Greta!

[dolf]

I do take issue with the whole Greta thing though. I think that the media has grabbed hold of a vulnerable child to be their face of climate change. It's inevitable that this will draw personal attacks, threats of death and violence, and far more attention than is healthy at her age. This should be a science issues, not a celebrity issue, but people want someone to follow. They prefer the opinion of a personality to picking up a textbook.

In short, people suck.

 

[thespiceoflife]

Some proper right wing turds on this thread.

 

[toeskr]

Lame. I thought this was a Greta Van Susteran nude thread.

Fuck that crooked mouth.

 

[beezzz]

exploiting kids for a hoax

 

[trysail]

A Philosopher's Reflections On AGW Denial

by Dr. Paul Viminitz
(professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethridge in Canada)

"...First question: Why do I need to espouse my denial to qualify? Answer: Because denialism is now being cited as a hate crime. The mere having of the view that, for example, anyone with haggis on her breath should be killed, is only a thought crime. But as long as I keep my thoughts to myself, celebrants of Robbie Burns Day are in no danger. No danger no harm. No harm no foul...

...Second question: A consensus recognized by whom? It can’t be those who subscribe to that consensus, because then anyone who denies what the Creation Scientists are telling us would count as a denialist. After all, they too see eye to eye with each other...

...Third question: 97% of which scientists? And fourth: Have they confirmed AGW themselves and independently, or do they merely believe it via the same means the rest of us do? After all, a computer scientist is a scientist, but what does she know about climatology? And if one climatologist is ratifying the findings of a colleague because the first has no reason not to trust the second, then a 97% consensus has no more probative force than would a minority report...

...So far we’ve been defining our climactic temperature as the average reading from one sensor located in the parking lot next to the local TV station. Now let’s average the average readings from all the sensors spread out across the county, being meticulous, in the positioning of these sensors, not to invite any biased sampling errors. Presumably the cursor will rise and fall even less erratically. And as we continue to spread our sensors further and further across the globe, what we should find, if the global climate is (what we’ll call) ‘stable’ – and putting the odd El Nino or La Nina aside – is something pretty close to dead flat.

But apparently we don’t. From the early 1800’s to the present, what we find – or more accurately what someone has found that someone has found that someone has found – is that the average global temperature has risen by at least one full degree. Of course whether it will continue to rise depends on what caused it to rise as it has, and whether that cause and effect is a monotonic function or a non-monotonic one. That is, does whatever caused this rise in temperature bear the seeds of its own reversal? And if so, at what point can we expect that reversal to kick in?

Note that in saying “whatever caused this” I mean to include the possibility of anthropogenesis, be it as only a contributing factor or even the sole one. For example, some people are optimistic that global temperatures will return to their pre-Industrial levels once we either exhaust the fossil fuels we’re currently converting to carbon dioxide, or kill ourselves off, whichever comes first. Though ‘optimistic’ might be a strange choice of words in this context..."​

(lots) more...


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[loveupskirt]

The good news...Republicans grow old and die and are replaced by kids w brains. Of course, these same Republicans dont give a shit cause they only care about themselves. Tick tock...

Don't you mean replaced by brainwashed and indoctrinated nutjobs who are only allowed to see one side of the issue? And who yell blasphemy if someone presents a counter argument, no matter how plausible? No, I guess not......

But seriously, have you seen many of these millinials speak?? Or spew I should say....

 

[LucyCanyon]

Man made climate change is a hoax perpetuated on the American people by the elite globalist, and the liberal sheep are being led astray to their slaughter.

Bollocks. Why can 4000 scientists agree it's happening but you only believe the three or four who tell you what you want to believe. The world is going to hell in a handcart, USA and China are leading the cart in the name of global economic growth and their nation first

Yes Greta is not the best public speaker. But don't knock the messenger whenbthe message is right but is not one that you want to hear.

 

[Dribble]

This is the reason that Democrats suck at both economics and demographics. All of your projections are based on a static world where you get to control the variables.

Human brains are not fully developed until mid 20s. That has a lot to do with why young people are so easily impressionable and easy to indoctrinate. At some point reality becomes apparent to them. This is why progressive activism towards an imaginary utopia in one's youth and sensible conservatism as one ages is not some kind of new phenomenon. Today's Republicans were yesterday's indoctrinated and uneducated idealists.

Along the same lines don't count on the racist idea that the changing racial demographics makes Democrats inevitably more influential. For that to be true you have to assume the same level of dependency in those communities that exist today. You assume that they're never going to become successful people chafing at government constraints.

Shame these undeveloped brains are allowed to fight in wars...or vote...or drive a car...

Moron

 

[trysail]

...4000 scientists agree...

Source?

Agree on exactly what?​

...it's happening...

What is it that's supposed to be "happening?"

What's the cause of whatever it is that's supposed to be "happening."​

...The world is going to hell...

