Greta Thunberg And Friends Lecture Adults In New York Times Puff Piece
Greta Thunberg teamed up with a group of youth activists from across the globe to slam world leaders for “inaction” on climate change. She argued that young people “will have to clean up the mess you adults have made.”
Thunberg’s comments came from a puff piece published in The New York Times. It was published a day before the three-year anniversary of when Thunberg ditched school to protest outside the Swedish Parliament and became one of the Left’s loudest voices.
“Today, millions of children and young people have united in a movement with one voice, demanding that decision-makers do the work necessary to save our planet from the unprecedented heatwaves, massive floods, and vast wildfires we are increasingly witnessing,” the activists wrote.
The essay pivots into a direct attack on adults: “For children and young people, climate change is the single greatest threat to our futures. We are the ones who will have to clean up the mess you adults have made, and we are the ones who are more likely to suffer now.”
Furthermore, the essay cites the UN’s “Children’s Climate Risk Index,” saying, “It finds that virtually every child on the planet is exposed to at least one climate or environmental hazard right now. … This is the world being left to us. But there is still time to change our climate’s future. Around the world, our movement of young activists continues to grow.”
“The fundamental goal of the adults in any society is to protect their young and do everything they can to leave a better world than the one they inherited. The current generation of adults, and those that came before, are failing at a global scale,” they lecture.
They concluded, “We are in a crisis of crises. A pollution crisis. A climate crisis. A children’s rights crisis. We will not allow the world to look away.”
In 2019, a group of scientists and professionals wrote an open letter to the United Nations Secretary-General to counter apocalyptic claims about climate change. The leader reads:
There is no climate emergency
A global network of 500 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation.
Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming
The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.
Warming is far slower than predicted
The world has warmed at less than half the originally predicted rate, and at less than half the rate to be expected on the basis of net anthropogenic forcing and radiative imbalance. It tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.
Climate policy relies on inadequate models
Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. Moreover, they most likely exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.
Global warming has not increased natural disasters
There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts, and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, CO-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. For instance, wind turbines kill birds and bats, and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests.
Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. If better approaches emerge, we will have ample time to reflect and adapt. The aim of international policy should be to provide reliable and affordable energy at all times, and throughout the world.
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