Everything Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Said Before Congress | NBC New York

See everything teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said before a Congressional hearing Wednesday in Washington.
More: Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg offered a blunt message to Congress on Tuesday as she brought her campaign for urgent action on climate change to the U.S. Capitol.
"I know you're trying," she told Democratic senators at an invitation-only forum, "but just not hard enough. Sorry."
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey thanked the 16-year-old activist for her advice and her activism, which has gained worldwide attention by inspiring a series of protests and school strikes, including one set for Friday.
Thunberg and other young activists bring "moral clarity" to the fight against global warming, Markey said.
"We hear you," he told her, vowing that lawmakers "will redouble our efforts to make sure that we inject this issue into the politics of this building and this country because time is running out."

[@shethewriter]

“Could you expand on why it’s so important to listen to the science?” Could a question be any more stupid? Why even ask that? The fact that he is asking something so stupid just shows how much we are living a nightmare!

[@lunalisiria5681]

shethewriter I agree with you on every word. It's like asking why the earth is round (maybe he believes it's flat).

[@MisterL2_yt]

she was also stunned by the stupidity of that... "What else would you listen to? Campaign sponsors?" would have been a great counter

[@sergiupopescu3660]

the way we communicate today It's based on since (just one example:))

[@whoRwe02]

It is just like 2012 Nostradamus interpretations, 2000 electronic crackfall and Gore's ice age fiascos. They are too gullible to consume informations from the so-called environmental activists who are desperate to do anything they can for the people to believe - "the world will end". This is just another version of >>>"Repent. The end of the world is near. Jesus is the saviour."

[@debell4200]

Remember. There are many people who don’t believe in science. They don’t believe in evolution. They don’t believe in anything they can’t physically see (except god). They don’t believe they are responsible for any damage to the planet. Some don’t believe the earth is round. Stupid is as stupid does

[@kibetronoh2376]

English is not her first language. Some of you seem to forget that.

[@Grateful4Today]

She definitely speaks a much better english than you ignorant and stupid yanks, that's factual too

[@HATEgoo-gle]

Like she's not going to sound like another stupid bimbo if her English was better? PML!

[@oldineamiller9007]

English is not my first language. Some of you seem to forget that.

[@Nativegirl1985]

She speaks directly. She speaks truth, and her English is much better than Melania Trump.

[@paec4454]

@Terrel Brown she has more common sense thar a lot of people that hold office today. I admire her. She has already overcome challenges. And will continue to grow.

[@vertigo1933]

It would help if the Media reported on Climate change in stead of focusing on Trump tweets.

[@andredingstertsao]

Lourdes the whole business model has to change as the media is making money off ratings.

[@APPLEtv4VIERACAST]

@@andredingstertsao *MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX*

[@ckittle07]

@@dlawlis all those pesky renewable energy companies!

[@FixNewsPlease]

If you can't multi-task simply focus on one.

[@fcknoise]

doobiewah357 wait... All this time you thought the evil plan was to just have renewable energy for conservatives?

[@Poemi10304]

Basically, little girl goes, “Wtf is wrong with this country?! Why do they think facts are optional?!?!” Yeah, I feel your frustration on a daily basis. Imagine living here!!!

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

I`m glad she`s my neighbour ................

[@Alterbridge321]

You still live in the first world. Keep your chin up. America will be leading on environmental issues again once Trump’s gone.

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Will take LOOONG time to try to REPAIR trumps and trumpanzees TRASHED "Country" ............................@@Alterbridge321

[@herrstiglitz9727]

UncleJohn72 Remind me again when the US was leading the way on improving Environment issues? The only thing the US is the leader of is Carbon Emissions. Currently #2 and historically #1 throughout human history. We all have to do better, but the US especially needs to do a LOT better.

[@rangemog21]

For the record, Greta go's to every governement, invited by the leaders to say the same thing, what is wrong with the world, not this or that country, no, this world.... where as a child I know nothing about but I believe a part of the cientists who are preaching a dark future that fits with my mental illnes and depresions....

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

"Why should we listen to science?" Welcome to America sweetie.😆

[@Seethi_C]

It's hard to find anyone who accepts all science regardless of their political biases. Many who accept climate change deny that human life begins at conception, and vice versa

[@1peanut]

@@Seethi_C why are Not scientists ever up there speaking ? Because it is BS. the real science proves there is no climate crisis and nothing out of the normal In fact the polar ice cap is getting bigger. maybe if real credible scientists where speaking then people would believe and listen

[@mariobadia4553]

By science you mean the same bullshit thats been repeated for the past 70 years and bullshit predictions that never comes true? What happened to Ice Age that was going to freeze us all to death and how come entire countries aren't wiped off the face of the Earth by now even though it was supposed to happen in 2000 or 2008 or 2012.

[@orange70383]

Only fools believe this crap, you have no idea, none.

[@brooksanderson2599]

@@mariobadia4553 Really? Please cite, exactly, the scientific publications that make those claims. For example. That 3/4 of September Arctic sea ice volume was lost between 1979 and 2016 as measured by Dr. Peter Wadhams from nuclear submarines during that time period. Peter Wadhams, 2017. A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic, Oxford University Press, p. 177. old geologist

[@hilarynarcis6068]

"How do you get more young people to be involved?" - Greta is here in congress to get the adults involved. Especially the politicians.

