Greta Thunberg to arrive in Lisbon in early December

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is expected to arrive in Lisbon “at the beginning of December” after sailing across the Atlantic on her way to the Madrid Climate Change Summit.

“We had to slow down to avoid very bad weather ahead, but now we're back on track at top speed. I hope we get to Lisbon, Portugal, early December,” wrote Greta Thunberg on social media.

The environmentalist set sail on a catamaran on the 13^th of November from the United States’ Salt Ponds Port in Virginia, as she does not travel by plane to avoid the pollution it entails.

Once she arrives in Lisbon Greta has invited to attend a session at the Assembly of the Republic promoted by the Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Energy and Spatial Planning, which will take place between the end of this month and the beginning of December.

According to the president of the Environment Committee, José Maria Cardoso, the president of the Environment Committee, “there was receptivity" from representatives of the activist to the invitation made by the MPs.

Greta Thunberg travelled in August from the United Kingdom to New York on an ecological sailboat belonging to Pierre Casiraghi, the youngest son of Carolina of Monaco, a member of Monaco’s royal family, to attend the United Nations Climate Change Summit in September.

The activist, who took a sabbatical year, intended to travel across the Americas by land to Chile, where the United Nations Conference on Climate Change was initially scheduled.

The Chilean government, however, cancelled the event due to the evident social protests that have been rocking the South American country for weeks.

She rose to fame for beginning a school strike on her own in September 2018 in front of the Swedish parliament to call for action against climate change, which has since inspired a global movement that led to her being welcomed by world leaders and speaking at international conferences.

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0 #11 Steve 2019-12-03 10:10

Quoting Peter Booker:

Will someone please tell us what is wrong with Greta`s parents?

Greta Thunberg has a multi million dollar advertising and PR network behind her, that is why she's headline news all the time.
Her parents have allowed the people that are financing this multi million dollar PR campaign to use her child for their own gains.
In the new age of digital information it is best to become familiar with terms like "Astroturfing" so we know how we are being manipulated with so called scientific studies and compute models that predict doom in 12 years time every decade .

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU

0 #10 DAVID 2019-12-02 16:08

To set the record straight I am a scientist and I hope that the world is still turning in 1000s of years time and that my grandchildren can have as good a life as I have had. As for Greta's parents just google them. I think that Chip's comments are a bit strong and the myriads of xmas lights that I use in the UK are now all LED and use less than a 60watt bulb.

0 #9 Peter Booker 2019-12-02 14:30

Carrying on from Chip´s comment, …and too many street lights on all night; and too many aeroplanes; and too much plastic thrown into the oceans; and too much groundwater used and not replaced; and the seas being denuded of wild fish etc etc.

Will someone please tell us what is wrong with Greta`s parents?

0 #8 Chip 2019-12-02 14:14

Like others posting here, I am not a scientist.

I will say that this awful sick girl really irritates me and I wish her and all her ilk would stop flying across the world for conferences and hit the root causes of the problem, assuming we have a problem. Such as:
1)Lack of population control, including the need for contraception for the poorer nations and reform of religions that oppose contraception (Catholic and Muslim etc)
2)Focusing on countries like China and India who are the worst offenders rather than the West where we at least are making progress with recycling etc
3)Attacking unnecessary polution - Xmas lights, New Year fireworks, illuminated advertising, Red Arrows flights, motor racing...

I would have more respect for envioronmentalists if they stopped talking and took real action. Until then they are just tree huggers.

0 #7 Steve 2019-12-02 09:15

Just to add on to David's history lesson.
First there is no ozone layer, the idea that the ozone gas forms a layer is ridiculous. There is higher concentration of the O3 gas in some places and less concentration in others this depends on climatic conditions.
Second point from wikipedia "The critical DuPont manufacturing patent for Freon was set to expire in 1979. In conjunction with other industrial peers DuPont formed a lobbying group, the "Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy," to combat regulations of ozone-depleting compounds. In 1986 DuPont, with new patents in hand, reversed its previous stance and publicly condemned CFCs. DuPont representatives appeared before the Montreal Protocol urging that CFCs be banned worldwide and stated that their new HCFCs would meet the worldwide demand for refrigerants."
This means that CFCs were about to become as cheap as chips before it got blamed for ozone depletion and another expensive gas was introduced.
Knowing the above do you still think a little trace gas like CO2 has much influence in our planet's climate? The CO2 hoax is financed by big oil companies and so is little Greta and her parents.

-3 #6 Peter Booker 2019-12-01 14:09

As usual, David has valuable points to add to the discussion. After Graham Chambers spectacularly debunked the carbon-dioxide-warming-the-atm osphere theory, I have also begun to believe that world leaders are barking up the wrong tree.

But that fact does not detract from the history of the CO2 movement. Governments have signed up to future actions to reduce the amount of human influenced CO2 in the atmosphere, and are failing to act as promised.

Greta has essentially called them hypocrites, and she is right.

+3 #5 DAVID 2019-12-01 13:43

I normally am in tune with Peter Booker but I would have thought that a lesson from history would have been up his street. It all started off with global warming and a hole in the ozone layer and when the science was found to be flawed it was changed to climate change The hole in the ozone layer theories started in the late 70's and early 80's so there is an immediate knee jerk reaction and banning of CFCs. When the hole opens up more radiation from the sun pours through and changed oxygen {O2 } to ozone {O3} thus closing the hole. This could have been going on for millennia but the phenomenon was not observed previously. We cannot accurately determine weather patterns over hundreds and thousands of years and by fiddling in this century we may be creating more problems in the future. Greta's parents are well known for their media manipulation - just google them and I for one do not think that she is a child savant sent to save the world. I am more a Jeremy Clarkson than a David Attenborough although I do have a rather large sun following solar voltaic system which I installed to make money not to save the planet, The way that solar voltaic was subsidized in Portugal was a tax on the poor. If you had the space and the money you could make a profit : if you didn't you paid the likes of me. I would love to know what David Attenborough's carbon footprint is after traipsing around the world with a large entourage for decades. Happy Xmas

0 #4 Peter Booker 2019-12-01 09:19

………in Time magazine, she addressed the criticism she has received online saying: "It's quite hilarious when the only thing people can do is mock you, or talk about your appearance or personality, as it means they have no argument or nothing else to say."

I know nothing of her parents. What is wrong with them?

Greta has absorbed all the hype about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the Paris agreement and the dangers that humans face in the light of the climate change, which most governments agree on.

She is reminding these governments that they are not living up to their promises. What is so awful about that?

0 #3 DAVID 2019-11-30 23:16

I think that it was Winston Churchill who once said that it cost the British government a fortune to keep Gandhi in poverty. I am not convinced that poor little Greta is a full shilling .her and her ilk need to look at China, India etc before tolerably civilized places. We are told to become vegetarians but look at the emissions from vegetarians and the millions of cows in India .

0 #2 Steve 2019-11-30 10:24

Not welcomed. Parents should be prosecuted for child abuse.

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