devours-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/">34 times more</a> electricity than an average home in the U.S.
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&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1206487223819882497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cheong also noted a t-shirt Thunberg wore earlier in the year that drew significant controversy because it appears to promote Antifa, an extremist left-wing group that embraces the use of violence to silence those with opposing views.
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Is this an Antifa t-shirt? Sure looks like it. <a href="https://t.co/tCVMKdlLNe">pic.twitter.com/tCVMKdlLNe</a>
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However, Thunberg eventually denounced the shirt, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Yesterday I posted a photo wearing a borrowed T-shirt that says I’m against fascism. That T-shirt can apparently to some be linked to a violent movement. I don’t support any form of violence and to avoid misunderstandings I’ve deleted the post. And of course I am against fascism.&#8221;
Late last week, Thunberg, at a climate rally, said that she would &#8220;put&#8221; world leaders that did not promote her climate extremism &#8220;against the wall.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GretaThunberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GretaThunberg</a> shows her totalitarian colors
She threatens world leaders If they don&#39;t do their jobs &quot;We will put them against the wall&quot;
Support <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateHysteria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateHysteria</a> Or face a firing squad
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&mdash; Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1205662126649544704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg responded to her controversial remarks by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/greta-thunberg-apologizes-against-the-wall-break-global-activism-time-person-of-year">blaming</a> it on her &#8220;Swenglish,&#8221; claiming that she was only inferring that she wanted to hold them accountable.
Thunberg&#8217;s remarks were actually tame compared to some of her prior statements, including comments she made in an op-ed earlier this month in which she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-change-everything-climate-crisis-about-colonial-racist-and-patriarchal-systems-of-oppression-fossil-fuel-literally">said</a> that she would promote &#8220;strikes, protests, and other actions&#8221; and would &#8220;become louder and louder&#8221; until leaders did what she thought was necessary.
In a meltdown speech at the United Nations earlier this year, Thunberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">said</a> of world leaders, &#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;

Greta Thunberg Attends COP25 Plenary Session In Madrid

Greta Denies She Is ‘Political’, Gets Brutal Reminder; Threatens To Put Politicians ‘Against The Wall’

