A conservative group with a history of climate change denial has hired a German YouTuber to challenge Greta Thunberg's 'climate crisis'
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Naomi Seibt, a German YouTuber, has been hired by a conservative think tank to help spread climate denialism.
- The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank with ties to the Trump administration, has a history of promoting climate denialism.
- Most recently, the organization has enlisted the help of a 19-year-old German YouTuber named Naomi Seibt and framed her as a challenger to climate activist Greta Thunberg.
- Although Seibt detested her "anti-Greta" label, she claims that Thunberg and other youth climate activists are spreading views that are not based on science.
Nineteen-year-old German YouTube Naomi Seibt says she, too, once believed the world was in the midst of a global crisis and rallied behind environmentalist policies and the uprising of youth climate activism — but not anymore.
Seibt now finds herself on the warring side of Greta Thunberg's climate justice movement, working for a conservative American think tank with ties to the Trump administration to combat what she claims is "climate alarmism."
"I have good news for you. The world is not ending because of climate change ," Seibt says in a YouTube video for the Heartland Institute. "People are being force-fed a very dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we as humans are destroying the planet and that we, the young people especially, have no future."
For decades, the Heartland Institute has promoted what it calls "climate realism" and spreading doubts about the overwhelming science supporting human's role in causing climate change. The organization cited "science backing climate realism" from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, a riff on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which they sponsor themselves.
One of its senior fellows, William Happer, objected to a US intelligence official's finding that climate impacts could be "possibly catastrophic" when serving on the White House National Security Council, the Washington Post reported.
The conservative think tank has recently come under scrutiny for its shadowy funding stream through Donors Trust, an organization that has allowed wealthy contributors to donate millions of dollars to conservative causes anonymously. Mother Jones referred to the organization as the " dark-money ATM of the conservative movement. "
A recent investigation by German journalists believed they unveiled a plot by the Heartland Institute to utilize Seibt to undermine climate protection measures in Germany — but James Taylor, the director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, claims the organization has nothing to hide.
"We're always looking to advance individual freedom and better human health and welfare in the United States and around the world," Taylor told Insider. "Even for folks who think they need to undercover to get that information for me. I'll be happy to have that interview today."
In a new effort, the Heartland Institute has enlisted the help of a YouTube influencer to continue to "spread the truth" about climate change. The organization has pitted Seibt against the face of the climate justice movement: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
"Greta Thunberg took the world by storm with her doomsday climate predictions. Naomi Seibt, a rising star, advocates for proper scientific discourse over climate change," read a caption on a YouTube video featuring Seibt and Thunberg. "Who seems like the more reasonable advocate to you?"
Naomi Seibt, the self-proclaimed "climate realist"
Seibt's crusade against "climate alarmism" online began in 2019 after Thunberg's activism won her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" Award, the youngest person to earn the title. In addition to challenging what she calls the "mainstream" climate narrative, Seibt also raised questions about feminism and immigration on her channel that echoed far-right views.
Her views caught the attention of a conservative German think tank with ties to the nationalist Alternative for Germany, and later Taylor.
Taylor saw Seibt speak at a conference in Germany and believed she could help further Heartland's agenda of advocating for "free markets" and "individual liberties."
"Here we have a 19-year-old young lady with tremendous poise tremendous intelligence," Taylor told Insider of its decision to hire Seibt as a digital media specialist. "Essentially, we are helping to provide resources so that she can continue to spread the message advocating individual freedom, which includes economic freedom, as well as climate realism."
Seibt, a former "climate alarmist" herself, claimed her skepticism began with Thunberg's own Fridays for Future movement. While she disagrees with Thunberg, she emphasizes that she is not the "anti-Greta."
"I'm not this evil opposite of Greta — she might be a really nice girl and I would love to talk to her someday," she told Insider.
However, Seibt claimed Thunberg and other youth climate justice activists espouse views that are not based on science.
"The main issues that I have with the climate change is the narrative. There's a lot of fear-mongering going on. Climate change is not something we're allowed to question anymore," Seibt said.
She said her own research suggests that the role of manmade greenhouse gas emissions in destroying the planet has been inflated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The international body is made up of world-renowned scientists who have reached a consensus on the detrimental effects of human greenhouse gases and contribute to reports on how to mitigate climate change.
