Anika Sweetland, Reform UK’s made up climate guru.
Introducing Anika Sweetland (@anika_climate), Reform UK’s new ‘climate expert’. Spoiler: she isn’t one.
She just appeared on GBNews with @LeeAndersonMP_:
x.com/anika_climate/…
It’s clear she’s trying to PR herself in to credibility. Because her credentials don’t do that.
She calls herself a climate scientist, but her academic credentials are wholly lacking. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Climate Studies from the University of Western Australia that she received in 2016 (the degree is now no longer offered). And since then she’s not studied or published work. Until now.
No MA, no PhD, but a sudden claim to be a scientist. That’s like having a pre-med and calling yourself a doctor.
Her only published work is with the “UK think tank Reform and Repeal” and World Prosperity Forum.
That’s her only citation.
Note, there is an actual academic called Annika Sweetland in the field of psychiatry, it’s not her.
Reform and Repeal is a Reform UK organisation that is so amateur it’s got 2 discussion papers on it and hasn’t even bothered to fill out its Privacy or Legal notice info on its website.
reformandrepeal.co.uk
The World Prosperity Forum was set up this year, a creation of the lobby group The Heartland Foundation:
worldprosperityforum.com
Neither of these organisations can be considered academic institutions.
They are Reform UK lobby organisations.
Introducing Anika Sweetland (@anika_climate), Reform UK’s new ‘climate expert’. Spoiler: she isn’t one.
She just appeared on GBNews with @LeeAndersonMP_:
x.com/anika_climate/…
It’s clear she’s trying to PR herself in to credibility. Because her credentials don’t do that.
She calls herself a climate scientist, but her academic credentials are wholly lacking. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Climate Studies from the University of Western Australia that she received in 2016 (the degree is now no longer offered). And since then she’s not studied or published work. Until now.
No MA, no PhD, but a sudden claim to be a scientist. That’s like having a pre-med and calling yourself a doctor.
Her only published work is with the “UK think tank Reform and Repeal” and World Prosperity Forum.
That’s her only citation.
Note, there is an actual academic called Annika Sweetland in the field of psychiatry, it’s not her.
Reform and Repeal is a Reform UK organisation that is so amateur it’s got 2 discussion papers on it and hasn’t even bothered to fill out its Privacy or Legal notice info on its website.
reformandrepeal.co.uk
The World Prosperity Forum was set up this year, a creation of the lobby group The Heartland Foundation:
worldprosperityforum.com
Neither of these organisations can be considered academic institutions.
They are Reform UK lobby organisations.
She also claims to have been a climate scientist for the Australian Government. There’s no evidence. She was once a Graduate Research Officer (in 2014, fresh from studying) for the Gascoyne Development Commission which presented this to the Parliament of Western Australia:
parliament.wa.gov.au/publications/t…
She claims she was an energy policy advisor to the Australian government, there is zero evidence of this (or should we say net zero evidence?) and again, no publications bearing this out.
parliament.wa.gov.au/publications/t…
She claims she was an energy policy advisor to the Australian government, there is zero evidence of this (or should we say net zero evidence?) and again, no publications bearing this out.
Looking at her LinkedIn, her only entries were as a content creator and events manager. She’s since deleted it, trying to claim it never existed:
x.com/ceist8/status/…
We do know that she also had a dabble in pageants, being named Miss British Empire Photogenic. That’s a thing, apparently.
She also started and seemingly abandoned a course in Psychology.
x.com/ceist8/status/…
We do know that she also had a dabble in pageants, being named Miss British Empire Photogenic. That’s a thing, apparently.
She also started and seemingly abandoned a course in Psychology.
So, when Reform UK, the Heartland Institute and Lee Anderson introduce her as a Climate Scientist, you can safely reject it as an attempt to build a new pundit with no credentials. It’s an obvious career choice, not vocation.
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