Posted on 08/20/2020 11:04:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to be “brave” in the fight against global warming as she sought to breathe fresh life into a climate movement overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The 17-year-old traveled to Berlin to meet Europe’s most powerful leader exactly two years since she first skipped school to demand more climate action, kicking off what would become the global Fridays for Future strikes.
Thunberg was joined by co-campaigners Luisa Neubauer from Germany and Belgium’s Anuna De Wever and Adelaide Charlier, all of whom wore masks as they made their way to the chancellery from Berlin’s main train station. […]
“We want leaders… to be brave enough to think long-term,” Thunberg told an outdoor press conference after the meeting. “We want leaders to step up and take responsibility and treat the climate crisis like a crisis.”
She said Merkel, as the current chair of the EU rotating presidency, had a “huge responsibility but also a huge opportunity” to help the European Union meet its commitments under the Paris climate agreement. …
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What a lying brat.
Global Warming and Coronavirus PING!
she eats well
Going to be 95 degrees today.
School will close early.
Our daughter has a new friend in her class she is sitting next to.
The girl came back from Vietnam where her father was a diplomat and she went to an American school there for four years.
They have a pool the girls were swimming in the other day.
Today they will be swimming again.
When we moved to this part of Berlin the place was a swamp with industrial waste.
But they did amazing development work here and now we are surrounded by luxury dwellings.
The home they live in has three floors.
In four months she not a kid anymore… can we ignore her then. Please.
School will close early.
Our daughter has a new friend in her class she is sitting next to.
The girl came back from Vietnam where her father was a diplomat and she went to an American school there for four years.
They have a pool the girls were swimming in the other day. Today they will be swimming again.
When we moved to this part of Berlin the place was a swamp with industrial waste.
But they did amazing development work here and now we are surrounded by luxury dwellings.
The home they live in has three floors.
Thanks for that pertinent update! I shall inform the media.
Regards,
Don’t let me interrupt the hatefest.
The Fridays-for-the-Future kids are basically on the last ‘wheel’....Covid-19 is the hyped-up topic, and the economy is in a harsh spiral. In twelve months, the Greta kids can hang it up, and start looking for a job.
Every living being on earth better hope that if their is a climate change, it is for warmer temperatures rather than colder temperatures because if the earth goes cooler, mass starvation will occur immediately. If the temp goes warmer, at least food can be grown.
Must suck to be so irrelevant at such a young age.
What is your point?
Sharing a general interest story about dealing with the heat in Germany.
With the added bonus of including a German official (since this is also about Merkel).
You are welcome.
I’d be interested to read what you have to share.
“Going to be 95 degrees today.”
We had our first 100 degree day in AUGUST and our governor (Polis) started hitting the climate change talking points.
Yes. Photovoltaic solar power is expensive for indoor cooling. Nuclear power has a stigma along with extra expenses. Indoor cooling is a complicated engineering problem for buildings above ground.
The North American disagreement with climate change regulation schemes has to do with some nations demanding monetary compensation from other nations based on volumes of usage of energy resources but disguised as pollution concerns.
Some geographical areas have different natural conditions from other areas including climate (some places cooler or warmer than others), size of land area and amounts of energy resources.
The current period of increased activity in the outer core of the earth resulting in magnetic field weaknesses is causing more methane leaks and other natural processes that deplete the ozone and lead to warmer weather fluctuations. Droughts and increased number of wildfires in some areas are also results.
I don’t see that we, as humans, can do much about it but to make the best of it, though. At least we’re not all using winter wood and coal fires for heating individual dwellings, as was done in the recent past.
100 degrees and I’m sitting in the tub.
Which actually isn’t a bad idea.
It’s Friday night.
Wait... what's this? Great, please follow along, if you can...
AIR QUALITY INDEX
Does anyone want to get an A in Geography today and tell us which country is where most of the purple AQI is located?
90% of all ocean plastic waste comes from these ten rivers... and HALF from just the Yangtze River. Does anyone want to get an A in Geography today and tell us which country is where 6 of those 10 rivers are located?
INCREASES IN CO2 EMISSIONS SINCE 1990:
(in Mt CO2/yr)
Rank
Country
2017
1990
Increase
1
China
10,877
2,397
8,480
2
India
2,454
606
1,800
3
Saudi Arabia
639
166
473
4
Iran
671
206
465
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8
Brazil
492
229
263
9
Mexico
507
290
217
13
Japan
1,320
1,149
171
15
Canada
617
455
162
44
USA
5,107
5,085
22
That 8,480 is TWICE AS MUCH the rest of the world COMBINED!!!!!
(World Total = 12,942 and China contributed 8,480, meaning the rest of the globe totaled 4,462)
FYI... best in the world? Russia, oddly enough... -614… followed by Ukraine (-577), Germany (-221), UK (-209), Romania (-106), North Korea (-93), and Italy (-70)
Source data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
So class... does anyone want to tell young Greta which country should be the focus for the global environmentalist rage and scorn and condescension??
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