"I do not believe that the climate is changing because of manmade CO2 emissions. And if it was, I don't believe that would have such a detrimental effect," Seibt told Insider, who did not cite where her own research derived from.
While the 19-year-old believes that the climate is, in fact, changing, she protested the hysteria around the impending climate crisis. Seibt claimed that the widespread fears about the effects of climate change have not only caused "eco-depression," but has effectively silenced any dissent about the climate crisis.
"To be a scientific skeptic has nothing to be with an authoritarian radical," Seibt, who identified as Libertarian, said.
"We are not allowed to speak up — people are losing their job in the wake of this supposed 'climate crisis.'"
With the Heartland Institute, she said she hoped to promote climate realism, which claimed is " pro-human ."
"This mainstream narrative of fear-mongering and climate alarmism is holding us hostage in our own brains," Seibt said in a video for Heartland. "Don't let an agenda that is trying to depict you as an energy-sucking leech on the planet get into your brain and take away all of your passionate spirit."
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I can’t wait to see the new Heartland Institute spokesperson speak this week in America at CPAC. She is so right on.
Climate change denialists lost the fight against climate change when Larry Fink wrote his letter earlier this year to CEOs . Businesses will lead the charge until government has no choice but to follow. Before the letter was even released Microsoft (Mr Fink owns 5% of Microsoft) came out with their plan starting a chain reaction of big businesses that rewrote their business plans and opened their wallets. Not all the plans announced will actually do anything but several of them are significant. The tide turned. Now it's about dollars and business.
Well, there ya have it. What's next, new and improved solar cells? Super efficient wind mills? Wave action? Worldwide geothermal? Nationwide hydropower brought by hundreds of new dams? Lots of new nuclear plants? What about hydrogen....sea water. Tell us what to expect, you have all the answers.
New, more efficient solar cells are being developed daily.
The wind turbines are already quite efficient, but yes, they'll increase their number and continue to make them more efficient.
Why not? Tidal energy systems could be a reliable untapped renewable resource.
In the places it works, of course, tap that renewable energy.
In most places, dams do more damage to our natural resources and while some are good as they play duel roles in power and runoff/snowmelt/water control, there is a limit to the number of damas that can realistically be built.
As the technology improves, eventually we could have much smaller and much safer nuclear power plants.
You seem to be doing pretty well coming up with realistic renewable energy sources, it would seem you don't need anyone telling you what to expect. It seems you just need to be convinced the investment is worth it.
I'm pretty sure that there will be many many answers by the top minds in R&D that money can buy now that they are committing to change.
I posted what Chase and a dozen other banks have done. If you don't like it complain to them. They probably have a far greater knowledge of climate change than you do...
Cheers
As does our DoD, who has identified climate change as a security threat to our country.
Time to stop investing in those banks..
As far as I know, there is nothing stopping you from that.
Please carry on, I'm sure that the banks will be heartbroken over your stance./s
Other than perhaps an empty wallet...
I have several relatives who've claimed they'll boycott liberal businesses (one was red in the face angry with Starbucks) but when I asked them when the last time was that they actually used said business they have a hard time recalling. Their lack of patronage has little to do with the political stance of the business, it had everything with not being willing to pay $5 for a coffee so regardless of their fantasy boycott the business isn't losing any actual money.
Yet another paid Heartland Institute science denier. HI is paid to stoop this low (but you already knew that).
She is an obvious lying shill created to counter Greta Thunberg's truth.
The fact that she uses the term "climate alarmist" (and that she is speaking at the Heartland Institute) shows she knows where her Gucci handbag and Bottega heels are coming from.
This is an embarrassingly huge fail of science denying tactics by the Heartless Institute.
Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion To New Bezos Earth Fund
The specifics of the Earth Fund – from tax implications to potential impact – remain unclear.
So to you, they remain unclear. And exactly what does that have to do with the $10billion in funding to fight climate change?
Of course, you could contact Bezos and ask him about it.
There is a lot of alarmism, hyperbole, and fanatics spreading garbage when it comes to Climate change in general, but the position that humans are causing the earth to change at a more rapid pace then in the past and at a pace that may eventually be to our own determent should not be in question. We all need to band together to clean up pollution and find cleaner ways to produce energy, its just common sense.
Genesis 2:15
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
How can one be a believer in God and not take this seriously? This is one of our primary purpose according to the Bible.
