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;

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

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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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Famed Host Jeremy Clarkson Unloads On Greta Thunberg: ‘Mad,’ ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Go Back To School And Shut Up’

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, left the United States Nov. 12 en route to Spain for a climate summit.
She didn&#8217;t fly. Greta doesn&#8217;t like to burn fossil fuels with air travel. So she took a yacht.
But it turns out she produced the same amount of carbon emission because the British yacht skippers took a plane to America to sail Greta to Lisbon, Portugal, The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7743223/Yacht-skipper-wiped-carbon-emissions-saved-Greta-Thunbergs-sail-Atlantic.html">Daily Mail</a> reports.
Nikki Henderson flew to the U.S. from Britain to sail Thunberg&#8217;s 48-foot catamaran, the Mail said. The vessel is carrying Greta 3,000 miles so she can attend the COP 25 climate change summit in Madrid. She is set to arrive Tuesday.
&#8220;The journey was meant to save approximately two or three tons of carbon dioxide emissions,&#8221; The Mail reported. &#8220;But Ms Henderson&#8217;s flight from Britain to the US likely produced the same amount of emissions the journey hoped to save, countering Ms Thunberg&#8217;s mission, The Times reports.&#8221;
The comments on The Mail story blasted Greta.
&#8220;What a surprise. Left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Hypocrites,&#8221; wrote on commenter.
&#8220;Thunberg needs to account for this. It is what she is demanding of the rest of us,&#8221; wrote another.
Commenters also took aim at Thunberg&#8217;s &#8220;ecologically friendly&#8221; method of transportation, saying it had hidden carbon emissions Thunberg was deliberately ignoring.
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing carbon neutral about a carbon fibre catamaran. To manufacture one would have a carbon footprint of several tonnes. All these people likely have much larger carbon footprints than regular people,&#8221; wrote a third.
Her yacht was, indeed, made of petroleum products. In addition to solar and hydro power, the fiberglass craft is equipped with two diesel 30hp engines, according to Multihull Central, a boat-reviewing site, as noted by climate skeptic Tom Nelson.
“The irony of protesting capitalism and oil on board a carbon-fiber (petrochemical) yacht owned by European royals who made billions operating Monaco as a tax haven was rich,” CFACT President Craig Rucker said, The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/14/greta-thunberg-takes-flak-returning-europe-plastic/">Washington Times</a> reported.
That, too, brought criticism.
“Greta’s return boat, an Outremer 45, weighs 17,400 pounds and is made of fiberglass, or fiber-reinforced plastic. The yacht was pumped out of the ground by oil companies. It draws auxiliary power from twin Volvo Diesel engines,” wrote one person on Twitter.
The 16-year-old student has become an international star and darling of the mainstream media. She has warned world leaders about climate change in a speech at the United Nations, and she’s been palling around with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who also is a climate activist.
Although she has been on a boat for weeks, she helped pen an op-ed published on Friday, asserting that fossil fuels are &#8220;literally” killing mankind, and that they are a threat to “our very existence.” She added that her “climate crisis” agenda is not just about saving he environment, but about fighting the “colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression.”
In the piece, Greta and two other far-left climate activists attacked world leaders over their pro-capitalist policies, writing that “the politicians let the profiteers continue to exploit our planet’s resources and destroy its ecosystems in a quest for quick cash that threatens our very existence.”
&#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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Yacht Skipper Wiped Out Carbon Emissions Saved By Greta Thunberg With Flight To U.S. To Sail Her To Europe

Far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg unloaded on the world in an op-ed published on Friday, claiming that fossil fuels &#8220;are literally&#8221; killing mankind, and that they are a threat to &#8220;our very existence&#8221; as she said that her &#8220;climate crisis&#8221; agenda is not just about the environment, but about fighting the &#8220;colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression.&#8221;
In an op-ed published in Project Syndicate, Thunberg and two other far-left climate activists attacked world leaders over their pro-capitalist policies, writing that &#8220;the politicians let the profiteers continue to exploit our planet’s resources and destroy its ecosystems in a quest for quick cash that threatens our very existence.&#8221;
Although she did not explicitly say it, Thunberg admitted that the Paris Climate Accord – which would have <a href="https://www.atr.org/obamas-paris-agreement-all-cost-and-no-benefit-us?amp">cost</a> the United States trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs – has been an abject failure.
Thunberg wrote: &#8220;&#8230;recent research shows that we are on track to produce 120% more fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with the 1.5°C limit. The concentration of climate-heating greenhouse gases in our atmosphere has reached a record high, with no sign of a slowdown. Even if countries fulfill their current emissions-reduction pledges, we are headed for a 3.2°C increase.&#8221;
The American Prospect <a href="https://prospect.org/world/climate-crisis-industrialized-world-failing-to-meet-paris-agreement/">reports</a>:
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In 2015, the Paris climate accord gave every country in the world the ability to set its own goals to combat the climate crisis. World leaders agreed to do their part toward stopping planet temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius—later updated to 1.5 degrees—above pre-industrial levels.
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Even the left-leaning New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/07/climate/world-emissions-paris-goals-not-on-track.html">admitted</a> that the Paris Climate Accord has been a failure, reporting that &#8220;even if every country did manage to fulfil its individual pledge, the world would still be on pace to heat up well in excess of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels, the threshold that world leaders vowed to stay ‘well below’ in Paris because they deemed it unacceptably risky.&#8221;
Thunberg said that her far-left activism has been about &#8220;changing perceptions&#8221; and &#8220;shifting&#8221; &#8220;public opinion&#8221; on climate change and getting &#8220;schoolchildren&#8221; to lead &#8220;the way in raising awareness.&#8221;
&#8220;Fossil fuels are literally choking the life from us,&#8221; Thunberg continued. &#8220;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.&#8221;
Thunberg said that her goal in her &#8220;climate resistance movement&#8221; is &#8220;to change everything.&#8221;
&#8220;So we will keep up a steady drumbeat of strikes, protests, and other actions,&#8221; Thunberg added. &#8220;We will become louder and louder. We will do whatever it takes to persuade our leaders to unite behind science so clear that even children understand it.&#8221;
Fellow far-left activist David Hogg made similar extremist remarks on Twitter last week regarding the climate, <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1198331625978941440">writing</a>: &#8220;In the next couple of years the protests will become so big that cops wont be able to handle it and the national guard/military will have to be called in.&#8221;
Thunberg has a well-documented history of preaching climate radicalism on the world stage as she recently ranted at the United Nations in a speech that was praised by the political Left and the media while condemned by many others.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg began. “Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering; people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
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GRETA SNAPS: ‘Change Everything,’ ‘Climate Crisis’ About ‘Colonial, Racist, And Patriarchal Systems Of Oppression,’ Fossil Fuel ‘Literally’ Killing Us

