It is truly remarkable that I was able to sleep each night for the last 5 years! The lefty lunatic from the Great North named Greta Thunberg stated on 21 June 2018 that fossil fuels will destroy the planet in 5 years! Her very ominous tweet follows.
'A top scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next 5 years!'
Code for global warming is depopulation!
Absolutely, right.. That is the end goal from the Globalists and the Davos elites...
Global warming is happening. If you look at NASA data going back to 1900 the temps were rising then. The 1950-60's saw a lull and it continued on. The last 20 years the rate has accelerated from previous rates. Carbon dioxide does slow the heat from escaping to space. Fossil fuels at some point will run out so we do need to look ahead and find equal or better alternatives through technological advances.
BUT then you have folks who want to profit from this situation. Whether it is a scientist looking for grant money or a washed up politician looking for personal fame and a following. And you have humans who rely more on emotion than logic. (my opinion from observation) I am sure "expert scientists" would say banning gas stoves, lawn mowers and chainsaws pales in comparison to, say, USC and UCLA joining the Big10 that will result in countless air travel time for all universities involved. Which in turn will add exhuast far exceeding that from millions of small engines and appliances. Meanwhile countries like China build a coal fired plant at a rate of one every week. Amazing how they glue their hands to paintings and slash SUV tires yet ignore the obvious bigger issues.
The bottom line is if it is really "code red" these two universities should never have done what they did and it was done for money. China would not be permitted to build coal fired plants.
I have an acquaintance who lives in mid Michigan. Sent me a text back in March, "next three months are going to be much warmer!" the text said. Really? So I am tracking it via Weather Underground data going back 51 years. March came in at 22nd hottest month last 51 yrs, April came in 6th, May came in 23rd, and June currently stands as the 26th hottest June with 8 days to go including today. Forecast looks like it may bump up just a little. Bottom line is 3 out of 4 months are/were basically middle of the road with April having a week of hot weather that pushed it up. Not at all three months of much warmer weather. But it is pounded at us daily and many swallow it without question.
So my point is, like Jan 6th, like the hatred for Trump, like the lies associated with these two examples there are those who take it "over the top" everytime. Always an extreme, "POLICE OFFICERS DIED ON JAN 6TH!!!!","IT WAS AN INSURECTION", "TRUMP'S CHARITY NEVER GAVE MONEY AWAY", "SEA LEVELS WILL RISE SEVERAL FEET NEXT 5 YEARS".
Climate change is happening and will continue. We can't control the weather. A few huge volcanic eruptions could send temps plummeting. What we can do is logically look at the big picture and pursue technology that gets us away from fossil fuels, not some kneejerk emotional reaction that does little good.
Social media posts have distorted Thunberg comments according to fact checks by snopes, USA today and associated press. She never said the world would end in 5 years. Instead she was quoting an article from Harvard professor of atmospheric chemistry. James Anderson urges world to reduce carbon emissions by 2023 or else effects of global warming on Arctic floating ice would be irreversible.
Fossil fuel industry has the most incentive to lie because it has the most to lose from climate action to reduce carbon emissions. Similar to tobacco industry, fossil fuel industry spends millions of dollars on lobbying to protect profits. Far more lucrative to work for fossil fuel industry instead of climate science research in universities. There are so few scientists that deny man-made global warming that industry have to hire non-experts such as lawyers and politicians to deny the truth. In contrast, scientists worldwide volunteer research findings to United nations panel on climate change.
The biggest polluters in the world are the politicians. If the politicians acted responsibly like the average American, maybe temperatures would not rise as much.
Nobody hurts the climate more than Obama, Oprah, Gore, Trump, Pelosi, Harry and Meghan, and John Kerry is the biggest polluter.
Yes, Thunberg in 2018 was quoting an article that was talking about a speech by a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry. The article said the professor said "A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”
But the article was lying, the professor never said those words. So a news media outlet embellished the words of a professor to exagerate a cause and this young lady swallowed it and repeated it like it was truth.
"The whole problem is knowingly spreading false information to vulnerable people" Where have I seen that before?
I always thought this was comical....let's just say that this is not helping any sort of warming whatsoever nor the population as a whole....
https://supercarblondie.com/worlds-biggest-tyre-graveyard-fire-recycling/
Find the source, address and offer a solution
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
Not the best look I would think.
Federal judge rules that Trump Environmental protection agency cannot block billions in funding for green energy projects under Inflation reduction act approved by congress. No significant evidence of misconduct, fraud and conflicts of interest as alleged by Trump administration.
According to Mother Jones, Americans could die from health secretary Kennedy's firing of thousands of employees in Low income energy assistance program. Millions of people could lose access to affordable home heating and air conditioning in extreme weathers.
So, how many thousands of employees from LIHEAP fired????
https://www.stlpr.org/2025-04-14/liheap-federal-layoffs-utility-assistance-funding
About 25 staffers were responsible for calculating and disbursing funds annually from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to U.S. states, territories and tribes.
And from that Mother Jones article; .....the agency could move the program to another department within HHS or contract out the responsibilities.
Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world in the future according to study published in Nature journal. Stanford study projects overall effect is detrimental to food production. Expect scarcer supply, less nutritious food and higher prices for larger population. Some of the richest countries are likely to be the hardest hit. In the US, key crops could decline 50% by the end of this century. Not a mystery that climate change affects food production because it is the most exposed sector in the economy.
@thirdperson
Excellent points as usual, thirdperson! 
Nature journal is one of the world's leading science journals. Publishing the finest peer reviewed research. Myth is that higher carbon dioxide levels universally boost plant growth. Numerous factors influence crop yield, including water, temperature and nutrient levels.
Myth is that man-made carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
Very unfortunate that so many folks cannot think critically and look at the same data that scientists on both sides use.
Nature Journal is not the source to use for this argument.
For example:
Editors of the journal Nature follow the evidence, except when it is politically inconvenient
and:
However, the discussion of the study noted that the results should not be dismissed. “Even with these caveats,” the author noted, “the study deserves attention because of what is at stake — credibility. Nature and other scientific publications provide a service for the scientific community and for the world in conveying rigorous, unbiased scientific information. One of the reasons these publications have this capacity is the credibility they have built up over decades.”
The primary value of journals like Nature is to provide information that is credible and can be trusted. Spending that crediblity on electoral politics undermines the primary value that such journals offer.
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