[@pa7957]

so so true ... Hahahhaha

[@rangemog21]

The adults/politicians where involved, long agoo, they needed a screen to work behind, Greta is it for it. Next time it will be a puppy, not a puppet...

[@islamskalud2856]

@@rangemog21 +1

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

Right. And many of young people in the world together with adults had marches at 12 am. What a piss poor question.

[@christiaanlaureijs6640]

Young people are the most active and involved

[@Daepicunicorn]

Some of those questions were pretty dumb and redundant, they were mostly common sense questions, why waste their time with questions you just have to just think about for a minute

[@phoenix14830]

Because, like a courtroom testimony, you have to ask questions that get the statement on record. There are a lot of politicians who simply are clueless about climate change and others who have heard facts but reject it due to bias, political affiliation or through personal interest in companies who don't want climate change legislation. You have to get people to say it out loud and force them to be a part of that statement on record, so they can't say they didn't know.

[@silmeriafate3275]

I think some of them just play devil's advocate on purpose. To make discussion for news

[@gailalbers1430]

some people might underestimate her intellect or were trying to highlight her youth to discredit the validity of her statements ?

[@gailalbers1430]

the question „ How can we get more young people involved?“„ strikes me as somewhat ridiculous ; Aren‘t there right now more young people on the move - and are inspiring older folks to step on it ?

[@pa7957]

seriously ???? You do not think she is the grown up and most of the US politician are stubborn children who are very scared of let go their comfortable life and try the unknown .. They do not want to learn because of their ego and selfish disconnected life :(((((( So we need simple questions and simple answers for our grown up children !!!!!

[@jamesfoland5072]

For a English as her second language. She comes across smarter than our politicians.

[@roslezama]

James Foland by far.

[@rangemog21]

@@ejohanvervoordeldonk6223 Do'nt put yourself down; speaking English = Smart . No dumb asses who speak English.... it' get more crazy by the day... all to gloryfy the climat cult. Let all speak English to save the world. And about her homeland, the longest rouled by socialists in the world.

[@ericsalhoff4734]

a goat is smarter than most our politicians

[@irenedavo3768]

James Foland she looks very stressed. Why are MSM promoting her!

[@bluecat4802]

James Foland lol

[@MikeCCO]

What daft questions the panel of 'older heads' were giving her. I think she handled her answers pretty well. And with a sense of humour, which is sorely lacking elsewhere.

[@rangemog21]

Right, the whole climat change cult is a joke... a verry expencive one, but that dus'nt matter.....

[@jill5454]

Rangemog21 where in the world do you live. You are either very fortunate to not be affected by the warming of the climate, or have your head in the sand.

[@rangemog21]

@@jill5454 Ah, ... well, I'm 70 years young, live already for more then 10 years off-grid , now on a hill side of the Spanish coast. I'm a vegan. I reuse things instead of recycling if posible because that is less poluting. I'mnit a Spanish citizen and at the moment I'm in a leagal batle with the goverement of the country where I have a care registered that I use less then 1.000 kpm a year, because they forbid me to rebild the car with an electric engine, that I can drive with the power out of my solar panels. I build aty the moment a tiny-house with certified wood and recycled from pallets, metal studs from recycled metal. I have a garden with plants that where trowen away for goats and sheep and have a dog that nobody wanted. I have a low pension because I left the rat race before the pension age. The land I live on is not mine, it was a waste place where neighbours have over century's dumped everything. I cleaned over a one year period and seperated the waste in the needed fractions for the different waste containers. I did the work with a shovel and wheel barrel. Because of that, I can live here for free, the owner will have a clean place after I leave. A beautiful Spanisch garden. The hill is sediment from what the sea has left... so the hill was before under the sea level and is some 50 meters high. I live some 20 meters above the sea level with sea vieuw and see every morning that the sea is at the same place where it was ages before. So, I find shells and other rests of sea life in the hill. in stones.When the sea level ever will be rise, it will not be for the first time. I ame somebody who is adapting his whole life at the situations and is not afraid to work for something. I love freedom, democraty and the freedom of speach. History has showen in every partt of society that the preachers of believes, cults, political partys, starters of busineses or what ever, are always better of then the folowers and that ther roules are only for the folowers and not for themselves. Money, welt and power is always gaind by fear, fear for the life now or fear for the after life. Noah did'nt build a machine to stop the rain, but he builded a boat. Not a carbon one ofcorse.... Give me all the names that you know of girls and boy's who have sailed the oceans in a race sail yacht made of carbon, that has a seven times larger footprint then one out of polyester and even much more then one out of wood. My head is not in the (beach)sand, we had just a heavy storm and rainfall period in this part of Spain, and a lot of shit from the land ended up in the sea. The last day's I walked in the sea water to getter everyday some 50 kg of plastic. Normaly I walk the beach and pick it up from time to time after the waether or the sea current has changed. You are welcom to my Spanish paradise to live for free on the land and to clean up in front of our own noses as everybody has to start doing. Not for the problemes of tomorow but for the ones of today. A five year period of abnormal weather is called weather, a period of fifty or more years of changed weather is called climat. When the climat is changing places is not global warming and the climat and the sea level has always been a changing thing as is the crust of the earth where we live on, earthquakes and vulcano's are prove of that. Humans have the idea to be the roulers of the univers where they are a litlle stupid part of it. We can polute a bit or a large part, but we have no influence of meaning on the univers or the climat. let's not listen to extremists with unreal plans for the future who chase people away from the solutions for problemes of today. Too crazy and panic is stupid, commen sense has to roule. Starting with cooling down the warming up of the cold war.... Atomic bombs are useless, nucliar centrales has at leats some positive result, electricety till we find or use the nolidge for even cleaner energy. Wars are the worst for human kind and the climat. Don't let the sand to get in your eyes, trowen by politicians who want the peoples mind on " bigger " problemes. Let's not trow away the child with the bathwater... Ok, I reed now your climat help storry, ...... :-)

