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Director/editor of @CarbonBrief . Served 16 years at the Guardian. Author of A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, Will Jellyfish Rule the World?...

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4 years

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6 years

In January 2007, the BBC aired a special programme presented by Sir David Attenborough called "Climate Change - Britain Under Threat". It included this imagined weather forecast for a "typical summer's day" in 2020...

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The use of water cannons against people protesting against water shortages amid an extreme on-going heatwave in one of the world's largest urban populations...

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VIDEO | #Delhi water crisis: BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri leads a protest at Jal Board filling pump, Okhla. Police use water cannon on protesters. (Full video available on PTI Videos - )

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The Daily Mail has - you've guessed it - given over its lead comment slot today to a writer attacking the "woke" "climate alarmist" Met Office. I'd never heard of him, though. So I googled him. He's a "speech writer and consultant" for "companies operating in the energy sector"

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+BREAKING+ The Guardian's editor has just issued this new guidance to all staff on language to use when writing about climate change and the environment...

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You will no doubt have seen climate sceptics sharing this comparative image below in an attempt to say the media is "manipulating" us to be alarmed about the extraordinary heatwave. But, as ever, it's the sceptics who are doing the manipulating. Let me explain how... THREAD 1/4

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President Biden has now signed the executive order which means the US is rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change. Will be deposited with UN later today and take formal effect in 30 days

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An image for our age...

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The final sentence of new IPCC report: "The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future."

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Here's the half-page cartoon on the comment pages of today's Times...

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*Mind-blowing* new NASA video showing CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels... ...as if they were visible to the human eye h/t @ClimateOfGavin

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Attenborough's sign-off at the end: "Climate change is surely the single biggest issue the human race now faces…We now have the facts…For all of us, it's truly now the time to act"

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In just a few short sentences, Obama nails it...

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So much anger at the new COP28 draft text. None more so than from Marshall Islands: “[We] did not come here to sign our death warrant. We came here to fight for 1.5C and for the only way to achieve that: a fossil fuel phase-out…We will not go silently to our watery graves."

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UK prime minister @RishiSunak has just been rushed out of the room by his aides during the middle of the launch for forests partnership at #COP27

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So let's now compare apples with apples rather than apples with pears... Here are the heatmaps shown side-by-side for the same days in 2017 and 2022. Feel like you've been manipulated by the media? Or manipulated by climate sceptics with a clear agenda to deceive?

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Here's the frontpage of today's Guardian, in case you haven't seen it yet...

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It's official... Thanks to #ExtinctionRebellion protests, Attenborough's BBC One film and @GretaThunberg 's UK visit, April 2019 has now overtaken Dec 2015 (Paris COP) as seeing the most mentions of "climate change" in UK media over past 5 years. (& still 5 days of April to go)

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The Guardian has today joined 30 other newspapers around the world in publishing this joint editorial calling for a climate tax to be imposed on fossil fuel giants #COP27

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Amazing moment as the Queen arrives as a surprise guest to hand the Chatham House Prize to Sir David Attenborough and BBC Natural History Unit. Audience gasped when it was announced. Sir David smiled.

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But we can use the wonders of the internet to find a heat map shown on TV from that day in 2017. And, guess what, it is the same format...

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The Pope has issued a blistering, lengthy attack on climate deniers – and what needs to happen at COP28 "a broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact"

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Big result... Looks like Rohrabacher has indeed lost with 99% votes now in. Rouda 91,649 Rohrabacher 88,875

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Still very close with 90% votes now counted... Rouda 50.6 % Rohrabacher 49.4% Rouda leads by 2,208. Would be a symbolic blow to climate sceptics to see their beloved Rohrabacher lose his seat after more than two decades...

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...and a little later in the same prog, they include an imagined weather forecast for August 2050... "Half of the days in that month are expected to be hitting 30C"

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Imagine being the editor at the Daily Mail who thought it would be a good idea to use the image of a knife with blood dripping off it to illustrate this hysterical, paranoid piece by Richard Littlejohn. It tells you so much about the mindset among the Mail's senior editors

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The Daily Mail's frontpage. Just 24hrs apart...

