Greta Adds to the List of Village Idiots

Over the 76 years I've lived on planet earth,  I can't count the times on which someone has claimed human life on earth is going to end or that the world will be destroyed.

There were mainly religious people who said the second coming was coming by a certain date. Then there was the group in contact with aliens who had told them the world would end but they would be saved as their friends the aliens would transport them into the heavens. Then there is Greta Thunberg, the wonderchild who is both a climate expert and a hopeful dismantler of the capitalist, free-enterprise system of which she probably knows fuck all.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has deleted a 2018 tweet in which she shared a warning that climate change “will wipe out all of humanity” unless fossil fuels were abolished by 2023. 

In the tweet, Thunberg quoted a “top climate scientist” as saying that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”

It is unclear when the self-described “autistic climate justice activist” deleted the tweet, but its removal was first noticed by US conservative pundit Jack Posobiec on Saturday. The website her tweet linked to no longer exists.
 
Thunberg herself did not reply to Posobiec, and a host of right-wing commentators chimed in to remind her that the world, in fact, still exists.

“Greta Thunberg deleted this tweet because it exposes her for being a fraud,” US conservative activist Brigitte Gabriel tweeted. “Make sure the entire world sees it.”

It reminds me of Australia's Chief Scientist, Tim Flannery who claimed a decade ago that there would be no further rainfall in Australia due to global warming. 

There is a rich harvest of doom and gloom predictions in relation to global warming that has never eventuated.

I can excuse a young woman with apparent mental challenges making such a statement, but a so-called scientist. FFS.

#Robinoz