In Honor of Today's Climate So-called Strike

From Sarah Hoyt over at Instapundit:

CLIMATE IS NOT MY GOD.  IT’S NOT SENTIENT. I CAN’T SIN AGAINST IT. I HOIST MY MIDDLE FINGERS UP AT ANYONE WHO DEMANDS THIS KIND OF INSANITY. VERY NO. MUCH F*CK THEM. THEY’RE THE ONES COMMITTING CLIMATE SINS. SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD A PLANT IS LABORING MIGHTILY TO PRODUCE OXYGEN FOR THESE LACK-BRAINS. THEY SHOULD FIND IT AND APOLOGIZE TO IT:  Confess Your Climate Change Bad Self!

Her link to Victory Girls Blog is hilarious.

This author would like to give some homework to the kids who ditched today:

While it is tempting to think of today’s climate ‘strike’ by schoolchildren around the world as a case of truants finding an ethical excuse to skip lessons, I think many are acting for genuine reasons: they are traumatized. They are the reflection of the hyperbolic coverage of climate change by Al Gore, Hollywood and even, latterly, David Attenborough – films where footage of fires, hurricanes and calving glaciers is stitched together to give the impression of impending doom. How many of these kids know that hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are a natural part of the tropical climate and were going on many millennia before significant man-made carbon emissions? I rather wonder...

Any principal who values his or her students’ education will not turn a blind eye to today’s absences, still less join the kids for a march, as some are reported to be doing.

They will keep them behind after school and set them two papers to research and write. The first should answer the question: ‘Does scientific evidence support the notion that “the Earth is dying”?’...

Paper number two should be on the question: ‘What would it mean for the global economy if governments really did eliminate all carbon emissions by 2025?’ Given that this is the central demand of many of the climate strikers, this is a rather pertinent question.

If you want a preview, his answers are "no" and "disaster".

And then we learn that those bird-killing wind turbines aren't so eco-friendly after all:

While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20 years, a figure that doesn’t include newer, taller, higher-capacity versions...

Van Vleet said 90 percent of a turbine’s parts can be recycled or sold. But the blades, made of a tough but pliable mix of resin and fiberglass—similar to what spaceship parts are made from—are a different story.

“The blades are kind of a dud because they have no value,” he said.

Decommissioned blades are also notoriously difficult and expensive to transport. They can be anywhere from 100 to 300 feet long, and need to be cut up onsite before getting trucked away on specialized equipment—which costs money—to the landfill.

Once there, Van Vleet said, the size of the blades can put landfills in a tough spot.

 “If you’re small utility or municipality and all of a sudden hundreds of blades start coming to your landfill, you don’t want to use up your capacity for your local municipal trash for wind turbine blades,” he said, adding that permits for more landfill space adds another layer of expenses.

Here's the kicker:   “We lose money on every blade we haul.”

It's no wonder so many kids these days have so much anxiety and are suicidal.  They've been fed this diet of hysteria and fear their entire lives--by people who should know better.

The adults who actually believe this stuff, or pretend to believe it despite their actions?  They're Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

Update, 9/22/19:  Here is how you know they're not really serious:

Climate change skeptics have branded protesters who marched through Manhattan on Sunday as hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city.

New Yorkers uploaded images to social media sites showing piles of trash - included ditched paper and cardboard signs - left behind after thousands took part in the People's Climate March.

'Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn't even use a trash can,' one critic, known as @chelsea_elisa on Twitter, wrote beneath an image of an overflowing trash can.

'Somehow this doesn't seem too green 2me,' David Kreutzer, a research fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, wrote alongside another photo of litter on the ground.

It wasn't just Manhattan, either.

And this must all have been discarded by the 7 Republicans remaining in the Sacramento area:

See the trash these volunteers pulled out of American River Parkway this year