THREE CHEERS
FOR "THUNDERING"
GRETA THUNBERG !
The always angry
17-year-old girl,
and high school
dropout, scolds adults
and high school
dropout, scolds adults
about climate change
for a good living.
Her abrasive,
and very tedious,
lectures are
for a good living.
Her abrasive,
and very tedious,
lectures are
doing a lot
to turn off the
general public
from climate
change alarmism.
"Thundering" Thunberg
knows almost nothing
about real climate
science.
I previously called her
a "trained parrot"
of climate alarmism.
I now must apologize
for insulting parrots !
Because I now realize
Thunberg's published
statements, from the
World Economic Forum
in Davos, show that
she is an
inaccurate
trained parrot
of climate
alarmism.
A 2018 IPCC report
claims we have only
a few years left to act,
for a 67% chance
of keeping the global
average temperature
rise, from now on,
to below +0.5 C.
That just happens
to be a computer
game speculation.
The IPCC's very
rough guess
is that Earth
has already had
+1.0 degrees C.
of global warming,
from 1880 to 2018.
Note that 1880 to 1920
included very few
Southern Hemisphere
temperatures, and
in the Northern
Hemisphere, only
the U.S. and Europe
had sufficient
thermometer
coverage ...
and, in addition,
1800s thermometers
tended to read low.
The very poor data
quality before 1920
may mean half,
or more, of the
claimed global
warming since 1880,
warming since 1880,
was caused by sparse,
non-global data,
that are certainly
not worthy of
not worthy of
real science.
IPCC is a master
at making wrong
climate predictions,
but +0.5 degres C.
is what they say.
(1)
Thunberg says
+1.5 C., not +0.5 C.,
probably because
+1.5 C. sounds
scarier than +0.5 C.
(2)
Thunberg also says
this is “not an opinion”,
it is science.
That's not true --
the IPCC provides
ONLY opinions,
based on computer
game speculation,
and has grossly
over-predicted
global warming
for the past
32 years !
(3)
Thunberg claims
another +0.5 C.
of global warming
( a total of +1.5 C. since 1880 )
will cause
a climate crisis,
that she colorfully
described as a:
described as a:
"chain reaction
of unravelling
ecosystems".
The IPCC
doesn't make
that claim.
I have never
even read
that phrase
before Greta
Thunberg used it.
before Greta
Thunberg used it.
The 2018 IPCC report
actually addressed
this question:
“What is
the difference
between +1.5 C.
of total warming,
and +2.0 C .?”
The Paris Accord
includes a +2.0 C.
global average
temperature target,
with the count
starting in 1880.
The IPCC report
only concludes
that +1.5 C. is better
than +2.0 C., but the
difference is small.
These "targets
are all nonsense,
of course --
because our planet
has already warmed
by at least +2.0 C.
since the cold 1690s,
with no harm at all.
Greta Thunberg,
and her followers,
call for rebuilding
the global energy
system ( and
much more ).
All this
to limit the
future global
warming to
+0.5 C. !
+0.5 C. !
That's crazy.
If you really
believed in
halting growth
of all CO2
emissions
in the future,
you should focus
on China and India.
Thunberg ignores
China and India !
Maybe she is
being careful
to avoid
to avoid
a public defeat,
by not attacking
two big nations
who could not
care less about
her "demands" ?
Now Thunberg says
she wants trademarks
to avoid impostors making
money by using her name.
"Unfortunately there are
still people who are
trying to impersonate me
or falsely claim that they
"represent" me in order to
communicate with
high profile people,
politicians, media,
artists etc."
"My name and the
#FridaysForFuture
movement are
constantly
being used for
commercial purposes
without any consent
whatsoever.
It happens
for instance
in marketing,
selling
of products,
and people
collecting money
in my and the
movement’s
name."
The foundation’s aim
will be to promote
ecological, climatic
and social sustainability
as well as mental health.
"Mental health" ?
Perhaps the foundation
should focus entirely
on Greta Thunberg's
mental health ?