[@djda99]

@@rangemog21 dedicated troll . wow im actually impressed.

[@rangemog21]

@@djda99 no, you are not impressed, just a bit dizzy.

[@imkereistappert3183]

Seems like they try to test if shes right, while shes telling whats obviously a fact...

[@froggy0162]

D Parker by who...?

[@rangemog21]

Predictions for a future are translated as facts.... the facts of the past manipulated to fit the powers behind the smoke screen... We are indeed doomed by the stupidety that knows not even the valieu of simple words. That there will be a future is not even a fact itself... is that not what the Greta's of this world believe or at least want that we believe ????

[@rangemog21]

@@froggy0162 do'nt hurt your brain, everything is ok, simply do what you are told to do.....

[@harduslauwrens2501]

@@froggy0162 Just google how her mom and dad makes money... Greta is being used but I am glad that most americans don't but her crap. Just like the green new deal from AOC it's all an agenda..which worked damn well in europe

[@froggy0162]

Hardus Lauwrens lol. Because the agenda of fossil fuel and hedge fund billionaires has worked out so well for the average American worker...

[@mattspintosmith5285]

You tell it as it is.

[@mattspintosmith5285]

Who did you choose to learn from Rick? The tooth fairy?

[@EricG-bv2ui]

1:00 could you explain why its important to listen to the science?" Why is this even a question?

[@juliamariemadness]

This amazing opportunity to bring something to the table and actually say something to Congress Then she chose to say nothing. And the guy was just trying to get her to talk and say something. Tons of people would have given anything to be there and those other young people actually brought stuff to the table. Greta brought nothing

[@juliamariemadness]

I was doing voice input but my answer to the question was I think he was just trying to get her to talk

[@religiossadist9761]

Aggree so condescending and disrespectful

[@EricG-bv2ui]

@theeverlastingspiral its not a fair question. Its very broad and ridiculous. We ALL believe in science hence why we go to the doctor when we are sick to be fixed. In your example about climate change its fair to challenge specific parts of it, start there not automatically assuming everything about climate change is controlled by politics. There are hard facts and data from people that have researched this topic for decades who are we with zero research and zero peer reviews to challenge it? Greta is not a scientist or claiming to be one but she advocating for what climate scientists have been saying.

[@EricG-bv2ui]

@theeverlastingspiral I don't know. Why does anyone become popular/celebrity? Does her becoming a celebrity change what she's trying to say? Focus on the message not the messenger. Greta a teenager is echoing what plenty of older well researched adults have said.

[@QuiteDecent]

Such silly questions... How about some timely legislation? 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@StuMas]

Yes, that's the 'Leftie' way. Forget logical, common sense dialogue. Just pass a law and ram it down people's throats! .

[@QuiteDecent]

@@StuMas Looks like you don't know how laws work (or basic reading comprehension for that matter). Good thing we have the Internet for those interested in learning.

[@shethewriter]

Exactly. He literally asked her why they should listen to the science. Wtf.

[@alana8388]

@@StuMas please stop thinking in lefties or such categories. It's about ignorance and stupidity what the politicians show us world wide. Even here in Europe where I live. We suffer political ignorance sponsored by economy.

[@StuMas]

@@alana8388 you're right. It's about stupidity and ignorance - which are synonymous with Liberal-Lefties. I know it sounds like I'm attacking the Left but.... ...yes I am - because they seem to be a magnet for stupidity and ignorance.

[@nancyj5562]

How sad is it that our government is so screwed up that children have to worry about their own future.... I'd rather have this young lady as our president. She's a million times more intelligent than what we got in there now.

[@DrRitterstein]

Agreed.

[@lovewillspill4460]

Nancy, you screamed at the sky after the 2016 election, didn’t you?!😂

[@rangemog21]

Well, it say's a lot about the screw'd up politics in the States but Greta is not an USA citizen, she's a temporary imigrant that came by boat with a lot of adults and not is put in the same place as the other imigrants on the south border. Ok, later she can make the squad look like ... shoolchilderen... For a fact, the USA has no influence on Sweedish childeren, but it looks the other way around... for a moment.

