Greta admits Climate Crisis is a Hoax?

I ran into this YouTube video where Greta Thunberg says, "Since the climate crisis doesn’t exist, how can we expect people to want climate action?"  Freudian slip?  Has she just given up the game, admitting that she has been playing us for fools all along?  No, this is just another of those deceptive selective edits.  Donald Trump has often been on the receiving end of such deceptive editing (e.g., fine people hoax, drinking bleach hoax, etc.) but now it is Greta's turn.  Maybe those who accepted the misreporting on what Trump said will have their eyes opened by this obvious misreporting of Greta.  Probably not, but one can hope.

Apologies of a Climate Scaremonger

Here is an article I encountered thanks to the Streisand Effect.  Forbes had posted an article from a long-time environmentalist, a true believer, who had doubts about the over-the-top tactics and claims made by his fellow environmentalists.  Apparently, the backlash was such that Forbes pulled the story and begged forgiveness.  Well, this I have to read.

Click this link to read the story for yourself.

The article is a preview of his book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. Among his points are that we are not seeing a mass extinction, climate change is not making natural disasters worse, fires have declined over the last 17 years, carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations, wood fuel is worse for people than fossil fuel, and more.  An interesting point is that air pollution and carbon emissions diminish by moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium.  Nuclear plants are the most environmentally friendly.  Well, unless you're in Russia.

The most interesting thing is that his views were discouraged by fellow environmentalists.  Though he remains an environmentalist, he sees that climate alarmism is needlessly scaring people.  When AOC said the world would end in 12 years, that may provoke eye-rolling among some but terrifies youth.  Oddly, I recall when I was in elementary school, a student said the world was going to end in 1980.  Credulous as I was, I believed it.  The teacher didn't shoot down the idea.  Why hadn't my parents told me about this?  Looking back now, it's silly.  Imagine if I had marinated in such claims throughout my childhood.  That's what has happened to Greta Thunberg.

Be of good cheer.  The world is not ending any time soon.

The Pawn

Who is Greta Thunberg?  Obviously, I know who she is but why is she Time's Person of the Year?  There are countless people who have made climate change their life's work but somehow this teenager from Sweden is the face of the movement.  How did that happen?  When some accomplished person starts lecturing me, at least I can see that they are accomplished.  When Warren Buffet calls for higher taxes, I may disagree but I understand why he has the platform to say this.  His success as an investor earned him a platform to opine about how his taxes are too low.  So what did Greta do to get her platform?  She ditched school.  Lots of teens ditch school and that is a pretty low bar as far as accomplishments.  Why would some Swedish teen rise to such heights on a topic where she has no special knowledge?  Why not Al Gore or any one of the frequently stated 97% of scientist who say climate change is real?

 

As someone who believes taxes are too high and government spends too much, who would be a better spokesperson for that cause: Arthur Laffer or a random teen from Nebraska?  For some reason, the climate change folks have chosen the random teen over the a PhD in the subject.  Why is that?  Greta is not trying to convince anyone with her knowledge of the issue but rather with the emotions she can evoke.  The evidence has failed to achieve the goal so now the guilt trip.  You have stolen my childhood.

 

Greta is a pawn, a useful figure to pull heartstrings.  She is not the first.  Back in 1992, there was Severn Cullis-Suzuki.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJICmLMb06Y

 

Severn has since gone to Yale where she earned a BS in ecology and evolutionary biology.  Gee, she sounds like a better advocate.  Well, except that her 1992 doomsaying didn't come to pass.  Back then, the big concern was the ozone layer of the atmosphere and global warming was only just getting traction as a topic.  We don't hear much about the ozone these days.  Huh.

 

Greta and Severn were plucked from relative anonymity because they were useful pawns for the environmentalists.  Kids are often used as pawns.  Kids parrot what their parents tell them.