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Less than 48hrs later, COP28 president's mask slips: "The world continues to need low-carbon oil and gas and low-cost oil and gas. When the demand stops, that’s a completely different story." There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. Low. Carbon. Oil.

Cop28 president says his firm will keep investing in oil

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber says Adnoc has to meet demand for fossil fuels, and hails ‘unprecedented’ Cop deal

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+BREAKING+ All these terms have just been officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary: Eco-anxiety Net zero Climate crisis Climate catastrophe Climate emergency Global heating Climate denier Climate sceptic Climate denialism Climate justice Climate refugee Climate strike

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So many good images doing the rounds of the #YouthStrike4Climate . But I particularly like this one taken by a Getty photographer...

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Hundreds of letters are received each day by national newspapers, but only a handful are ever published. On the issue of climate change and energy, one letter-writer in particular has had a lot of success over the past decade. As such, he warrants a closer look... ++THREAD++

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You can see straight away that the weather maps are from different TV channels in Germany. The top one (Hessischer Rundfunk, 21/6/2017) is showing a topographical map (mountains, rivers, etc), unlike the lower one (ARD/Das Erste, 21/6/2022) which is showing a heatmap...

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++CONFIRMED++ BBC One will air "Climate change - The facts", presented by Sir David Attenborough, at 9pm on Thursday, 18 April. It will be 90mins, so will push back the 10 O'Clock News by 30 mins.

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P.S. I've just seen that Reuters has now published a factcheck on a very similar attempt by climate sceptics to mislead...

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Weather maps have changed to be more accessible for viewers, particularly those who are colour blind. A meme comparing two UK heatwave forecasts on two different years does not prove the media stoke baseless fears about climate change. Read more: 3/7

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It's still so, so rare to hear anyone saying anything like this on mainstream TV...

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@GeorgeMonbiot I clipped this this morning ready to share then saw your tweet. Do you want it?

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Historians will look back at page 9 of today's Times with great interest. The combination of stories by @whippletom @emilygosden @bwebster135 et al is quite something...

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Reports in both New Yorker & NYT that thing that tipped Trump to reject Paris Agreement was Macron's boast about his death-grip handshake

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The protest at COP28 by Licypriya Kangujam, a 12-year-old climate-justice activist from India, leads the frontpage of the Financial Times Neatly illustrates why these stunts can have so much impact Will be one of the defining images of this COP

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Wow! The judge's summation after 7x Just Stop Oil supporters were found guilty of aggravated trespass is simply extraordinary: "You should feel guilty for nothing. You should feel proud that you care, have concern for the future." Read it in full...

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With the Tories' climate credentials in disarray, it seems like a good moment to recall this iconic frontpage of the Times from 33 years ago... "Margaret Thatcher called yesterday for a 'giant international effort' to save the Earth from the consequences of global warming"

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Striking frontcover of today's Guardian: "The 1% polluter elite" Reports on new Oxfam findings: "Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%"

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The term "Tufton Street" is now so politically toxic that I imagine all those dark-money lobbyists and ideologues based at this notorious address will be desperate to relocate. But, wherever they end up, they must never again be given such an uncritical platform by media

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Striking, stark frontpage of the Guardian today... "Scientists stunned by planet's record Sept heat" "I'm still struggling to comprehend how a single year can jump so much compared to previous years"

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How the media works… The Daily Mail runs an anti-heat pump piece by an “expert” across two pages. What it doesn’t find space to mention, though, is that the same expert is a “corporate writer and presenter” for a major gas boiler manufacter

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This is really grim – and desperate. The rabidly climate-sceptic, anti-BBC Mail on Sunday is now secretly photographing journalists returning from reporting on extreme weather events. They'd rather BBC climate editor didn't inform global audience with on-ground reporting

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Lead cartoon in today's Times...

