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Greta Thunberg: I don't understand why 'grown-ups' mock 'acting on the science'
The Hill ^ | 27 September 2019 | Marty Johnson

Posted on 09/27/2019 12:46:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg is rejecting the criticism she's receiving from "grown-ups" who she says should instead spend their time "acting on the science" that shows the environment is in serious danger.

Thunberg, a Swedish native, addressed the flak while visiting Canada on Friday as part of her multination tour to draw attention to the climate crisis.

“That we should take as compliment that we are having so much impact that people want to silence us,” Thunberg said at a Montreal rally, as reported by The Associated Press. “We’ve become too loud for people to handle, so people want to silence us.”

Following her appearance at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the week, Thunberg was the subject of aggressive criticism online and in conservative media, with Fox News personalities comparing her to the "Children of the Corn" and calling her "mentally ill."

President Trump poked fun at her on Twitter on Tuesday, posting a video of one of her more dire warnings with the message "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!"

Thunberg replied Friday, saying that she didn't get "why grown-ups would choose to mock children and teenagers for just communicating and acting on the science when they could do something good instead.”

In addition to the Canadian event Thunberg attended Friday, countless other climate rallies were held around the world. These rallies come a week after the Global Climate Strike that saw more than 4 million people around the world protest.

As part of her trip to Montreal, Thunberg sat down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was also present at the city's demonstration.

“She is the voice of a generation, of young people who are calling on their leaders to do more and do better,” Trudeau said. “And I am listening.”

As with other world leaders with whom she has met, Thunberg said Trudeau isn't going far enough to address the rapidly warming planet.

“He is of course obviously not doing enough, but this is just a huge problem, this is a system that is wrong,” Thunberg said. “My message to all the politicians is the same: Just listen and act on the science.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aspbergers; climate; fakescience; greta; rentfree
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To: erkelly

How dare you!


41 posted on 09/27/2019 1:30:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Steely Tom
Maybe because science is not a democracy? "Settled science" is a null program. Light speed, gravity, physics, Darwinian are not "settled science".

And yet, somehow, a Leftist supposition, that is based on picked over statistics, is an ironclad prediction of future behavior...

This kind of criminal stupidity shouldn't be allowed to live...

42 posted on 09/27/2019 1:34:01 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: digger48

You know, I was thinking the same thing.

Greta is a truly miserable, seriously depressed and anxious girl. The antipsychotic meds she takes obviously don’t work very well. I predict she will eventually commit suicide when she finally realizes she isn’t the center of attention anymore.

Greta is a SERIOUSLY mentally ill girl.


43 posted on 09/27/2019 1:36:12 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ( "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"She has traveled around Europe by train. A train uses evil fossil fuels, so not sure how she can justify that."

Maybe she'll try to get home by train. We can always hope.

44 posted on 09/27/2019 1:37:11 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Steely Tom

She believes what she’s been fed is “science?” How cute, and wonderfully naive.


45 posted on 09/27/2019 1:37:44 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Army Air Corps

She’s a future Elizabeth Warren.


46 posted on 09/27/2019 1:38:04 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Steely Tom

This little tool of the Left wouldn’t know Science if it came and bit her on her pasty white ass. All that she can do is spout rehearsed lines of feigned outrage. She needs medication.


47 posted on 09/27/2019 1:40:34 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Steely Tom

Does she know that governments support these scientists research? If you don’t sign on to the governments agenda you don’t get funded and you don’t eat. But little miss fancy pants knows everything about the world


48 posted on 09/27/2019 1:47:30 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Steely Tom
Hot Hunt has captured the unhealthy essence of this actor with severe untreated OCD and Asperger's Syndrome: Greta Thunberg has likened her Asperger’s syndrome to a ‘superpower’ — some Fortune 500 employers appear to agree Published: Sept 27, 2019 9:15 a.m. ET. (marketwatch.com/story/greta-thunberg-is-facing-attacks-over-her-aspergers-but-heres-why-companies-want-to-hire-people-on-the-autism-spectrum-2019-09-25)

Climate Change Army led by a mentally unstable child.

Greta’s handler is Luisa-Marie Neubauer : Funded by ~ George Soros, Common Core - Bill Gates , and pals.

49 posted on 09/27/2019 1:51:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Steely Tom

why do the FR crowd give this loud mouth any action? We should ignore this brat.


50 posted on 09/27/2019 1:54:02 PM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Wake up Deplorables and listen to this great young woman!


51 posted on 09/27/2019 1:59:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Steely Tom

#FakeScience #EcoTerrorism #Antifa


52 posted on 09/27/2019 2:02:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Steely Tom

Believers: Just turn off your thermostats and leave your vehicles parked.


53 posted on 09/27/2019 2:09:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Steely Tom

She’s a retarded little kid who is being abused by her parents to do all this.


54 posted on 09/27/2019 2:10:30 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: Steely Tom

Because your “science” is lies, and you are a moron.


55 posted on 09/27/2019 2:20:40 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: Steely Tom

“I don’t understand why...”

You don’t understand PLENTY, girl.

Your parents ought to be punished for what they’ve inflicted on you and turned you into.


56 posted on 09/27/2019 2:37:09 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Steely Tom

How about because it isn’t science but socialist hysteria disguised as science.


57 posted on 09/27/2019 2:37:34 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Paid For By The Father of Lies. There is no truth in them.)
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To: EEGator

***Doesn’t this girl have school?***

Why go to school. The world will end in 11 years.


58 posted on 09/27/2019 2:43:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Steely Tom

“acting on the science”

You mean like, back in 1910, when people committed suicide rather than be gassed to death when the earth passed through the tail of Haley’s Comet? It was supposed to wipe out all life on earth.


59 posted on 09/27/2019 2:46:53 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Steely Tom

She has the science IQ of a gerbil.


60 posted on 09/27/2019 2:50:24 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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