Andrew Bolt: Greta Thunberg seizing on anything to catch the world’s flagging attention
Goddess of global warming Greta Thunberg sounds increasingly desperate, jumping on any stray news — even fake — to return the world’s flagging attention to climate change amid the coronavirus pandemic, writes Andrew Bolt.
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Poor Greta Thunberg.
What does this goddess of global warming do when the world starts worrying about the coronavirus instead?
These are dark days for warming alarmists.
The Harris Poll reports Americans have gone from last December saying global warming was society’s number one challenge, to now putting it second last of 12 options.
And in Stockholm, Thunberg sounds increasingly desperate, jumping on any stray news that might once have fooled the foolish into climate panic.
Last Friday, for instance, on the day Tasmania recorded its coldest temperature in history, Thunberg tweeted instead about the “exceptional rainfall” in Mumbai — the heaviest rain in that Indian city in 47 years.
Thunberg has in past days also tweeted alarm about “one of the longest monsoon season(s)” in South Korea, and about “50 people killed in three days of monsoon rain across Pakistan”.
But wait! She’s complaining about a heavy monsoon in Asia, which depends so much on monsoons to grow key crops like rice?
Even more surprising is these floods aren’t at all what I expected after reading this in The Age in 2013: “Imagine India in 2033 … It’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve …
“This is one of the scenarios Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, presented today to members of the United Nations Security Council.”
True, Schellnhuber is an older Thunberg-type alarmist who says he “would like people to panic”, claims the world’s “carrying capacity” is just a billion people, and we need a “Global Council” to run the world.
But crank or not, he also advises the Pope on global warming and inspires the likes of Thunberg, who has visited him at his institute.
But Thunberg hasn’t finished seizing on something — anything to catch the world’s flagging attention.
Last Monday she retweeted her alarm that Kenya’s Tsavo National Park had been burning for two weeks, and “not a single global media pay attention”.
Blind to another global warming disaster!
But, uh oh, another fake scare.
The fire is now out, and the Kenya Wildlife Service blames arsonists and not heat, but “long rains earlier in the year, which saw grasses grow tall”.
Global warming is bringing more rain to Africa?
I can’t see that scare selling.
Not when virus panic is in the market.