Greta Thunberg : Named Time’s youngest Person of the Year.

Whether we're heading for devastating warming or drastic cooling, we need to clean up our planet regardless.

we are at the beginning of a mini ice age (maunder minimum) as characterised by wildly fluctuating temperatures ie very hot to very cold to very hot with no period of time in which to adapt. Not to forget that our lifetime length is no time compared to earth time

Enough from me anyway, I am not about to give a lecture. However I do think that this young teenager is being used by adults with an agenda and the prognosis for her future mental health cannot be good. Unfortunately she is dragging the mental health of countless youngsters down with her.

11 year old DGD has been having real anxiety about this too.

You know what? I can't be arsed to get into argument on this.

I'm sure you are an extremely well read, highly qualified scientist craftyone. There are still some scientists who don't quite keep up.

Oh no! That's not good.

I think she's achieved a lot by getting the whole world talking about her.

I wish that my somewhat dramatic grandson wasn't so involved with her message though.

He's 10 and is experiencing sleepless nights, worrying that we're all about to fry

craftyone I don't think anyone is denying that solar activity can affect temperatures on earth and can cause them to fluctuate over long periods of time.
However, that, combined with manmade activity, is accelerating the process.

My SIL is of the opinion, however, that all this could precede a period of global cooling with disastrous effects.

I don`t need to read up on the science gonegirl. I am a scientist

I am not out to convince anyone. You should perhaps know that scientists deal with facts and not airy fairy hysteria

Greta is a good example to all the children and young people whose only ambition is to be famous (without working out famous for what)

She does have passion for her cause and does not seem motivated by fame.

I’m not talking about pollution! Somehow the flat earthers persist

Thank God the denyers don't matter anymore. The science is talking.

This climate is not occurring naturally. Read up on the science.

Entirely right craftyone but some take some convincing.

oh dear mrtjgran you are getting confused, pollution and climate change are different entities. Pollution is man made. Climate change occurs naturally. Climate change is complicated but the driver is the sun. Pollution is driven by man

Sorry to say she rather grated on me. The "You stole my childhood" was what did it.

Someone on my Facebook feed posted images of her and that quote, followed by pictures of child soldiers, children forced to work in mineral mines etc, with a comment/caption along the lines of "whose childhood has really been stolen?

Yes, she's passionate and makes some good points, but...........

She would be more likely to suffer & be stressed if she could not pursue her passion.

There are a very very very few dissenting scientists but the overwhelming majority see human activity as causing or exacerbating climate change.

marjgran, time for some teaching from a scientist perhaps? would you like to know a bit about maunder minimum and sunspots?

I feel pity for the child. Pushed out seemingly as the puppet of others, without any apparent chaperone or mentor. It’ll end badly, I fear, with a mental health crisis.

marjgran, no you don`t know my qualifications. Would geophysics and oceanography do?

Phloembundle (that is quite a handle!) you are so right!

The aim has been achieved regardless of anyone's suspicions about her, because more people are talking about climate change.

People are more important. That's my stance. But we can try to look after both!

If we're causing all this we should be concerned about the animal world who are at our mercy.

Yes, I was right next to some of the fires

Leyburn - another “scientist”. What an expert lot you are. Greta’s appeal is that she highlights the science, she does not make it her opinion. All power to her stirring things up. If she does nothing else for the rest of her life she has been a catalyst and a force for good.