The now famous Anti-Greta teenager will join President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence at the biggest annual gathering of US grassroots conservatives.
Naomi Seibt, 19, presents herself as a "climate sceptic" or "climate realist." Dubbed as anti-Greta, Seibt embodies the response of climate change deniers to Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate change activist who gained international recognition for her advocacy.
This week, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will be attended by speakers like Trump and Pence.
Seibt is reportedly in the pay of the Heartland Institute, a thinktank associated with the White House. The Trump administration has been known for denying science that proves humans cause the heating of the planet.
Seibt's YouTube videos
Also a YouTube influencer, Seibt tells her audience that Thunberg and other activists are triggering unnecessary hysteria by making the climate crisis sound bigger than it is.
“Climate change alarmism at its very core is a despicably anti-human ideology,” she said.
Living in Münster in western Germany, Seibt stresses that she is “without an agenda, without an ideology”. However, leading figures on the German far right recognized her. Also, her mother, a lawyer, has represented politicians from the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in court.
Seibt's essay was published by the “anti-Islamisation” blog Philosophia Perennis. Martin Sellner, leader of the Austrian Identitarian Movement, also supports Seibt. On Facebook, the AfD youth wing announces Seibt as a member. While she denied that she is a member of the said group, Seibt participated in an AfD event as a speaker.
On YouTube, she also read out her entry to a poetry slam competition organised by the AfD in May 2019 she posted her first video on YouTube. This made Heartland Institute notice her.
In December 2019, Seibt gave the keynote speech at a rival conference organised by the Heartland Institute a few miles away.
Heartland Institute strategist James Taylor told journalists pretending to be potential donors for an investigation that their thinktank signed up Seibt to create climate change sceptic videos for young people.
Seibt confessed that she receives “an average monthly wage” from the institute. The Heartland website displays an introductory video for Seibt.
“I’ve got very good news for you,” Seibt says. “The world is not ending because of climate change. In fact, 12 years from now we will still be around, casually taking photos on our iPhone 18s
“We are currently being force-fed a very dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we as humans are destroying the planet. And that the young people, especially, have no future – that the animals are dying, that we are ruining nature.