[@nancyj5562]

@@lovewillspill4460 I wouldn't be laughing if I were you....I assume you live in the U.S. as well

[@enriquevalencia678]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 If you believe that then you are a well misinformed madam. Let me ask you this. Do you think WINDMILLS are a good thing for the environment?

[@BrokeTheInterweb]

Thank you for posting this. CBS gave such a terrible clip as an example.

[@BrokeTheInterweb]

@Sage Nicholas ​ @Mandy Craton how's ya'lls work day going? do these replies on random comments really get you business?

[@allisonpilcher4461]

"Why is it so important to listen to the science?" Uhhhhh....since when do we not value the facts produced by experts

[@colliric]

He asked her a Dorathy Dixer question. She's too young to figure it out.

[@religiossadist9761]

We only listen to experts who say what we pay them too!! Jeez

[@QemeH]

"How could me get adults to be more invloved?" - "I don't know. You're an adult. What would you get involved? Because you clearly aren't now..."

[@rangemog21]

Adults are probleby more shooled and by that a bit more " knowing " then "believing"... the old in a new robe storry " the world is gonne end....." it's soo passée

[@QemeH]

@@rangemog21 It's pretty ironic to make a case about "I'm better educated and because of that I don't believe this girl." when you can't even spell properly...

[@rangemog21]

@@QemeH I do'nt state to be better educated, even when I went to shool instead to be at home for years because of a depression or on shoolstricke. And my Dutch and French is probleby better then yours.

[@blacktesseract3798]

How can we get MORE children involved? MORE? We are already demonstrating in masses. THE POLITICIANS have to do their job now! Many demonstrators aren't even allowed to vote yet. It's the adults who have to get their shit together and do something, not the kids.

[@TheOrientalNightFish]

Yes! Amen!

[@lukoshey79]

Someone recently asked her the same question and her response was gold, she said, we don't want to be politicians, you already are politicians so do your jobs Now! Brilliant...

[@blacktesseract3798]

@@lukoshey79 Iconic 💜

[@rangemog21]

@@blacktesseract3798 " demonstrating in masses " keep it by the facts please. In Europe there are shools who try to obligate the childeren to go on stricke for the climat and only some 7% of the childeren go's in the streets. But, facts are not needed for the climat change cult, as debates are not needed ennymore.

[@rangemog21]

@@lukoshey79 Politicians in a democraty have the responsebilety to do what the citizens want, the majorety. And that is not what the climat extremists want. That's why there is a call for a world governement for world problemes as the global warming. Democraty... ofcorse not. Give up your freedom for predictions about the future climat whyle a simple weather prediction for tomorow is often wrong. Five years of hot weather somwhere is weather, fifty years of hot weather is climat. The past is builded on facts, the future has not one fact.

[@rogersurf4149]

I like the way she carefully outlines her experience of "Natural Disasters" oops "Climate Change" so clearly.

[@markkuo5481]

*These Congressmen need to go back to middle or elementary school ASAP.*

[@db337]

Appeared to be a very nice conversation and meeting

[@liberalsocialist9723]

The Koch Brothers Propaganda machine has worked well on you.

[@abhinavprajapati5962]

Why is it so important to listen to science? *Makes face as if he beat the teacher*

[@religiossadist9761]

So much pressure on a kid .to save us or say something sacraficial it bugs me

[@blakejohnson7148]

"I have not come to offer any prepared remarks." Proceeds to read prepared remarks.

[@glinleyt]

Utterly stupid comment. You are urged to re-watch the video. She read the IPCC report findings.

[@NickShollMusic]

He said ‚Ms. Turnbury‘ ! Seriously?

[@jithel7948]

That is how her name is pronounced. Did you not hear her self-introduction?

[@silmeriafate3275]

English is not greta's first language. I am sure she must has alot to say here.

[@nutaki6841]

@Pancho Villa stupid comment....

[@nutaki6841]

@Pancho Villa Such a bs...Among Swedens population there are currently 4% muslims - your claim is the reddicules fear of whites pissing their pants about the bad bad muslims and how they will become minorities or become exstinct. Poor boy.....do your research with other sources than right wing bs media...

[@nutaki6841]

@XXXTekashion How can you be so stupid to do not the slightest bit of own research? With 341,856 inhabitants (June 2019), almö is Sweden's third-largest city after Stockholm and Gothenburg. 66% of the population belong to the established Swedish population, 34% have a migrant background. Due to the liberal immigration and asylum laws, the number of people with a migrant background in the city increases annually by about 3,500 or one percentage point of the urban population. In the district Rosengård - a district with just 22,000 people - 85% of the inhabitants have a migration background. Especially Muslims gather there. ..............So it is ONE district of Malmö where muslims make up the majority--- ONE small district with 22,000 out of 341,000 people. Telling swedish people are therefore the minority in the hohle city is as dumb as to to tell New York is Chinese while you are standing in the middle of China town. The 34 % of immigrants are comming from all over the world. See how stupid and missinformed you are? Telling me abour left wing media as it took me 2 minutes to find out these details....you´re talking about research? Pfffff......you are painfully uncapeable to do so and try to tell me something? Just shut your stupid mouth boy. Btw. I´m white myselfe - so you really can stick the rest of your stupid pants pissing comment up in your ass....

