09-26-2019, 10:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-26-2019, 11:16 AM by David Horn.)
(09-25-2019, 05:41 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 25-Sep-2019 Greta Thunberg
(09-25-2019, 12:38 PM)David Horn Wrote: She's looking about 30 years into her future. That won't be an issue for us, but it certainly will for her and her entire generation. We Boomers, Xers and even older generations have created a mess, refuse to fix it, and claim we're doing it for them. She's calling bullshit on that.
Actually, I doubt that she even knows what she's talking about. She's a puppet, mouthing the words of her puppetmaster, the climate change activists who couldn't care less about the climate, but who are looking for fat monetary payouts into their climate funds to keep themselves employed and keep African warlords fully supplied with weapons.
John, you may have a strong foreign policy background, but your knowledge of basic science is almost zero. Apparently, Greta is far more versed than you, so simple insults seem more than a little foolish, if you ask me.
If we stop adding more CO2 to the atmosphere starting today, the temperature will continue to rise for the next two centuries. That's the effect of hysteresis. So yes, she has every right to be pissed-off, and not because someone told her to be. The last time the levels got this high, the temperature was about 3.6-5.4 degrees warmer and the seas 50-80 feet higher. Preventing that involves decades of CO2 extraction. Adding more just makes the task more daunting.
When virtually everyone in the know agrees with her, maybe you need to reconsider your POV.
John J. Xenakis Wrote:As for Greta Thunberg, she's proven herself to be able to deliver lines very dramatically, so I would not be surprised at all if she's currently negotiating for a part in a movie or tv situation comedy.
She's talented in front of an audience, because she's from a theater family and it's in the blood, so to speak. Then again, every successful politician in the last several decades has had to have similar talents, with Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump both being "in the business" before entering politics. It doesn't make her right or wrong, but it does make her dynamic.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
