'TOTALLY INDEPENDENT': Teen eco-warrior hits back at rumours she's being manipulated

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'She doesn't flirt or giggle or pout.' What's behind men's discomfort with Greta Thunberg.




Greta Thunberg makes men – especially middle-aged white men – very angry.
“Grating Greta’s a vulnerable young drama queen who should go back to school,” Piers Morgan declared in the Daily Mail.
US president Donald Trump mocked the young climate activist on Twitter.
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” he wrote. “So nice to see!”
Former Australian TV personality Sam Newman also took to Twitter to attack Thunberg, calling her an “annoying little brat” and a “s—t”. Meanwhile, Karl Stefanovic on 2GB admitted Greta made him angry. “I’ll tell you what, I’m an incensed middle-aged white guy this afternoon,” he told his audience.
This annoying little brat addressed the UN on the so-called climate crisis. WHO lets this shit have a platform? Mendacious, inbred sycophants, that who. #ClimateChangeHoax pic.twitter.com/W1fvYdtFSW
— Sam Newman (@Origsmartassam) September 24, 2019
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In the US, right-wingers have really let loose. John Nolte from Breitbart.com wrote: “I can’t tell if Greta needs a spanking or a psychological intervention… Probably both.”
I can’t tell if Greta needs a spanking or a psychological intervention…
Probably both. https://t.co/zyJ8WntCGk
— John Ocasio-Nolte (@NolteNC) September 23, 2019
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“Tase and arrest her,” tweeted Stephen Miller.
Tase and arrest her. #JusticeForRocky https://t.co/4R0g8QpNcs
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 13, 2019
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Leaving aside the fact that she’s only 16, is this really the way to talk about the leader of a global movement? Why is everyone attacking her instead of attacking what she’s saying? Where does all this anger come from?
Out there on Twitter, there are women who are nailing it.
“I think Greta Thunberg is the first 16yo girl in a long time who has been presented to the public outside of a sexual lens and a lot of men can’t handle it,” wrote journalist Sophie Wilkinson.


More: https://mamamia.com.au/greta-thunberg-2
 
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Cliffy said:
'She doesn't flirt or giggle or pout.' What's behind men's discomfort with Greta Thunberg.

Greta Thunberg makes men – especially middle-aged white men – very angry.
“Grating Greta’s a vulnerable young drama queen who should go back to school,” Piers Morgan declared in the Daily Mail.
US president Donald Trump mocked the young climate activist on Twitter.
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” he wrote. “So nice to see!”
Former Australian TV personality Sam Newman also took to Twitter to attack Thunberg, calling her an “annoying little brat” and a “s—t”. Meanwhile, Karl Stefanovic on 2GB admitted Greta made him angry. “I’ll tell you what, I’m an incensed middle-aged white guy this afternoon,” he told his audience.
This annoying little brat addressed the UN on the so-called climate crisis. WHO lets this shit have a platform? Mendacious, inbred sycophants, that who. #ClimateChangeHoax pic.twitter.com/W1fvYdtFSW
— Sam Newman (@Origsmartassam) September 24, 2019
​
In the US, right-wingers have really let loose. John Nolte from Breitbart.com wrote: “I can’t tell if Greta needs a spanking or a psychological intervention… Probably both.”
I can’t tell if Greta needs a spanking or a psychological intervention…
Probably both. https://t.co/zyJ8WntCGk
— John Ocasio-Nolte (@NolteNC) September 23, 2019
​
“Tase and arrest her,” tweeted Stephen Miller.
Tase and arrest her. #JusticeForRocky https://t.co/4R0g8QpNcs
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 13, 2019
​
Leaving aside the fact that she’s only 16, is this really the way to talk about the leader of a global movement? Why is everyone attacking her instead of attacking what she’s saying? Where does all this anger come from?
Out there on Twitter, there are women who are nailing it.
“I think Greta Thunberg is the first 16yo girl in a long time who has been presented to the public outside of a sexual lens and a lot of men can’t handle it,” wrote journalist Sophie Wilkinson.
More: https://mamamia.com.au/greta-thunberg-2
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Greta Thunberg says it’s a compliment that grown men are trying to silence her


Greta Thunberg hit back at critics including Donald Trump on Friday before she marched in a climate strike in Montreal, saying their mockery of children shows her message has become ‘too loud to handle’. The 16-year-old climate activist said: 'We are having so much impact that people want to silence us. We've become too loud for people to handle so they try to silence us. So we should also take that as a compliment.' Thunberg invited aboriginal Canadians to lead the march with her because ‘they are often the ones who are at the front line’ of global warming Climate crisis: 6 million people join latest wave of global protests
 
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By what? A developmentally challenged little girl?

I feel sorry for her for being brainwashed by Big Oil to push their single source energy agenda.

As for a greasy old man such as yourself latching on to her star, I have zero empathy for you. You are old enough to know when you've been had.
 
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Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement

Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement

(Photo: Justin Kern) By Colin Schultz
smithsonian.com
December 23, 2013


The overwhelming majority of climate scientists, international governmental bodies, relevant research institutes and scientific societies are in unison in saying that climate change is real, that it's a problem, and that we should probably do something about it now, not later. And yet, for some reason, the idea persists in some peoples' minds that climate change is up for debate, or that climate change is no big deal.


