Eco warrior Greta Thunberg lashes Australian politicians amid bushfire crisis   

December 22, 2019
Perth Now

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has weighed into the bushfire emergencies across Australia.

The Swedish eco warrior took to Twitter where she had our politicians in her sights.

“Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible?" tweeted the 16-year-old, recently named Time's Person of the Year for 2019.

"Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the #AustraliaFires

"That's what has to change. Now."

Scott Morrison has defended his government's response to the bushfire crisis and says "reckless" moves like ending coal exports and setting a stricter emissions target will have no "meaningful impact" on the global climate.

The prime minister has faced criticism over his government's climate change policies during a devastating bushfire season.

In an op-ed in The Daily Telegraph, he conceded there was need for "real action on climate change" across all levels.

"There is no disagreement and there has not been any denial of this critical factor, either by the federal government or any state or territory government," Mr Morrison wrote.

"But to suggest that increasing Australia's climate targets would have prevented these fires or extreme weather events, in Australia or anywhere else, is simply false."

Scott Morrison says "reckless" moves like ending coal exports and setting a stricter emissions target will have no "meaningful impact" on the global climate.

Mr Morrison pushed back against more stringent action, including calls to end coal exports and set an emissions target.

"We won't embrace reckless targets and abandon our traditional industries that would risk Australian jobs while having no meaningful impact on the global climate," he said.

The prime minister took to breakfast television on Monday - days after returning early from a controversial family holiday to Hawaii - to defend his judgement and the government's climate change policies.

He was asked on Nine's Today Show if he was "embarrassed" at how Australia, and his leadership, was being seen globally.

"People from outside Australia will make whatever comments they want," Mr Morrison said.

"I'll set Australia's policies consistent with what I took to the last election and what I believe and my government believes is Australia's national interest."

Asked on Seven's Sunrise if he thought the community's feelings on climate change had changed since the election, the PM said: “The plans that we have are as important now as they were then. We will beat our Kyoto targets ... we will meet out Paris targets and I intend to beat those as well.”

"I made a promise to the Australian people to take action on climate change and I am.

OK then, lets see if we can sort this out.

What % can we blame climate change for this current drought and fire season. Now I'm all on board with the climate scientists, yet nothing I've seen from reputable science can categorically blame AGW for these fires as they say it's a trend and no one of incident can be singled out.

Lets be REALLY generous and say these fires are 10% due to AGW.

Australia produces about 1% of greenhouse gasses. If from the first day ScoMo cut our emissions to zero, globally there'd be 1% less emissions.

I'll hand the next bit over to the maths brains among us. How much would a 1% worldwide emissions cut have on the 10% figure?

lee wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 7:15pm:


I reckon a lot of increased fire activity would have something to do with the growing population densities in fire prone areas.

Australia's overall top temperature ever was topped at least twice last week.

Several Australian regions had temperatures approaching 50 degrees on multiple days.

In my life time there has never been dense smoke across many regions for an entire month (so far), possible never happened before, I have seen one or two days ?

Yes I know it's only the weather, right?  100 year weather events every 3 months is normal ? Right ?

Bobby. wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 7:34pm:



80%


THAT"S anthropocentric catastrophic fire events.  Nuffin' to do with your Holden.

John Smith wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 7:55pm:


No she's not. But definitely smarter than you.

Dnarever wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 7:50pm:



Marvellous what BoM can do with ACORN-2.

Dnarever wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 7:50pm:



And? Windsor Observatory 122F in 1939. I will let you do the maths.

Dnarever wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 7:50pm:



You don't understand 100 year events. in the first year 1% of happening, year 2-1!%, year 3 - 1% and so on. you really should try harder.

lee wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2019 at 8:28pm:



and again you come second 

And you too petal.  Of course you should hang your head in shame. Fancy getting your science from wiki.

cods and lee have the same goals as terrorists.  Deny climate change is caused by fossil fuel CO2 so that the world will be disrupted.

It threatens the security of Australia, but still they do it.

that neurotic little mental case couldn't lash a rice pudding

Greta a great example of the blind leading the blind.

Nincompoop..............comes to mind.

cods wrote on Dec 24^th, 2019 at 9:04am:


We'll see.

She boats it everywhere instead of flying.

I will go out on a limb and say this will not continue for too long.

random wrote on Dec 24^th, 2019 at 9:45am:




got it random.... we listen to a 16 yr old because we dont want to listen to the scientists... I got it..


makes sense to some..


by the way all I am asking is a question,,, WHY IS IT A DUMB QUESTION RANDOM???..


when is she going to CHINA AND INDIA>>>?


whats dumb about that?

WHY ATTEMPTS TO SMEAR GRETA HAVE BACKFIRED

Many critics, like Knowles, have attempted to use Ms Thunberg’s mental health against her. Her response has been to both acknowledge and appear completely removed from the criticism she receives.

Take, for example, her response to US President Donald Trump launching a sarcastic public attack on her.

After her speech, Mr Trump tweeted that Ms Thunberg seemed like a “very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future”.

In a cheeky response, Ms Thunberg changed her Twitter bio to read “a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future”.

It had previously read “16-year-old climate activist with Asperger’s”.

On Thursday, she posted a direct message to her trolls, dismissing them as “feeling threatened” by young climate activists and encouraging her followers not to give them the time of day:

One of my mates has a son who has some of the same psychological issues as Greta. He's on the spectrum and also has OCD.

When he was about 6 or 7 we were all on a camping trip and looking up at the stars and just talking about all stuff space and were discussing how asteroids hit the earth and caused mass extinctions. For the rest of the camping trip and in fact the next few years he fixated on an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping us all out. This was all a prelude to his formal diagnosis and prior to that he was just a difficult kid.

Greta began to fixate on climate change from about age 8.

Sorry but no 8 year old can fully understand the science of climate change and it's only because what she chose to fixate on is a hot button issue for her left leaning parents, she was encouraged to fixate on the issue.

She was told climate change would destroy and became fixated on that message, just like my mates kid who used to wet himself at the thought of an asteroid hitting the earth.

Sorry bro, the story of my mates son is true. We were camping at Minnie Waters near Grafton.

As I've said 1000 times, I agree with the scientists and want to get off fossil fuels (hopefully to nuclear power) yet no scientist with any credibility have foretold the end of the world, as Greta has. She's fixated on single issue.

Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was 8 years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it.[21] Three years later, she became depressed, lethargic, and stopped talking as well as eating, and eventually was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg#Education_and_early_life

random wrote on Dec 24^th, 2019 at 1:13pm:



So the truth doesn't matter; just what she says.

Give us some more wiki as rebuttal.

Or you could get her to discuss phase change in H2O in the atmosphere. Or perhaps that Water Vapour is the greatest GHG.

That's a nice likeness of you.

random wrote on Dec 24^th, 2019 at 1:13pm:


No the bush campground which usually has a total fire ban, because it's in the middle of the bush .

Once again because this seems REALLY hard for you to comprehend.
I 100% believe in AGW and disagree with Scott Morrison on what should be done.

We need massive Govt investment in Nuclear and Hydrogen power. Solar also has it's place but the backbone of our power supply needs to be nukes which can also supply the massive power needs that hydrogen requires.

What I don't agree with Greta (well actually her PR team) is her fixation there will be a world ending catastrophe.

random wrote on Dec 24^th, 2019 at 1:40pm:


Link to news or scientific studies that the world is ending ?