[@mikaeljansson4563]

1 fact about Sweden,last summer,we got/had extremely warm for several Weeks ,so no rain, & the farmers " land" ,it did´nt grow(so they lost a big in-com-) & the grass got yellow-brown ..& I love to go to the forest & pick blue-berries in august,I could´nt because they need rain to grow,the blueberries were super tiny & tasted nothing....& a huge part of Northern Sweden was on fire so the we had to get help from Italian "water-aeroplanes",to water-bomb for more than 1 week..So I said "I don´t want next year/summer to be like this..& a friend said "It´s the climate change".

[@kassiapencek6185]

This makes me so sad to hear. I miss living in blueberry current land. I have seen the evil effects of weedekiller and mowing lawns obliterating the grasshopper population. I moved from pristine moutain area to one where drinking water is non existant and u ill get an std from swiming in any waterway. I think humans who never lived in nature are very unreachable without one on one time with them in nature parenting them to respect the beauty. The Dahli says we have to instill compassion into humans.

[@Mrdegaulle1]

we should all stop doing anything right now. stop going to school and stop working and when we all be hungry we will improvise and they wont do nothing about it. honestly its cool to talk but one day we have to boycott totaly their entreprise. some people in the food industry have to be with the people.I would love greta call for an absolute boycott of the school. because for now only parents who alow their children are in i guess. but we should all be able to say taht we are not participating to THIS and stop going to school wich by the way is to our spirit what mcdonald is for our body

[@mynamestumbleine]

1:20 « I don't see a reason not to believe in the current best available United Science. »

[@chuckkokoska8496]

Greta and the rest of the young panel did great! They made The congressional panel look like a bunch of ignorant clowns!

[@anderspua]

@0202 pmurT I hope you'll find someone who will love you

[@StAnger561to770]

@0202 pmurT your totally right buddy

[@geraldlindenberg1000]

@0202 pmurT You idiot don´t even know how Asperger is written! You should have respect for a 16 year old girl who isn´t an English native speaker but who is very motivated to do something against the destruction of this world. It`s the only world we all have

[@bongodave13]

Most of them ARE a bunch of ignorant clowns.

[@conorohalloran5898]

“Why should we listen to the science” did be really just say that.

[@robertcook1337]

1:40 - 2:25 removes all doubt of this girl being an old soul. Love her response

[@smallstudiodesign]

Mr. Graves & his buddy behind him need to wipe those smug ass smirks’n smiles off their craggy mugs ... this will haunt their family members, beyond their graves, in perpetuity. Such rejects of society these guys are ... urgh!

[@Pathrissia]

Yeah jeez what's up with the questions

[@kuryamtl]

It really is disgraceful that the US needs a 16 year old from Sweden to tell them what they need to do. I mean the politicians should be ashamed.

[@ordinarybear7037]

No more planes for getting to climate conference, think about 40,000 people travelling by any means to a conference? HOW much pollution did they cause . .

[@jona.3809]

They've never heard of video conferences.

[@ordinarybear7037]

I know been available for ages

[@jona.3809]

@@ordinarybear7037. "We don't want to emit carbon emissions from using computers & an excess power usage."

[@coaldoubt2879]

@@jona.3809 wouldn't be an issue with renewable energy :)

[@jona.3809]

@@coaldoubt2879. "Well we can't currently use renewable energy sources as of late because they're not efficient enough to properly maintain our demands."

[@gregcoutu528]

She may be smart, and aware, and socially conscious, and likely speaks multiple languages, but American girls can make the best duck faces on Instagram! Good for Greta for being what all of our kids should aspire to be... intelligent.

[@philjamprimate]

"Greeta Toon-berry"? Sort your pronunciation out, man.

[@alessandrobressani7323]

I’d assume her name is pronounced differently because she’s Swedish

[@philjamprimate]

@@alessandrobressani7323 yeah, and he's hashing it up.

[@richardwebb2348]

Fill Jaymesun - do you have a first language?

[@owilliams7449]

She's extraordinarily respectful and thoughtful. Too bad that the politicians don't have the interest to be leaders and address this concern.

[@rbryant100]

Yay climate change. The worlds going to end. Lol

[@mrunning10]

@@rbryant100 You MORON.

[@joeblow2069]

Because it is bullshit? when is your heroine going to start college? She is 20 years old and uneducated. Why should i listen to her?

[@modvs1]

The Thunbergs are "GO"!

[@modvs1]

@lightdarklovehate Good to see you got the "puppet" metaphor.

[@emkay2903]

Per Intelligence/ age, she is more powerful than anyone else.

[@DukeNukem500]

Scientists knew this for years shes just a front figur

[@jonjones1553]

Wow!

[@eleethtahgra7182]

4:44 They...ask for example. As in giving the location and event. I guess you never visited the place of the event where disaster strikes.

