Student strike for climate change

[Randy Winkman]

Good on the kids. Nice to see them doing something interesting and annoying for boring old codgers.

[funkyrobot]

Cold said:

I posted this in the Juvenile thread because it amused me:

Cold said:

Belfast today, a group of the schoolkids who are "on strike" to protest about climate change, but still maintaining a sense of humour.

If I ever feel the need to take my daughter out of school for a holiday, I'm going to say it's really to protest about climate change.

Looking at some of the spelling above, they need to be in school more.

[turbobloke]

Randy Winkman said:

Good on the kids. Nice to see them doing something interesting and annoying for boring old codgers.

You didn't post a qualifying age but I'd say more interesting and entertaining than annoying.

Parents who aren't already molten due to the horrendous global warming we're all experiencing may consider the loss of lessons/teaching/learning time as a point worthy of consideration.

At least the teachers will have an excuse for any lower grades this year. Apparently the strike is supported by at least one headteacher union. They've spotted that it's hardly worth striving for good results when the kids will be frying in their own juices fairly soon.

[williamp]

Randy Winkman said:

Good on the kids. Nice to see them doing something interesting and annoying for boring old codgers.

On a school day? Whats wrong withthe weekend??

[garagewidow]

Wonder how many of them will have forgotten all this once they get on the greasy career pole and strive for a 4 bed detached and 2 German motors on the drive.

[Wacky Racer]

Pah! Students, never done a days work in their lives.


They could have put the time to better use tidying their rooms up.

[Vanden Saab]

Randy Winkman said:

Good on the kids. Nice to see them doing something interesting and annoying for boring old codgers.

Not in the slightest bit annoying to this old codger. The sooner they understand that protesting is cold, thankless and pointless the better. I think teachers should be applauded for teaching them this important lesson so early in life.

[Terminator X]

What temperature are they asking for?

TX.

[PRTVR]

The thing is the kids do have the power to change things, the largest CO2 emitter by a mile is China, if they give up there phones and anything made in China it would be a start, it might be hard but it's for a good cause right ?

[garagewidow]

^Very much so,...erm not the suicide bit.

A,we are the problem.

Q,how are we going to save ourselves?

[dandarez]

Randy Winkman said:

Good on the kids. Nice to see them doing something interesting and annoying for boring old codgers.

You've learnt a lot in your short life to date, eh?
You should sit for a degree in Ageist ttness - I'm confident you'd get a First Class Honours.

[turbobloke]

A translation, but an acceptably good and checkable translation.

http://www.stichting-jas.nl/2019/01/guus-berkhout-...

[ninepoint2]

Jasandjules said:

The first question is what climate change problem...

I believe it's a common myth perpetuated by Governments around the world as a justification to raise more tax, particularly from the poor already heavily taxed motorist

Edited by ninepoint2 on Friday 15th February 19:43

[bitchstewie]

Anyone listening to Andrew Pierce on LBc?

He's literally been made to look a muppet by a 15 year old kid. It's really quite funny.

[Randy Winkman]

dandarez said:

Randy Winkman said:

Good on the kids. Nice to see them doing something interesting and annoying for boring old codgers.

You've learnt a lot in your short life to date, eh?
You should sit for a degree in Ageist ttness - I'm confident you'd get a First Class Honours.

What?

[mcelliott]

Looked like the weather was good for it - good job it wasn't raining, little snowflakes.

[johnxjsc1985]

make the little sts walk to school and get the bus to any after school stuff or get a bike.

[ninepoint2]

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[turbobloke]

mcelliott said:

Looked like the weather was good for it - good job it wasn't raining, little snowflakes.

Talking of snow and staying with the thread title...

It's good that children will get out and about more in the fresh / polluted air (delete as required to suit your level of pessimism) and definitely a good job they aren't in school - the level of indoor air pollution in USA and UK buildings is on average 10x worse than outdoor urban air, as found by both the USA EPA and the UK gov't BRE (as was),

There may be complications however. In New York, large parts of the city have been underwater since 2015 exactly as predicted. As it happens they haven't, but that's the kind of promise you get from manmade global warming theory.

Kids in London will be in for a shock as well, or not. One of the senior climate scientists at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit - funded via grants approved by selfless politicians - told the country in 2000 in an article since removed from The Independent website (but archived for posterity) that due to manmade global warming, snow would be a rare and exciting event such that children just won't know wnat snow is.

irony running as deep as a snow drift! Within a few years UK children experienced the coldest and snowiest winters within the short and meaningless modern record. Such experiences will be enough to confirm and reheat the faith of any student.

As on PH, there will be a number of metoos in any school who will follow the herd. Such youngsters and their headteachers will surely aspire to be somebody just like the female Greenpeace activist in this vid, so full of knowledge from missing lessons that they're fit to burst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuj_tlRRQdQ

Comment beneath the vid "You can almost see the point where her brain shuts down and she stops listening to what he's saying....?"

[FredericRobinson]

The snowiest winter in modern record was since 2000?