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Jeremy Clarkson, the former host of the super popular show &#8220;Top Gear,&#8221; is blasting climate activist Greta Thunberg for killing the car show.
“Everyone I know under 25 isn’t the slightest bit interested in cars — Greta Thunberg has killed the car show,&#8221; Clarkson told <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10429676/jeremy-clarkson-greta-thunberg-killed-car-show/">The Sun</a>. &#8220;They’re taught at school, before they say ‘Mummy and Daddy,&#8217; that cars are evil, and it’s in their heads.”
Longterm sidekick Richard Hammond, 49, agreed, saying: “I hate to say it, but I think Jeremy is right.&#8221;
“Young people don’t care about cars. How many kids now are growing up with posters of cars on their bedroom wall?&#8221; Hammond said.
Clarkson, Hammond, and co-host James May starred on the long-running BBC show &#8220;Top Gear,&#8221; which featured the three getting into hilarious situations and talking about cars. The popular Clarkson was fired in 2015 after BBC executives concluded that he had verbally attacked a member of the car show’s production staff.
The three now host a popular Amazon Prime show called &#8220;Grand Tour,&#8221; which maintains the spirit of &#8220;Top Gear.&#8221;
The 59-year-old Clarkson has a history of saying controversial things, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/25/how-jeremy-clarkson-lost-his-job-as-top-gear-host/">Washington Post</a> reported.
<blockquote>• In 2008, while driving a truck on “Top Gear,” Clarkson made a joke implying that “murder[ing] a prostitute” is a common pastime for professional truck drivers. The joke prompted at least one elected official to call for his firing.
• In 2009, Clarkson apologized after calling then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown a “one-eyed Scottish idiot.” Brown is blind in his left eye.
• In 2011, the BBC received more than 20,000 complaints from viewers after Clarkson responded to a question on “The One Show” by making a joke about “executing” striking workers in front of their families.</blockquote>
In a piece penned by Clarkson this month, he did it again.
&#8220;Thanks to that Swedish Thunberg girl, every child in the western world is now absolutely terrified that by this time next year, they will have died in a suffocating firestorm. So, this morning, let’s have a ­little story to cheer them all up again,&#8221; he wrote.
In the piece, headlined &#8220;Everyone says climate change is terrible… but what if it’s GOOD for mankind?&#8221; Clarkson writes: &#8220;That’s the thing about climate change. We keep being told the next shift will be a disaster for mankind. But who knows? You might wake up one morning to find your garden full of unicorns and mermaids and big chests full of jewels and money.&#8221;
On the other hand, Clarkson also said climate change is real. In a post on Instagram, he wrote: “For the first time ever, we’ve had global warming rammed down our throats — and we’ve not been idiotic, it’s very definitely a thing. You can change your mind. Only an idiot doesn’t change their mind when faced with irrefutable evidence. The question is, what to do about it? That’s a more interesting debate than what is happening.”
But he also jabbed Greta again, saying, “She’s an idiot. Going round saying we’re all going to die, that’s not going to solve anything, my dear.”
And in October, Clarkson blasted Great&#8217;s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit as a &#8220;full-on adolescent meltdown.&#8221;
&#8220;Shut up and be a good girl,&#8221; he said then.

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Former &#8216;Top Gear&#8217; Host Says &#8216;Idiot&#8217; Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Has Killed The Car Show

Jeremy Clarkson

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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US skies packed with planes carrying Thanksgiving travelers <a href="https://t.co/OJ0kjyMA72">https://t.co/OJ0kjyMA72</a> <a href="https://t.co/ASFpQ2Uk3M">pic.twitter.com/ASFpQ2Uk3M</a>
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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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&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1199910926092263424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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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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Don Jr Posts Greta Thunberg GIF In Reaction To Thanksgiving Travel Report

