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2019-11-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Greta Thunberg Pleads for Help and a Carbon-Free Lift Across the Atlantic
[BREITBART] Swedish climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change...
 is looking to the world for suggestions as to how she can re-cross the Atlantic after next month’s U.N. climate summit in Chile was unexpectedly scrapped.

The 16-year-old made it from Sweden to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, by yacht, train and electric car before Chile’s government announced it was canning the summit because of political unrest in the South American nation.

The COP25 summit will now be held in Spain and she is pleading for public help to make the 6000-mile trip through carbon-free modes of transportation.

"As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help," Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.

"It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way."

"Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November ... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful."
Posted by Fred 2019-11-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Start a-rosin’ Greta.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-11-06 00:35||   2019-11-06 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Rowin’
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-11-06 00:36||   2019-11-06 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Why not simply teleconference? Moving bits is cheaper than moving atoms. Ignoring for the moment that electricity was invented by a dead white man which makes it evil.
Posted by SteveS 2019-11-06 01:44||   2019-11-06 01:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Swimming.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-06 01:54||   2019-11-06 01:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Bring back the Mayflower!
Posted by Raj 2019-11-06 07:14||   2019-11-06 07:14|| Front Page Top

#6 ...yeah, just in time for hurricane season.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-06 08:17||   2019-11-06 08:17|| Front Page Top

#7 "It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way."

In more ways than one, little girl.
Posted by Bobby 2019-11-06 08:20||   2019-11-06 08:20|| Front Page Top

#8 But the largest polluters are across the Pacific.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-11-06 08:33||   2019-11-06 08:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Moving bits is cheaper than moving atoms.

No doubt about that. All the same, I am amused by music streaming. Do you think many millennials or younger have any idea of the totally non green aspects of streaming the same songs over an over? Any idea of the streaming companies' data center energy usage? Of the infrastructure of the Internet's energy usage?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-06 08:38||   2019-11-06 08:38|| Front Page Top

#10 dumb lil cunt
Posted by chris 2019-11-06 09:41||   2019-11-06 09:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Tell me why should we listen to or pay attention to this disgruntled little misanthrope?
Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-06 10:03||   2019-11-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#12 M. Murcek, it's a well known fact among lefties that streaming is powered by unicorn farts so there is no downside.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-06 10:07||   2019-11-06 10:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Now if we could generate green power using the homeless somehow the situation in San Francisco and Seattle and Los Angeles would start to make sense.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-06 10:08||   2019-11-06 10:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Now if we could generate green power using the homeless somehow

It's called biomass...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-06 10:26||   2019-11-06 10:26|| Front Page Top

#15 As for Greta, put her on the poopdeck of a bark, let her blow lotsa hot air into those sails. She'll be in Iberia before she knows it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-06 10:28||   2019-11-06 10:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Those old Viking ships were carbon free. Too bad there isn't much of that old Viking spirit left in Sweden anymore.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-06 12:05||   2019-11-06 12:05|| Front Page Top

#17 Although, I suppose that when you cut down trees for lumber to build a wooden boat those trees can no longer absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Gosh, she might have to swim after all.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-06 12:08||   2019-11-06 12:08|| Front Page Top

#18 Phuque her and the carbon free ship she came in on. And what will happen when her visa expires? will she have a pint-sized hissy fit when escorted to the 737 for transport 'outta here?'
Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-11-06 12:52||   2019-11-06 12:52|| Front Page Top

#19 will she have a pint-sized hissy fit when escorted to the 737 for transport 'outta here?'

Might be fun to watch the federal marshals escort her onto the plane.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-06 13:23||   2019-11-06 13:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Her "problem" sums up the problem of the whole "movement". Clueless. How was she supposed to get home from Chile btw?

The pragmatic way would, of course be, a standby plane ticket.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-11-06 14:15||   2019-11-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#21 A lot of countries demand that you show them a return plane ticket before they allow you to enter their country.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-06 14:34||   2019-11-06 14:34|| Front Page Top

#22 737 max perhaps.

I have no beef with clean energy sources. I wouldn't want to live next to a coal mine. I remember coal furnaces. But at the same time the energy sources being used need to make sense. In their use, their planning and most importantly in the prosed method of energy storage for off peak or night hours for solar plants. It's my hope that someday we have practical fusion plants. Of course the green wines will want to stop them 'cause they're nuclear.
Posted by Cheaderhead 2019-11-06 14:48||   2019-11-06 14:48|| Front Page Top

#23 She could take Obama's intercontinental railroad.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-11-06 15:27||   2019-11-06 15:27|| Front Page Top

#24 she could grab a berth on a tramp steamer

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-cross-the-ocean-on-a-freighter-ship/

but i guess that also isn't 'green' enough
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-11-06 17:08||   2019-11-06 17:08|| Front Page Top

#25 She could get into a barrel, get dropped in the ocean, and let the current take her.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-11-06 17:12||   2019-11-06 17:12|| Front Page Top

#26 re teleconference

The Pettish Fetish, or A Swedish-Mohammedan Edda

To telecommute might be better,
But the cult of Miss Thunberg won't let her.
To preen on a screen
Might be green, but I ween
That the mountain would just come to Greta.

Posted by Zebulon Darling of the Hatfields3150 2019-11-06 19:13||   2019-11-06 19:13|| Front Page Top

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