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Nice. We've just been sent @GretaThunberg 's brand new book... It includes her "Can you hear me?" speech to UK Parliament last month #YouthStrike4Climate

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Wow @antonioguterres is not mincing his words at UNGA re: climate change: "lobbyists and spin doctors have spewed harmful misinformation..." "fossil fuel interests need to spend less time averting a PR disaster – and more time averting a planetary one"

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This Conservative MP was happy to be elected in 2019 under the following election manifesto commitment: "We will lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050” Yet he sends out this letter...

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Wow! This is the combined impact that the #ExtinctionRebellion protests, David Attenborough film and @GretaThunberg 's visit has had on the UK media over recent days. (Mentions of "climate change" in UK media over the past 3 months, according to Factiva)

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Wow! Staffer at Murdoch's News Corp Australia sends email to all staff: "I find it unconscionable to continue working for this company, knowing I am contributing to the spread of climate change denial and lies."

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The Daily Mail has, predictably, cleared its pages today for a climate sceptic. Funny, though, that it doesn't find space to mention the author has made £££ from coal mining on his land. Or – talking of "devastating audits" – remind readers he was chair of, er, Northern Rock

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Tweeted 11 mins before UK signs off for 4-day break and media will be saturated with Royal coverage...

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For my money, this is currently the most terrifying chart in all climate science. Since 1990, the oceans have been heating relentlessly - and last year just smashed the previous record set a year earlier. More info from @hausfath in his latest dispatch

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Brexit zealots, promoted by Telegraph, launch a campaign against EU "red tape". These are best five things they can find to rage against...

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Private Eye joining the dots to show how the Sun's "journalism" *really* works...

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About 2 mins before he left an aide came onto stage and was whispering in his ear for more than a minute...there was a discussion going on about, it seems, whether to leave at that moment. But Sunak stayed but another aide made decision to go back to him and urge him to leave

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As temperatures in the UK near record levels, MPs warn today that heatwave deaths could triple by 2050. So what do the editors of the Daily Mail and the Sun do? Order their writers to aggressively attack climate scientists...

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This is a BIG deal. The BBC is creating a brand new role... "Chief Environment Correspondent" "Climate change, pollution, sustainable living and global environmental issues are key areas of interest for our audiences, especially younger audiences."

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The climate challenge ahead of us... ...explained in 41 seconds

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Just *four* countries out of nearly 200 blocked a sentence at #COP24 which would have "welcomed" the IPCC's special report on 1.5C... Saudi Arabia, US, Kuwait and Russia. I wonder what those four countries share in common? 🤔

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Private Eye on climate change...

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Significant development... BBC News has just added "climate" to the category banner on its homepage - and second only to coronavirus (h/t @suburbanpirate )

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The Daily Mail has decided to relegate news of the new IPCC scientific report about climate change to... ...the bottom of p19 underneath a story about a "parking row" in Dorset ...but it does find space to attack "climate hysteria" in an editorial

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This was the moment during the Trump administration's side-event at #COP24 when protestors interrupted to urge the panel to #KeepItInTheGround

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In tomorrow's Guardian, 60 writers, politicians and academics sign letter: "If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny reality of human-triggered climate change, we will not take part in the debate" inc @GeorgeMonbiot @CarolineLucas @labourlewis

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Climate change is not a matter for debate. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it |...

Letters: If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered climate change, we will not take part in the debate, say Jonathon Porritt, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis and 57...

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It's pretty incredible to think that this time last year the vast majority of us had never heard of... @GretaThunberg @ExtinctionR @AOC The combined impact they've had globally on throwing wide open the 'Overton Window' on climate change is remarkable

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Just in case you were wondering... Greggs and Piers Morgan share the same PR agency. #vegansausageroll

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Reform Party's 500-word "contract" on climate and environment has been fact-checked by @DrSimEvans in Guardian: "30 false or misleading statements about the climate crisis and efforts to limit global heating" A dodgy claim every 17 words?! Impressive

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Reality check: the Reform UK party’s claims on the climate crisis examined

Richard Tice made some eye-opening statements on the climate, and the manifesto is packed with even more falsehoods

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Editorial in today's FT on new IPCC report: "The science of climate change is now well understood, as are the technical solutions. The larger problem is politics..."

