Naomi Seibt, right, has accused people like Greta Thunberg of being consumed by ‘anger’

A 19-year-old German girl is being hailed as the ‘antidote to Greta Thunberg’ because of her sceptical views on climate change.

Naomi Seibt has blasted climate change as ‘hot air’ as well as a ‘despicably anti-human ideology’ in her many YouTube videos which she began uploading last year and which have had thousands of views.

She is said to have attracted the attention and support of the far-right German party AFD as well as the Heartland Institute, a US think tank based in Chicago, which has been labelled as one of the most notorious climate change denial groups in the United States’, according to environment website DeSmog UK.



Ms Seibt has admitted that she receives ‘an average monthly wage’ from the institute.


Describing her opponents as being consumed by ‘rage and anger’ she has been praised by the Heartland Institute as a ‘fantastic voice for free markets and for climate realism’.

The institute is said to have access to the White House and Trump officials.

Naomi Seibt is has been labelled as a ‘rising star’ by climate change denial groups (Picture: Facebook/ Naomi Seibt)

In one of the videos put out by the Heartland Institute, titled ‘Naomi Seibt vs Greta Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?’, Ms Seibt begins: ‘Science is entirely based on intellectual humility and it is important that we keep questioning the narrative that is out there instead of promoting it, and these days climate change science really isn’t science at all.’

She has even uploaded one video entitled: ‘Message to the Media – HOW DARE YOU?’

Ms Seibt has blasted climate change as ‘hot air’ (Picture: YouTube/ Naomi Seibt)

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to the protesters during a ‘Fridays for Future’ demonstration calling for action against the climate crisis (Picture: EPA)

Ms Seibt objects to being called a climate change denier, because for a German ‘it is so rude to refer to someone as a climate denier because obviously there is a connection to the term “holocaust denier”, which carries a lot of weight in Germany.’

However, environmental groups such as DeSmogUK claim that Ms Seibt does not make an outright case for climate change denial.

In one of her latest videos published last month, she can be heard arguing that scientists have overstated the impact of emissions on the planet’s climate, rather than arguing that climate change is not occurring.

As well as speaking out over climate change, Ms Seibt has criticised immigration and feminism.

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