Climate Activist Who Interviewed Greta Thunberg Comes Out to Warn Others About Being “Brainwashed” by Climate Ideology
A former activist who interviewed Greta Thunberg has said she was “brainwashed” by climate change ideology and is now warning others against being sucked in by the fake science behind it. The Mail has the story.
Social media manager Lucy Biggers revealed that, in her 20s, she was one of the loudest voices sounding the alarm on global warming and efforts to police the world’s carbon footprint.
“I interviewed Greta Thunberg, I have interviewed AOC [Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], I pushed ideas like the Green New Deal, plastic straw bans, plastic bag bans – anything you could think that is like the typical climate activist, I pushed those things,” she said.
Now in her mid-30s, however, she released a scathing takedown of her former life, claiming her eyes were opened by what she witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic and becoming a parent, adding that scientists who challenged the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were destroying the planet supplied the proof she needed.
“I think this idea that warming is bad for humans can’t hold up to any scrutiny if you look at it honestly,” Biggers said in a video viewed on X more than 500,000 times.
Biggers claimed Earth has actually been in a prolonged period of natural warming for centuries, ever since the end of the so-called Little Ice Age in the 1600s, and that former President Thomas Jefferson even documented a warmer climate in the 1700s.
Climate change is the term used to describe Earth’s warming, mainly as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil, and gas.
Scientists and climate activists have warned that this extra warmth could cause more extreme storms, rising seas that flood cities, and hotter summers that make it harder to grow food worldwide – all within the next 25 years.
However, Biggers produced examples of conflicting climate data over the years she claimed was evidence that casts serious doubt on the narrative than modern human activities were having a major impact on the environment.
“Climate change isn’t dangerous, and there isn’t a consensus on how much of it we can even control, and if the solutions like solar and wind even work,” Biggers argued in her social media post.
Biggers said she started questioning her climate activism during the COVID-19 pandemic and after having her first child, noting that even with the world effectively shutting down for over a year, it did little to reduce climate emissions.
She mentioned also realising that things like oil pipelines might be safer for the environment than trains, and plastic bans could actually increase carbon footprints compared to using allegedly eco-friendly alternatives.
“I did not want to be on my deathbed one day having regrets of sitting on what was the truth because of fear,” the former activist explained.
After these doubts, Biggers revealed she read books that showed climate science is more complicated and less alarming than what she had been promoting a decade ago, which helped her shift to becoming a “climate realist”.
The first book, Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger, a former environmental activist, argued against doomsday predictions and highlighted how environmental progress had already improved the world.
The second book, Unsettled by Steve Koonin, a physicist who worked under President Obama, explained the uncertainties in current climate models and data, challenging the idea of a simple, catastrophic crisis in Earth’s future.
She added that higher CO2 levels have also been turned into a scapegoat by climate change alarmists, who blame them for global warming, melting glaciers and rising sea levels worldwide.
“And the increase in CO2, we’ve seen global greening go up 15 to 20% in some areas. Plants have better growing seasons because CO2 is a plant food, if you remember from biology class,” Biggers explained.
“And so this idea that CO2 was inherently bad, I also call b******* on.”
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I like the ‘climate realist’ tag. Yes, the climate does change, and yes the works of man have an effect, but the works of man have a minimal effect. Which means, of course, that if we stopped modern life altogether and lived in mud huts there would also be minimal effect on the climate.
Reducing pollution and maintaining a relatively clean environment is a more sensible idea – as long as you don’t permit hygiene activists to hijack ‘the cause’ for their own purposes.
You certainly sound like a realist too. Of course there’s nothing wrong with reducing pollution and keeping the environment clean. We’ve been given this planet and its resources and, just as with any valuable asset, we have a duty to use it sensibly. That can be done without threatening civilisation, as the Net Zero mob would have us do.
Certainly we (mankind) could do better at disposing of or recycling plastics.
A great way of preventing water evaporating in times of climate-change-induced drought. Clever people these eco-nuts.
But if we stop water evaporating there will be fewer clouds and that means… something.
Do the works of man have a global effect? I do not think there is any proof it does as yet. Man can change local climate such as that around Mount Kilimanjaro that saw the snow cap melt. Has research yet shown that aerosols play a large part in our climate with the creation of clouds? This is a double-edged sword for the econuts as it would clearly show cloud cover is the main control of planet warming with a link back to the all powerful sun.
An important underlining of the saying that with age comes wisdom.
I wonder how many of these green (inexperienced) young activists will change their views when they acquire wisdom.
For some, of course, the wisdom they gain is that in recognising the scam they realise they can make money for themselves by furthering it…
I imagine becoming a parent was a big wake-up call to her. She suddenly realised her activism was going to saddle her progeny with a bleak future of being cold, undernourished, and unable to go anywhere or do anything nice.
I recently re-read “Icefall in Norway,” an account by Sir Ranulph Fiennes of a traverse in 1970 of Norway’s Jostedalsbre glacier, Europe’s largest ice-cap.
In passing, the book mentions that the ice-cap is only a few thousand years old, a claim since supported in the geological literature – the Holocene period in that part of the world was 2-3 deg C warmer than now and the ice-cap likely melted, before re-forming as the climate cooled again.
The book also mentions accounts of Viking farmers driving cattle across a less-extensive ice-cap during the Medieval Warm Period – substantiated, due to recent melting at the perimeter of the ice-cap, by the finding of Viking artefacts radio-carbon dated back to 300-1500 AD. Onset of the Little Ice Age put an end to this Nordic medieval trade route.
Wholesome natural organic climate change Trumps cheap synthetic Mann-made climate change every time.
Oh very good! Have my upvote.
When mentioning Mann made you are clearly taking the Michael.
His lawsuit against Mark Steyn isn’t going as well as he’d like.
https://www.steynonline.com/15085/mann-ordered-to-pay-more-than-those-he-sought-to
No sign of him going to the State Pen yet though.
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Luke 15:7
To be brainwashed an individual first needs a brain.
Climatists, Net Zeroids, Eco-freaks, Vegans have a void – easily filled with whatever anyone fills it.
Get ’em while they’re young, with limited life experience and therefore easily moulded
The poor lady is going to get bucket loads of Sh12 poured over her.
Of course, all of the facts that she quotes were still facts when she was a mentalist activist.
The end of the little ice is usually said to have happened in the second half of the 19th century or even in the first part of the 20th.
Steve Koonins book is very well written with lots of data. Recommended.
Can’t wait to see this highlighted in the Grauniad.
A study of the chapter on origins and climate in John Reader’s book ‘Africa’ makes it clear that the climate is controlled by much bigger forces than mankind.
“Sure, all things being equal, CO2 may cause a little warming, but all things in earths climate are NOT EQUAL” —-Judith Curry. —-It is refreshing to see a former climate activist realising she has been brainwashed and manipulated and making sure not to continue falling for the phoney planet saving agenda that isn’t and never was about the planet.