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Is climate change activist Greta Thunberg secretly a time traveler who has come to save humanity? A 120-year-old photo of a Greta Thunberg doppelganger has certainly sparked the intrigue of online conspiracy theorists.
&#8220;The photo, <a href="https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/hegg/id/601/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">unearthed from archives at the University of Washington,</a> shows three children working at a gold mine in Canada, including a girl wearing Thunberg’s signature braid and stoic expression,&#8221; reports <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/19/120-year-old-photo-sparks-greta-thunberg-conspiracy-theories/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">The New York Post</a>. &#8220;Historians believe it was taken around 1898.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s both a side-by-side comparison and a broader photo of the young girl to provide further context:
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Here is the entire photo. If you click on it, it shows that it has the University of Washington in the lower-left corner. Also, people are idiots if they think she traveled forward into the future. Time travel does not exist. Except in the movies or a book. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/YmJVrMJcvV">pic.twitter.com/YmJVrMJcvV</a>
&mdash; Donna Jonas ☘ 🖖🏻 (@warriorwoman64) <a href="https://twitter.com/warriorwoman64/status/1196901587244830721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Though usually done in the spirit of tongue-in-cheek, people on social media openly pondered if indeed Greta Thunberg had the power of interdimensional travel:
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So, ‘Greta Thunberg’ is in a photo from 120 years ago, and it’s my new favourite conspiracy. Greta’s a time traveller, from the future, and she’s here to save us. <a href="https://t.co/5ObTjPFXvk">pic.twitter.com/5ObTjPFXvk</a>
&mdash; Jack &#8211; J.S. Strange (@JackSamStrange) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackSamStrange/status/1196514905320501248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Maybe she&#39;s not right here, right now. 😳<a href="https://t.co/3li2qwMXjZ">https://t.co/3li2qwMXjZ</a>
&mdash; LADbible (@ladbible) <a href="https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1196770408911036416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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She is a time traveller 😆<a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> 1898 &#8211; 2019 <a href="https://t.co/FP7N3BgM2y">pic.twitter.com/FP7N3BgM2y</a>
&mdash; bobby ross (@mertens_tiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/mertens_tiff/status/1196785286690177025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Greta Thunberg rose to become a household name earlier this year when she issued a scathing speech at the UN Climate Action Summit, during which she scolded lawmakers for ruining her childhood.
“How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she said.
Though indeed wild in its own right, the Greta Thunberg time traveler conspiracy theories pale in comparison to those posed about White House son Barron Trump after the public discovered the book &#8220;Baron Trump&#8217;s Marvellous Underground Journey&#8221; from the 1890s, which had more than a few striking similarities to the real Barron Trump. Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-predicted-ingersoll-lockwood-adventures-barron-melania-last-644284">Newsweek</a> described it:
<blockquote>There are some incredible connections to be made to the first family of the United States and Lockwood’s novels from the turn of the 19th century. For starters, the main character’s name is the same as President Donald Trump’s son, albeit spelt differently. Trump’s adventures begin in Russia, and are guided thanks to directions provided by “the master of all masters,” a man named “Don.”
Before leaving for his voyage through the unknown, Trump is told of his family’s motto: “The pathway to glory is strewn with pitfalls and dangers.”
But by Lockwood’s third novel, The Last President, things become even more eerily linked to the present day.
The story begins with a scene from a panicked New York City in early November, describing a “state of uproar” after the election of an enormously opposed outsider candidate.
“The entire East Side is in a state of uproar,” police officers shouted through the streets, warning city folk to stay indoors for the night. “Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years.”
“The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob,” the novel continues, citing an address in New York City where Trump Tower now stands. “Would the troops be in time to save it?”</blockquote>
However, as <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/baron-trumps-marvelous-underground-journey/">Snopes</a> noted after the Trump time travel conspiracies went viral, some of the book&#8217;s similarities were overly exaggerated or misstated. For instance, the name &#8220;Baron&#8221; referred to the character&#8217;s title as an actual baron while the character Don refers to the Spanish honorific title for &#8220;Mr.&#8221;

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Greta has left the mainland.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old phenom from Sweden, has left the United States en route to Spain for a climate summit. But she doesn&#8217;t fly &#8212; too much pollution from burning a petroleum product.
So instead she&#8217;s on a boat, made of &#8230; petroleum products.
&#8220;So happy to say I&#8217;ll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid,&#8221; Greta wrote on Twitter. &#8220;I’ve been offered a ride from Virginia on the 48ft catamaran La Vagabonde. Australians @Sailing_LaVaga ,Elayna Carausu &amp; @_NikkiHenderson from England will take me across the Atlantic. We sail for Europe tomorrow morning!&#8221; she wrote Tuesday.
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So happy to say I&#8217;ll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid. 
I’ve been offered a ride from Virginia on the 48ft catamaran La Vagabonde. Australians @Sailing_LaVaga ,Elayna Carausu &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/_NikkiHenderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_NikkiH</a>e<a href="https://twitter.com/_NikkiHenderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">nderson</a> from England will take me across the Atlantic. 
We sail for Europe tomorrow morning! <a href="https://t.co/qJcgREe332">pic.twitter.com/qJcgREe332</a>
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 12, 2019</blockquote>
&#8220;Twelve weeks after sailing into New York City, Greta hitched a ride back to Europe Wednesday with celebrity sailors Elayna Carausu and Riley Whitelum on La Vagabonde, a luxury catamaran made of petroleum products like fiberglass,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/14/greta-thunberg-takes-flak-returning-europe-plastic/">Washington Times</a> reported.
<blockquote>Greta’s father Svante Thunberg and British yachtswoman Nikki Henderson joined the La Vagabonde crew, raising questions about whether they flew across the pond only to sail back.
In addition to solar and hydro power, the craft is equipped with two diesel 30hp engines, according to Multihull Central, a boat-reviewing site, as noted by climate skeptic Tom Nelson.</blockquote>
That last detail brought some criticism on social media sites.
&#8220;Uh oh: Greta&#8217;s planet-destroying luxury yacht has two diesel engines with 672L diesel fuel tank,&#8221; wrote on person on Twitter.
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Uh oh: Greta&#8217;s planet-destroying luxury yacht has two diesel engines with 672L diesel fuel tank.<a href="https://t.co/vkQM1bHlls">https://t.co/vkQM1bHlls</a><a href="https://t.co/ga1xg7MiHO">https://t.co/ga1xg7MiHO</a><a href="https://t.co/esHRZ0aJwR">https://t.co/esHRZ0aJwR</a> <a href="https://t.co/0e0vmDoJRF">https://t.co/0e0vmDoJRF</a>
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) November 13, 2019</blockquote>
&#8220;Greta’s return boat, an Outremer 45, weighs 17,400 pounds and is made of fiberglass, or fiber-reinforced plastic. The yacht was pumped out of the ground by oil companies. It draws auxiliary power from twin Volvo Diesel engines,&#8221; wrote another.
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Greta’s return boat, an Outremer 45, weighs 17,400 pounds and is made of fiberglass, or fiber-reinforced plastic. The yacht was pumped out of the ground by oil companies. It draws auxiliary power from twin Volvo Diesel engines #Greta <a href="https://t.co/JZJelGiS3O">https://t.co/JZJelGiS3O</a>
— CFACT (@CFACT) November 13, 2019</blockquote>
“The irony of protesting capitalism and oil on board a carbon-fiber (petrochemical) yacht owned by European royals who made billions operating Monaco as a tax haven was rich,” CFACT President Craig Rucker said, The Times reported.
The 16-year-old student  has become an international star and darling of the mainstream media. She has warned world leaders about climate change in a speech at the United Nations, and she&#8217;s been palling around with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who also is a climate activist.
She was set to head down Chile for a U.N. climate summit this month but that was been canceled amid political unrest. “As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Greta wrote on Twitter Nov. 1 while in Los Angeles. “It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way. Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”
Twitterers hit her then, too.
&#8220;[F]ly on a private jet with Leo, he flies private all over the world,&#8221; one wag wrote. Another offered an even better solution: &#8220;Video-conference saves energy.&#8221;
But others offered real advice.
&#8220;Dear Greta, Millions of people fly on airplanes every day. Your life doesn&#8217;t need to be so complicated. You are being lied to by the adults around you. You should be in school enjoying yourself, not being tortured by unscrupulous people using you for propaganda.&#8221;
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Dear Greta,
Millions of people fly on airplanes every day. Your life doesn&#8217;t need to be so complicated. You are being lied to by the adults around you.
You should be in school enjoying yourself, not being tortured by unscrupulous people using you for propaganda.
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) November 3, 2019</blockquote>

