“My daughter can see CO2 with the naked eye”

According to her mother Malena Ernman (48), 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg can see CO2 with the naked eye. She writes that in the book ‘Scenes from the heart. Our life for the climate’, which she wrote with her family.

Greta Thunberg was diagnosed as a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Asperger’s syndrome, just like her younger sister Beata. The activist also has a photographic memory. She knows all the capitals by heart and can list all the chemical elements of the periodic table within one minute.

In addition, she has another gift according to her mother. “Greta is able to see what other people cannot see,” writes Malena Ernman in the book. “She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.”

Learning about climate change at a young age caused a landslide in Greta’s environment. She was eight years old when she first saw photos and images about the plastics in the oceans on television and at school and heard that global warming is caused by human activity.

"My daughter can see CO2 with the naked eye"
©RV – Greta with her sister and parents.

“Greta suddenly stopped eating one day after another,” her mother writes. “Because of an eating disorder, we had to count the number of gnocchis in her plate to see if she did get enough. And to eat a third of a banana, it took them an hour.” Greta stopped going to school, cried constantly and only spoke to her parents, sister and one teacher. At the age of eleven, she slipped into depression.

She only crawled out of that valley when she felt heard by her family. Gradually she was able to convince her parents to lower the heating, to stop eating meat. In the meantime, the family lives vegan, they have their own vegetable garden outside the city and they only drive their electric car if they deem it necessary. Her mother also no longer flies – however, an internationally renowned opera singer.

In 2009, Malena Ernman represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest, but now she chose a career close to home in Stockholm. Her father Svante, an actor, was named after his great-grandmother’s cousin: Born in 1859, Svante Arrhenius was the first to predict how an increase in CO2 will cause a greenhouse effect.

Greta Thunberg can see CO2

The publisher of the book in Sweden said: “I was shocked by the commotion in Germany, Belgium and now also in Italy”. “I can assure you that it is a metaphor; if you read the entire passage, end it with the tale of “The New Emperor’s Clothes” by Christian Anderson. So it is certainly not literal.” In a text message, the mother also says that it is only about imagery.

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54 Comments

  1. “Of course the ongoing hate campaigns never rests…
    There is at least one new conspiracy theory a day.
    The latest – and perhaps most entertaining – spin is that ”I can see CO2 with my own eyes”.
    This is of course a metaphor from a book taken out of it’s context, taken from a German newspaper.
    No one has said that I can literally see CO2… that is beyond stupid.
    This should of course not be necessary to mention but since some respected newspapers have written about this without realizing that this is a fake news campaign I thought it was best to point this out.
    While I am at it I also want to point out that when I say that ”our civilisation is almost like a castle built in the sand” or that ”our house on fire” these are metaphors too:)”

  2. AGW = HOAX. The biggest hoax perpetrated on mankind, ever. Only time cures this kind of mass hysteria. Eventually when all their doomsday predictions fail to occur, the so called “woke” will really wake up to themselves. Until then we have to push back and wait for sanity to return. I also pray for young Greta, that she be saved from those who don’t mind destroying her mind to further their false cause.

    1. Al Gore’s predictions havent come to fruition, not even in the least…and they changed Global Warming to Climate Change,,,so they will further change the science to fit their needs in the present time…all the MSM in not to be trusted (DIsney now owns and controls most of it be aware!), whatsoever, and is to be taken as pure 100% propaganda, in order to be able to see the truth in this time. we are in for some scary times, if we arent in those scary times at the moment. God help us all….

  3. Wow, the free world left has chosen quite possibly the stupidest parents in Sweden to have the child that they will use as their prop to lift up as a hero and psychologically destroy in order to convince everyone that we have to surrender all of our freedoms to be saved from the sky falling amidst a time when many of the things climate alarmists have claimed will happen are literally having the opposite happen.

  4. I see a group of BS artists. Greta is all over twitter as an anti-first amendment all star. Hell no, we are not going back to Nazi Germany.

    1. how can you be so dumb?
      still blaming the Nazis? really?
      it’s JEWS who are in control… they won WW2 if you forgot.
      Open your eyes, dumbarse!!!

  5. Albert Einstein was right with his quip: “Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe”.

    1. Of course, Einstein was brilliant and is also said to have had Asperger’s syndrome.
      So many highly intelligent people do. It’s not necessarily disabling. Just different.

    1. I did some LSD in high school and everything was orange for a few hours. Maybe that was the radiative effect of CO2.

  6. True story.

    I saw the same once on LSD – It is a very beautifull sight to see…. CO2 is the most wonderfull rainbow cloud <3 , Especially when unicorns are riding them….

  7. But of course, let’s base our political and economic choices on the rants of a teenager who can see CO2 with her naked eyes!

  8. That child is mentally ill, and we’re supposed to base our climate policies on her? Give me a break!

  9. Seriously there are people who actually believe this kind of nonsense ? Woau , where can we go from here with this eco-madness ?

    1. Rearrange the letters of her name to (((Green Thug Brat))) which seems more appropriate.

      1. Genius!
        Let us all worship at the Temple of the “Thug Brat”.
        All Hail the mighty Thug Bat……

  10. The upside for the sane and frustrated (us) is that those jokers are eating vegetables, rice and donuts, driving a stupid, expensive, unreliable, electric sh*t boxes. They live guilt and fear. So that’s all good whilst threat of us enjoy the decline eh.?