[@prankishsquire2663]

So cool to see the young man with the unpronounceable name sitting behind her.

[@LitpalLitpal]

Much smarter than most politicians are. Smarter than Mr Trump, definitely. Good luck, young activists!

[@bobbi2235]

Litpal Litpal do you actually believe a little 16 yr old child is going to tell us how to fix this worlds problems! A 16 yr old barely knows how to brush her teeth correctly! God is allowing all these things to happen to prepare us to get ready for His coming. If we all turned to God instead of science, then maybe things would change! 🙏

[@gtredsker4289]

Listen to progressive science?? Listen to the real science..... Globalist hoaxers

[@neilsims6819]

Nobody asked her "why is the science important," and everyone here criticizing the similar question that was asked is missing the point. The congressman asked if she could "expand on why it is important to listen to the science." That's his way of allowing her to talk about it, not a question about whether it is important.

[@ariana7864]

Neil Sims yea we know that but it’s still hilarious to appreciate the fact that someone in 2019 should have to explain why we should “listen to science” It’s like if some had, with a straight face, asked her “Greta, why should we listen to reason?” Like wtf? lol it’s like she’s on an episode of the office

[@neilsims6819]

@@ariana7864 who is "we"? A cursory look at the replies here makes it clear that many of those responding do not grasp what I explained.

[@ariana7864]

Neil Sims it’s obvious what he was trying to do, doesn’t make it any less ridiculous of a question -_-

[@neilsims6819]

@@ariana7864 the word "obvious" comes up every time someone doesn't actually have an argument.

[@neilsims6819]

@theeverlastingspiral , science is not "controlled by politics." If it were, the scientists around the world would be expected to follow the political tendencies of the regime controlling their home country. That's not what we see. Instead, we see robust agreement among scientists, because they overwhelmingly follow the evidence and argument, not politics. And even if statistics could be manipulated, it's not likely that manipulated data would last long under peer review, replication, etc. Scientists are rewarded for falsifying the claims of other scientists, so claims that survive have to be more than political manipulations.

[@nels6991]

Q: Why should we listen to the science? A: "Why would you not listen to the science?" -Greta Brilliant

[@robertdraper5782]

I'm 59 and feel ashamed of some of the negative comments I read about this girl on other forums. I'll be long gone before the most serious affects of climate change hit the planet, it's her world and her generation that need to be heard.

[@azul8811]

I agree with you Robert. I have to wonder if any of those folks posting such comments are younger people, or people who plan to have children, or people who already have children or grandchildren.

[@misery8264]

She almost smirked when he asked her why we should listen to science xD

[@fertiledirt7708]

Teach in schools and keep informing.

[@anthonymicele8897]

Greta has more passion and intelligence than most adults. Me included.

[@tristan583]

Anthony Micele you’re dumb enough, l believe you

[@avis3471]

ON THE BEACH, AND IN THE SEA, ANIMALS DO NO LEAVE TRASH; HUMANS DO. PLEASE BEHAVE LIKE ANIMALS......

[@danielmcquoid7973]

I'm only 16, am going through a tunnel-visioned phase driven by my autism, have not picked up on the reality that climate science has flittered between prophesying an ice age and a deadly scorch only decades apart, have taken a boat across the ocean after which all my crew FLEW home, am about 13 months from a total mental breakdown and you should all listen to my opinion and praise me.

[@Fiskie666]

Well you can poke fun at her dude xP But I live in the North .. not my ass will be on the line when the climate change really starts to come , have fun ;P

[@tonyclif1]

Daniel McQuoid , except the climate science hasn’t changed at all. It’s the dumb ass media misrepresenting studies and comments by ignorant activists. The climate modelling has been accurate. The media has not.

[@ThomasEJensen_TEJ]

Those politicians are like. "look there is a smart person in here, let's see if we can get her to solve world problems for us"

[@shiddy.]

probably gets good grades in communications class

[@barbaramay9515]

Go Greta! Climate deniers don’t understand science. You are inspiring. Keep going. Sending you love and light.

[@bonysminiatures3123]

wow did not realize that it was a science thanks barbara( sarcasm intended )....

[@mrunning10]

@@bonysminiatures3123 MAGA-ON Dude!

[@alainjames9556]

I wish we had political leaders with the intelligence and integrity of Greta Thunberg. I can't think of one candidate, Republican or Democrat, that has those qualities. She has no ego. They have only ego.

[@janinetrue]

I can: Bernie Sanders for integrity and the multi-level approach of the Green New Deal for intelligence.

[@benjaminbrewer2569]

Marianne Williamson?

[@bingbongabinga2954]

Maturity illudes you girl. Which is right for a kid. Now go out and play.

[@kriswinklmann6401]

Because allegories are a useful tool in communication to gain a new perspective, to view the same problem but from a different angal. But I would hold off on making opinions with any debate that is edited as bad as this video.

[@oliversimmons988]

thank u greta thunberg

[@Gaburierairuze]

@Rick James ... Glad you got that out of your chest.

