In March 2023, a rumor was dispersed on the Internet that the Swedish eco -activist deleted her publication five years ago, in which she predicted the death of humanity by this time. We checked whether this hearing corresponds to reality.
The fact that Tunberg deleted her tweet of 2018 with a disappointing forecast for the next five years, wrote such publications as Lenta.ru, "News", "Evening Moscow","Eastern tape news"(All three - with reference to New York Post), Teleprogramma.pro And "Ridus". Information dispersed in Telegram - in particular, thanks to the channels "Kornilov"(384,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(336 000),"Heaven is"(173 000),"Ostashko! Important"(120 000) and 360TV (110 000). On VKontakte, the news caused great interest in public "Rhymes and Panchi"(352,000 views) and"Science and technology"(100,000). Many such publications were accompanied by a screenshot of Twitte Tunberg.
The Swedish eco-activist Greta Tunberg gained worldwide fame in September 2019, when she, at that time, a 16-year-old girl, Spended At the New York Summit of the UN to change the climate. The emotional speech of Tunberg, who accused the world leaders of inaction and declared that they stole her childhood and dreams, caused a contradictory reaction among the inhabitants and specialists, but few left those indifferent. Since then, the girl has become not only a regular News on environmental subjects, but also the heroine of the set memes.
In the "Internet Archive", the absorbing Tunberg that is absent in the verified account tweet From June 21, 2018, the text of which coincides with what we see in the screenshot. On March 11, 2023, around noon, this publication still existed (we can judge this by the most fresh Archive copy)but already in the evening of the same day, users began to set the activist questions Regarding the removal of the post. However, let's carefully read what it is said in it.
“The leading scientist-clipatologist warns that climatic changes will destroy all of humanity if we do not stop using fossil fuel over the course of the next five years.” It turns out that Tunberg did not claim that humanity would die in five years - in the quote it cited only it was said about the need to abandon certain energy carriers during this period in order to prevent the future death of mankind.
There is also link for an article that is also now deleted, but Saved In the "Archive of the Internet". The publication posted on February 19, 2018 on the Gritpost resource tells about the performance at the University of Chicago James Anderson - Professor of atmosphere chemistry at Harvard. According to the article, Anderson warned that climate change throws the earth back to the era EoceneWhen there were no ice at any of the poles. According to the scientist, as a result of pollution, the thickness of the ozone layer in the atmosphere has decreased to minimal indicators over the past 12 million years and the current measures to reduce emissions are clearly not enough. To prevent the extinction of mankind, Anderson calls for the implementation of a peculiar “Marshall Plan”, within the framework of which the whole world will have to take radical measures for complete refusal of fossil fuel over the next five years. “The probability that after 2022 there will be any permanent ice in the Arctic is almost zero,” the professor said (and, obviously, was mistaken). The words that Tunberg quit on their tweeters are made to the LID notes Gritpost as a brief annotation and generally correspond to the content of the article. But how true is this article?
The article on Gritpost refers to the publication of a much better and more authoritative resource - Forbes. The publication became the only large Internet site, in early 2018 to illuminate Anderson's performance in Chicago. The article in Forbes in content is not much different from written on Gritpost with one small but important exception: in it, Anderson, mentioning a term of five years to take measures, does not speak of nothing about the extinction of mankind - only about the possibility of avoiding irreversible climatic changes. Nevertheless, since even the Forbes did not have a full text of the lecture, the Associated Press factor after the distribution of rumors about the removal of Twonberg tweet Turned To the scientist with clarifying questions.
In a response letter, Anderson called the “complete fiction” of conversations about the prediction of his death in five years. According to the scientist, at the seminar, he paid attention to the latest trends in changing the volume of Arctic sea ice. At the same time, the forecast made by him did not concern the ice of the Arctic, but only the ice floes in the Arctic Ocean. “This is a complete distortion of what I said or meant at the colloquium of the University of Chicago in 2018. I would never make such a statement, ”Anderson concluded. Note that the forecasts of Anderson’s colleagues about when the summer (that is, not melting even in the warm season), the Arctic sea ice is completely disappeared - they vary - they call it as 2035 year, so 2050th.
Thus, even the statement that Greta Tunberg actually referred to, in the source she quoted, was transmitted incorrectly. It was not about the destruction of mankind - neither in five years, nor at all. At the same time, the eco -activist published in 2018 was really deleted in March 2023.
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