Hildebrandt biked from Sweden to Sharm El Sheikh to raise awareness and
urge world leaders gathered at the conference to take concrete steps to
stop climate change.
She has pedalled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt's Red Sea resort
of Sharm el-Sheikh to deliver a simple message: Stop climate change.
The trip took 72-year-old activist Dorothee Hildebrandt and her pink
e-bike — which she fondly calls Miss Piggy, after the temperamental character from The Muppet Show — more than four months.
She crisscrossed Europe and the Middle East until she arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
Hildebrandt says her mission is to raise awareness and urge world leaders gathered at the annual UN climate conference known as COP27 to take
concrete steps to stop climate change.
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount
of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015.
Since her arrival a week ago, Hildebrandt and her e-bike have become a fixture at the summit. From a friend's place where she is staying, some
15 kilometres from the conference venue, she bikes to the city centre
every day, meeting other activists and attending events.
“They really have to stop climate change,” Hildebrandt says of the world leaders.
“Even if it is uncomfortable," it has to be done — for the sake of the future.
“It was uncomfortable for me ... this long ride," she told The Associated Press. But she wanted to show that if there's a will, “you can do it," she said.
Past climate talks have traditionally seen very large protests at the end
of the first week of the two-week summit, often drawing thousands. This
year has been mostly muted, with sporadic and small demonstrations during the first week.
Activists have blamed the high cost of travel, accommodation and
restrictions in the isolated Egyptian city for limiting numbers of demonstrators.
swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:L
Hildebrandt biked from Sweden to Sharm El Sheikh to raise awareness and
urge world leaders gathered at the conference to take concrete steps to
stop climate change.
Past climate talks have traditionally seen very large protests at the end
of the first week of the two-week summit, often drawing thousands. This
year has been mostly muted, with sporadic and small demonstrations during the first week.
Activists have blamed the high cost of travel, accommodation and
restrictions in the isolated Egyptian city for limiting numbers of demonstrators.
They prefer to go to places with ski slopes, swimming pools, etc accessible via airports - as has been shown in the past when the hypocrites are
exposed. Most of them have a ‘carbon footprint’ larger than most families ever will.
On 5/06/23 08:10, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hildebrandt biked from Sweden to Sharm El Sheikh to raise awareness and
urge world leaders gathered at the conference to take concrete steps to
stop climate change.
What steps?
The only step which has a chance of stopping climate change is to remove
80% of humans from this earth.
Hildebrandt biked from Sweden to Sharm El Sheikh to raise awareness and urge world leaders gathered at the conference to take concrete steps to stop climate change.
Hildebrandt biked from Sweden to Sharm El Sheikh to raise awareness and urge world leaders gathered at the conference to take concrete steps to stop climate change.attending events.
She has pedalled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to deliver a simple message: Stop climate change.
The trip took 72-year-old activist Dorothee Hildebrandt and her pink e-bike — which she fondly calls Miss Piggy, after the temperamental character from The Muppet Show — more than four months.
She crisscrossed Europe and the Middle East until she arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
Hildebrandt says her mission is to raise awareness and urge world leaders gathered at the annual UN climate conference known as COP27 to take concrete steps to stop climate change.
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015.
Since her arrival a week ago, Hildebrandt and her e-bike have become a fixture at the summit. From a friend's place where she is staying, some 15 kilometres from the conference venue, she bikes to the city centre every day, meeting other activists and
“They really have to stop climate change,” Hildebrandt says of the world leaders.the elderly and people with disabilities.
“Even if it is uncomfortable," it has to be done — for the sake of the future.
“It was uncomfortable for me ... this long ride," she told The Associated Press. But she wanted to show that if there's a will, “you can do it," she said.
Past climate talks have traditionally seen very large protests at the end of the first week of the two-week summit, often drawing thousands. This year has been mostly muted, with sporadic and small demonstrations during the first week.
Activists have blamed the high cost of travel, accommodation and restrictions in the isolated Egyptian city for limiting numbers of demonstrators.
The largest demonstration so far was on Saturday, a day after US President Joe Biden made his stop at the summit. Hundreds of protesters chanted, sang, and danced in an area not far from where the negotiations were taking place amid tight security.
Born in the town of Kassel in central Germany, Hildebrandt says she got her first bicycle at the age of 10 and never stopped pedalling. In 1978 she moved with her husband to Sweden, where she worked cleaning houses and then trained in taking care of
She retired more than a decade ago. Her activism and biking, which she documents on social media, are for her two grandchildren, she says. A sign on her bike reads, “Biking for Future and Peace.”
In her hometown of Katrineholm, just north of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, she is part of “Grandmas for Future” group that focuses on raising climate change awareness.
Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished countries that have been hurt the most.
Unhappy with the results from the previous climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, she saw her chance in Sharm El Sheikh.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/11/13/this-72-year-old-grandmother-cycled-more-than-8000km-from-sweden-to-egypt-for-cop27
On 04/06/2023 09:10 pm, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hildebrandt biked from Sweden to Sharm El Sheikh to raise awareness and
urge world leaders gathered at the conference to take concrete steps to
stop climate change.
She has pedalled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt's Red Sea
resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to deliver a simple message: Stop climate change. >>
The trip took 72-year-old activist Dorothee Hildebrandt and her pink
e-bike — which she fondly calls Miss Piggy, after the temperamental
character from The Muppet Show — more than four months.
