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Over at the NY Post, Miranda Devine runs a piece that is right on target

Devine: Irresponsible adults have caused the climate fear plaguing Greta Thunberg

The look on Greta Thunberg’s face when Donald Trump breezed past her in a UN corridor this week was pure hatred.

She looked as if she would like to strangle the president with her bare hands, although she has never met him.

This is not a healthy emotion for a 16-year-old.

Nothing about the growing global stature of the fanatical Swedish teenage eco-catastro­phist is healthy — for her or for the millions of little girls she inspires and frightens in equal measure.

(discussion of what Greta said at the UN

She has taken literally what irresponsible adults have told her, that the planet is going to end in 11 years unless we stop using fossil fuels.

Her parents and the climate industry have exploited her youthful idealism and rigid obsessions. They have frightened her out of her mind and now are exposing her to condemnation and ridicule.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

They should be, but, they aren’t. Not in the least. Devine writes that “Her words and demeanor are those of a totalitarian dictator.” Well, that’s what the Cult of Climastrology is about. I often think that it might not be appropriate referring to them as a cult, and others referring to it as a religion, because this is based on a hardcore Authoritarian belief-set. And these adults have created the conditions through their use of a tiny increase in global temperatures to proclaim utter coming doom which is destroying the mental health of some of the kids.

Greta is on the verge of hysteria now. How will she react when her demands are not met? They won’t and can’t be met. The planet is not going to end in 2030 and we will still be using fossil fuels, which underpin human progress and have dragged 1 billion people out of poverty in the past two decades.

How do all these climate kids react when they are adults, the planet hasn’t descended into Doom, and they are living a modern lifestyle they don’t want to give up?

Read: Unhinged Warmists Adults Are Responsible For Kids Having Eco-Anxiety »

It’s hard to keep the Cult of Climastrology going without constant prognostications of doom. Plus, don’t forget, much of the U.N. released doom starts coming around this time of the year, as the next Conference On The Parties is getting ready to go (in the far flung city of Santiago, Chile), along with other pre-COP events, where tons of Warmists will take long fossil fueled trips

Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100

Cities from New York to Shanghai could see regular flooding, as sea levels rise faster than previously thought.

Glaciers and ice sheets from the Himalayas to Antarctica are rapidly melting.

And the fisheries that feed millions of people are shrinking.

These are just some of the impacts that emissions of greenhouse gases have already triggered across the planet’s oceans and frozen regions, according to a new landmark report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

More than 100 scientists from 36 countries worked on the report — titled the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. It is the last of three special reports from the IPCC following last October’s urgent report that showed the world may only have until 2030 to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees, and August’s report on climate impacts to the planet’s lands.

First, none of those are proof of anthropogenic causation involving “carbon pollution.” Second, they always have these doomy reports, and they never really come to pass, but, that’s never really the point. Rather, they just want to scare people into giving up their money and their freedom. Third, the Earth’s reported temperature has only risen just under 1C since 1850. Even if it makes it to 1.5C, nothing unusual during a Holocene warm period.

This new report paints a full and alarming picture of the rapid thawing happening in frozen regions all across the globe — and how the changes will dramatically alter human civilization in the coming decades.

The findings show that the planet’s warming is accelerating melting in glaciers and ice sheets from Greenland to Antarctica, and that sea levels will likely rise more than previously projected by the end of this century.

Of the major ice sheets, Greenland’s – which has the potential to raise sea levels around 20 feet — is melting the fastest, and lost more than 275 gigatons on average per year between 2006 and 2015. But the even larger Antarctic ice sheet is also shrinking, and its mass loss tripled between 2007 and 2016 compared to the previous ten years.

Because of the growing contributions from Antarctic melting, the authors say sea level rise is now likely to exceed three feet by 2100 if carbon emissions continue to increase.

They’ve been making these prognostications for decades. Remember when they said that NY City would be under water? Neither prediction panned out. Actual data shows that sea level rise is average and not accelerating, and that most of the small area melting in Antarctica is from volcanic activity.

Even if collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet is not imminent, the report says that many of the 680 million people around the world living in low-lying coastal areas will experience annual flooding events by 2050 that used to occur only once a century.

Whoops, they’re trying to weasel out of the scaremongering.

The choices made now are critical to limit the future impacts, and avoid the escalating costs and risks that come with delayed action, the report says.

By choices, they mean lots of taxes and fees, as well as government taking away your liberty, freedom, and choice.

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