New York Post opinion piece, on Climate, 12 November 2026

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Greta Thunberg just exposed the fraud of her 'moral authority'

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Greta Thunberg just gave away what a fraud she’s always been, though her devoted fans may be too drunk on the Kool-Aid to see it. “Really!” she exclaimed of activists still engaged in the weekly protests that launched her fame — “They still do that?” before dissolving into uncontrolled giggles . It was always obscene that the climate-armageddon-alarmist movement fetishized a special-needs teen as some kind of morally superior idol when Thunberg launched her “Fridays for the Future” protests in 2018, skipping school to stage a solo sit-in outside the Swedish parliament.

She became the darling of the Just Stop Oil/Extinction Rebellion/Sunrise Movement crowd, hailed for her 2019 refusal to fly across the Atlantic , instead sailing over (with a full crew, which then flew back) to address the UN Climate Summit, snarling, “How dare you?” at the global potentates who’d supposedly “stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” Her true tormentors, of course, are the adults who cozened her into this role.

They compared her to Joan of Arc and nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize; countless activists threw cans of soup on famous paintings and glued their hands to asphalt in her name, imagining President Donald Trump quaking in fear of meeting her Medusa gaze. More From Post Editorial Board Trump’s right — no more chasing Iran for a deal to end a war they’ve lost The week in whoppers: Jamie Raskin praises Dems’ respect for the ‘rule of law,’ Lewis Hamilton blames Israel for Egypt’s wall and more If Democrats hand the MTA a windfall, it owes New Yorkers some relief But as the cause got baked into economically ruinous energy policies across the West, it began to bore the global-justice crowd, which moved on to Israel-bashing.

And attention-starved Greta scrambled along to a new class of protests, making news only when she joined a “blockade-busting” flotilla and suffered the torture of being flown home with only non-vegan snacks to eat. Will the sad sacks still performing her old rituals wake up, now that she’s sneered at them? Guess we’ll see what the useful idiots of the enviro-left do when their idols declare they’ve outlived their usefulness.

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The Post Editorial Board uses Greta Thunberg's laughter in a documentary, when told a Fridays for Future protest was taking place, to argue that her moral authority was always hollow and that her followers have been used. The piece is harsh and mocking, but its argument is not a finding. The checkable facts it relies on (her 2018 school strike, the documentary laugh, her later Gaza flotilla) match the other coverage, and nothing in it makes a coded false claim about the climate science or policy.

Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.

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