We don't know much about young Téa Johansson other than that she is four years younger than the Doom Pixie Greta Thunberg, and that she is incredibly well-informed. Greta the Righteous claims to be an expert on anthropogenic climate change, but she's really only an expert on anthropogenic self-promotion.
Miss Johansson, on the other hand, actually knows how science works. She's a climate skeptic, and in her high school science presentation, she's bringing the thunder.
What's more, she has her web-footed waterfowl arranged in a linear fashion. Here are some key excerpts and data points from her presentation.
Life on Earth is in crisis crop failure, social and ecological collapse, mass extinction. We have a moral duty to take action. These statements made by Extinction Rebellion reflect the climate alarmist narrative that has continued to escalate across the Western world. Hysteria over climate change can be seen throughout history, from the human sacrifices of the Aztecs to bring back rain, to the Salem witch trials to eliminate the women they blamed for crop failure during the little ice age.
Today the climate industrial complex is funded by trillions of dollars seeking to control what we buy, eat and where we are allowed to travel, all in the name of sustainability and achieving net zero carbon emissions. This fear campaign is rooted in the belief that we will not look into the data ourselves, but instead look to the governments and to the media to tell us what is true.
In her intro, she nails two points that climate skeptics have been hitting for years: Money and control. The climate scolds are making cash over this, and don't ever kid yourself otherwise.
But it's when young Miss Johannson gets into the data that things really get good.
Historical temperature records indicate that we are not in the climate crisis western governments claim. We are looking at a graph of the past 65 million years from NOAA. The Earth today seems to be in a particularly cool period; in fact the Earth is still coming out of an ice age. History demonstrates that life has existed and thrived in much warmer temperatures, and that temperatures have been much higher without the human influence of industrial CO2 emissions.
Here's the graph:
— Ward Clark (@TheGreatLander) June 23, 2025
This is no shock to anyone who understands the Earth's history; through the vast majority of that history, it's been warmer than it is now, even though, as Miss Johannson correctly notes, we are in a light warming cycle coming out of the last ice age. Look at the graph and you'll notice two huge spikes, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and another spike later in the Eocene. There was some cooling in the Oligocene and the Miocene, but overall, things were still warmer than today.
Note that the techniques used for estimating climate trends in the past are not the same tools used today. There were no temperature monitoring stations, no urban heat islands, but there were plants and animals, there are lakebed sediments with certain kinds of pollen embedded, and changing temperatures can change isotope ratios in water and ice. These are estimates of trends, more than nailing a specific temperature in certain, individual years, but in estimating trends, they work pretty well - and they are supported by other data, like remnants of tropical rainforests and creatures that lived in them, in Germany during the Eocene.
Miss Johansson talks about that great bugaboo, carbon dioxide, as well:
Although the mainstream media has tried to alarm its consumers with the accelerating emissions of CO2, the Earth is actually in a CO2 famine. Current levels are about 423 parts per million; however in the past they have been at least a thousand parts per million and have likely reached 8,000 parts per million.
Here's that graph:
— Ward Clark (@TheGreatLander) June 23, 2025
That's a bullseye if ever there was one.
Here's the thing about young Téa Johansson: The data she presents is available to anyone. She's not telling us anything we haven't been discussing for years. She's not telling us anything that I haven't presented right here in these virtual pages and elsewhere in the interwebs for years. But she's countering the climate scolds, many of whom no doubt are her classmates, and she's doing it calmly, rationally, with facts; no shouting, no sign-waving, no overt displays of rage, no strident complaints of "How dare you!"
This is how you do it. And she did it as a high school senior science project.
I don't know where Miss Johansson is today, or what she may be doing. But if she isn't planning on working in the sciences, it will be a waste of talent. She has a way of compiling and presenting data, neatly arranged and supported, that is valuable beyond words. It's refreshing to see that the younger generation isn't populated only with young skulls full of mush.
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You can see Miss Johansson's entire talk here.
