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.