Posted on 11/06/2021 2:51:13 AM PDT by RandFan
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is in Glasgow, where the COP26 summit is taking place.
The 18-year-old is one of the world's best known climate campaigners.
What has she said about COP26?
Greta Thunberg has called the climate summit a "failure" and a "PR exercise".
She told a youth protest in Glasgow that world leaders had had "26 COPs, they have had decades of blah, blah, blah - and where has that got us?".
She has also criticised goals for cutting emissions which cause global warming, saying: "We don't just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need them for 2020 and every following month and year to come."
However, Thunberg has avoided getting into the detail of what action should be taken, saying "it is nothing to do with me".
Who is Greta Thunberg?
Thunberg became well-known after she protested outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, when she was 15.
She held a sign saying "School Strike for Climate", to pressure the government to meet carbon emissions targets.
Her small campaign had a global effect, inspiring thousands of young people across the world to organise their own strikes.
By December 2018, more than 20,000 students - from the UK to Japan - had joined her by skipping school to protest.
A year later, she received the first of three Nobel Peace Prize nominations for climate activism.
What is her background?
Thunberg has Asperger syndrome, a developmental disorder, and has described it as a gift. She said being different can be a "superpower".
Thunberg's mother, Malena Ernman, is an opera singer and former Eurovision Song Contest participant.
Her father Svante Thunberg, is an actor and a descendant of the scientist who created a model of the greenhouse effect.
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I love this! The “true believers” are growing up and calling out the bullh** of the phoney politicos. Pass the popcorn, please.
I get about 2 million results for BBC + Greta Thunberg, so this article is completely redundant. BBC has promoted her non-stop since she arrived on the climate scene.
She is (ironically) the great granddaughter of Svante Arrhenius.
Svante was a famous scientists, founder of physical chemistry, Nobel price winner (when it still mattered), creator of Arrhenius equation etc.
Among other things, he came with the idea of greenhouse gasses and global warming. He hoped the global warming will be great for the Earth, but figured out, that the CO2 effects are only logarithmic, so they will not give us too much of the desired warming.
Basically he had the same view on CO2 as today’s despised global warming sceptics.
He would be appealed and disgusted hearing Greta! Probably turning around in his grave now.
Very interesting.. I didn’t think to check that.
Yeh, only eighteen and already has a lifetime gig. Not bad.
They left out, “Thunberg is an 18-year-old girl with the body of a 9-year-old boy.”
They left out, “Thunberg is an 18-year-old girl with the body of a 9-year-old boy.”
She’s a watermelon. A tool of the Left.
Such a little rodent
Both parents make believe they are someone else for a living. What great parents for this fraud poser.
Is Al Gore still single?
Yet we are still hear and so is the earth after decades of blah blah blah. Looks as though we have nothing to do with it
Yet we are still hear and so is the earth after decades of blah blah blah. Looks as though we have nothing to do with it
This girl is being manipulated by someone...it's just a matter of who it is.
“This girl is being manipulated by someone...it’s just a matter of who it is.”
Much like Joe Biden.
The parents, no doubt.
Yes,they’re the most likely suspects.
“Such a little rodent” ...... LOL , Yep !!
https://newrightnetwork.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-fake-activism.html
The better question is who’s controlling/funding/manipulating her to further their agenda.
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