Oh, really.

Define the term "hell." Otherwise, the rant is indistinguishable from that of a gullible, superstitious medieval peasant.



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[DeYaKen]

I do take issue with the whole Greta thing though. I think that the media has grabbed hold of a vulnerable child to be their face of climate change. It's inevitable that this will draw personal attacks, threats of death and violence, and far more attention than is healthy at her age. This should be a science issues, not a celebrity issue, but people want someone to follow. They prefer the opinion of a personality to picking up a textbook.

In short, people suck.

Vulnerable? You obviously didn't watch her speak. If nothing else you have to admire her eloquence in what is, after all, her second language.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Oh look, someone doesn't know what alt-right is or hasn't listened to anything DD has ever put out.

But then again the left is all about flaunting their ignorance.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Tick tock. Keep talking shit Republicans. In a few short years, you will be gone from this planet and become worm food. And we will pick up the pieces you leave behind.

Ya'll have been saying that for decades.

The problem with your theory is that the idiot children your banking on taking over the world? Will one day grow up and get a job.....

 

[BotanyBoy]

Whether or not you agree with her point of view, young people being passionate about making a better world is a good thing. It's when they give up on the world and aspire to nothing more than the next fix that I despair.

She's young, naive, primarily communicating in a second language, and autistic. Anyone making personal attacks on the kid needs punching in the throat. Repeatedly.

Define "better world" .....because I dont' consider a totalitarian eco-communist state "better".

 

[suurfer]

Tick tock. Keep talking shit Republicans.

In a few short years, you will be gone from this planet and become worm food.
And we will pick up the pieces you leave behind.

You're in the same age group as them.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Bursts onto the world scene and cuts right to core myth, the fairy tale of eternal economic growth:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...orld-leaders-at-un/ar-AAHJbDp?ocid=spartanntp

Too many world leaders, like Trump, would rather keep feeding the fairy tale with fossil fuels than face the fact that such actions are accelerating climate change.

Damn it's good to see a young leader cut through all the crap.

This line of thought is as old as the 18th Century.

It is based in the hubris of intellectual pyramid top of the times...

So let us not affix to it the nomenclature of fake news/research/thought
but rather that of old, failed ideas on the trash heap of history.
Same with the myth of technological job displacement.

 

[beezzz]

this "kid" is dangerous!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Ironically, they're so scared of losing white power today's Republicans are virtually guaranteeing those kids will not grow up into conservatives.

Liberty and individual rights =/= white power.

The reality that they will have to do something for a living guarantees some will.

Putting brown kids in cages, shithole countries, fucking over Puerto Rico, having no people of color in their party--that's what today's kids will remember.

Immigration control, reality and diversity are irrelevant to the fact that those who work will want to keep as much of their labor/property/resources/wealth as they can.

Something the "progressives" are totally against.

So as long as you and yours stay after free shit by soaking everyone who works for everyone who doesn't? You'll have opposition...and even if you win? The work will stop....why would anyone work??

Sorry comrade, communism is a fail fail proposition.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Have we forgotten the results of the Children's Crusade?





Onward Climate Soldiers!
Marching off to war
with the wreath of Gaia
going on before...

Would you take dating advice from a 16-year old?

 

[beezzz]

TROLL LEVEL: DONALD TRUMP. Trump Trolls Greta Thunberg: ‘She Seems Like a Very Happy Young Girl.’

 

[SpeareChucker]

If she's so happy, why does she always look so angry
as she screeches and preaches at us?

 

[dolf]

Vulnerable? You obviously didn't watch her speak. If nothing else you have to admire her eloquence in what is, after all, her second language.

It doesn't matter how eloquent or intelligent she is. This kind of instant, global fame isn't healthy. And she's 16. A 16 yo girl getting the relentless attention of nutjobs, phychos, and arsehole middle aged adults who should have better standards in how they publicly speak about kids.

Define "better world" .....because I dont' consider a totalitarian eco-communist state "better".

Better world, from the perspective of Greta. Obviously.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Better world, from the perspective of Greta. Obviously.

Ahh....ok.

 

[beezzz]

HOGG: children have absolute authority in politics

GRETA: how dare you criticize a political child, you monster

COVINGTON: children should be smeared with lies, ridicule, and cyberbullying if they wear a smirk and a hat

 

[RobDownSouth]

If she's so happy, why does she always look so angry as she screeches and preaches at us?

Tell us again how "cunts" should shut their mouths and know their role.

Hey, how's your "daughter" nowadays? You barely mention her since she left school. Did you kick her to the curb like you daddy kicked you to the curb at age 18?

 

[beezzz]

Tell us again how "cunts" should shut their mouths and know their role.

Hey, how's your "daughter" nowadays? You barely mention her since she left school. Did you kick her to the curb like you daddy kicked you to the curb at age 18?

Covington Kids