On day 12, the waves picked up.

Environment activist Greta Thunberg’s wind-powered journey across the Atlantic Ocean struck an especially stormy stretch on Sunday. Thunberg and her cruising team, en path to a U.N. Climate Action Top(and Mashable’s Social Good Top) in New York City, struck rough seas some 300 miles from Canada’s Nova Scotia. She kept in mind this in a brief Twitter video update, quickly after a wave crashed over the boat.

” It’s extremely rough with extremely high waves,” Thunberg stated.

Amid a long seafaring journey surrounded by limitless waters and the development of a hurricane in the north Atlantic, Thunberg and her group have consistently reported undaunted spirits.

” So far they’re really enjoying the trip,” Axel Hackbarth, an onshore member of the Boris Herrmann Racing team who is supporting the mission, told Mashable on Wednesday.

When Hurricane Chantal developed and began charging eastward across the North Atlantic on Wednesday– though not presenting an immediate danger to their boat the Malizia II– the team expressed little issue. Rather, they exploited and rode the resulting winds.

” It’s working to our advantage,” explained Hackbarth.

Hackbarth estimates that Thunberg and company will arrive in New york city City between Aug. 27 and 29, depending on wind conditions. As of Sunday, the Malizia II bumped along at speeds between 23 and 28 miles per hour (20 to 25 knots).

Thunberg has actually picked a rough, adventurous trip to New York City to prevent contributing unneeded carbon dioxide emissions into Earth’s atmosphere. It’s an unmistakable declaration made by a now prominent environment activist.

Airplanes have an outsized function in releasing carbon, as airliners contribute over 2 percent of overall worldwide carbon emissions– more than most countries in the world. ” Somebody flying from London to New york city and back creates approximately the same level of emissions as the average individual in the EU does by heating their home for an entire year,” the European Commission notes

Earth’s co2 levels– the world’s most important greenhouse gas– are skyrocketing. The heat-trapping greenhouse gas is now at its greatest climatic levels in a minimum of800,000 years, though most likely countless years

But that’s not all. The current climatic CO2 increase is now occurring at rates that are extraordinary in both the historic and geologic record