Greta Thunberg climate scare?

[the big wheel]

Saw a clip on late news who the hell would do that to a kid? She’s so brainwashed and scared she actually believes the world is heating so fast one day she ll open the door and get fried by the sun or something. Either that or somewhat psychotic? Is that the bull they want to scare kids?
1.3 degrees hotter than pre industrial times. So what? Who measured this pre industrial times? Of all those hundreds of sites to compare and over a hundred years the only difference they could find was 1.3 degrees? What a joke.

[15444]

21st century brownshirts.

[fjlip]

HITLER YOUTH all over again, apparently her handlers/backers picked a blond pig tailed girl just like the NAZIS used in their propaganda. Man this STINKS! Where are the intelligent reasoning people? Maybe half of us have been infected by ALIENS? There are no accurate temperatures to compare to. We are hi tech now, but not prior to 1950. On average 50 miles south of any location is 1-2C warmer. Those people have not DIED of heat! Try the F CKING COLD next week on for comfort, GRETA! Maybe 15C below normal! OMG Climate Change in my backyard! Freeze your ASS off GRETA, is that better than 1.3C warmer?

[seldomseen]

I watched her scolded us and thought
What would she know about climate in her few short years? Most likely never outside more than a few seconds to jump into a car! Absolute nonsense!

[WiltonRanch]

The kid is autistic. If you know anything about autism especially higher functioning cases they can get affixed on one particular topic to the point of obsessive compulsive. Take a couple wacko parents and other such adults preaching fear and brimstone and what do you have? This kid is simply being used by the wackos to push an agenda. I really feel sorry for this kid as I don’t think she has the mental bearings to see she is being used.

[FarmJunkie]

They don’t care one bit just look at the hysteria they are creating. What’s the point of sending your kids to school if they are gonna teach them fear over logic. We are gonna have so many kids with anxiety issues, worry about something none of us had anything to do with. Teach our kids that putting garbage in the ocean and shit in our rivers is bad. U want them to skip school. Do it for a good reason.

[furrowtickler]

The UN has brainwashed a whole generation

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The way they are using and abusing this misguided child reminds me a lot of the child the puppeteers orchestrated into the Prime Ministers office currently. A lot of similarities, both are being used, both are brainwashed and gullible, but haven't got a clue. Greta at least has an excuse, and is still young enough to possibly grow up and think independently, unlike the overgrown child in Ottawa.

[bucket]

She will be the next Elizabeth May type.....full of nonsense...

May has done nothing practical. ..just talk....

IMHO....they are both loons

[malleefarmer]

People here say leave her alone she’s a kid.

Bugger me she’s on the world stage take the good with the bad young lady. She made many accusations so If she wants to be a activist she gotta lean to cop a bit o heat.

[sumdumguy]

Her father is an actor - imagine that. The article showing her performance on CBC got about 7000 comments. Lunacy - Pure lunacy!

[the big wheel]

Bottom line is they’ve done a piss poor job presenting any actual facts that the climate is changing and the most important part, if it is changing what is the reason. If we are the reason then what parts can we change? If it’s not us that is changing it what do we need to do to adapt to the changes?
Also if carbon is rhe problem which no one has presented a scientific proof, why not work on technology that would still allow us to burn fossils but not release carbon in a harmful way?

[jazz]

If that's the next generation coming up filled with eco anxiety we better be firing up the anti depressants.

You gonna take advice from a 16 yr old who looks 10 and under the strong influence of a mental disease? Cant believe the woke left trotted this kid out to shame us all.

[bucket]

If our leaders are taking advice from a 16 year old we are in trouble considering the current 45 year old going on 14 we have in Canada right now...

[chuckChuck]

Her message is straight forward: Listen to the scientists!

She is more mature than you give her credit for. If you want to ignore and discredit scientists and their work and then make up conspiracy theories, go ahead, because no one is listening or taking you seriously. Only mad max denies the science and he is 3% in the poles!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/extreme-sea-level-events-will-hit-once-a-year-by-2050

Extreme sea level events ‘will hit once a year by 2050’

Climate report says intense storms and loss of marine life are already inevitable

Damian Carrington Environment editor
@dpcarrington

Wed 25 Sep 2019 10.00 BST

Extreme sea level events that used to occur once a century will strike every year on many coasts by 2050, no matter whether climate heating emissions are curbed or not, according to a landmark report by the world’s scientists.

The stark assessment of the climate crisis in the world’s oceans and ice caps concludes that many serious impacts are already inevitable, from more intense storms to melting permafrost and dwindling marine life.

But far worse impacts will hit without urgent action to cut fossil fuel emissions, including eventual sea level rise of more than 4 metres in the worst case, an outcome that would redraw the map of the world and harm billions of people.

The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and approved by its 193 member nations, says that “all people on Earth depend directly or indirectly on the ocean” and ice caps and glaciers to regulate the climate and provide water and oxygen. But it finds unprecedented and dangerous changes being driven by global heating.

