Green Comet

Climate Critics Escalate Personal Attacks on Teen Activist

Posted on 2019-08-09 by arjaybe

Greta Thunberg

Climate change deniers are personally attacking a sixteen year old girl with autism because they fear that people will listen to her. I’m not going to say a lot about it, but rather just direct you to the full article. Here are a few examples of the kinds of things they’re saying about her.

… claim she is used by her parents and compare her call to young people on climate change to “Hitler Youth.”

… monotone voice …

… millenarian weirdo …

[her] public speeches were written for her, that she was a “puppet” and that she was unable to answer questions in interviews because her ideas were not her own.

… adult-exploited empty-headed child.

She’s ignorant, maniacal and is being mercilessly manipulated by adult climate bedwetters funded by Putin.

She’ll get a Nobel Prize and a wanna-be Ph.d. from Harvard. For being autistic and not going to school.

There’s more. Lots more. It seems as if they’re competing to see who can craft the cleverest insult. I guess they don’t realize how desperate it makes them look. I suppose that’s not surprising. Go check out the article at E&E News, if you think you can stomach it.

via POLITICS: Climate critics escalate personal attacks on teen activist — Friday, August 9, 2019 — www.eenews.net

rjb

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Drought Plateau

Posted on 2019-08-08 by arjaybe

“Enchanted Light | New Mexico” by Jim Crotty is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

That’s typical. No sooner had I reported on the jet stream being stalled, resulting in cooler, damper weather, than it whipped up north of us putting us in a hotter, drier air mass. As a result the wildfire hazard has spread its extreme rating through more areas in the last week, and a few days ago a fire started just to the east of where I live. In those few days it has grown to more than 1500 hectares. The crews worked hard trying to keep it out of the big timber where it could really take off, but the dry heat and some wind, along with the difficult terrain, have conspired to outrun them.

You can tell where the hills are by the rising sun.

The sound of helicopters and water bombers has been nearly continuous. It’s hard to see the fire in the daytime from here because of the smoke, but at night we can see flames across the hills on the east side of the valley.

With the drying trend I’m surprised that the drought level has stayed at 2 – dry. I was sure I would be reporting a rise to 3 – very dry. I choose to take it as good news. Droughtman has been quiet on the subject. I also take that as good news.

rjb