Reform climate ‘expert’ is a climate denier

Anika Sweetland, the Reform party’s supposed climate expert is anything but.

Here she is on shithouse Lee Anderson’s GB News’ segment discussing if net zero is a scam:

As we’ll get into, the real scam is the idea that ‘net zero is a scam’.

Reform climate ‘expert’ is climate denier

Putting her on GB News appears to be Reform’s way of giving her some public PR.

The party is billing her as some kind of scientist. But isn’t a scientist supposed to actually do research? Write academic papers and shit? Put findings out into the world?

After achieving a Bachelor of Science in Climate Studies in 2016, it appears that Sweetland took that degree and did fuck all with it. Scour the internet and she’s done nothing to contribute to the climate change discussion:

She didn’t go on to achieve her PHD, didn’t write any academic papers. But she does push shit conspiracies about how she was indoctrinated by actual scientific studies:

It appears once upon a time on LinkedIn she claimed to be an events manager and content creator? Oh, and was hilariously crowned ‘Miss British Empire’ during Covid:

But this was quickly deleted, it seems.

So why the fuck is a woman who discounts the human contribution to climate change being pushed as some kind of fucking expert?

Oh yeah, because it’s Reform.

The ‘Net Zero scam’ scam

In a video titled You’ve been lied to about Net Zero, Simon Clark says that people create misinformation around Net Zero as follows:

So these are the five steps of the anti-net zero playbook. Inflate the costs, ignore the cost of business as usual, ignore the operational savings, ignore the co- benefits, and most egregiously, ignore the costs of inaction. Not getting to net zero is going to cost the world much, much more

Clark also highlights that when people target the ‘cost’ of switching to Net Zero, they ignore the costs of not switching:

the second step often is is to pretend that we can just carry on with business as usual and it won’t cost us anything. Let’s say we’re talking about decarbonising transport. And then people say, “Oh, but you know, an EV that’s going to cost like £40,000. You know, that’s a huge investment. That’s expensive, right?” You know, and you add that up over all of the cars in the in the country and you suddenly get a big scary number.

Again, let’s say we just carry on with petrol cars. Petrol cars aren’t free, right? Okay, maybe you own a petrol car now, so you don’t have to buy a new one, but that won’t last forever. So, that’s step two is you basically pretend that the existing system, which we’ve already built and paid for, can just carry on forever and won’t ever need replacing.

Sweetland joins the rest of the clowns

It unsurprisingly appears that qualifications and previous endeavours don’t matter to the Reform UK.

But then again, we all knew that after they welcomed Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, didn’t we?

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