Sea level rise is accelerating as losses from Greenland and Antarctica increase, and the ocean is getting hotter, more acidic and less oxygenated. All these trends will continue to the end of the century, the IPCC report said.

Half the world’s megacities, and almost 2 billion people, live on coasts. Even if heating is restricted to just 2C, scientists expect the impact of sea level rise to cause several trillion dollars of damage a year, and result in many millions of migrants.

“The future for low-lying coastal communities looks extremely bleak,” said Prof Jonathan Bamber at Bristol University in the UK, who is not one of the report’s authors. “But the consequences will be felt by all of us. There is plenty to be concerned about for the future of humanity and social order from the headlines in this report.”

The new IPCC projections of likely sea level rise by 2100 are higher than those it made in 2014, due to unexpectedly fast melting in Antarctica. Without cuts in carbon emissions, the ocean is expected to rise between 61cm and 110cm, about 10cm more than the earlier estimate. A 10cm rise means an additional 10 million people exposed to flooding, research shows.

The IPCC considers the likely range of sea level rise but not the worst-case scenario. Recent expert analysis led by Bamber concluded that up to 238cm of sea level rise remains possible by 2100, drowning many megacities around the world. “This cannot be ruled out,” said Zita Sebesvari at the United Nations University, a lead author of the IPCC report.

Even if huge cuts in emissions begin immediately, between 29cm and 59cm of sea level rise is already inevitable because the ice caps and glaciers melt slowly. Sea level will rise for centuries without action, Sebesvari warned. “The dramatic thing about sea level rise is if we accept 1 metre happening by 2100, we accept we will get about 4 metres by 2300. That is simply not an option we can risk.”
‘Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside Antarctica

Extreme sea level impacts will be felt in many places very soon and well before 2050, Sebesvari said. The IPCC report states: “Extreme sea level events that [occur] once per century in the recent past are projected to occur at least once per year at many locations by 2050 in all scenarios.”

The heating oceans are causing more intense tropical storms to batter coasts, the IPCC report found, with stronger winds and greater deluges of rain. For example, Hurricane Harvey’s unprecedented deluge, which caused catastrophic flooding, was made three times more likely by climate change.

Ocean heating also harms kelp forests and other important ecosystems, with the marine heatwaves that sear through them like underwater wildfires having doubled in frequency in the last 40 years. They are projected to increase by at least 20 times by 2100, the IPCC reported.

Extreme El Niño events, which see heatwaves in some regions and floods in others, are projected to occur twice as often this century whether emissions are cut or not, the report said. Coral reefs, vital nurseries for marine life, will suffer major losses and local extinctions. Across the ocean, heat, acidification and lower oxygen is set to cut fisheries by a quarter and all marine life by 15% if emissions are not slashed.

The IPCC report also records the large reduction in Arctic ice. This loss exacerbates global heating, because the exposed darker ocean absorbs more heat from the sun than highly reflective ice. On Monday, scientists announced that the Arctic sea ice in 2019 shrank to its second lowest extent in the 41-year satellite record.
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The world’s high mountain glaciers, upon which almost 2 billion people rely for water, are also melting fast, the IPCC found, while landslides are expected to increase. A third of the great Himalayan range is already doomed, with two-thirds projected to vanish if emissions are not cut.

One of the most worrying alarms sounded by the IPCC report is about melting tundra and increasing wildfires in northern latitudes: “Widespread permafrost thaw is projected for this century and beyond.” A quarter is already near certain to melt, it said, and 70% or more would go if emissions are not curbed. In the latter case, hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and methane could be released, supercharging the climate emergency.

“That risks taking us beyond the point where climate change could be easily constrained,” said Richard Black, at the UK’s Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. “Nevertheless, the IPCC’s 2018 report concluded that governments can shrink emissions quickly enough to keep global warming to 1.5C if they choose. None can claim to be unaware of both the dangers of untrammelled climate change nor the feasibility of preventing it.”

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris and chair of the C40 Cities climate coalition, said the IPCC report was shocking. “Around 1.9 billion people and over half of the world’s megacities are all in grave danger if we don’t act immediately. Several cities, home to hundreds of thousands of people, are already disappearing underwater. This is what the climate crisis looks like now.”

Taehyun Park, of Greenpeace East Asia, said: “The science is both chilling and compelling. The impacts on our oceans are on a much larger scale and happening way faster than predicted. It will require unprecedented political action to prevent the most severe consequences to our planet.”

As well as cutting fossil fuel emissions, preparing for the inevitable impacts is also vital, said Sebesvari, especially in poorer nations that lack the funds to build sea walls, move settlements or restore protective coastal marshes.

“Action is needed now to secure the coast for our children and coming generations,” she said. The pressure now being exerted by the global school strikes for climate was important, she said. “I have very strong motivation. I have two kids and we are really being tested by our kids on our actions