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Wow... The Times - yes, *The Times* - comes out in favour of #Youth4ClimateJustice in today's editorial: "They will live in an era of heightened risk of irreversible planetary damage. They are right not to take it meekly, or to reserve their dismay to evenings and weekends."

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The Guardian and 'i' are the only national newspapers in the UK to feature the IPCC report (with its stark warning for world leaders about climate change) on their frontpages this morning. Other frontpages are dominated by someone kissing someone in Strictly Come Dancing...

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The Daily Express... Dec 2009 vs today

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Joe Biden has now spoken on the phone to seven world leaders. And he has raised the issue of climate change with *every single one* of them so far.

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This has been published by the Daily Telegraph. I repeat: the *Daily Telegraph* One can only assume the editor is still off on their holidays. Or... that Extinction Rebellion, Attenborough, Greta Thunberg etc are giving some people pause for thought...

The time for denial is over. Conservatives have to take the climate crisis seriously

No one sits up to listen more than I do when a 16 year old activist takes the stage, in this case the climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg speaking on Sunday to Extinction Rebellion protestors in...

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Martin Wolf in FT: "A hundred years from now, people are likely to remember our era as the time when we knowingly bequeathed a destabilised climate. The market will not fix this global market failure."

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Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

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An incredible statistic to consider when you hear some people claiming that a switch to heat pumps can't be done by 2035. In the decade between 1968 and 1977, 13m homes... I repeat ...THIRTEEN MILLION homes in the UK were converted to gas-fired central heating.

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This is now a huge test for these newspapers. Their confirmation bias led them to lap up the findings without due diligence (despite advance warnings the findings were nonsense). Will they now retract their own articles?

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Simon Evans

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NEW Last wk, Tufton St thinktank Civitas published a wildly wrong report on net-zero costs Times, Sun, Express & Mail lapped it up Today, the report was "taken down…because it was found to contain factual errors" Will the newspapers now follow suit?

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Private Eye's latest Number Crunching...

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A letter to the Daily Telegraph has revealed for the first time the names and numbers of the tiny grouping of climate-sceptic UK parliamentarians who call themselves the "Net Zero Scrutiny Group". They make up, er, just 3.4% of MPs

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This bit of #COP24 decision text is incredible. I'm amazed it got through, to be honest...

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Where a millionaire landowner (by inheritance), who sits in Lords (by inheritance) and was chair (by inheritance) of a bank that collapsed costing UK taxpayers billions, cites the cost of trainers to say that "the poor" will "benefit most from Brexit...

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A *huge* climate march now passing through Glasgow #COP26

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So the Daily Mail has used yesterday's extreme heat in UK to... ...yep, attack "snowflake" @GaryLineker for his "grim lecture" about climate change A "lecture", btw, supported with evidence by world-leading climate scientists such as @ed_hawkins

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She's lost control again She's lost control

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I've written a 4,000-word article for tomorrow's Guardian. It's taken more than 4 years to research and write. And it's the most personal piece I've ever done. I probably won't sleep too well tonight knowing it's finally about to drop. Literally, it's been life-changing.

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BBC News - Climate change: Australian students skip school for mass protest ...amazing scenes in Australia that has received news coverage all over the world

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Climate change: Australian students skip school for mass protest

Thousands skip school to urge action on climate change, despite criticism from PM Scott Morrison.

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Extinction Rebellion protests leading to more than 700 arrests... BBC One airing its first primetime film on climate change for 12 years... And now Greta heading to London for two days of meetings, speeches and events... What an extraordinary week for climate-change awareness

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Now awaits two days of train travel. Next stop London!

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Sir David Attenborough accepts the Chatham House Prize with the Queen watching on. He uses the moment to urge for international action on climate change...

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2 years

Very saddened to hear the news about James Lovelock. I interviewed him twice for the Guardian (2010+2012) and he was a delight on both occasions. A truly independent thinker - which frustrated/thrilled many - but you always listened v closely to what he said.