In 2006 Al Gore said "unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return."
Here we are in 2020, according to Mr. Gore we've reached the point of no return, we're all doomed so why spend billions of dollars and destroy the economy of the world to fix a problem that can't be fixed?
It can possibly be slowed with serious fixes, but we have already screwed the pooch.
Considering the fact that what long-lived greenhouse gasses are already polluting our atmosphere will be doing so for the next 50+ years, and considering the fact that mankind is still harvesting and burning fossil fuels without even thinking that the long term health of the planet might be more important than short term profit, I hold out no hope of any sort of utopia on this planet.
Shit will be going from bad to worse environmentally. Which will lead to things going from bad to worse on the global political front. Environmental refugees are coming to a town near you.
I'd actually rather cage AGW deniers than the climate refugees escaping the reality.
But since the president claims science itself is a hoax, I guess his supporters should use clubs to destroy their computers and stop seeding Heartland Institute propaganda online.
A German teenager being touted as the answer to climate activist Greta Thunberg is set to speak to the annual gathering of conservatives at CPAC this week.
Naomi Seibt, who has been called the “anti-Greta,” is set to take the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, joining dozens of speakers including President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence.
(Source: Heartland Institute)
The 19-year-old “climate skeptic” from Münster in western Germany has been tapped by the Heartland Institute which presented her at the UN climate conference in Madrid in December. The conservative think tank hired her to campaign on its views pushing back on the alarms over global warming.
In a video titled “Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?” Seibt revealed she is not a fan of the “anti-Greta” moniker.
“The reason I don’t like the term ‘anti-Greta’ is that it suggests I myself am an indoctrinated puppet, I guess, for the other side,” she said, telling Insider that she is “not this evil opposite of Greta — she might be a really nice girl and I would love to talk to her someday.”
The so-called “YouTube influencer” believes that there is some truth to the climate change arguments but that activists like Thunberg are exaggerating the climate crisis and creating a panic.
“My main problem with the climate change narrative is that most people who protest do not actually know the science behind it,” Seibt told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s terrifying young people and ruining relationships.”
“I don’t want to get people to stop believing in man-made climate change, not at all,” she told the Washington Post. “Are man-made CO2 emissions having that much impact on the climate? I think that’s ridiculous to believe.”
“It is important that we keep questioning the narrative that’s out there instead of promoting it,” Seibt said. “These days, climate change science really isn’t a science at all.”
In a YouTube video for the Heartland Institute, the German teen said, “I have good news for you: The world is not ending because of climate change.”
“People are being force-fed a very dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we as humans are destroying the planet and that we, the young people especially, have no future,” she said.(Source: Heartland Institute)
“This mainstream narrative of fear-mongering and climate alarmism is holding us hostage in our own brains,” Seibt said in a Heartland video. “Don’t let an agenda that is trying to depict you as an energy-sucking leech on the planet get into your brain and take away all of your passionate spirit.”
Seibt will be facing her largest audience yet in her address at CPAC, being held outside Washington, D.C. The annual conservative gathering will also feature speeches from White House officials, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway as well as U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell who was just named acting director of national intelligence.
A wide array of Republican lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Reps. Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows, and Dan Crenshaw as well as Chair of the House Republican Conference Liz Cheney. Media personalities, sports figures and more will also be giving speeches and presentations at the event.
I well remember the taste of car and bus exhaust growing up in the Philadelphia area but nothing prepared me for life in Los Angeles. Eyes and lungs burning worse than any day on bases in SC when they flew a black flag to limit activity.
Now many, many decades later, having worked in many old military bases, now designated Super Fund Clean up sites, I am amazed at the number of people I have outlived.
Mainly due to strict emission controls on cars , trucks, coal fired power plants, etc. the USA has done a great job turning the tide regionally, but we are not done.
The whole world needs to relearn the same lesson we already have.
This was China's wake up call, December, 2013
17 Provinces and 600 million people were directly affected by the accumulation of smog from unbridled
building, industrialization and complete lack of emissions controls in the cars they both built and imported from the USA.
Just as anthropologists can tell if a bone was pre or post Hiroshima, this pollution too, reaches our shore and our lungs.
Many people get all bent out of shape about abortion rights and many of them simply don't give a damn about what
we are all forced to breathe, especially those newborns.