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said far-left climate alarmist Greta Thunberg should to work on her &#8220;anger management problem&#8221; and &#8220;chill.&#8221;
&#8220;So ridiculous,&#8221; Trump posted to Twitter, reacting to TIME magazine naming Thunberg &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;
&#8220;Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!&#8221; the president suggested. &#8220;Chill Greta, Chill!&#8221;
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So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE">https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunberg-wins-time-person-of-the-year-leftists-celebrate-don-jr-eviscerates-them">The Daily Wire</a> on Wednesday, the climate change alarmist was named the magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year,&#8221; to mixed reactions. One major criticism launched at TIME was their apparent snub of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> is TIME&#39;s 2019 Person of the Year <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TIMEPOY</a> <a href="https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v">https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v</a> <a href="https://t.co/SWALBfeGl6">pic.twitter.com/SWALBfeGl6</a>
&mdash; TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1204743717132914688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Thunberg is not a leader of any political party or advocacy group,” <a href="https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=person-of-the-year&amp;utm_term=_&amp;linkId=78763203">TIME</a> wrote in their article on the activist. “She is neither the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis nor the most qualified to fix it. She is not a scientist or a politician. She has no access to traditional levers of influence: she’s not a billionaire or a princess, a pop star or even an adult.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s an ordinary teenage girl who, in summoning the courage to speak truth to power, became the icon of a generation,&#8221; the magazine continued. &#8220;By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.”
Since 2017, Thunberg has been promoted by politicos on the far-left and their allies in the media to lead the climate change agenda, which conveniently promotes socialist policies as solutions. The teen cemented her role as the leader of the movement in September with a radical, doomsday speech at the United Nations.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you,” Thunberg warned during the speech, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported. “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,” she claimed. “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.”
While at the U.N., Thunberg made headlines for giving President Trump a vicious stare-down when he walked past her.
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Trump posted his own take on Thunberg&#8217;s doomsday speech, mocking via Twitter: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
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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>
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As previously noted by The Daily Wire, Thunberg did not mention China during the infamous U.N. speech, nor during her latest address to climate activists in Madrid, despite the nation leading in carbon emissions. Thunberg has also yet to visit China to give one of her lectures.
“With the world’s largest population and for decades one of the fastest growing economies, China is far and away the world’s top CO2 emitter,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/china-us-countries-that-produce-the-most-co-2-emissions/39548763/">USA Today</a> reported this summer, using data collecting in 2017. “Close to 10,000 million metric tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by the superpower in 2017. On a per capita basis, China’s CO2 emissions of 7.1 metric tons per person trail that of most countries on this list but still rank in the top 50 worldwide.”
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On Friday, far-left activist Greta Thunberg struck a somber, defeatist tone while speaking to fellow climate activists gathered at the United Nations climate talks in Madrid, Spain.
The Swedish teen complained that school climate strikes have &#8220;achieved nothing&#8221; and claimed that opponents of her radical agenda are trying to &#8220;silence&#8221; her and her supporters. Thunberg also claimed people are currently &#8220;suffering and dying&#8221; due to effects of supposed man-made climate change.
&#8220;The global wave of school strikes for the climate over the past year has &#8216;achieved nothing&#8217; because greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise,&#8221; Thunberg reportedly told fellow activists, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/06/greta-thunberg-says-school-strikes-have-achieved-nothing?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco">The Guardian</a>.
“I’m just an activist and we need more activists,” the 16-year-old said. “Some people are afraid to change – they try so desperately to silence us.”
“We can’t go on like this; it is not sustainable that children skip school and we don’t want to continue – we would love some action from the people in power. People are suffering and dying today. We can’t wait any longer,” Thunberg warned.
The climate extremist expressed little hope in governments across the globe acting in a manner she sees fit to save the world from apparent destruction.
“I sincerely hope COP25 will reach something concrete and increase awareness among people,&#8221; Thunberg said, &#8220;and that world leaders and people in power grasp the urgency of the climate crisis, because right now it does not seem that they are.&#8221;
Since 2017, Thunberg has been pushed by politicos on the far-left and their allies in the media to lead the climate change agenda, which conveniently promotes socialist policies as solutions. In September, the teen cemented her role as climate leader with a radical, doomsday speech at the UN.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; Thunberg warned during the speech, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported. &#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.&#8221;
&#8220;People are suffering; people are dying,&#8221; the teen claimed. &#8220;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.”
As noted by The Guardian, &#8220;greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 4%&#8221; since the Paris Accords were signed.
Oddly, Thunberg did not mention China during the infamous U.N. speech, nor during her latest address to climate activists, despite the nation leading in carbon emissions. Notably, Thunberg has also yet to visit China to give one of her most important lectures.
&#8220;With the world&#8217;s largest population and for decades one of the fastest growing economies, China is far and away the world&#8217;s top CO2 emitter,&#8221; <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/china-us-countries-that-produce-the-most-co-2-emissions/39548763/">USA Today</a> reported this summer, using data collecting in 2017. &#8220;Close to 10,000 million metric tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by the superpower in 2017. On a per capita basis, China&#8217;s CO2 emissions of 7.1 metric tons per person trail that of most countries on this list but still rank in the top 50 worldwide.&#8221;
&#8220;Driving China&#8217;s CO2 emissions is the nation&#8217;s massive coal production,&#8221; the reported noted. &#8220;China&#8217;s generation of electricity from coal has dropped slightly from 75% in 1992 to 70% in 2015. Still, overall coal production has tripled since 2000 to nearly 4,000 million metric tons – approximately half of all global coal production.&#8221;

Defeated Greta Whines Climate Strikes Have ‘Achieved Nothing,’ Claims People Are ‘Dying Today’

