Catch a tiger by the tale

Tiger Image from YouTube


Catch a Tiger by the tale

​... if you can find her.

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
The Tiger - a poem by William Blake

There's no denying Greta Thunberg has played the Tiger from the outset, always on the attack against climate skeptics.

It stands to reason that a lamb named Naomi would eventually make an entrance.

It's kind of eerie that Thunberg's enemy should be called "Naomi". The Bible offers a tale of a young woman whose family is displaced by famine, and before it was over a lot of people had died, including her husband and two children, but Naomi struggled to keep her faith. The name "Naomi" means “sweet, pleasant”, but underneath she really was kind of mad at God.

It's clear that Naomi Seibt is playing the part of a sweet, yet plucky little lamb; gently, but with an underlying hint of snide, poking the Tiger. And so far the Tiger is ignoring the bait.

RT Video: Anti-Greta interview | Climate change nightmares haunt children

Naomi is presented as not scripted; but she admits to working for the Heartland Institute which does have an agenda.

The Institute also has an interesting history, as told by the Climate Investigations Center which clearly does not like climate change deniers.

So, as gently as the Lamb may speak against Greta's theories, it's clearly inviting a show-down.

So far, however, the Tiger has not taken the bait.

OH, NO!  Greta tested positive for Covid in March!!!!  Or may have. There have been no definite reports, but that could be a reason (or an excuse) for Greta to lie low.  She did advise everyone to stay at home.

Which leaves the Lamb a clear field, though that's not likely what was intended. She's not only downplaying global warming, she's taken on Covid as well:

YouTube: COVID_19 - THE PANICDEMIC AND ITS CONSEQUENCES - NAOMI SEIBT

So, the taunting videos just keep a-coming, but the Tiger, so far, hasn't bit.

YouTube:  Naomi Seibt Takes the World by Storm

• Naomi Seibt, YouTube star with The Heartland Institute, destroys the corporate media's climate alarmist narrative at CPAC and all over the media.

HeartlandInstitute: - Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?

A bit of a rhetorical question, since it comes from the Heartland Institute itself.

The New York Post decides to help poke the Tiger as well:

• NYPost: Conservative group hires German teen Naomi Seibt to rival Greta Thunberg’s climate views
• “These days, climate change science really isn’t a science at all.” [says Naomi]

Sky News has also leapt onto the killing field:

• YouTube: 'Greta Thunberg never talks about the science': Anti-Greta sensation Naomi Seibt

One can almost hear the heavy breathing. When is the action going to begin?

• Self-proclaimed "climate realist" and "anti-Greta Thunberg sensation" Naomi Seibt says while she doesn’t deny the climate is warming, "the effect is absolutely insignificant”. 

Well, she concedes there might be "some warming".

"I wish", says blogger Pennyforyourthoughts:

• It's freezing. We had all our garden plants in the house last night. In pots big and small.

Lo and behold! GoodMorningBritain gave up waiting for Greta and found a stand-in, albeit a much less commanding one, to produce the following video:

YouTube: Is Greta Thunberg Over-Reacting About Climate Change?

The question should have begun with "was", since Greta Thunberg isn't reacting at all right now. She's staying at home like a good citizen, not spreading the virus.

The Tiger is having a long winter's nap and her stand-in doesn't have what it takes to snarl convincingly on her behalf.  Let's hope she gets the hang of it.
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