For Greta Thunberg the climate — and weather — have become a very real issue. The 16-year-old campaigner was last night being buffeted by an Atlantic gale with gusts of 30-40mph, as the yacht carrying her to a UN climate change conference tried to outrun a potentially bigger storm racing up behind.
She also faces being becalmed, with forecasts showing that the gap between the two weather systems contains little wind.
If the weather allows, Thunberg will dock in Lisbon early this week and head for Madrid to speak at the UN’s Cop25 climate change talks, which start tomorrow.
Thunberg’s 3,000-mile winter crossing is courtesy of two Australian YouTubers, Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu, and their 11-month-old son, Lenny. They offered Thunberg, and her
