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Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses world leaders at the start of the 2019 Climate Action Summit which is being held in advance of the General Debate of the General Assembly of the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 23 September 2019. World Leaders have been invited to speak at the event, which was organized by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, for the purpose of proposing plans for addressing global climate change. The General Debate of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly begins on 24 September. United Nations 2019 Climate Action Summit, New York, USA - 23 Sep 2019
Climate change misinformation is flooding into British schools, funded, it would appear, by the dark green money of elite billionaire foundations. Schoolchildren are encouraged to plot implausible temperatures rises of 11°C, taught that alkaline oceans are 'acidic' and encouraged to write letters to policymakers claiming "our house is on fire" in the style of Greta Thunberg.
The material is being distributed around schools by a London-based operation called
Climate Science. An introductory video says its mission is to bring "high quality climate education to every school, company and individual in the world". Such aims of course do not come cheap. Among the lobby group's "partners, supporters and friends" are green activist funders such as Schmidt Futures - the family foundation of former Google boss Eric Schmidt - and the Grantham Institute at Imperial - partly funded by green billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham.
Give me the child until seven, and I will give you the man, said Aristotle, a phrase understood down the ages, not least by the Jesuit Christian order. Blind faith is more readily accepted by minds whose critical faculties have not been fully developed. And there are few ideas in today's climate political agenda that require more faith than the forecasts of climate models. How exactly do we know about future climate change and the frequency of extreme weather events, asks Climate Science. "It's all down to climate models," is the answer, adding: It's "pretty cool" to get a glimpse of a potential future, isn't it?
Comment: If the goundhog sees his shadow, it's 6 more weeks of winter. If the groundhog doesn't see his shadow, it's winter's end.
So if the groundhog is found dead on Groundhog Day... what does that mean??!
We're in completely new territory here people!