That noxious Swedish brat Greta Thunberg, the well-known “climate activist” who has received far too much adoring attention, allowing her to think that she will singlehandedly save the world if only the world has the good sense to listen to her, has now turned twenty. She is not at all “sweet and twenty,” but as unpleasant as they come. She’s recently added another arrow to her quiver: it’s “Palestine” she pines for. It’s Hamas that has caught her fancy, it’s those terrible Israelis she feels a deep need to denounce. More on this charter member of Groupies for Gaza, who has been commenting on the climate conference just held in Dubai, can be found here: “Greta Thunberg slams COP28 climate deal and Israel, waves Palestinian flag,” by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2023:
“The final outcome of #COP28 is not a ‘historic win,'” Thunberg tweeted. “It is yet another example of extremely vague and watered-down texts full of loopholes” that won’t solve the problem.
The climate problem is not to be “solved.” It is, rather, a situation that can be ameliorated. That is a different thing. It’s like the jihad being conducted by the Palestinians against Israel. That jihad cannot be “solved” as long as Islam exists, but nonetheless, a modus vivendi can be achieved with the Arabs if Israel remains overwhelmingly, and obviously, more powerful militarily than its enemies. That’s called deterrence, and it worked well during the Cold War.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg once again fused the Palestinian cause with the climate change movement as she participated in her weekly “Fridays for Future” protest outside parliament in Stockholm on December 15.
During the demonstration, she prominently displayed a Palestinian flag and held a “Free Palestine” sign – a photo of which she uploaded to her personal X account while bashing the Conference of the Parties (COP28) climate deal. She also proclaimed that the world will be “transitioning away from fossil fuels” to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
It’s mix-n’-match in Greta Thunberg’s overheated brain. She’s holding up the latest in vexillogical fashion — the flag of a future Palestinian state that, its supporters around the world fondly believe, will replace the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” with a twenty-third Arab one. At the same time, she continues to deplore the failure, as she sees it, of the meeting in Dubai of COP28.
Dr. Sultan al-Jaber was the president of COP28. He is the UAE’s environment minister, and he is also the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). Many were up in arms that someone so connected to the oil industry should have been the head of the conference, especially when they discovered that before the conference began he had said in an online event on Nov. 21 that “there is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5 [a rise in global temperature of 1.5 degrees].” Furthermore, he added, “it would be impossible to stop burning fossil fuels and sustain economic development, “unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
The Arab oil states were the spoilers at COP28. Just before COP28 began, the Arab oil states had held their own meeting in Doha, Qatar, where they passed a resolution essentially saying that “oil is here to stay.” And when they went to Dubai, they were determined to keep any language calling for an end to fossil fuels out of the final document. It was a battle royal, and in the end the Arabs decided to yield, just a little, so great was the clamor against them, by allowing “fossil fuels” to be mentioned, but making sure that the language about reducing their use was both vague and weak. In the Global Stocktake COP28, the parties agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050.” There’s plenty of room to maneuver in that call for a “transition…in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.” No binding commitments were made by individual countries to lower their carbon emissions by a set amount.
What Saudi Arabia think is a “just orderly, and equitable manner” of transition away from fossil fuels will be very different from what the U.K., or France, or India might think. The Saudis, Emiratis, and Kuwaitis will do everything they can to throw a spanner in the works, so determined are they to sell every last barrel of oil they have in the ground. No one wants to be left holding billions of barrels in a world that has completely “transitioned” to solar, wind, hydropower, and nuclear energy.
somehistory says
She was recently arrested. Her twisted development should have been. She is not helping anyone, herself included. When one goes through life not helping anyone, they can cause a lot of damage and hurt.
Yesterday in the local post office, two women waiting in line ahead of me; we all heard a woman being waiting upon begin to cough. The two customers waiting began to talk about covid, and that we are all suffering allergies. Their conversation turned to the weather…frequently causing allergies with the wind blowing in pollen, etc….and how warm it is now. One said, “I like the **climate change**” and the other one laughed and agreed that “climate change is nice.”
The way they said “climate change’ was showing how little stock they put in the so-called scientists who keep warning us.
The idiot, thunberg, should be laughed out of town.
Berkeleytown says
The UAE has also been accused of arming janjaweed/RSF in Sudan, with weapons drones and money. Shows how the pro palestine movement masquerades as humanitarian when they really don’t care.