Actually, it's not “for some reason” that people are confused. There's a very obvious reason. There is a very well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement, one funded by powerful people with very deep pockets. In a new and incredibly thorough study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle took a deep dive into the financial structure of the climate deniers, to see who is holding the purse strings.
According to Brulle's research, the 91 think tanks and advocacy organizations and trade associations that make up the American climate denial industry pull down just shy of a billion dollars each year, money used to lobby or sway public opinion on climate change and other issues.
“The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires,” says the Guardian, “often working through secretive funding networks. They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change.”
“This is how wealthy individuals or corporations translate their economic power into political and cultural power,” he said. “They have their profits and they hire people to write books that say climate change is not real. They hear people to go on TV and say climate change is not real. It ends up that people without economic power don't have the same size voice as the people who have economic power, and so it ends up distorting democracy.​
Last year, PBS talked to Brulle about his investigation into the climate change countermovement. The project, says Brulle, is the first part of three: in the future he'll turn a similar eye to the climate movement and to the environmental movement. But for now, the focus is on the deniers.


More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204
 
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Cliffy said:
Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement
Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement
(Photo: Justin Kern) By Colin Schultz
smithsonian.com
December 23, 2013
The overwhelming majority of climate scientists, international governmental bodies, relevant research institutes, Oil and Gas companies and scientific societies are in unison in saying that climate change is real, that it's a problem, and that we should probably do something about it now, not later. And yet, for some reason, the idea persists in some peoples' minds that climate change is up for debate, or that climate change is no big deal.
Actually, it's not “for some reason” that people are confused. There's a very obvious reason. There is a very well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement, one funded by powerful people with very deep pockets. In a new and incredibly thorough study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle took a deep dive into the financial structure of the climate deniers, to see who is holding the purse strings.
According to Brulle's research, the 91 think tanks and advocacy organizations and trade associations that make up the American climate denial industry pull down just shy of a billion dollars each year, money used to lobby or sway public opinion on climate change and other issues.
“The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires,” says the Guardian, “often working through secretive funding networks. They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change.”
“This is how wealthy individuals or corporations translate their economic power into political and cultural power,” he said. “They have their profits and they hire people to write books that say climate change is not real. They hear people to go on TV and say climate change is not real. It ends up that people without economic power don't have the same size voice as the people who have economic power, and so it ends up distorting democracy.​
Last year, PBS talked to Brulle about his investigation into the climate change countermovement. The project, says Brulle, is the first part of three: in the future he'll turn a similar eye to the climate movement and to the environmental movement. But for now, the focus is on the deniers.
More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204
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Fixed it fer ya Clive. Can you spot the addition?
 
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Ron in Regina said:
This isn't an attack on Greta, but it does offer perspective on this situation, and encourages informing oneself:

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Thanks, Ron. I found his take to be an logical and cogent answer to the 'white men hate this young girl' bs that is so prevalent. I am in complete agreement with his take on her address to the UN and that her disabilities are not a factor. I also agree with his remarks concerning 'green technology' - it won't happen overnight. Great delivery............the commercials were a tad annoying though. :smile:
 
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For Cliffy, Curious Canadian and Hoid, who are about as gullible as a 16 yr old.



A group of scientists and professionals in climate and related fields sent a letter to the United Nations on Sept. 23 declaring that “there is no climate emergency.”
“The general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are unfit for their purpose,” the letter, sent to Secretary-General António Guterres, states.
“Therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions of dollars on the basis of results from such immature models.”

The letter was signed by [over 500] prominent scientists and professionals from related fields, including atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen and applied geology professor Alberto Prestininzi.
The effort is led by professor Guus Berkhout, a Dutch engineer who served as professor of acoustics, geophysics, and innovation management at the Delft University of Technology.
Berkhout intends to release the full list of 500 signatories in Oslo on Oct. 18.
The letter states that current climate policies undermine the economic system and put lives at risk by denying countries affordable energy.
“We urge you to follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics, and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation,” the letter states.
The letter’s release coincided with the U.N. climate summit in New York. Exemplifying some of the alarmism that prompted the letter, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg told the summit that the planet is in the beginning stage of “mass extinction.”
At a press briefing accompanying the letter, the scientists point out that the warming projected by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show temperature increases four times higher than the warming that was actually observed.
The IPCC has previously said its climate models can’t be used to accurately predict long-term changes in the climate.
“In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible,” the IPCC’s 2018 report states.
The letter to the U.N. states that the Earth’s climate has always varied. The recent increase in global average temperature is no surprise, it says in the letter, considering that the Little Ice Age ended in 1850.
The letter also says that global warming hasn’t led to more natural disasters.
The Berkhout-led letter follows a petition by more than 90 Italian scientists, publicized in June, which challenges the assertion that humans cause global warming as a theory based on models that have failed to adequately predict climate changes.
“It is scientifically unrealistic to attribute to humans the responsibility for the warming observed from the past century to today,” the Italian petition states.
“The advanced alarmist forecasts, therefore, are not credible, since they are based on models whose results contradict the experimental data. All the evidence suggests that these models overestimate the [human] contribution and underestimate the natural climatic variability, especially that induced by the sun, the moon, and ocean oscillations.”


Note the IPCC made their admission LAST YEAR! And yet here you are, sucking on Great's ass a year later because she clearly knows far more than the IPCC and those 500 scientists, right?
 
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