Jeremy Clarkson, the famed former host of BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Top Gear,&#8221; slammed far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg in a new interview this week, calling her &#8220;mad,&#8221; &#8220;dangerous,&#8221; and saying that she needs to &#8220;shut up and go back to school.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s mad and she&#8217;s dangerous and she&#8217;s causing young children sleepless nights with her idiocy,&#8221; Clarkson said in an interview this week, according to The Daily Mail. &#8220;I think she needs to go back to school and shut up.&#8221;
Clarkon&#8217;s blistering comments about Thunberg, who is known for making alarmist climate statements in melodramatic fashion, followed his rant about her last week when he described her in an <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/jeremy-clarkson-the-grand-tour-interview-greta-thunberg-jeremy-corbyn-a9226601.html">interview</a> with the Independent as &#8220;that weird Swede running around making all sorts of ‘we&#8217;re going to die’ noises.&#8221;
&#8220;But rather than having her jumping up and down and waving her arms in the air, you can actually go there and say, ‘Bloody hell, fire! Look at what this climate change has done to this place,'&#8221; Clarkson continued. &#8220;We simply said, ‘Here&#8217;s an example of it.’ What do you want me to do now? Get on my carbon fiber yacht and go and shout at Donald Trump?&#8221;
When further asked about Thunberg, Clarkson responded: &#8220;She&#8217;s a stupid idiot.&#8221;
&#8220;I think she&#8217;s a weird Swede with a bad temper. Nothing will be achieved by sailing across the ocean in a diesel-powered yacht, and then lying about the diesel engine,&#8221; Clarkson continued. &#8220;And did you see she went to Chile for the climate conference which was then moved to Madrid? I literally s**t myself laughing. She’s an idiot because scientists will solve this, and nobody is going to solve it by running around and going on strike and not going to school, because then you&#8217;re not in your science lessons, so she&#8217;s a fool.&#8221;
In a recent op-ed, Thunberg declared that using fossil fuels &#8220;threatens our very existence&#8221; and that her far-left activism was about “changing perceptions” and “shifting” “public opinion” on climate change and getting “schoolchildren” to lead “the way in raising awareness.”
“Fossil fuels are literally choking the life from us,” Thunberg asserted. “That action must be powerful and wide-ranging. After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities.”
Thunberg said that her goal in her “climate resistance movement” is “to change everything,” adding, “we will become louder and louder.&#8221;
In September, Thunberg had a public meltdown at the United Nations, where she claimed, &#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;
Some have suggested that Thunberg&#8217;s melodramatic performances stem from the fact that, as The Washington Examiner put it, Thunberg has &#8220;stage-parents, literally&#8221;: &#8220;Her mother sang opera internationally until the teenager convinced her to quit due to greenhouse gas emissions from flying, and her father and grandfather both gained fame through acting and directing.&#8221;
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On Monday night, speaking at a rally at the University of Iowa, Senator Elizabeth Warren was asked by a child during the Q&amp;A if she would end global warming if she were elected president. Without a shred of humility, Warren answered, “Yes.”
Warren&#8217;s arrogance could easily remind someone of another candidate who once promised that his presidency would change the climate of the planet Earth:
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Warren continued by feeding the child’s worst nightmare: “You know, Eleanor, that is a big commitment because we’re in real trouble. You know this, right? That climate change threatens every living thing on this planet. And for me, the scariest thing that happens now is that every time scientists go back and recalculate the data, put in more information, it’s worse than we thought.  The problem’s bigger; it’s moving faster and we have less time to respond.”
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Warren’s promises have gotten more and more outlandish as she sees her prior brief position at the head of the Democratic presidential field wither away and die on the vine and she desperately tries to raise her fading hopes. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-says-shell-abolish-the-electoral-college-before-her-second-term">The Daily Wire</a> reported, speaking in Waterloo, Iowa, this week, Warren promised to abolish the Electoral College if she were elected president.  She stated that her &#8220;goal&#8221; was to get elected and then &#8220;be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College,” adding, &#8220;I want the second term to be that I got elected by direct vote. I&#8217;m ready.&#8221; She even trumpeted her sentiment on Twitter, writing, &#8220;My goal is to get elected—but I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College. I want my second term to be elected by direct vote.”
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At the fifth 2020 Democratic primary debate, Warren misled the public, promising that her tax plan would entail billionaires ponying up two cents to help pay for her socialist policy plans. She stated, “I have proposed a 2-cent wealth tax,” Warren said at the debate, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/nov-20-democratic-debate-live-updates-n1087226/ncrd1087866#liveBlogHeader">NBC News</a>. “Your first 50 billion is free and clear — but your 50 billionth and first dollar, you gotta pitch in 2 cents, and when you hit a billion dollars, you gotta pitch in a few pennies more.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-is-lying-about-taking-2-cents-from-billionaires-to-pay-for-socilaist-plans-heres-the-truth">The Daily Wire</a> noted, “Warren has actually proposed a 2% surtax on folks with a net worth over $50 million, and a 6% on people with more than $1 billion. Her initial plan included 3% tax on billionaires, before she upped it to 6%. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/15/warrens-misleading-pitch-her-tax-billionaires/">The Washington Post</a> explains:
<blockquote>Warren’s “<a href="https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax">Ultra-Millionaire Tax</a>” would apply to households with a net worth of $50 million or more, essentially the wealthiest 75,000 households. They would be charged 2 percent of every dollar of net worth above $50 million, unless they’re billionaires. Households with $1 billion or more in assets would start paying 3 percent on assets above $1 billion. At least that was in Warren’s first iteration of her tax plans. She said this tax would raise $2.75 trillion over 10 years.</blockquote>
After Warren released her Medicare-for-All plan, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senator-slams-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-as-fantasy-land">ripped her</a>, asserting, &#8220;Elizabeth Warren, this past weekend, came out with her health care plan and it is not surprising that it took so long for her to come out with it because it is dishonest and it is from fantasy land  … When you take a look at the costs and the taxes, they are so astronomical that now the Democrats are pushing the panic button. In terms of the costs, it is going to cost more over the next 10 years than we were planning to spend on Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid combined.&#8221;