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Heads To Spain On Yacht Made From Petroleum Products

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A massive mural of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is going up on a building in downtown San Francisco in an effort to force citizens of the Bay Area to think critically about their contribution to global climate change.
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting a huge mural in downtown San Francisco <a href="https://t.co/9yVrPzoX2U">https://t.co/9yVrPzoX2U</a> <a href="https://t.co/zqgNMLKHJx">pic.twitter.com/zqgNMLKHJx</a>
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The project, which features a 60-foot by 30-foot depiction of the tight-lipped Swedish adolescent and bears a striking &#8212; almost comical &#8212; resemblance to the &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; mural that graces the cover of the paperback version of George Orwell&#8217;s 1984, is a project by the environmental non-profit, OneAtmosphere.org. The mural, located on the side of a building just off downtown San Francisco&#8217;s famous Union Square, will have its official unveiling this week.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/us/greta-thunberg-mural-san-francisco-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0hdsIz1FEV_Rbm0O2_kB_r5-kgd7qYf6OKIN8-Ptc0ICQhHVC0sdrXiHc">The group told CNN</a> that they want to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; Thunberg&#8217;s contributions to environmental activism and that it hopes to make the mural one of several showcasing key anti-climate change figures.
&#8220;If we can amplify her message and get more people involved and listening to what she&#8217;s saying, then we&#8217;re doing some good,&#8221; Paul Scott, director of OneAtmopshere.org, told the media outlet.
Scott added that he hopes that the cartoon Thunberg&#8217;s watchful eyes force Bay Area residents to do some soul-searching over their climate-killing activities. If they don&#8217;t recognize Thunberg, he hopes they&#8217;ll seek out information on her crusade, which includes a series of &#8220;climate strikes&#8221; in major cities, most headlined by high schoolers.
&#8220;They&#8217;re struck by the image and want to learn more,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If they take the time to learn more about what she&#8217;s trying to share, that I think has an impact on most people. Makes them want to help.&#8221;
&#8220;Argentine muralist Andres Iglesias, who signs his art with the pseudonym Cobre,&#8221; is completing the work, according <a href="https://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Greta-Thunberg-mural-being-painted-in-San-14821267.php">to the Associated Press</a>. &#8220;Cobre,&#8221; who also did a now-demolished hyper-realistic mural of the late comedian Robin Williams, also in San Francisco, told media that the mural has been in development for a year, and that he is donating his skills because &#8220;we have to take care of the world.&#8221;
“I think It’s a very important mission to try to awake some citizens that they are wasting a lot of energy and resources for no reason, and I think it’s very important to try to help in a way,” <a href="https://time.com/5723241/greta-thunberg-mural-san-francisco/">he told TIME magazine</a>. “People need to know about these things.”
“I usually don’t paint political stuff, because it kind of gives you people who will love it and people who will hate it,” Cobre added. “But this one I think was really important.”
If Cobre truly intended to &#8220;help&#8221; the cause of battling climate change, though, he might have jettisoned his preferred medium, aerosol spray paint. The 60-by-30 mural is expected to require hundreds of the climate-killing color to complete.
OneAtmopshere.org is supplying the paint, and would only admit to the artist using around 133 cans, which they say Cobre plans to repurpose into a sculpture to prevent the highly toxic items from ending up in a landfill. But The Blaze reports that a similar, smaller mural by the same artist took more than 500 cans to complete. The Thunberg mural <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/greta_thungberg_mural_toxic_spray">will likely take closer to 700 cans to finish</a>.
Cobre can be seen using hundreds of cans of spray paint in a promotional video for the mural.
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<a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-effects-do-aerosol-cans-have-on-the-environment.html">World Atlas notes</a> that, despite technological advances in chemical propellants, aerosol cans &#8212; particularly spray paint cans &#8212; are still thought to be a major contributor to global climate change.
<blockquote>The modern CFC-free aerosols still emit the volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which still affect the ozone and the environment. The VOCs are the primary component of the asthma-inducing smog. Besides, the propellants in aerosol cans are highly flammable when in contact with fire and can cause explosions and start fires. Empty aerosol cans are considered as hazardous waste in the US.</blockquote>
And that&#8217;s not the only carbon-spewing element of creating a massive outdoor painting. <a href="https://www.epa.state.oh.us/Portals/41/sb/publications/VOC-Calculation.pdf">The Ohio EPA notes</a> that major coating and painting projects also involve climate-killing industrial solvents and multiple layers of paint, including topcoasts and sealants, multiplying the negative environmental impact the mural.
It&#8217;s difficult to quantify exactly how destructive the Thunberg mural is, but it&#8217;s likely to be significant &#8212; and hypocritical, given that Thunberg herself rejects most everyday products that contribute to climate change, and <a href="https://www.greenmatters.com/">groups affiliated with Thunberg&#8217;s crusade</a> often go so far as to suggest that people stop using things like deodorant and dry shampoo in order to minimize the environmental impact of aerosols.

