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Scientists have developed a method that allows them to identify so-called climate change "fingerprints" in daily weather observations - and it found consistent evidence of global warming every day since late March 2012. Using climate models and statistical learning techniques, a team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland were able to identify climate change's "fingerprint" in global daily mean temperatures, which had been calculated from measurements collected in locations across the world. The researchers highlighted that while local daily mean temperatures might fluctuate significantly year-on-year, global daily mean measurements show a consistent trend towards global warming. They say their...

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg issued a response to singer Meat Loaf after the Dallas rocker called her "brainwashed" in an interview this weekend. "It’s not about Meatloaf," tweeted the Swedish teenager. "It’s not about me. It’s not about what some people call me. It’s not about left or right." Meat Leaf, 72, claimed Thunberg, 17, had been "brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change, and there isn’t.” She has traveled the planet over the past year to promote her beliefs and came in second place for 2019's Nobel Peace Prize awards, losing to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed....

I don't think Mr. Gervais will be invited back. https://youtu.be/LCNdTLHZAeo

After host Ricky Gervais admonished the Golden Globes winners Sunday night not to bring up politics in their acceptance speeches because they "know nothing about the real world," actress Michelle Williams did just that with a two minute long screed supporting abortion while accepting the award for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV. Williams, who, ironically, is pregnant, started out talking about choices in acting before transitioning to bodily choice, then seemingly admitted to her own abortion when she said she "wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to...

Felicity Huffman, Cats, Joe Pesci, the Catholic Church, Judi Dench and James Corden got the Ricky Gervais treatment during the opening monologue of tonight’s Golden Globe Awards, but none took the brunt of the host’s jibes quite as sharply as Hollywood itself. Casting the industry town as hypocritically woke – with a Jeffrey Epstein joke thrown in for good measure – the notoriously scathing British comic advised Golden Globe winners to skip the moralizing. Said Gervais, “Thank your agent and your God and…” The rest was bleeped, but he seemed to say something along the lines of “then get the...

“I’m not the kind of person who celebrates birthdays,” Greta Thunberg said as she turned 17 on Friday, marking the occasion in inimitable style - with a seven-hour hour protest outside the Swedish parliament. The climate activist braved winter conditions in her native Stockholm to continue the weekly Friday School Strike for the Climate campaign that helped catapult her to international fame. “I stand here striking from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. as usual ... then I’ll go home,” Thunberg, Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019, told Reuters. Read also: I wouldn't have wasted my time on Trump,...

The teenage environmental activist — who has netted 3.8 million followers on the social networking site since she joined in June 2018 — changed her Twitter bio to “Sharon” Friday in a riff on the game-show contestant who failed to recognize her. The stumped guest on the BBC’s Celebrity Mastermind guessed “Sharon” when the host showed her a photo of Thunberg — who graced Time magazine covers a month earlier as its “person of the year” — causing a stir on Twitter. “Our climate change global superstar will always be Sharon Thunberg to me from now on,” @WolfWhoWanders tweeted. As...

The latest word from Iraq is that there's been another airstrike early Saturday.... But the story from the Iraqi group targeted is that its leaders were not killed in the attack..... "The assassination of an Iraqi military commander in an official post is an aggression against the country of Iraq, its state, its government and its people" The words of the Prime Minister of Iraq Adil Abdul Mahdi in describing the early Friday morning drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qaesm Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units.... The situation...

The Russian pranksters famous for tricking House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) into seeking nude pictures of President Donald Trump are claiming that they just got Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — for a second time. YouTubers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who go by the names Vovan and Lexus, recently called Waters’s office and, with the help of a female colleague, pretended to be teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, TIME‘s “Person of the Year” for 2019, and her father, claiming to have a taped confession from Trump admitting to the exact charges in House Democrats’ articles of impeachment which...

There are two primary reasons it is so difficult, if not impossible, to define leftism. One is that it ultimately stands for chaos: -- Open borders. -- "Nonbinary" genders. -- Nonsensical and scatological "art." -- "Music" without tonality, melody or harmony. -- Drag Queen Story Hour for 5-year-olds. -- Rejection of the concept of better or worse civilizations. -- Rejection of the concept of better or worse art. -- Removal of Shakespeare's picture from a university English department because he was a white male. -- The end of all use of fossil fuels -- even in transportation (as per the...