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On Sunday as a two-week global climate summit in Madrid began, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pontificated that the world must stop a “war against nature” and intensify its efforts to fight climate change. Guterres uttered, “Our war against nature must stop, and we know that it is possible,” adding, “We simply have to stop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy and nature-based solutions,” according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-accord-guterres/war-against-nature-must-stop-u-n-chief-says-before-climate-talks-idUSKBN1Y514H?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews">Reuters</a>. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7744673/UN-chief-warns-climate-change-point-no-return-hurtling-us.html">The Daily Mail</a> added that Guterres hyperventilated, &#8220;The point of no return is no longer over the horizon. It is in sight and hurtling toward us.&#8221;
Guterres argued that a number of nations have not met the specifications outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. He insisted that the promises made by 70 countries to reach “carbon neutrality” or “climate neutrality” by 2050 were insufficient, stating, “We also see clearly that the world’s largest emitters are not pulling their weight, and without them, our goal is unreachable.”
Guterres asserted, “I don’t even want to entertain the possibility that we do not agree on article 6. We are here to approve guidelines to implement article 6, not to find excuses not to do it.”
The <a href="https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/article-6-important/">International Chamber of Commerce</a> wrote about Article 6:
<blockquote>Article 6 of the Paris Agreement aims at promoting integrated, holistic and balanced approaches that will assist governments in implementing their NDCs through voluntary international cooperation. This cooperation mechanism, if properly designed, should make it easier to achieve reduction targets and raise ambition. In particular, Article 6 could also establish a policy foundation for an emissions trading system, which could help lead to a global price on carbon.
Under this mechanism, countries with low emissions would be allowed to sell their exceeding allowance to larger emitters, with an overall cap of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, ensuring their net reduction. Supply and demand for emissions allowances would lead to the establishment of a global carbon price that would tie the negative externalities of GHG emissions to polluters. In other words, by paying a price on carbon, states exceeding their NDCs would bear the costs of global warming.</blockquote>
<a href="https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/paris_nov_2015/application/pdf/paris_agreement_english_.pdf">Article 6</a> of the Paris Agreement states:
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<li>Parties recognize that some Parties choose to pursue voluntary cooperation in the implementation of their nationally determined contributions to allow for higher ambition in their mitigation and adaptation actions and to promote sustainable development and environmental integrity. 2. Parties shall, where engaging on a voluntary basis in cooperative approaches that involve the use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes towards nationally determined contributions, promote sustainable development and ensure environmental integrity and transparency, including in governance, and shall apply robust accounting to ensure, inter alia, the avoidance of double counting, consistent with guidance adopted by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Agreement.</li>
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As Christopher C. Horner and Marlo Lewis, Jr. wrote for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in a comprehensive <a href="https://cei.org/sites/default/files/Chris%20Horner%20and%20Marlo%20Lewis%20-%20The%20Legal%20and%20Economic%20Case%20Against%20the%20Paris%20Climate%20Treaty.pdf">piece detailing the legal and economic case against the Paris Agreement</a>:
<blockquote>The Paris Agreement is a costly and ineffectual solution to the alleged climate crisis. It is also plainly a treaty, despite President Obama’s attempt to implement it without the Senate’s advice and consent … In America’s constitutional system, treaties must obtain the advice and consent of the Senate before the United States may lawfully join them. President Obama deemed the Paris Agreement to not be a treaty in order to evade constitutional review, which the Agreement almost certainly would not have survived … The Agreement endangers America’s capacity for self-government. It empowers one administration to make legislative commitments for decades to come, without congressional authorization, and regardless of the outcome of future elections. It would also make U.S. energy policies increasingly unaccountable to voters, and increasingly beholden to the demands of foreign leaders, U.N. bureaucrats, and international pressure groups.</blockquote>
They added, “U.S. industry has a huge energy price advantage over its global competitors, which underpins the American manufacturing revival Trump campaigned on. The climate policies required to meet President Obama’s emission reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement would destroy that edge. Obama pledged to reduce U.S. emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, with deeper cuts every five years thereafter. That is already significant, but he went much further. He also committed the United States to rapidly phase out fossil fuels over 35 years.”