[@ninabjork410]

Good job Greta, we all need to think all over again and change our life style before we loose Mother Earth all together, look at the Bahamas why and how it is suffering from climate change, we need to start being more conservatives and less consumerist beings when we are using up all the resource and dumping which is also effecting islands all around the world when the system has failed us all with greedy corrupted leaders who are only enriching themselves quick cash and not thinking what the consequences will be?

[@rangemog21]

My foot akes because of climat change... And indeed, Greta has a good job as has her father, the advert/public relation/make believe expert has now, a family busines... there are TV preachers who have already two privat jets and ask there folowers for a third one... to spread the word. Greta will ask for her own race sailing boat and get it, all to save the human kind. In the sixty's and seventy's there where Indian Goeroe's who had a new RollsRoyce every week by there folowers to drive a hundred meters trough a poor country with no roads... nothing new under the... climat. Crazy people are nothing new....Doomthinkers have alway's more folowers then the good news shows... Every believe promises a future after a lot of hardship...

[@bonysminiatures3123]

bahamas was bad only because there was people living their otherwise it would not have made the news hurricanes have raged over the earth for millenia get real and please please stop being a sheep

[@donnadeakins7507]

@@rangemog21 for the love of God please shut up!

[@rangemog21]

@@donnadeakins7507 Ok, not for the love of one of the thousend god's, but for the love of Greta the new high priest of climat change.

[@irenemcintosh8351]

Overwhelmed!!!

[@Tr1ple-A]

Honestly these questions would be appropiate if a 5 year old was asking them 🤬🤦‍♂️

[@00kidney]

❤️❤️❤️ You're an Hero Greta ❤️❤️❤️

[@Nick21012]

No, she is being exploited by her parents. She should go to school and let a expert talk to congress.

[@Nick21012]

​@Scarlett MacLeod Last time I checked Greta was travelling around the world rather than being in school. It's ok darling.

[@Nick21012]

@Scarlett MacLeod Ahhh, I seemed to hit a nerve there. She traveled around the world long before COVID. Were you asleep then? She doesn't go to school. In Texas the extreme cold has caused pipelines to freeze. Look what happened in Germany the extreme snow and ice has completely shut down the solar panels, making it impossible for them to harvest energy. Is that the 'sustainable' future? You probably love AOC and are definitely not the smartest.

[@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything]

Damn she has some courage. I will support her in every step of the way until the day I die.

[@GoldenbanjoDJ]

ChillCosmos omg this is THE comment of the intellectually inept

[@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything]

@@GoldenbanjoDJ explain

[@GoldenbanjoDJ]

@@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything Committing to following a 16 year old who has been brainwashed herself 'until the day I die' is a rather robotic, mindless thing to do

[@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything]

@@GoldenbanjoDJ stfu troll.

[@blacksheep6888]

I like c02 its good for the trees

[@padrhaic]

We need more nursery schools, crèches and kindergartens.

[@johnmendez7035]

Well done NBC for spreading the message.

[@Danielstamatob]

If only 1% of all politicians in the world felt as much love for the environment... If only... this girl rocks.

[@johnbrowne3950]

Damien's sister...The Omen 4.

[@martinsloan3972]

Greta was asked about specific stories she’d heard about climate change related disaster. The answer she gave was far too vague. Was she unwilling or unable to provide specific stories?

[@sherlockholmes8872]

I think that everything she's talking about is too vague. "We have to inform the people." "We have to change something." "We have to believe in science." There's only emotional acting but no facts.

[@martinsloan3972]

Sherlock Holmes. Emotion is the key here. She’s spreading fear, and the fear could snowball till everyone accepts whatever the elite provide to ‘protect’ them.

[@michaeltaddia2688]

I hope when she asks people to stop throwing garbage in the ocean they stop. I don’t know why no one had thought of that before problem solved yay.

[@prometheus5700]

"Maybe you should talk to an expert". Ya think?

[@justjess986]

What about China and India etc etc

[@kal-muzel875]

One country at a time if we go like this it will be a cycle

[@slimrudy2133]

This LITTLE girl will be 17 after the new year

[@mossadhunter1361]

I would ask her if she ever heard of propaganda and if so what does she do to prevent it from happening

[@brendadurr5186]

Our Beautiful Native American brothers and sisters have longed talked about this crisis. Yet a beautiful child must come from afar and you still pose questions. You polluted this soil the moment you stepped on this sacred land. We never needed your "blankets of poison. Yet you continuously offer more poison blankets.

[@rohitgogoi3222]

The 1st 2 questions were so dumb.

[@hannahwig]

Adults: Kids only care about Instagram, Snapchat and Minecraft, are spoiled and entitled... yet when they are passionate, informed and articulate, they’re told “no, not that way. Sit down and let the grownups talk”. This young woman is informed, has facts and has them checked, is multi lingual, is articulate and passionate. She is not an actor or a puppet or has her parents manipulate her. She is her own person and she is starting movements that could very well help the world survive. Go, Greta! I admire you and I am cheering you on. You are an amazing and powerful young woman and people are listening to you. I can’t wait to see what you will do in the future.

[@Eletrekone]

Is this real life? Is someone being punked? Where's Ashton Kutcher?

