The 'anti-Greta Thunberg' fighting climate hysteria who is pals with celebs and gets quoted by DeSantis
A meteorologist has described himself as the 'anti-Great Thunberg', as he hopes to calm the 'hysteria' surrounding climate change.
Chris Martz, 22, a recent graduate from Pennsylvania's Millersville University with a degree in meteorology, said his life's work is to lower worries about climate change.
Unlike Thunberg, the poster girl for environmental activism, Martz said he wants to tackle the ongoing issues surrounding the Earth's climate with data.
Speaking with The New York Post, the Virginia native said: 'I’m the anti-Greta Thunberg. In fact, she’s only 19 days older than me.'
He hopes that with a pragmatic approach he can hopefully bring a stop to the often disruptive actions taking by activists by calming tensions, and kill any theories surrounding climate change.
Martz said: 'I’ve always been a science-based, fact-based person. My dad always said, If you’re going to put something online, especially getting into a scientific or political topic, make sure what you’re saying is accurate.
'That way you establish a good credibility and rapport with your followers.'
His X profile now boasts over 120,000 followers and his work has even been highlighted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Unlike Thunberg, the poster girl for environmental activist, Martz said he wants to tackle the ongoing issues surrounding the Earth's climate with data
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attends a solidarity with Palestine event on December 6, 2024 in Mannheim, Germany
His online profile first started when he was still in high school, and his posts about the weather have since been shared by the likes of Ted Cruz and Thomas Massie.
DeSantis used one of his Martz' post to hit back at a reporter last year following the devastation of Hurricane Milton.
The reporter had questioned if the hurricane was a direct consequence of global warming.
Paraphrasing one of Martz' post, he said that there had been 27 storms stronger than Milton since 1851.
Martz told the post: 'It was word-for-word my post. His team follows me.'
He also said that former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler had invited him to lunch in DC earlier this month to discuss his future.
Outside of politicians, celebrities including Superman actor Dean Cain and comic Larry the Cable Guy have all reached out - with Cain taking him to dinner.
He added: 'They didn’t have to be as nice as they were. They just treated me like I was their next-of-kin.'
Martz recently graduated from Pennsylvania 's Millersville University with a degree in meteorology
Protesters from Extinction Rebellion (XR) block the entrance to the A12 in the Netherlands, with Greta Thunberg seen here being taken away by the police in July of last year
In an aerial view, homes along the Gulf of Mexico are seen after they were destroyed when Hurricane Milton passed through the area on October 12, 2024
His interest in meteorology started over a fascination with tornadoes and winter storms.
From a young age he always questioned the truth surrounding climate change.
At the age of 12 he recalls a Christmas Eve trip to church where the mercury hit 75F.
Martz said: 'Everyone seems to remember white Christmases when they were a kid, but the data doesn’t back that up. It may be that we’re remembering all the movies where it snows at Christmas.
'And I had science teachers telling me New York City was going to be under water in 20 years and that fossil fuels are destroying the environment.'
Not long after the heatwave, a blizzard dumped record snowfall on his Virginia hometown.
He describes himself as being a 'lukewarm skeptic' of climate change, saying he believes the planet to be warming and human activity as being a factor.
In hopes of understanding better, he said he looks at the numbers to understand what's going on with the Earth.
DeSantis, seen here, used one of his Martz' post to hit back at a reporter last year following the devastation of Hurricane Milton
From a young age he has always questioned matters of climate change
Firefighters work as the Hughes Fire burns on January 22, 2025 in Castaic, Californi
Firefighters watch a helicopter drop water on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles, Jan. 11, 2025
Martz added: 'You can make the case we’ve seen heavier rainfall in the eastern United States, but it all depends on where you start the graph.
'Since 1979, there’s been an eastward shift in Tornado Alley. Okay, that’s evidence of climate change. That’s not evidence that humans caused it.
“A lot of the biggest tornado outbreaks during the 1920s and ’30s occurred in the southeastern United States, where we see them today. Whereas in the 1950s and ’60s they occurred more in the Great Plains.
'So it’s likely that it oscillates due to changes in ocean circulation patterns and how that affects the placement of pressure systems and where moisture convergence is and wind shear is and how those dynamics play out. It’s much more likely an artifact of natural variability.
'There’s no physical mechanism that makes sense to say, well, if you add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere that it’s going to cause an eastward shift of tornadoes in the United States.'
Wildfires have recently been a large target as an indicator of climate change, something which Wartz doesn't believe.
He told the outlet that California has been drying up over the last 100 years, but in the past the state has been drier.
'Between 900 and 1300 AD, there was a 400-year long drought that was worse than today's in the southwestern United States', he added.
Wartz believes California could be better prepared if the state started placing powerlines underground, rather than on hillsides.
He added: 'It’s all a giant money-making scheme. Politicians and bureaucrats latch on to scientific issues, whether it was the pandemic, for example, or climate, to try and get certain policies implemented. In usual cases, it’s a left-wing, authoritarian kind of control.
'We want to control what kind of energy you use, control the kind of, how much you can travel, what you can drive, what you can eat, all that.
'But in order to do that, they need scientists telling a certain message. And the science is funded by government actors.'
Online he is frequently attacked by those who say he is being backed by Big Oil, something which he vehemently denies.
He even said that people would call his university and send emails hoping to have him kicked out, but his professors backed him.
Currently he is working as a research assistant for a DC-based non profit which is pushing for free-market energy solutions.