Madrid Prepares For UNFCCC COP25 Climate Conference

U.N. Chief Warns At Global Warming Summit: ‘Stop Digging And Drilling’

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First it was called &#8220;global warming.&#8221; Then there was that inconvenient period in the 1990s and early 2000s when the average global temperature actually fell.
So the alarmists rebranded global warming as &#8220;climate change&#8221; – and the mainstream media quickly picked up the term. Forget that Earth&#8217;s climate has been changing for billions of years.
Now, though, the alarmists think that &#8220;climate change&#8221; is not as alarming as it could be, and one is pushing new terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”
&#8220;As a professional namer, I create names for companies, products and services,&#8221; Aaron Hall writes in <a href="https://adage.com/article/industry-insights/renaming-climate-change-can-new-name-finally-make-us-take-action/2218821">AdAge</a>. &#8220;After the global climate strike this past September, I found myself thinking about the terms ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming.’ Are these scientific terms too neutral? Do they do enough to grab attention and inspire people to take action?&#8221;
Hall says the terms “Global Meltdown” or “Global Melting,” deliver the right level of alarm. “The names signal that ice caps are melting, but also create a more visceral image in the mind – that real feeling of ‘melting’ when it’s too hot outside. A meltdown is a disastrous event that draws from the ultimate terror of a nuclear meltdown, an apt metaphor for global destruction.”
He also says &#8220;Climate Collapse&#8221; and &#8220;Climate Chaos&#8221; are properly alarming, too.
&#8220;Good brand names instill a clear message or even a direct call to action. Perhaps that&#8217;s why climate change isn’t powerful enough: &#8216;Change&#8217; sounds so neutral. However, there’s nothing neutral about collapse or chaos. Both are states of events that you absolutely want to avoid. They ask each of us to do what it takes to avoid collapsing or descending into chaos.&#8221; Hall also likes the alliteration – &#8220;a naming trick proven to enhance memorability.&#8221;
Then there&#8217;s &#8220;Boiling Point&#8221; and &#8220;Melting Point.&#8221;
&#8220;They refer to a tipping point that we’re catapulting toward and must find a way to avert. Because a boiling point is the point at which liquid vaporizes, it brings forth imagery of rivers, lakes and oceans boiling and disappearing. &#8216;Melting Point&#8217; paints a clear picture of solid matter melting. As glaciers melt and disappear, so does our way of life.&#8221;
And of course there&#8217;s the old favorite, &#8220;Scorched Earth,&#8221; a term that already has a specific meaning but, hey, maybe it can be rebranded.
&#8220;It&#8217;s time to take the gloves off and stop pretending. Sometimes a brand name needs to be hyperbolic to truly capture hearts and minds. If we don’t take massive action now, Earth will be uninhabitable – an irreversible barren wasteland. Plants and animals will die. Humans won’t be able to survive extreme weather like floods, droughts, and fires. If we don’t change, we won’t even be able to spend time outside. &#8216;Scorched Earth&#8217; paints the direst picture of what’s to come and what we must avoid and is likely the edgiest brand name from our exploration,&#8221; Hall writes.
Language is the new tool of climate alarmists. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, said last week that the climate crisis is caused by &#8220;racist &#8230; systems of oppression.”
&#8220;The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities,&#8221; she wrote with two other far-left climate activists in an op-ed Friday.
&#8220;Politicians and fossil-fuel companies have known about climate change for decades,&#8221; she wrote, adding, &#8220;yet the politicians let the profiteers continue to exploit our planet&#8217;s resources and destroy its ecosystems in a quest for quick cash that threatens our very existence.&#8221;