FYI says
Oh little saint Greta Thunberg, patron saint of leftist ecowarriors and failed students.
I have a confession to make.
Yesterday i put a brown bottle in a green bottle bank and… i enjoyed it.It felt so good but i knew it was wrong.
I also like to rev up my car sometimes for the sheer hell of it.And to annoy the Juststopoil folk
Surely St Greta your friend “pope” francis will canonize you:surely you deserve a statue.
John Smith says
How dare you put a brown bottle in a green bottle bank, I’ve never been so appalled in my entire life. And to even state that you enjoyed it and felt so good, you should feel absolutely ashamed of yourself, you are a disgusting human being .
John Smith says
Bye the way FYI I’m only having a crack with you , because sometimes you Americans don’t understand our British sense of humour.
somehistory says
He is most likely aware, John. I knew you were joking and I tend to take most people seriously.
John Smith says
Thanks Somehistory
somehistory says
You’re welcome, John. I hope you are going along well. Humor helps us relieve some of the stress of all that is happening.
Kuffar says
HOW DARE YOU….!!!!
tim gallagher says
It has been weird watching so many people take notice of what this foul little ventriloquist’s dummy, Greta Thunberg, says on climate change, etc. Now, of course, since it is the fashionable cause for the wankers from the left wing brigade, she is talking bullshit about destroying Zionism. I can’t see why anyone has ever cared what this ignorant and bitter youngster says about anything. It is really a case of child abuse, when she was younger, as her parents and other left wingers used her to spout their dopey views. She has shit for brains on all issues and she has been manipulated by people around her. I thought her weird little interlude of fame would have ended ages ago and she would, by now, be a complete irrelevance to everybody by now. She should probably go back to school and try to learn something since she missed out on those years at school while she was lecturing the world with her bullshit when she should have been at school..
Mark says
Greta said 2018 summer that the end of the world is summer 2023 !!! How it is possible that the world is still going on !!!!! She gave five years time but the end of the world did NOT come !!!!!
James Lincoln says
Her perpetually angry countenance is a window into her ice cold heart.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Greta is a loser, but I disagree w/ you, Hugh, when you assert that ” world that has completely “transitioned” to solar, wind, hydropower, and nuclear energy”. There ain’t too many hydropower dams being built, nuclear is something radioactive w/ the green crowd, despite 4th generation technology that minimizes any issues of waste, solar has minimal utility in the tropics (but even there, it’s limited: decades ago, I once got my parents to buy a solar cooker, and it took hours to cook the normal lunch that usually gets cooked within an hour on gas stoves) and wind is a joke, as we found out in Texas a few years ago. Also, on a large scale, CO2 is at one of its lowest levels in history, which should be a cause for concern, since it is needed by plants for photosynthesis. If plants die out due to a lack of CO2, ultimately so will the animals that eat them, and ultimately humans, both vegetarians and omnivores
Real problem is that all these Greenies are not about the environment (or else, they’d have accepted nuclear): they’re about control. They want to ration everything – how big a home one has, clip the ability of normal people to drive anywhere they like any time w/o struggling w/ bus or train schedules, control how much water runs when we flush, and so on. They’re not about clean air, clean water, and haven’t been for decades. As Rush Limbaugh once put it, Environmentalists are like water melons: green on the outside, red on the inside (here, red implying communist, not Republican).
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“As Rush Limbaugh once put it, Environmentalists are like water melons: green on the outside, red on the inside (here, red implying communist, not Republican).”
Somehow, I had missed that one.
Thanks.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It was one of those things I learned when I wondered why Greenies opposed nuclear energy, given that it was the cleanest and efficient way of producing energy: only downside is the lack of uranium, radium and thorium out there. Rush once made this point, back in the 90s, when he’d explain the problems w/ the Environmental wackos
Goofy says
St Greta of Thunberg is suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome. That means that she feeds on causes in which she can excell as an extremist.
What better than green fascism and Islamofascism?
Rick Olsha says
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THIS WOMAN IS VERY VERY VERY STUPID !!!
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!
Jerry Glenn says
Good g. Ignore the twit.
Spongebob Bill says
Another antisemite, another criminal…
Scotsman48 says
i would love to see this silly silly wee lassie visit China or India and scream at them for all the pollution they are doing to the Planet that she, and she alone, are in the Role of saving.
That would make a serious headline.