Just when you thought the radical climate deniers couldn’t get any lower, Heartland Institute has hired a teenage “anti-Greta.” 

That’s right. The Heartland Institute, one of the most notorious climate denial groups in the US, has put a German teenager on their payroll to spread lies about the climate crisis. 

This is an outrage. 

Stop the Heartland Institute from spreading climate lies to young people here and abroad. Donate $7, $17 or more to keep the Chesapeake Climate Action Network strong in our truth-telling mission. 

The “anti-Greta,” a 19 year old far-right youtuber named Naomi Seibt, claims that “climate science isn’t really science at all.” She often repeats outright lies to the international media — even using many of Greta’s key phrases to tell the world NOT to act on climate change. “How dare you,” she says. 

Here at CCAN, we are particularly disturbed by Heartland using a teenager to promote lies about the climate crisis. The Heartland Institute is funded by big oil companies with the sole intention of harming climate action to protect their bottom line. We are a DC-area climate organization that has consistently supported Greta Thunberg and the thousands of young people raising the alarm about the effect global warming will have on their future and are the first line of defense when it comes to calling out radical deniers. 

Donate now and help us expose climate deniers for who they are.  Don’t sit back and watch Heartland play its ugly game.

This is not the first time the Heartland Institute has stooped this low. In 2010, they ran billboards mocking climate science by featuring the Unabomber’s face — equating those concerned about climate change with murders and terrorists. This is the kind of thing they do. 

This week, Heartland has invited Seibt to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative activists, politicians and climate deniers in the DC area. Obviously shaken by the global youth climate movement, Heartland Institute is banking on a far right teenage ideologue.

The “anti-Greta” is just the latest distasteful marketing ploy of their ultra right-wing agenda. 

Please help CCAN counter Heartland’s ugly tactics and continue to elevate the voices of youth activists fighting for a livable future.
 
Thanks for all you do, 

Mike Tidwell
Executive Director
Chesapeake Climate Action Network

Source: “The anti-Greta: A conservative think tank takes on the global phenomenon,” Washington Post, 2/23/2020