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Alarmists Want To Rebrand ‘Climate Change,’ Call It  ‘Global Meltdown’ Or ‘Climate Collapse’ Or ‘Scorched Earth’

On the day before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump Jr. poked fun at a travel report pertaining to the holiday with a GIF of climate change icon Greta Thunberg.
&#8220;US skies packed with planes carrying Thanksgiving travelers,&#8221; a <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/27/us-skies-packed-with-planes-carrying-thanksgiving-travelers/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">New York Post</a> headline reads. The thumbnail photo used in the tweet of the report shows a U.S. map packed with fuel-guzzling airplanes in its airspace.
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&#8220;The airspace above the United States was packed with planes on Wednesday as millions of Americans traveled for Thanksgiving,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;The flight-tracking computer image above shows flights over the continental US at 11:30 a.m. EST Thursday.&#8221;
&#8220;All told, more than 55 million people took to the roads, rails and skies on the holiday eve, according to the American Automobile Association,&#8221; the Post noted.
Reacting to the story, the eldest Trump son posted a GIF of the 16-year-old Swedish climate extremist mouthing, &#8220;How dare you!&#8221; &#8212; words Thunberg memorably repeated during a recent speech at the United Nations.
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Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have helped to advance Ms. Thunberg as the figurehead of the alarmist climate change movement. She even delivered a widely-covered, gloom-and-doom climate speech at the U.N. in September. The teen blamed world leaders and older generations for her &#8220;lost childhood&#8221; and warned that &#8220;people are dying&#8221; and &#8220;entire ecosystems are collapsing&#8221; due to mass inaction on the environment.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” the teen said. “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 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, adding: “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.”
However, Thunberg is not winning over everyone in the climate change camp. The teen, who goes out of her way to travel by boat as opposed to plane or jet, has criticized other activists who, in her view, are not living by their word.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/a-nobel-for-swedens-greta-thunberg-a-tough-decision-for-prize-committee-idUSKBN1WA18Z?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter">Reuters reports</a> that Thunberg has made enemies among the old school eco-agitators with her &#8216;confrontational&#8217; style, largely because Thunberg calls out climate &#8216;hypocrites,&#8217; including those activists, like Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore, for taking carbon-spewing private flights to major environmental conferences — and, really, using airplanes at all,&#8221; The Daily Wire highlighted in September.
Don Jr.&#8217;s climate change troll elicited nearly 5,000 replies on Twitter, and garnered over 16,000 likes.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-trolls-democrats-on-thanksgiving-break">White House Trolls Democrats On Thanksgiving Break</a>