She crisscrossed Europe and the Middle East until she arrived in Sharm
el-Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
Hildebrandt says her mission is to raise awareness and urge world
leaders gathered at the annual UN climate conference known as COP27 to
take concrete steps to stop climate change.
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount
of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet the
temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015.
Since her arrival a week ago, Hildebrandt and her e-bike have become a
fixture at the summit. From a friend's place where she is staying, some
15 kilometres from the conference venue, she bikes to the city centre
every day, meeting other activists and attending events.
“They really have to stop climate change,” Hildebrandt says of the world leaders.
“Even if it is uncomfortable," it has to be done — for the sake of the future.
“It was uncomfortable for me ... this long ride," she told The
Associated Press. But she wanted to show that if there's a will, “you
can do it," she said.
Past climate talks have traditionally seen very large protests at the
end of the first week of the two-week summit, often drawing thousands.
This year has been mostly muted, with sporadic and small demonstrations
during the first week.
Activists have blamed the high cost of travel, accommodation and
restrictions in the isolated Egyptian city for limiting numbers of demonstrators.
The largest demonstration so far was on Saturday, a day after US
President Joe Biden made his stop at the summit. Hundreds of protesters
chanted, sang, and danced in an area not far from where the negotiations
were taking place amid tight security.
Born in the town of Kassel in central Germany, Hildebrandt says she got
her first bicycle at the age of 10 and never stopped pedalling. In 1978
she moved with her husband to Sweden, where she worked cleaning houses
and then trained in taking care of the elderly and people with disabilities.
And with qualifications like that, she is eminently fit to be commenting
on matters of scientific gravity and importance.
We've seen other janitorial workers doing the same thing.
JNugent <jenningsandco@mail.com> wrote:
On 04/06/2023 09:10 pm, swldx...@gmail.com cut-and-pasted:
Born in the town of Kassel in central Germany, Hildebrandt says she got
her first bicycle at the age of 10 and never stopped pedalling. In 1978
she moved with her husband to Sweden, where she worked cleaning houses
and then trained in taking care of the elderly and people with disabilities.
And with qualifications like that, she is eminently fit to be commenting
on matters of scientific gravity and importance.
We've seen other janitorial workers doing the same thing.
It is remarkable how often we see people who are poorly qualified speaking
as if they are experts.
Attenborough’s qualifications are, shall we say, hardly impressive.
Packham is the same.
Compare them to David Bellamy - who was far better qualified - but spoke
out against global warming and was cancelled by the BBC.
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished countries that have been hurt the most.ENDS
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to
pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss
and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished
countries that have been hurt the most. ENDS
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!
On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 8:51:57 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to
pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss
and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished
countries that have been hurt the most. ENDS
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!
Still well below the £6.22 I got just before the GoM disaster in 2010.
On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 8:51:57 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:ENDS
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished countries that have been hurt the most.
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!Still well below the £6.22 I got just before the GoM disaster in 2010.
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished countries that have been hurt the most.ENDS
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!
On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 8:51:57 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:ENDS
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished countries that have been hurt the most.
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!
Still well below the £6.22 I got just before the GoM disaster in 2010.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 8:08:05 AM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:ENDS
On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 8:51:57 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
QUOTE: Hildebrandt says she also wants Western industrialized nations to pay for the destruction they have caused so far — an issue called loss and damage, about reparations from big polluters to impoverished countries that have been hurt the most.
Still well below the £6.22 I got just before the GoM disaster in 2010.
So long as they don't come for my BP pension and shares!
Took a £20000 lump sum around the Baltic states on a long holiday, which was ruined by CNN showing oil gushing into the sea for weeks on end.
QUOTE: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet
the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015. ENDS
The swivels now hail the ex-plant wibbler, David Bellamy, as a climate "expert" despite him being totally deluded and wrong on the subject.
https://www.desmog.com/2009/03/30/david-bellamy-wrong-climate-change-science/
QUOTE: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet
the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015. ENDS
The swivels now hail the ex-plant wibbler, David Bellamy, as a climate "expert" despite him being totally deluded and wrong on the subject.
https://www.desmog.com/2009/03/30/david-bellamy-wrong-climate-change-science/
QUOTE: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015. ENDS
The swivels now hail the ex-plant wibbler, David Bellamy, as a climate "expert" despite him being totally deluded and wrong on the subject.
https://www.desmog.com/2009/03/30/david-bellamy-wrong-climate-change-science/
QUOTE: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the amount of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015. ENDS
The swivels now hail the ex-plant wibbler, David Bellamy, as a climate "expert" despite him being totally deluded and wrong on the subject.
https://www.desmog.com/2009/03/30/david-bellamy-wrong-climate-change-science/
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 1:35:07 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
QUOTE: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and scientists say the
amount of heat-trapping gases needs to be almost halved by 2030, to meet
the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015. ENDS
The swivels now hail the ex-plant wibbler, David Bellamy, as a climate
"expert" despite him being totally deluded and wrong on the subject.
https://www.desmog.com/2009/03/30/david-bellamy-wrong-climate-change-science/
Follow the money as always:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx8aM5kaEAU1jE-?format=jpg&name=900x900
Of course the gammon think that NASA was lying about the Moon landings as well.
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While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
"Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the
influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has
evolved from theory to established fact."
Scientific information taken from natural sources (such as ice cores, rocks, and tree rings) and from modern equipment (like satellites and instruments) all show the signs of a changing climate.
From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, the evidence of a warming planet abounds.
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with
the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning
of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
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Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — andof human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
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