  11. It must be quite disturbing looking around at the people around you appearing as if it were a 50 degree below zero day spewing CO2 out of their nose and mouth like a power plant cooling tower. Anyone who could see CO2 must also be able to see methane, so being aware of ever fart in site. A meadow of Jersey cows must be a horror, not to mention what the cloud must be like when she watches her mother perform opera and an opera house. Imagine the cloud being expelled by her mother when Belting chiaroscuro of an Aria. No wonder they need a chimney in their home.

    OK, ok, some say it is metaphor, I will never take the time to bother to read the book, but metaphors should be clear, this one fails on an exponential level.

  12. Child abuse.
    Tell your kid that there are monsters under their bed that will eat them.
    Tell them that their nightmares are real.

  13. Totally changing a family’s lifestyle at the whim of a prepubescent child.

    They’re insane.

  14. And of course she can see all the CO2 flowing into the plants and trees, feeding them. /sarc

  15. Is this true or is it just another story like a woman giving birth to aliens story CO2 is invisible to the naked eye is someone pulling our leg again or is this the idea for some movie?

    1. Someone made a really bad reading. It is part of a metaphor, not to be taken literally. These are Greta’s own words about this:

      “There is at least one new conspiracy theory a day.
      The latest – and perhaps most entertaining – spin is that ”I can see CO2 with my own eyes”.
      This is of course a metaphor from a book taken out of it’s context, taken from a German newspaper.
      No one has said that I can literally see CO2… that is beyond stupid.
      This should of course not be necessary to mention but since some respected newspapers have written about this without realizing that this is a fake news campaign I thought it was best to point this out.
      While I am at it I also want to point out that when I say that ”our civilisation is almost like a castle built in the sand” or that ”our house on fire” these are metaphors too 🙂 “

  16. She’s amazing… and the author somehow figured out how to transduce the smell of bullshit through the Internet because I got an overpowering whiff of it while reading this.

  17. This is a really bad reading of the book. It’s a metaphor, and followed by a referral to the story of the emperor’s new clothes, where an emperor is fooled into paying tailors for being nude. With a bit more context of the actual quote:

    “Because she saw what the rest of us didn’t want to see.
    Greta belonged to the small few who could see our carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She saw the greenhouse gases flowing out of our chimneys, hovering upwards with the winds, and turning the atmosphere into a gigantic invisible dump.
    She was the child, we were the emperor.
    And we were all naked.”
    (slightly modified google translation to make more sense)

    1. To shrug it off with “It was just a metaphor, you blockheads” won’t do. It isn’t an obvious metaphor, and to compare it, as she does, with stock metaphors like “a castle built in the sand” is rather dishonest. But even taken metaphorically, the text is highly remarkable – something as rare as a pure example of modern hagiography. It’s clearly a mother who writes the legend of Her Daughter The Saint. Regardless of whether the claim that she can see carbon dioxide is supposed to be taken literally or not, it is obvious that Greta has gifts that we ordinary mortals do not possess, and that is why we should follow in her footsteps.

      Not entirely a sound way of reasoning, to my mind.

  18. Are the parents abusing her?
    Not psysically, but mentally?!
    Do they need to promote themselves on her behalf?

  19. “Greta is able to see what other people cannot see,”

    I am a retired psych nurse. We called that…hallucinations. This along with several other things mentioned tell me this girl is not gifted, she is mentally ill.

  20. This is what we are dealing with people! Man Made Global Warming is a total hoax, and 100% manufactured using false and altered data! A warming and cooling cycle is a natural event, and one that is going to happen regardless of any and all human activity. Short of a nuclear winter from a global atomic war! Even that will bring COLD not WARM temps, a far more destructive event. In fact, a warmer planet and higher CO2 would benefit everyone! Crops would grow to overflowing abundance, animal life would thrive, and life in general would be better. Who in their right mind wants to live on a cold dead planet? Only these eco-terrorists do, and they have loud voices that need to be silenced!

    1. Sir, you have serious “issues” How many times must you lot be told global warming does NOT mean literally getting warmer!!
      I can’t even go in to all the other BS you’ve written because it would take me days (that one IS literal)
      Jesus Christ, I need to wash my eyes out (I’m not sure if that’s literally yet!) after reading that nonsense!!!
      Go back to school, maybe take a science class!

  21. This disturbed and brainwashed kid’s ramblings are not a worthy contribution to climate debate. That she has become used and that the MSM promotes her unquestioningly makes me despair.

  22. Ironically, Svante Arrhenius was of the opinion that increased co2 in the atmosphere was beneficial for the planet, as it has turned out to be.

  23. CO2 is invisible; has she got a “masspektrometer” instead of human eyes?
    maybe she means she confuses CO2 with water vapor, which is the gas you can see flowing out of chimneys

  24. Two questions:

    1. Did Greta have this mysterious gift before she “learned about climate change at a young age” or did it mysteriously develop after that?

    2. Are Greta and her mother willing to back this claim up by undergoing tests under laboratory conditions to see whether she really is able to discern higher or lower concentrations of CO2?

    1. Maybe she is mistaking pictures of water vapour from chimneys, for co2? After all, this is what MSM is often using as illustrations of the climate crises, evoking half-buried memories of the dirty pollution from the industrial revolution age, by taking the pictures against a bright background, making the harmless vapour look like brown factory emissions. They don’t claim this to be co2 , but the association is easily made in peoples’ minds, and no amount of complaints about this seems to be able to stop such “unintentional” disinformation.

  25. Arrhenius also stated that more CO₂ and global warming would be good for life

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