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On Monday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about an Ivy League football game interrupted by college climate activists, as well as the Democratic response to the interruption. Video and partial transcript below: 
Yale has already divested partially from fossil fuels, but its chief investment officer, David Swensen, said that overhauling the university&#8217;s investment portfolio would be foolish because, quote, “we would all die” if fossil fuel production stopped. 
It&#8217;s true. He said, “every one of us in the room is a consumer.” Also true. The whole thing is idiotic, and the fact that Yale authorities went along with it, the fact that Yale let these kids stop the game for an hour to be obnoxious — it&#8217;s pretty ridiculous on its face. But this is what we do now. As we’ll see in a second, the Left loves disrupting cultural events to push stupid politics. 
So Bernie Sanders was super happy with all this. Well, first of all, Bernie went dancing over the weekend. I just have to play this tape because Bernie dancing is always a sight to behold. Here is the geriatric socialist cutting the rug, tripping the light &#8230; at one of his campaign stops. It is a thing that actually happened. 
My favorite is when he sort of loses the beat, and things start to get very awkward. So that&#8217;s going to happen any second — there we go, now he is just like, “I don&#8217;t even know why I am here.” Man, Bernie just cutting loose from 1932, good stuff. 
Well, he tweeted support for these idiot protesters. He tweeted out that he was very happy with them. He tweeted, “When people come together to stand up for justice, we win.” You&#8217;re gonna have to explain how people win because a bunch of people stopped a football game. 
“Congratulations to the young people demanding a sustainable future for our planet. We are with you in this fight.” By the way, all those young people, you know what they can do today? They can give up those Harvard and Yale scholarships for third-world people who wish to come here, and not engage in fossil fuel use the rest of their lives. They can do that. Or alternatively, they can pretend that they are very virtuous while they go down there and selfie themselves with their iPhones created with the use of fossil fuels. 
Julian Castro, the most irrelevant of all possible Democratic candidates, said “From the March for Our Lives, to worldwide Climate Strikes, students and young people are leading the charge to protect their futures. I&#8217;m inspired by their efforts to hold their universities to a higher standard.”
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From the March for Our Lives, to worldwide Climate Strikes, students and young people are leading the charge to protect their futures.
I’m inspired by their efforts to hold their universities to a higher standard. <a href="https://t.co/tbskzCRvSa">https://t.co/tbskzCRvSa</a>
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1198358707635195904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Are you inspired, or are you just pandering to young people who don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about? 
Tom Steyer, who has blown something like three hundred — last I heard, it was like a couple hundred — million dollars on his quixotic presidential campaign, and currently has 0% support: He says, “These students have it right — nobody wins when we&#8217;re complicit in climate injustice. Institutions like Harvard and Yale must be leaders in the fight to address the climate crisis.”
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These students have it right—nobody wins when we’re complicit in climate injustice. Institutions like Harvard and Yale must be leaders in the fight to address the climate crisis. <a href="https://t.co/ZEpugkfmjv">https://t.co/ZEpugkfmjv</a>
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomSteyer/status/1198360365664329728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Really? I mean, they&#8217;re doing all the research. Then you&#8217;ve got AOC, with her massively impressive degree from [Boston University] in economics, tweets, “Activism disrupts the present to change the future,” with an emoji of a globe. Wow, she used a globe emoji guys, she&#8217;s serious. That&#8217;s a globe emoji, you know what that means? That means that she&#8217;s thought this one through.
Activism disrupts the present to change the future. Any other nostrums and truisms you&#8217;d like to dump on us here. AOC, absolute genius. I mean, things. This sort of stuff is why it&#8217;s almost impossible to take many climate change activists seriously. They don&#8217;t provide solutions.
I did a speech in Boston — actually, this one was at Baylor University last week, speech at Baylor University, I spent probably 15 minutes talking about climate change. I talked about possible solutions, and one of the things that I talked about is the fact that, according to the Left, there&#8217;s no need for a solution. This is all about yelling at the problem. Just yell at the problem and it&#8217;s going to go away. So if you show up at a Yale-Harvard football game, and you yell at the problem, then magically it gets better. 
But this is what so many on the radical Left desire. They don&#8217;t want solutions, they just want to yell about problems, and then they want to claim that they&#8217;re victims when people point out that what they are doing is dumb. If you point out that this was a dumb protest that delayed a football game and nearly led Yale to lose its Ivy League championship, which — you know, look, in the grand scheme of things, is that a big deal? No. 
But there are players on the field: It&#8217;s a football game. It&#8217;s not time for your climate activism. If you wanna do climate activism, sit outside the stadium, you&#8217;ll get plenty of attention. But by disrupting, and then being cheered on by Democrats, this is the same kind of garbage that students were doing in the 1960s, taking over universities and the authorities were basically sitting there allowing people who are disrupting to prop their feet up on the desks and take over administrations. You wonder why more and more Americans look skeptically at college? This would be the reason. 
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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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OUCH: Activists Four Weeks Into Boat Ride To U.N. Climate Summit Learn It’s Cancelled

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>

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