Phonysmarmy Will Headline London Climate Liars' Conference Organized By Jordan Peterson

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A Republican presidential candidate who has referred to climate change as a “hoax” is headlining the inaugural event for a new global organization created by conservative influencer Jordan Peterson. Vivek Ramaswamy will be one of the marquee speakers at the inaugural meeting of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), also known as the ARC Conference, an event being held in London, England, from October 30 to November 1. Peterson and other organizers are billing it as a “major gathering of political, business, and cultural leaders” whose guest list includes “over 100 parliamentarians from across Europe, the UK, and Australia, as well as a delegation of Congressional leaders from the USA.”

Discussion topics for the conference include “free enterprise,” “affordable energy,” and “environmental stewardship,” issues on which Ramaswamy has espoused hard-right views. He said during the first GOP debate in September that “the climate change agenda is a hoax,” claiming that “the reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy.” He recently tweeted to his 1.3 million followers on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the “real emergency isn’t climate change, it’s the man-made disaster of climate change policies that threaten U.S. prosperity.”

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Ramaswamy will be joined at the ARC Conference by other climate crisis deniers such as Michael Shellenberger, Bjorn Lomborg, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott and Peterson himself, who’s called climate change “the idiot socialist get-out-of-jail-free-card.” Over the past year, Peterson has devoted numerous episodes of his podcast, which has 7.51 million YouTube subscribers, to disputing that human-induced global temperature rise is an emergency, generating millions of views for deniers such as Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen. The invite-only event in London is being supported by founders and leaders of the Legatum Group, a Dubai-based investment firm that’s a major investor in the conservative British television network GB News and also a backer of a pro-Brexit think tank known as The Legatum Institute.

“It’s obviously pretty alarming and dangerous,” Erika Seiber, a spokesperson at the nonprofit Friends of the Earth and member of a global coalition called Climate Action Against Disinformation, said of the upcoming ARC Conference. “It’s an attempt by the far-right to advance a fossil fuel agenda under the veil of conservative moral sentiment. They’re trying to gather support…for policies that will legitimately hurt people and the planet.”

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https://www.desmog.com/2023/10/26/gop-climate-denier-vivek-ramaswamy-headlining-jordan-peterson-arc-conference/