Giant, Climate-Killing Mural Of Greta Thunberg Now Graces Downtown San Francisco

Far-left climate activist Greta Thunberg was in the process of traveling to Chile this week for the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP25, when she got unexpected news – the event had been rescheduled in Spain after intense protests broke out in Chile.
Thunberg &#8212; who refuses to fly on airplanes because she claims that air travel is extremely damaging to the planet &#8212; put out a plea on Twitter, asking for help getting to Spain.
&#8220;As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,&#8221; Thunberg tweeted. &#8220;It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:) Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November&#8230; If anyone could help me find transport, I would be so grateful.&#8221;
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I’m so sorry I’ll not be able to visit South and Central America this time, I was so looking forward to this. But this is of course not about me, my experiences or where I wish to travel. We’re in a climate and ecological emergency. 
I send my support to the people in Chile.
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1190290812099186688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I’m so sorry I’ll not be able to visit South and Central America this time, I was so looking forward to this,&#8221; Thunberg continued. &#8220;But this is of course not about me, my experiences, or where I wish to travel. We’re in a climate and ecological emergency. I send my support to the people in Chile.&#8221;
Thunberg concluded, &#8220;This [is] of course no problem. People are suffering all around the world, and I’m fine whatever I do and wherever I am.&#8221;
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This of course no problem. People are suffering all around the world, and I’m fine whatever I do and wherever I am.
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1190318809971867648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
The move by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to cancel the summit also impacted another group of extreme climate activists who set sail from Amsterdam on October 2 and only learned this week that the event had been canceled &#8212; after sailing for four weeks.
“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,” the group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ouch-activists-four-weeks-into-boat-ride-to-u-n-climate-summit-learn-its-cancelled">said</a> in a statement.
Thunberg, who has repeatedly been propped up by major left-wing news publications, garnered serious international attention over a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">meltdown</a> that she had at the United Nations earlier this year over the climate.
&#8220;This is all wrong; I shouldn’t be up here; I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,&#8221; Thunberg declared in desperation. &#8220;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. Entire ecosystems are collapsing,&#8221; Thunberg panicked. &#8220;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;
&#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,&#8221; Thunberg added. “There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.&#8221;
&#8220;You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you,&#8221; Thunberg stated. &#8220;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;
President Donald Trump did not waste the opportunity to take a hilarious jab at Thunberg, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-thunberg-over-mass-extinction-ryan-saavedra">tweeting</a>: 
&#8220;She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!&#8221;

Greta Thunberg Hits Major Snag While Traveling To Climate Summit

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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>
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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&#8217;s Cancelled

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

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

Norway

Sweden

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

Emma Thomson climate change.

Guilty Celebrities: Ignore Our Massive Carbon Footprints … Please

Hollywood

A few days ago, a respected rabbi told me that when he heard Greta Thunberg&#8217;s speech before the United Nations, he understood how Joseph Stalin had managed to indoctrinate children so thoroughly that they were willing to report their own parents.
For those unfamiliar with the history of Stalin&#8217;s demonic rule over the Soviet Union, children were “educated” to believe that loyalty to country was more important than such antiquated, bourgeois concepts as loyalty to family. If a parent harbored ideas that made him or her an “enemy of the state,” children were encouraged and expected to report them to the authorities. This occurred countless times during and after the “Great Purge” of Trotskyites and others during the 1930s.
Thunberg received her own indoctrination regarding her parents’ betrayal: The world is coming to an end, the sky is falling, and the fault lies with the economy they built. Cars must be taken off the road, and carbon dioxide-producing power plants replaced with only solar and wind power — or we will all die. In her words, “entire ecosystems are collapsing,” though neither she nor her handlers can provide evidence of anything but growth. Since “we are in the beginning of a mass extinction,” there is no time for silly things like evidence or sober consideration. We must act, not think!
And she concluded with an implicit threat: “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.” With rhetoric like that, how far-fetched is it to imagine that CEOs of energy companies might be imprisoned for imagined crimes against humanity?
Yet with all of that said, this is far from the most troubling example of Stalinism’s return. For that, we can look still closer to home: The effort to impeach President Donald Trump.
I must admit, it is troubling to imagine a U.S. head of state strong-arming the leader of a foreign government to do his or her bidding. I am referring, of course, to the possibility that Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor in order to end an investigation of corruption at an energy company that was then paying Hunter Biden $600,000 a year for consulting work (despite his utter lack of experience or knowledge of the energy industry).
And it is also troubling that Trump may have asked that Biden be investigated, not because of genuine suspicion of wrongdoing, but because it is politically expedient. Two wrongs do not make a right, and even in the immediate wake of the failed Mueller investigation, it was inappropriate.
But that doesn’t make Trump&#8217;s actions dangerous to democracy. It certainly doesn’t make his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky worthy of the Constitution&#8217;s prescribed “high crimes and misdemeanors” impeachment criterion. That would require conclusive proof that Trump withheld aid to force Zelensky to settle a personal score. Everything we were assured would prove this true has been found false, from the transcript on down. Zelensky himself has volunteered that that their phone conversation was as friendly and unthreatening as the transcript appears to indicate.
Neither is this new. I referred earlier to the “failed” Mueller investigation, but by what measure was it a failure? Mueller executed his mission precisely. It merely failed to produce the results that Democrats, and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in particular, assured us would emerge.
Democrats set their target in 2016, immediately following the stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump: Impeachment. The goal came first and the search for evidence came later. And this is where the comparison to Stalinism is not merely appropriate, but frightening in its precision.
From 1936 to 1938, a series of large trials were held in Moscow of senior Communist leaders accused of treason against Stalin’s government. Most of them even confessed to their alleged crimes. Yet in 1937, an American commission led by John Dewey proved that many of the specific charges made during the trials could not have been true.
These were Stalin’s “Show Trials.” The “guilt” of the accused was predetermined, and evidence, whether true, distorted, or fabricated from whole cloth, came later — and only then in service of the predetermined conclusion.
During the middle of Mueller’s work, Democrats took control of Congress with a new “squad” of loud leftists demanding they “impeach the mother******.” And time and again they have tried and failed to find a way to justify their predetermined conclusion. When Mueller produced the “nothingburger” that Van Jones of CNN predicted, the calls for impeachment only grew louder.
This is why Democrats now refuse to vote for a formal impeachment inquiry — because doing so would permit Republicans to subpoena witnesses that would bring the full truth to light. As another prominent rabbi once told me in a different context: “When you are searching for the law, you find the law. When you’re searching for a place to hang your hat, you find a nail.”
The Democrats are now using Ukraine as the nail upon which to hang their predetermined conclusion. It is the very opposite of justice — and incredibly dangerous for the future of our democracy.
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken is the Managing Director of the <a href="https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/">Coalition for Jewish Values</a>.