[@EvasiveDuck]

Too fake to be fake.

[@moretwocome21]

What a joke! Fear mongering at it's best! Shame on her parents for pimping her out like this!

[@EvasiveDuck]

It breaks my heart. She seems like a very willing participant though. I think she went to the same acting school Michelle Williams went to.

[@arlettemunoz3639]

why would they ask why it is important to listen to the science?

[@eastchchkea6475]

How insane these politicians look in the presence of such a wonderfully rational young lady. Shame on all of them for their mindless inaction.

[@bonysminiatures3123]

irrational and a sheep

[@DukeNukem500]

Ähhh stop this farse allready. Atleast those politicans wont sell their v8 cars hahahaha

[@bustedassplumber3117]

Who frightened the children , go back to school Greta.

[@billclay2678]

Someone needs to tell her there is no globe. No globe = no global warming.

[@IBELONGTOJESUS2022]

Is she reading a script? Her eyes

[@kriskath7040]

Wasing more taxpayer money as usual!

[@neilsims6819]

Yeah, they should be acting rather than having hearings.

[@richardwebb2348]

Kris Kath - how are you wasting it, and why?

[@lilladde8469]

Greta Thunberg is our hero! Please save the world before it’s too late!

[@timdehoogh8441]

Science can be picked apart twisting to fit their political point of view

[@bongodave13]

Not really. The consensus of the real science is in, and we'll die out if we don't act fast.

[@Cumbriahandyman]

Read to the end - The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consultant, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922. As reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 88 years ago!

[@traviskalinowski607]

Cool

[@EvasiveDuck]

It's all to create a paralysis of fear. great post by the way.

[@lt6573]

Smart young lady!!!! Cares more about our planet than most!! Blesssss🙏💛

[@CourtyardPigeon]

When a 16 year old is more intelligent than the President Of The United States and all of congress.

[@misiongoinostersund1603]

2 Chronicles 7:14 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

[@1stPersonStateConsciousness]

The real sickness in this land is greed which promote industrialization and expansion. Welcome to the 21st century

[@catatafish22]

we didn't listen

[@Isenfors]

Before you start question what education she's skipping for all this and stating that she should stay in school instead... She recently finished elementary school with pretty much straight A's.

[@slpsaslpsa9675]

A rich kid riding on her parents money and time. 🤦‍♀️ they are making her a joke here.

[@breee4093]

Literal grown adult man: "Why should we listen to science?" Greta: :I :I :I :I yep we gonna die

[@solveigsommerfeld9423]

Learned by heart.

[@CuriousAlex111]

I love her answers. So poignant.

[@Heffey02]

Greta is truly a modern hero. She is a 17 year old vegan who doesn’t fly, uses the lowest carbon emission vehicles to travel the world and educate people, leaders, politicians, administrations etc. on just how dire the situation actually is. She sailed on a boat from Europe to America to make this speech in front of congress. I have the UPMOST respect for her. I only hope others can listen and heed her words.

[@bbmbvvff]

Ok, I didn't know that, could you tell me how she travels overseas to other countries and her other alternatives, thanks 👍

[@Heffey02]

197bbm 498bvvff Well most of her travels have been throughout Europe which she takes the train. I should modify my comment to say the “least” carbon methods of travel rather than “non” carbon. Since a train requires some CO2 but far less then air travel. I will modify that after I post this. As far as coming to America it’s my understanding that she sailed. The fact of the matter is that she has sacrificed her youth to combat problems that were generated from before she was even born. She walks the walk, and talks the talk. Keep watching videos on her. You will not be disappointed. 🙂✌️🌎🌍🌏

[@bbmbvvff]

@@Heffey02 thanks for that cheers

[@bbmbvvff]

@@Heffey02 P.S. did to know of a beach in Australia where a ancient tide line has been discovered that is 27 feet higher than it is presently .... this happened about 100,000 years ago, the ice caps had naturally melted away in a interglacial period then plummeted back to an ice age till our interglacial period we are in now, this is what the little girl doesn't comprehend that the earth has natural cycles that we cannot control, sure I agree we should find cleaner energy but that won't stop the tide from coming in ultimately nor will it stop the next ice age from arriving when this warm spell is done .....food for thought 👍👽👽👽

[@Heffey02]

197bbm 498bvvff Oh I see...You were trolling. Well if you look at the evidence this is clearly not the next “ice age”. There is an abundance of evidence to show that human population growth, activity and industrial behaviors have caused the ecosystem to become warmer. These last 4 years were the warmest years in recorded history. (Google it). Also, Look at all the flooding, wildfires, increased intensity of tornados, loss of species, loss of coral, loss of habitat...etc. The list goes on and on. All you have to do is pay attention and educate yourself on the subject.

[@rangemog21]

This was for sure not a hearing,but a nice chat at childerens level. One can not attack a child on an Ocazio Cortes level let say, without loosing the simphaty of voters, believers or non-believers in climat change. It's a commen way these day's to put in protests women and childeren first... a sheeld used by cawords....

[@muhammadb6416]

Really these grownups need the 16 year old to convince them so that they can take any action?