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Democrats invite teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg to testify before Congress
Washington Examiner ^ | 12 September 2019 | Josh Siegel

Posted on 09/12/2019 2:09:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16, is testifying before Congress next week at the invitation of House Democrats.

Thunberg will appear Sept. 18 before a joint hearing of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

She is among a group of young climate activists Democrats invited to testify at the hearing, entitled "Voices Leading the Next Generation on the Global Climate Crisis."

Thunberg is best known for founding an international movement called Fridays for Future, in which students skip school on Fridays to participate in demonstrations demanding action to combat climate change.

Last month she traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in an emissions-free solar-powered boat, instead of flying, to New York City ahead of her speech on Sept. 23 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.

“We’re at the point where an entire generation has grown up in the climate crisis,” said Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida, chairwoman of the Select Climate Crisis Committee. “They know the science, they know the stakes and they know how to rise to the challenge. We need to rise with them."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; climate; democrats; europe; fakescience; thunberg
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Those who wonder "how could an advanced country like Germany ever march millions of people into death camps" need only look into the eyes of Greta Thunberg to obtain your answer.
1 posted on 09/12/2019 2:09:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

... because she has such gravitas?


2 posted on 09/12/2019 2:11:40 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: Steely Tom

What the hell does she know?


3 posted on 09/12/2019 2:12:20 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: BunnySlippers

Future lesbo


4 posted on 09/12/2019 2:13:05 PM PDT by albie
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To: Steely Tom

Doesn’t this girl have some kind of developmental issues or autism or something? The left are exploiting this kid.


5 posted on 09/12/2019 2:14:07 PM PDT by Rastus
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What the hell does she know?

She knows how to get before the Rats in Congress

6 posted on 09/12/2019 2:14:17 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

Who also know nothing.


7 posted on 09/12/2019 2:16:26 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Steely Tom

Swedish child abuse.


8 posted on 09/12/2019 2:17:57 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I hope someone on our side asks her "what is the correct temperature for the earth?"

Followed by "what do you think the population of the earth should be?"

9 posted on 09/12/2019 2:18:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: albie

I heard that Greta has Asperger’s syndrome, and some other problems. This accounts for her odd appearance and mannerisms.

I am.NOT trying to criticize anyone with problems such as her. I AM saying that someone is using her, someone is using an ignorant 16 year old to push global warming.

I can see it now. Any tough questions which may come to her in that hearing, and the liberals will go nuts, saying how can you beat up.on a little girl who is scared for her future, etc.

So she will get to grandstand, to the delight of her handlers. She will be called brave and an icon by the obsequious liberals on that committee.

The media have decided that she is global warming royalty, so she will get the most favorable treatment possible on her American tour.


10 posted on 09/12/2019 2:18:44 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Rastus

Yes. And..yes they are. It’s what they do.


11 posted on 09/12/2019 2:20:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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“We’re at the point where an entire generation has grown up in the climate crisis,” said Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida, chairwoman of the Select Climate Crisis Committee. “They know the science, they know the stakes and they know how to rise to the challenge. We need to rise with them."

Florida Woman, how ignorant can you be ? Somebody, anybody, put this woman out of a job.

12 posted on 09/12/2019 2:22:09 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Rastus

I’d love to see a Republican stand up and say, ‘See? This is what fetal alcohol syndrome produces!’


13 posted on 09/12/2019 2:22:48 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: csvset

Kick this nitwit out of the country. Arrest her enanlers and abusers.


14 posted on 09/12/2019 2:23:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Steely Tom

Did the little twit us the solar powered boat for the RETURN trip home last trip? How about this next visit? Solar powered boat again? To really help the planet out with your global warming fraud/hoax/scam, next time...SWIM you beyotch!


15 posted on 09/12/2019 2:23:36 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

So who decided that putting a 16 year old girl with developmental problems on a boat with a bunch of men to sail across the ocean was a good idea ?


16 posted on 09/12/2019 2:24:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Steely Tom

16??? 16???? 16????? The Dems are DUMBER than I even thought they were!!


17 posted on 09/12/2019 2:25:12 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Steely Tom

Good Lord. I would never trust a teenager with anything.


18 posted on 09/12/2019 2:25:28 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: Steely Tom

Wow. A movement to skip school on Friday!
Where does the line start...


19 posted on 09/12/2019 2:25:30 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Steely Tom
A 16 year old prima donna who knows nothing about anyrthing is about to teach members of congress? Pure unadulterated crap.
20 posted on 09/12/2019 2:29:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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