Stalin In Moscow

MENKEN: The New Stalinism

Communism

Donald Trump

Impeachment

Joe Biden

Leftism

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

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

Green New Deal

A group of minority rights activists are challenging the anti-climate change movement&#8217;s unquestioning embrace of sixteen year old Greta Thunberg and calling support for Thunberg over &#8220;woker&#8221; eco-spokespeople &#8220;racism,&#8221; and evidence of &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/supporting-greta-thunberg-is-evidence-of-white-supremacy-activists-claim.html">A New Zealand news outlet</a> reports that activists who push for greater rights for indigenous peoples &#8212; some of the very same activists who are at the forefront of the global anti-climate change movement &#8212; are concerned that putting a young, white teenager at the helm of a movement that largely affects the third world sends the wrong message, especially since indigineous people have been pressing the same message for decades.
The activists took to social media to express their distaste in light of Thunberg&#8217;s recent appearance in front of the United Nations.
&#8220;Y&#8217;all need to ask yourselves why you find it so much easier to hear from white people, regardless of age, when it comes to the violence they have caused across the world,&#8221; one tweeted. &#8220;Our GOBAL climate is in CRISIS. We need EVERYONE to care about this &amp; take action. With that said, it is high time that the very people who have caused such problems STOP getting praised &amp; recognized for finally doing the RIGHT THING.&#8221;
&#8220;It is a SYMPTOM of global white supremacy that certain people are HEARD &amp; given a platform, certain people have access to the RESOURCES to be the HEROES that the world will pay attention to,&#8221; said another.
&#8220;Greta should have grabbed some children from Flint or NJ and took them to the UN. They are impacted right now by environmental terrorism caused by racism, White Supremacy, and racialzed governance. Greta at the UN was the epitome of White Privilege/White power= Save white kids!&#8221; tweeted another.
Across the board, these activist say that Thunberg is benefitting from a global system of &#8220;white supremacy,&#8221; and that decisions made based on  Thunberg&#8217;s speeches will undoubtedly benefit white people over minorities and residents of developing nations.
Others say the widespread embrace of Thunberg&#8217;s message is evidence of colonialism and white people making decisions for others on the theory that they simply know better: &#8220;We need to question why Greta &#8212; in one year &#8212; has got attention from the whole world while indigenous/first nations &#8212; who have been protecting and sustaining Mother Earth &#8212; have been ignored and killed for centuries. <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/colonialism?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#colonialism</a> <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/whitesupremacy?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#whitesupremacy</a>&#8221;
Thunberg is, of course, expected to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her work spreading the message that the Earth has only precious few years to go before the damage caused by climate change is irreversable and humanity heads for an unavoidable extinction, often in those exact, apocalyptic words. Most recently, Thunberg traveled to the United States by boat in a show of solidarity against carbon-spewing airplanes (even though the boat had a backup diesel engine), and delivered a fiery speech to members of the U.N., opening chastizing them for &#8220;ruining&#8221; the planet for her generation.
Although the activists criticizing Greta Thunberg are definitely operating off a &#8220;woker than thou&#8221; mentality, they aren&#8217;t necessarily wrong about the global anti-climate change movement. A worldwide ban on fossil fuels and a near-total disruption of technological advancement would undoubtedly harm developing nations who would be forced to forgo the survival of their own populations in the name of preserving the planet.
The global anti-climate change movement is also very much an anti-capitalist movement, despite evidence that Communist and socialist societies are far more industrialized &#8212; meaning that, historically, they produce far more pollution.

UH OH: Supporting Greta Thunberg Now Evidence Of &#8216;White Privilege,&#8217; &#8216;Racism&#8217; Activists Say

