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:

Good morning fellow Reformers, patriots and climate realists! Last night I had the honour of standing up for our country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🩵 We have all had enough of the self-sabotage, it’s time to say no to Net Zero and repeal the Climate Change Act! Please kindly repost this and follow me if… pic.twitter.com/dX2kak4GXa

— Anika (@anika_climate) February 7, 2026

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 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:… pic.twitter.com/Lu6OVhHfnR

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) February 8, 2026

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:

Climate Establishment Expose: How i was indoctrinated, how I broke free and WHY the climate narrative is still being pushed without consequences. https://t.co/yMYQZv0wdi

— Anika (@anika_climate) February 9, 2026

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:

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:https://t.co/xnKlH3YOhP

We do know that she also had a dabble in pageants, being named Miss British Empire Photogenic. That’s a… pic.twitter.com/paJLNK2Luq

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) February 8, 2026

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.