“Cattle is very energy-consuming and energy-expensive,” Yang said. “And if you project forward on what we would need to do to reduce emissions, you would want to modify Americans’ diets over time.”  He admitted it would be difficult for the government to dictate diets (well except for the Obamacare bill), so he suggested cattle producers “internalize the cost of emissions” to make meat more expensive. “So then, what that would naturally do, and some people are going to hate this, but it would probably make those products more expensive,” he explained. “And that is appropriate because there is a cost to producing food in that way. And so if you were to make it more expensive, then you would end up changing consumption patterns.”

"They have used these scares and these predictions to advance policy, and to advance political goals," Morano said.

Morano: "It is sad. They had a die-in for the kids, Greta Thunberg, went to the White House. They had kids lying down at the White House Gates 11 minutes to symbolize 11 years the planet is death. Unless government saves it to legislate storms and weather. That is really dark day for the movement when they turn to kids like this as human shields."

Earlier this month, novelist Jonathan Franzen nicely encapsulated the doomer manifesto when he wrote in The New Yorker that “The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.”

President Trump rips Thunberg with a sarcastic tweet: Trump: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” he wrote while sharing video of her U.N. remarks. “So nice to see!”

Morano: "If you really want to protest climate, do something challenging. Why would you skip school? That’s an easy thing for kid to do. Give up social media for a couple days. Give up your iPhone and tablet. See how long they go without social media that would be a protest that would be worthy.”

Also see: Watch: Morano on Varney on Fox: Climate activists are ‘using kids as human shields’

"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back at school on the other side of the ocean," the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who is taking a year off from her studies, said."You come to us young people for hope. How dare you?" she thundered."You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing."We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

"The eyes of all future generations, are upon you, And if you choose to fail us. I say, we will never forgive you!"

Last night a mob of protestors tried to shut down CFACT’s climate rebuttal event at Georgetown University.

They shouted, blew horns, pounded on windows, and chanted over CFACT’s Marc Morano and Paul Driessen and others as they attempted to give their presentations to the packed room. Campus police were required to come in to escort the disruptors out.

Francis: "With the Paris Agreement of 12 December 2015, the international community became aware of the urgency and need for a collective response to help build our common home. However, four years after that historic Agreement, we can see that the commitments made by States are still very "weak", and are far from achieving the objectives set. Along with so many initiatives, not only by governments but by civil society as a whole, it is necessary to ask whether there is a real political will to allocate greater human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and to help the poorest and most vulnerable populations, who suffer the most."

Based on all the politically partisan slogans and signs we saw at the climate protests over the past few days, are we sure the top motivation is the environment and not politics? If the activists protesting right now could get the most serious climate change threats eliminated, but without politically defeating President Trump and Republicans and/or putting the big oil companies out of business in the process, would they still be interested in the cause? ... By focusing on what people could do in their own personal lives to cut down on pollution, they presided over an environmental movement that used to be much more bipartisan in America. This new focus on making environmentalism an angrier protest movement threatens to make the effort to protect the planet just another wedge issue that politicians often use to motivate their base of voters. Similar wedge issues like abortion and gun control have long shifted become tribal controversies with little chance of progress and compromise.

Clip from 1977 Woody Allen film: The movie clip in question flashes back to a young Alvy, arguing with his parents and doctor. The lad refuses to study at school, driving them to consult a physician.

“He’s been depressed. All of sudden he can’t do anything,” his mother says to the doctor. “It’s something he read.” Young Alvy explains: “The universe is expanding … well, the universe is everything, and if it’s expanding some day it will break apart and that will be the end of everything." 

“What is that your business? He stopped doing his homework!” she cries.“What’s the point?” the young boy replies.

Sound familiar?

2019: Greta specifically questioned the value of studying as we inch closer to climate Armageddon. “This is an emergency. Our house is on fire,” Thunberg told the crowd. “We will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse.” “Why should we study (emphasis added) for a future that is being taken away from us. That is being sold for profit.”