This will get Maunder's juices flowing
Sigh, I'll do my best to try and explain why this is a stupid idea without just mindlessly ranting.
Let's say there is a spectrum going from -10 to +10 from people who believe in climate change at +10 to those that deny it at -10. Greta is great at getting all the 8s,9s and 10s to turnout (although it seems like the 'greta effect' had worn off before COVID happened). Obviously she can't get the -8s, -9s and -10s on board, but I question whether she has a positive effect on the -1s, 0s and +1s too.
Now let's come back to COVID. Some climate change deniers will still accept the science of COVID, what sense does it make to deliberately push them further into the conspiracy camp by inviting on an activist type figure? And if Greta's ability to polarize is anything like the same as it is on climate then she will struggle to get the -1s, 0s and 1s on board too which is exactly what you need to do.
Now compare a political activist with a scientist. Generally the later have much higher approval ratings in the public eye and better credibility. By keeping this as apolitical as possible you get get a broader appeal of the message. Greta has no special insight that particularly merits her presence on any of these panels and the only likely outcome of her being there is to annoy a bunch of people and make it more likely they will ignore the science on COVID.
The media is supposed to care about how messaging appeals, now is not the time to make screw ups like this. How many people who were kinda on the fence to accepting that self isolating is a good idea will now suddenly view it all as some kind of 'liberal conspiracy'? Probably not many, but perhaps enough for it to be a problem.
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2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)
Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.
2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)
Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.
2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.