I finally found something to show FREEPERS what I mean. See if the first 10 seconds of this Killjoys clip of the arch-villain "The Lady" doesn't remind you of this little snot Greta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2aVaqI2Jg

It is not easy to understand what the left -- as opposed to liberals -- stands for. If you ask a Christian what to read to learn the basics of Christianity, you will be told the Bible. If you ask a (religious) Jew, you will be told the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. If you ask a Mormon, you will be told the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Ask a Muslim and you will be told the Quran. But if you ask a leftist what one or two books you should read to understand leftism, every leftist will give...

Greta Thunberg’s father said in a new interview that the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden has become much happier after taking up the environmental cause — but that he worries about all the “hate” she faces. Actor-turned-producer Svante Thunberg, 50, told the BBC that he and Greta’s mom, opera singer Malena Ernman, at first objected to their shy daughter becoming an eco-warrior. “Obviously, we thought it was a bad idea, putting herself out there with all the hate on social media,” he said about Greta, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome — a form of autism — at age 12.

As 2019 comes to an end, one of the (many) things it will be remembered for is the year politicians weaponized children. Politicians have always used kids as props, but now they’re routinely tossed around as explosive devices to short circuit or end discussions adults don’t want to take place. And we’re all in trouble if we let it succeed. It actually started in 2018, with the David Hoggs of the world who were eager to turn tragedy into attention. The media was a more than willing partner, elevating voices singing songs they liked while ignoring every student with the...

The EU won't be able to lead by example if other countries can see what the Green Deal is actually headed toward: economic ruin, job loss, and more unwanted government intrusion. TimeÂ’s person of the year is a teenage activist famous for castigating adults across the world over their perceived inaction on climate change. Other activists tell us the world is burning down around us and weÂ’re doing nothing to stop it.Politicians and scientists are forcing policies on people and employers in moves to supposedly save the world without offering realistic, cost-effective, alternative energy sources. Of all the ills facing...

An original documentary about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg will be released on Hulu in 2020. The documentary with the working title "Greta" will be directed by Nathan Grosman and produced by Cecilia Nessen and Frederik Heinig of B-Reel Films, Deadline reported on Dec. 16. "In August 2018, Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, starts a school strike for the climate," the logline reads. "Her question for adults: if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school?

The Times has claimed in an analysis that despite a boom in the sale of Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg-related merchandise indicating greater environmental awareness, much of it is either transported from China or made from environmentally unfriendly materials. The “Greta” memorabilia includes a variety of T-shirts, mugs, stickers, badges and bags which are currently available online via Amazon, eBay and Etsy. (Please see link for full article)

Climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg recently appeared in DC Comics and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. Thunberg appears at the very end of the book as Carrie Kelley as Batwoman has assembled a group of protestors to take on Darkseid. Thunberg is one of the protestors. Darkseid describes the protestors: “Look at them…fists clenched in righteous rage…Eyes glistening with hope and determination…” He adds, “…Yes. They will serve me well…once they are turned.” Not only does the book feature Greta Thunberg, but it also takes issue with President Donald Trump and his supporters. The book shows crazed...

An Etobicoke mother is upset that seven-and eight-year-old kids were shown a library presentation consisting of an emotional speech by child climate activist Greta Thunberg and a carbon clock predicting humans have eight years left to act before the point of no return for saving humanity from climate change. During the presentation at least one child shouted out something to the effect of “We’re all going to die!” or “I don’t want to die!” in response to a clock showing two scenarios of global temperatures rising above the point of no return, the direr one showing a clock ticking down...

It’s hard to think of anyone who defined the spirit of 2019 more than Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist who addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, held her own against a cyberbully who just happens to be the President of the United States, and honored the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio with a visit. Now, Thunberg’s meteoric rise will be chronicled in a Hulu documentary that will air in 2020, the streaming service announced on Tuesday. Produced by Cecilia Nessen and Fredrik Heinig via B-Reel Films and directed by Stieg Larsson documentary cinematographer Nathan Grossman, the Thunberg documentary will...