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   A 19-year-old German YouTuber is being dubbed the “anti-Greta.”   
      
   A US think tank with ties to the Trump administration has tapped   
   Naomi Seibt, 19, who touts “climate realism” over “climate   
   alarmism,” to represent its views, according to the Washington   
   Post.   
      
   “Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: whom should we trust?” the   
   Illinois-based conservative and libertarian Heartland Institute   
   asked in a video, referring to the 17-year-old Swedish climate   
   activist.   
      
   James Taylor, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for   
   Climate and Environmental Policy at the institute, called Seibt   
   a “fantastic voice for free markets and for climate realism,”   
   the newspaper reported.   
      
   During the UN climate conference in Madrid in December,   
   Heartland headlined Seibt at its forum, where Taylor described   
   her as its “star.”   
      
   And in January, the institute hired her to represent its climate   
   skepticism campaign about global warming, according to the news   
   outlet.   
      
   Thunberg, who was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”   
   last year, has excoriated world leaders for their failure to   
   stop carbon emissions.   
      
   “I want you to panic,” she said at the World Economic Forum in   
   Switzerland last year. “I want you to feel the fear I feel every   
   day. And then I want you to act.”   
      
   But Seibt says in a video posted on Heartland’s website: “I   
   don’t want you to panic. I want you to think.”   
      
   She has also invoked Thunberg’s famous line, saying, “To the   
   media, I have a few last words: How dare you?” — but has   
   disavowed 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 says in a video titled “Naomi Seibt vs. Greta   
   Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?”   
      
   “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.”   
      
   She told Insider she’s “not this evil opposite of Greta — she   
   might be a really nice girl and I would love to talk to her   
   someday.”   
      
   Seibt, who is a former “climate alarmist” herself, said that   
   watching people joining Thunberg-inspired “Fridays For Future”   
   helped spark her opposition to climate change activism.   
      
   “I get chills when I see those young people, especially at   
   Fridays for Future. They are screaming and shouting and they’re   
   generally terrified,” she told the Washington Post. “They don’t   
   want the world to end.”   
      
   Seibt, who will appear at the Conservative Political Action   
   Conference, or CPAC, this week, said she does not dispute that   
   the Earth is being warmed by greenhouse gas emissions — but that   
   their impact has been overstated by many scientists and   
   activists.   
      
   “I don’t want to get people to stop believing in man-made   
   climate change, not at all,” she told the paper. “Are man-made   
   CO2 emissions having that much impact on the climate? I think   
   that’s ridiculous to believe.”   
      
   Through her reps, Thunberg declined to comment to the Washington   
   Post.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/02/25/conservative-group-hires-german-   
   teen-naomi-seibt-to-rival-greta-thunbergs-climate-views/   
        
      
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