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[–]ActuallyNot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This misrepresents Thunberg a bit.

1) She's 18.

2) Her youth, is related to why she speaks out, being that generation that is most effected (so far) by climate change, but that does not yet have democratic rights.

3) She writes her own speeches. To an international audience, she writes them in English.

It also misrepresents Dr Curry a bit.

1) She was a scientist. She retired from academia five years ago.

2) She has publish one scientific book. Two if you include co-authoring. She's published something of that order of scholarly papers. The person who made that image doesn't understand what a book is?

3) She doesn't say it's all a hoax. She said in her congress testimony that "Manmade climate change is a theory in which the basic mechanism is well understood, but the potential magnitude is highly uncertain. Scientists agree that surface temperatures have increased overall since 1880, humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the planet."

(For what it's worth, most people would be more cautious where the uncertainties are high, but she advocates against "overreaction". But she certainly does not claim that there's any sort of hoax.)

[–]thefirststone 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She's 18.

It's just an ancient image. That's all those sites use: recycled content.

The comments look recycled, too. It's all so tiresome.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excellent points.

Moreover, Curry has been quoted in numerous places, and covered by news media because she was hired as a political hack for Republicans and has been funded by the fossil fuel industry. If Saiditors are upset about the political elite and corporations manipulating the national narrative, they should be livid about the way in which the Republicans and fossil fuel industry have used Curry to justify their abuses of the environment for the sake of a billions for the 1%.

Also:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judith_Curry

https://skepticalscience.com/Judith_Curry_arg.htm

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/trump-white-house-recruited-climate-science-critics-work-noaa

https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2010.577