Racism

White Supremacy

An attempt by progressive activist group MoveOn to shame a conservative organization for a meme featuring a teen climate change activist over the weekend resulted in some inconvenient reminders of the left-wing group&#8217;s own treatment of teenagers who became the face of a movement.
Conservative activist group Turning Point USA posted a tweet over the weekend calling out &#8220;leftist hypocrisy&#8221; over progressives&#8217; apparent double standard when it comes to criticizing young people.
&#8220;According to the Left, it&#8217;s OK to mock these kids,&#8221; the meme reads, featuring images of an eight-year-old AOC impersonator and Nick Sandmann, the teen who, along with his peers at Covington Catholic High School, was smeared by the left-leaning media as supposedly &#8220;harassing&#8221; minorities, when in fact they were the victims of harassment by a radical minority group.
Below the images of the AOC impersonator and Sandmann is an image of Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish activist who has been formally <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/greta-thunberg-is-the-climate-heroine-we-need">diagnosed</a> with Asperger’s syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and whose viral speech in front of the United Nations two weeks ago drew criticism from the Right.
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Leftist Hypocrisy At Its Finest! 🤦‍♀️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThinkForYourself?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ThinkForYourself</a> <a href="https://t.co/M9oploSbW5">pic.twitter.com/M9oploSbW5</a>
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1180592649830404097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, MoveOn weighed in on the conservative group&#8217;s post by attempting to reverse the point.
&#8220;So you&#8217;re telling us it&#8217;s ok to mock children? Because, no. No, it isn&#8217;t,&#8221; replied MoveOn&#8217;s official account.
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So you&#8217;re telling us it&#8217;s ok to mock children? 
Because, no. 
No, it isn&#8217;t. <a href="https://t.co/Sv298vCXee">pic.twitter.com/Sv298vCXee</a>
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1181198776972828672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In response, TPUSA reminded the left-wing group of its promotion of the false claims against the Covington Catholic teens, as well as its championing of Nathan Phillips, the adult activist featured in the mischaracterized viral video getting close to Sandmann&#8217;s face.
&#8220;Ah yes, not long ago [MoveOn] helped propagate a false narrative against children, destroying their &amp; their families’ lives — then you promoted the very adult who aggressively confronted them (and didn’t have the integrity to correct the record) as a speaker at a MoveOn rally,&#8221; TPUSA tweeted.
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Ah yes, not long ago <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MoveOn</a> helped propagate a false narrative against children, destroying their &amp; their families’ lives — then you promoted the very adult who aggressively confronted them (and didn’t have the integrity to correct the record) as a speaker at a MoveOn rally. <a href="https://t.co/d4GfJAfcOI">pic.twitter.com/d4GfJAfcOI</a>
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1181303522698158080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is painful to watch,&#8221; MoveOn tweeted when the context-less and mischaracterized video first emerged. &#8220;A group of teenagers in MAGA hats surrounded and harassed an elder Native American veteran yesterday at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington D.C.&#8221; The post ended by condemning &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; and included the predictably partisan hashtag &#8220;Resist Trump.&#8221;
Another moment highlighted by TPUSA was MoveOn inviting Phillips to participate in their &#8220;#FakeTrumpEmergency&#8221; protest against building a southern border wall.
Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk also responded to MoveOn&#8217;s attempt to shame his organization.
&#8220;Really? Where was [MoveOn] when journalists described Nick Sandmann as having a &#8216;punchable face[?]'&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Or when Ilhan Omar spread lies that the Covington Catholic teens were taunting black men[?] Or when Alyssa Milano called the MAGA hat the new KKK Hood because of the high schoolers[?]&#8221;
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Really?
Where was <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MoveOn</a> when journalists described Nick Sandmann as having a &#8220;punchable face&#8221;
Or when Ilhan Omar spread lies that the Covington Catholic teens were taunting black men
Or when Alyssa Milano called the MAGA hat the new KKK Hood because of the high schoolers
🤔 <a href="https://t.co/7oYlQbuyup">https://t.co/7oYlQbuyup</a>
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1181303777300635649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The buzz surrounding Thunberg began with her speech at the UN in late September in which she declared that we are &#8220;in the beginning of a mass extinction&#8221; and told world leaders they were &#8220;not mature enough&#8221; to be honest about our supposedly apocalyptic situation.
&#8220;My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; she began. &#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;
Calling the science &#8220;crystal-clear,&#8221; Thunberg went on to condemn the idea of cutting emission in half in ten years as &#8220;not acceptable&#8221; to her and her fellow climate activists. She concluded by accusing political leaders of being too immature to handle the situation honestly.
&#8220;How dare you pretend that this can be solved 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 eight and a half years,&#8221; she said. &#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;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-aquaman-jason-momoa-says-we-are-a-disease-infecting-our-planet-rips-trump-at-u-n">WATCH: ‘Aquaman’ Jason Momoa Says ‘We Are A Disease Infecting Our Planet,’ Rips Trump At U.N.</a>

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Left-Wing Activist Group&#8217;s Attempt To Shame Conservatives Over Greta Thunberg Meme Backfires

