{"id":424905,"date":"2026-02-06T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424905"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:15:57","slug":"lucy-biggers-spent-a-decade-as-a-brainwashed-climate-activist-and-become-a-vocal-climate-realist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424905","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Biggers spent a decade as ‘a brainwashed climate activist’ and become a vocal “climate realist”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Daily Mail article from late January 2026 talks about Lucy Biggers, a woman in her mid-30s who describes spending about a decade (roughly half her 20s and beyond) deeply involved in climate activism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She supported figures like AOC and Greta Thunberg, participated in protests, and fully bought into catastrophic man-made climate change narratives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She now calls her past self “brainwashed” by what she views as flawed or exaggerated ideology, and she’s become a vocal “climate realist”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her shift in perspective- what she calls an “awakening”- happened after two key life-changing experiences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Observations during the COVID-19 pandemic: She noted that even with global lockdowns, economic shutdowns, and drastically reduced human activity for over a year, atmospheric CO\u2082 levels and climate emissions didn’t drop as dramatically as one might expect if human emissions were the dominant driver of warming. This led her to question the narrative that cutting emissions through drastic lifestyle or policy changes would have the proclaimed catastrophic-avoiding effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming a parent: Having her first child prompted a reevaluation of priorities, fear-based messaging around doomsday climate scenarios, and a desire for a more balanced, evidence-based view rather than alarmism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    A former activist who says she was ‘brainwashed’ by\u00a0climate change<\/a>\u00a0ideology has come out to warn others against what she calls a science which simply isn’t true. Daily Mail Online<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ‘I interviewed Greta Thunberg<\/a>, I have interviewed AOC [Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>], 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/a> pandemic and becoming a parent, adding that scientists who challenged the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) emissions were destroying the planet<\/a> supplied the proof she needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ‘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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ‘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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She mentioned also realizing 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ‘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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She added that higher CO\u2082 levels have also been turned into a scapegoat by climate change alarmists, who blame them for global warming, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ‘And the increase in CO\u2082, we’ve seen global greening go up 15 to 20 percent in some areas. Plants have better growing seasons because CO\u2082 is a plant food, if you remember from biology class,’ Biggers explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    ‘And so, this idea that CO\u2082 was inherently bad, I also call b******* on.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I spent half of my 20s as a brainwashed climate activist. This is the story of how I changed my mind and became a climate realist. pic.twitter.com\/E54Fh9oEjb<\/a><\/p>— Lucy Biggers (@LLBiggers) January 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>