'Our biggest compliment yet': 16-year-old climate activist thanks OPEC for criticism
"Thank you!" Thunberg said Thursday in response to thinly-veiled criticism from a prominent fossil fuel leader.Thunberg was catapulted to fame for skipping school every Friday to hold a weekly vigil outside Swedish parliament last year.
Earlier this week, energy ministers from the world's most powerful oil-producing nations met in Austria toSpeaking in Vienna shortly after a meeting of the oil producers' club and its allied partners on Tuesday, OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo reportedly said that "unscientific" attacks by climate activists were "perhaps the greatest threat to our industry going forward.
Barkindo said that the "mobilization" against oil was beginning to "dictate policies and corporate decisions, including investment in the industry."UN warningreport in October that output of the gases will have to be slashed over the next 12 years to stabilize the climate.
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