Don’t Mock Greta Thunberg. Listen to Her.

There is nothing rational about opposition to teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, who was just named Time’s Person of the Year. Critics are entitled to their subjective opinions that some other person had more impact or that some other problem is more pressing, and President Donald Trump can, predictably, mock the choice, but Thunberg is well aligned with mainstream science and with climate-savvy economists.

Time Magazine's Person of the Year, Greta
 Thunberg - "listen to her; don't mock her."

Despite years of hate mail, disinformation campaigns and ridicule, the mainstream science community has made a strong position even stronger, thanks to more data from the atmosphere, the ground, the oceans and ice cores, as well as better computer models. And now they’re observing the unfolding of long-predicted global changes in real time. Al Gore had been right all along to scare people in his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth.

Read the story from Bloomberg by Faye Flann - “Don’t Mock Greta Thunberg. Listen to Her.”

The Climate Kids Are Coming

If you don’t know who Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is, you can think of her as an international climate-change counterpart to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Like the rock-star congresswoman from New York, Thunberg is a charismatic young woman whose social-media savvy, moral clarity, and fearless speaking truth to power have inspired throngs of admirers to take to the streets for a better world and call out the politicians and CEOs who are standing in the way.

Greta Thunberg speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is known for championing the #GreenNewDeal and schooling right-wing haters on Twitter. Thunberg, 16, is known for launching the #SchoolStrike4Climate movement—tens of thousands of high-school students worldwide are skipping school on Fridays until their governments treat the climate crisis as an emergency—and for torching billionaires and heads of state at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.

Read the story from The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard  - “The Climate Kids Are Coming.”