Yesterday when I asked your prayers for Greta, she and (Captain) Boris were being blown, quite flying, in extremely high very rough seas at 30 knots = 35 mph in their tiny fragile racing craft –the video showing and explaining Malizia II here: scroll down to the video captioned “ Inside the boat Greta Thunberg will be travelling on to cross the Atlantic ” At that time, this was their situation: https://twitter.com/i/status/1165647328793047041
Our prayers worked! Here’s the update from
Strong winds are pushing us west. We expect to arrive at North Cove Marina in Manhattan, New York sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening.
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Greta Thunberg [TEDx gripping talk w/ interactive trnscrpt], 16 year-old world emblem of the challenge of tackling Climate Chaos, who set sail 8-14-19 from the UK, in a tiny all-solar-powered racing craft, Malizia II [live tracker here], bound for UN climate summits in New York and Chile. Greta refuses to travel by air because of its environmental impact. She said of climate sceptics: "There's always going to be people who don't understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I'm only acting and communicating on the science." …
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"The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions," Thunberg says. "All we have to do is to wake up and change." Greta’s hard to spot, because she is so little — less than five feet tall. Standing outside parliament building for 26 weeks, next to a beaten-up sign that says “School strike for climate” in Swedish January, 2019 she said, “All my life I’ve been the invisible girl.” That changed Dec. 4, 2018 on 15-year-old Greta’s full speech at UN Climate Change COP24 Conference, chaired by China at the last minute because U.S. suddenly broke its commitment. But In accordance with Article 28 of the Paris Agreement, the legal earliest possible effective withdrawal date by the U.S. cannot be before Nov. 4, 2020, four years after the Agreement came into effect in the U.S., Friday before the 2016 elections.
From underwater mountains to flying fish, ocean life is diverse, unique, weird and wonderful. In addition to ensuring food security for billions of people around the world, the oceans play a vital role in balancing the climate. But as we read in the news more and more, our oceans and the important role that they play in our blue planet’s survival are under immense threat. NASA's annual summary of global temperature rise, a field of warming reds and yellows is broken by a persistent cold blue spot in the North Atlantic. Learn here what explains that anomaly.
If we want to maintain biodiversity, help the recovery of threatened and over exploited marine species and strengthen the resilience of our oceans to climate change, we need a good deal of political courage. The student-led, global climate strikes start September 20th are a way to build a thorough response to the DNC’s lack of that courage. Why bring up DNC? Read on!
Watch Tom Steyer on stage, Thursday 8-22-19 first 13/4 minute of his call to action at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting, calling to hold the DNC and our country to a higher standard starting with Climate Chaos issues. Tom Perez and the Democratic National Committee voted to block a climate debate. I can’t begin to tell you how outraged I am about that cowardice. Our political system is failing us, and it’s failing three whole most recent generations of people fighting for a better world.
From Greta:
“We've had 30 years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas. And I'm sorry, but it doesn't work. Because if it would have, the emissions would have gone down by now. They haven't. And yes, we do need hope, of course we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.” –Greta 11-24-18
“For 25 years countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations climate conferences, asking our nation’s leaders to stop the emissions. But, clearly, this has not worked since the emissions just continue to rise.
Greta at the European Parliament on Tuesday (16 April), urging MEPs to “start panicking about climate change” rather than “waste time arguing about Brexit”.
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