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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has derided criticism levied at her by conservative commentator Andrew Bolt.

Her response follows an opinion piece by the News Corp columnist, labelling the 16-year-old a ‘deeply disturbed’ messiah.

In a tweet, Greta returned fire, saying “hate and conspiracy campaigns” around climate change had prompted her strident advocacy action.

“Just because we children communicate and act on the science. Where are the adults?”

The Swedish activist’s School Strike for Climate initiative has sparked a worldwide movement calling for greater government action on climate change.

She has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize for her campaigning, which has emphasised the need for urgent human action against global warming.

But in his opinion piece, Mr Bolt questioned why so many are listening to her “climate panic”.

“No teenager is more freakishly influential than Greta Thunberg,” Mr Bolt wrote in his op-ed……

Mr Bolt targeted this unwillingness to “compromise” in his opinion piece.

“This allows followers who are tormented with doubt and burden of freedom to relax into her totalitarian certainty,” Mr Bolt wrote.

“What is so fascinating about this Thunberg cult is not just that she’s believed so fervently even though she’s wrong.”…..

He said it was troubling to him that this “wrong” view was being accepted. …….https://www.sbs.com.au/news/teen-activist-greta-thunberg-hits-back-at-deeply-disturbed-jibe-from-andrew-bolt