The audience reaction here tells you how fringe a position climate denialism has become in the past ten years.

Even among right-leaning voters, it's tiny. Massively over-represented in our media.

Radical idea: all research write-ups should have this

As the kids would say, 10/10 no notes

It turns out volunteering Finsbury parkrun feels almost as great as running it. Fantastic to see so many runners and walkers out on this lovely spring day

We are a weather obsessed nation. So we can all already see the impacts of our changing climate - here and around the world. We need to bring people into the conversation of how we protect our homes and communities now and in future
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Please tell me the Board on his back says 'But change is possible and it's happening. Let's speed it up.'

Madame Tussauds

The politics of welfare in an election year - a #faircomment guest post from Ben Baumberg Geiger exploring contradictions at the heart of welfare policy, and what might happen to welfare policy after the 2024 election faircomment.co.uk/p/the-politics…

'The stories we tell, they have the power to change people's lives'

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ |
Simon Evans w/comment from Prof Peter Andre Teodora Boneva Felix Chopra Armin_Falk

Read here: bit.ly/3I1gL9u

This in today's Sunday Times makes the Horizon scandal more explicable to me. The problem originates in the STORY their culture already told of the sub postmasters. The bugs were neither here nor there to them. The computer confirmed a story they already believed.

It's not

'Who’d have thought that a small, impoverished community like ours could have achieved the massive challenge of building the tallest wind turbine in England?'

Cracking film and framing from The Climate Coalition

#showthelove

Wow. Across the world, there is overwhelming support for climate action.

But, sadly, people think that *other* people don’t support climate action.

We aren’t polarized; we just think we are.

nature.com/articles/s4155…

Caring about our children’s future is a timeless classic, not a fleeting fad.

Climate leadership is resoundingly popular. And the public is far less skittish than politicians when it comes to investing in a healthy future.

We need to change this story.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

'a doom and gloom message inspired people to spread the message on social media–where negativity is rewarded–but it was one of the least effective strategies for changing beliefs, motivating people to support policy change, or inspiring effortful action'

Let's change the story!

If we frame failure as inevitable, we won't inspire the urgent action we need.

Our communications task now is bringing to life how we secure a liveable future.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

It sounds rather old fashioned to talk about civic virtues like compassion, restraint and respect but today's grim #PMQs is a reminder we can - must - all do more to support those leaders more intent on ending culture wars than creating them.

Change is not only possible - it's already happening.

Most people don't think we can tackle climate change. Let's talk more about how:

🍃 Clean energy is unstoppable. It's bringing us freedom and control
✨ Progress is underway, and people want more of it
💪 This is doable

Very exciting people powered progress 💚

'Let’s make 2024 the year we tell the stories of the great things that are happening, and of what more needs to happen. Of what green investment will mean to the place where you live and work. Not the year we endlessly debate numbers that, to most people, are meaningless.'
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