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Memo from NATO... If you are spreading disinformation and lies about climate science and renewable energy, you are basically one of Putin's useful idiots. "Anti-climate, anti-vaccine, pro-Russia and New World Order conspiracies have been found to go hand-in-hand"

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4 years

Wow, I'm bit blown away by this, tbh. What an honour! I'm so, so fortunate to work with some truly amazing colleagues at @carbonbrief . They really are the A-Team. Thanks so much to everyone at @absw and the #ABSWawards20 judges

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Winner of Editor of the Year is @CarbonBrief 's @LeoHickman #ABSWawards20

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Leo Hickman

3 years

I was lucky enough last night to witness @davidshukmanbbc recording his last piece to camera at #COP26 before he leaves the BBC after a 38-year career. One of the very best science communicators I've ever seen

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2 years

Memo: don’t put cheerleading client journalists and dark-money thinktankers on Question Time or any other serious political show. It’s not the time for that nonsense anymore.

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Rob Burley

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Memo: don’t put comedians on Question Time or any other serious political show. It’s not the time for that nonsense anymore.

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Leo Hickman

1 year

Almost everyday the Daily Mail attacks and belittles climate-concerned "zealots" such as Just Stop Oil. But see how it changes its tune when oil threatens a "millionaires' bay" in Dorset. Just stop oil, indeed...

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Leo Hickman

5 years

That this 16-yr-old has been targeted with hate, innuendo, smears, conspiracy theories and obvious falsehoods by climate sceptics is no surprise to any of us who've been observing them for years. If nothing else, it shows just how scared they are of the global impact she's had...

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Greta Thunberg

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Recently I’ve seen many rumors and lies circulating about me. And enormous amounts of hate. So I’ve written a text to make some things clear about my school strike. #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate

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++WOW++ I've just received this update from the Energy Institute: "Having now checked across our member database, there is no current Fellow of the EI by this name, so we’ll be making enquiries." @EnergyInstitute (FAO: @timesletters & @LettersDesk )

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Leo Hickman

5 years

Hundreds of letters are received each day by national newspapers, but only a handful are ever published. On the issue of climate change and energy, one letter-writer in particular has had a lot of success over the past decade. As such, he warrants a closer look... ++THREAD++

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2 years

BBC News: "The cold, hard capitalist truth is that new renewables are currently a much cheaper source of new power generation than any of the fossil fuel or nuclear alternatives."

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Liz Truss cabinet: Key ministers raise climate targets doubts

Is Liz Truss' new government still committed to dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050?

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Leo Hickman

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Just been trying to explain this to my daughter who is v excited they've agreed to end use of fossil fuels after hearing about it on the radio... Me: "I invite you to tidy your room is not quite the same as I demand that you tidy your room NOW." Her: "Oh, yeah."

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Leo Hickman

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"calls on..." This is the crucial term here. In UNFCCC legal jargon, this is known to mean an "invitation" or "request" And, even more crucially, it is the *weakest* of all the various terms used for such exhortations #COP28

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Leo Hickman

3 years

It's a year to the day since my daughter hid 100 pictures of Chris Whitty around our home – and we have *still not* found them all...

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Leo Hickman

4 years

As a "fun family game", my daughter has placed 100 tiny photos of Chris Whitty around the home to be found. If all 100 are found, she says she will "do the kitchen each evening for a month" Game on: The hunt for Whitty is underway...

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Leo Hickman

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Ah, it seems Tony Gallagher was not happy with the reader reaction. The comments under the editorial have now been deleted and turned off. Good job, then, I managed to screenshot some of them... cc @arusbridger @Simon_Nixon

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Leo Hickman

21 days

The most striking thing about this begrudging, mealy-mouthed Times editorial is the reader comments below it. There is widespread scorn at the way the current editor Tony Gallagher (ex-Sun, Mail, Telegraph) has badly misjudged mood and lurched Times to the right

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