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

Trump Cheers On Post Critical Of Greta Thunberg

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A parish from the Church of Sweden, which has routinely promoted teen climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg, announced the young girl a &#8220;successor&#8221; to Jesus Christ last December.
“Announcement! Jesus of Nazareth has now appointed one of his successors, Greta Thunberg”, the Church of Limhamn tweeted on December 1, 2018.
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🔔Lucka 1❄️ Kungörelse! Jesus från Nasaret har nu utsett en av sina efterträdare, nämligen Greta Thunberg.🌟
&mdash; Limhamns kyrka (@Limhamnskyrka) <a href="https://twitter.com/Limhamnskyrka/status/1068826078498758656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The announcement <a href="https://twitter.com/BraveTheWorld/status/1178721695709958144">resurfaced</a> online on Monday, likely due to the church&#8217;s most recent support of Thunberg&#8217;s activism.
Last week, for example, <a href="https://svenskakyrkanmalmo.se/st-pauli-kyrka/calendar/bon-for-klimatet/">The Church of Sweden Malmö</a> announced that they would ring their church bells in conjunction with the Global Climate Strike, of which Thunberg is the face.
&#8220;In conjunction with the Global Climate Strike, church bells ring and we gather for prayer for the future of the earth,&#8221; the church announced. &#8220;We pray that we believe that man is responsible for nurturing and managing Creation so that children are given the opportunity for a future. We pray that we know that climate change affects the most vulnerable — poor, children and women. We pray that we believe in man&#8217;s ability to change and change.&#8221;
&#8220;When the Amazon burns, we gather to fight for Mother Earth together,&#8221; the site reads, adding, &#8220;WELCOME!&#8221;
The church account retweeted folks supporting and praising their “humorous” tweet about Thunberg being a successor to Jesus Christ while also defending the tweet by posting a link to the “nuances” of the word “success&#8221; soon following the post.
“Here you can read more about the word &#8216;success&#8217; and its different meanings / nuances,” the Church of Limhamn posted.
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<a href="https://t.co/dLF1QM1fkK">https://t.co/dLF1QM1fkK</a> Här kan du läsa mer om ordet ’efterträda’ o dess olika betydelser/ nyanser.
&mdash; Limhamns kyrka (@Limhamnskyrka) <a href="https://twitter.com/Limhamnskyrka/status/1069517592530956288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The account was abandoned just days later, signing off with both a defense of the message and an apology for any hurt they’ve caused. 
“Dear twitter, If we have hurt someone we apologize,&#8221; the post, which was published on December 6, 2018, starts.
&#8220;Our sense has been to talk about Jesus Christ in our own way,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Now we leave the arena. Thank you for your commitment, joy and debate. God bless you! Jonas Persson, ward pastor.&#8221;
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Kära twitter, Har vi sårat någon ber vi om ursäkt, det har aldrig varit vår mening. Vår mening har varit att på vårt sätt tala om Jesus Kristus. Nu lämnar vi arenan. Tack för engagemang, glädje och debatt. Gud välsigne er! Jonas Persson, församlingsherde
&mdash; Limhamns kyrka (@Limhamnskyrka) <a href="https://twitter.com/Limhamnskyrka/status/1070685959291842560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg gave a radical speech at the United Nations, last week.
&#8220;My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; the teenager warned. &#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. Entire ecosystems are collapsing,&#8221; Thunberg claimed. &#8220;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;
Today, the Church of Sweden, or Svenska kyrkan, is a national Evangelical Lutheran church. According to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Church-of-Sweden">Encyclopedia Brittanica,</a> the church  stopped being supported by the state in January 2000. Lutheranism stopped being Sweden&#8217;s official religion at that time as well.
&#8220;The country is divided into 13 dioceses, each headed by a bishop. The archbishop of Uppsala is bishop in his <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/diocese">diocese</a> and presiding bishop of the Church of Sweden,&#8221; the encyclopedia explains. &#8220;Bishops are elected by priests of the diocese and by lay delegates. The Church Assembly is the decision-making body. It has 251 elected members and meets two times a year.&#8221;
This post and headline has been updated to reflect that a parish from the Church of Sweden announced Thunberg as Christ&#8217;s successor in December

Church Of Sweden Parish Announced Greta Thunberg ‘Successor’ Of Jesus

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A-list anti-climate change activist Leonardo DiCaprio lashed out at climate change &#8220;deniers&#8221; in his speech to the exclusive Global Citizen Festival in New York City over the weekend, despite evidence that the Hollywood star seems reticent to curb his own carbon consumption in the name of saving the planet.
DiCaprio joined musician Adam Lambert, actor Hugh Jackman, and a host of glitterati at the 2019 Global Citizen Festival, which aims to cement a national commitment to &#8220;sustainability,&#8221; &#8220;end extreme poverty by 2030 and achieve the <a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sustainable goals</a> set forth by the United Nations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2019-global-citizen-festival-leonardo-dicaprio-denounces-climate-change-deniers-1244179">according to The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8221; actor did not mince words, accusing President Donald Trump of having &#8220;failed to live up to the promises&#8221; of the Paris Climate Accords, and praising 16-year-old climate change phenom Greta Thunberg.
“It&#8217;s become clear that our political leaders have failed to live up to the promises that we celebrated that day,” DiCaprio told the audience, referring to the signing ceremony for the Paris agreement.
&#8220;Our future is being gambled away, and our leaders, those whom we entrust to protect us and set the example, are either failing to stop these dangerous trends or, in some cases, denying the very science of this climate catastrophe,&#8221; he added.
He also lashed out at critics of the global &#8220;climate strike&#8221; movement, claiming that detractors simply don&#8217;t understand what &#8220;the youth&#8221; are trying to accomplish — even if the demands of the &#8220;climate strike&#8221; itself are fluid, and often, in the moment, more economic than environmental.
&#8220;Last Friday, young people led the world in strike. Millions of individuals did more than simply walk out of their schools and places of employment. They took a stand. They set an example of true leadership that our planet so desperately needs. These young people have said clearly, definitively and without fear, that the time for inaction is over,&#8221; DiCaprio said. &#8220;Yet, surprisingly, some have reacted to this movement with insulting tweets and negative talking points — individuals that seem to care more about profit and their own self-interests than about your own future. But we know that the climate youth movement is more important and crucial than at any time in human history.&#8221;
The Paris Climate Accords contain no provision for execution, meaning the restrictions they lay out aren&#8217;t enforceable and there&#8217;s no punishment for countries who fail to abide by the agreement. Although Trump pulled the United States out of the accords almost immediately upon taking office, the burden on the United States was no different before his decision than after.
As for DiCaprio, it appears his commitment to climate preservation lacks the sense of urgency shared by the climate strikers — Leonardo DiCaprio Denounces Climate Change Deniers At Exclusive NYC Festival Leonardo DiCaprio Denounces Climate Change Deniers At Exclusive NYC Festival and, ironically, he and other high-profile eco-warriors have fallen directly into Greta Thunberg&#8217;s crosshairs for their embrace of air travel, which Thunberg is seeking, with her &#8220;#StayOnTheGround&#8221; and #FlightShame&#8221; campaigns, to all but eliminate.
In fact, DiCaprio is famous for his lack of personal commitment to preserving the climate. He is regularly dinged for <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-private-jet-yacht-global-citizen-1461990">taking private jets to exclusive climate conferences</a> in Europe and Asia. When he&#8217;s not among the jet set, he can be found lounging on super-yachts or enjoying the spoils of his massive Hollywood home. In other words, if DiCaprio truly believes the world is just years away from spontaneously combusting, he&#8217;s not making the personal sacrifices necessary to stop it.
Twitter users were quick to point out DiCaprio&#8217;s hypocrisy, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-private-jet-yacht-global-citizen-1461990">as noted by  Newsweek</a>, sharing photos of the star disembarking private planes and vacationing aboard multi-million dollar boats, with one social media commentator even quipping, &#8220;I would love to hear what he is saying but his enormous carbon footpint is blocking the speakers.&#8221;

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