People keep telling me that because the UK had a heatwave in 1976, climate change is overhyped. So here’s the global heat anomaly maps from June 1976 and June 2022. data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

1/ My interview with Sky News yesterday, in four parts “This is not the new normal. It is going to get worse and worse and worse until we stop burning fossil fuels and stop destroying nature”

2/ “I remain convinced that the only way to force our leaders to take the required action is to get out on the streets in huge numbers”

3/ “Denialism is common, the media must take some responsibility for that. For decades media organisations such as Sky News, such as yourselves, have been downplaying the risks and helping ridicule environmentalists for warning us about this”

4/ “What a Net Zero deadline of 2050 means is that we’re going to carry on making the problem worse for another 28 years”

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

Pls share. There's a little known benefit for grandparents who look after their grandchildren while parents work. If ur a parent of an under 12, if your parent (ie childs grandparent) do childcare so you can work, u can apply to get em "Specified Adult Childcare Credit" /contd

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The most important issue of our time. Please rethink ⁦Rishi Sunak⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

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Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and Tom Bowles, a press photographer, got arrested by Herts Police whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25. 🧵....

BREAKING: exclusive video from Foil Arms and Hog behind the scenes at #COP27.

There are over 600 fossil fuel lobbyists at #COP27 - that’s more than the combined delegations from the world’s 10 most climate-impacted countries. Dirty fossil fuel money & influence should be nowhere near this climate conference - new fossil fuels must stay firmly in the ground

"Do you know how grave this situation is". Just Stop Oil protester Indigo Rumbelow is challenged by Sky's Mark Austin, who tells her "stop shouting at me". trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

MP pay 2010 £65k MP pay 2022 £84.1k 28% rise & real terms rise of over £4k same period nurses pay down 8% against inflation with real terms pay cut of £3k RT if you think MPs telling nurses they don’t deserve a rise are taking the piss #EnoughIsEnough

Long-awaited details of the government’s voter ID scheme have now been released, including details of which IDs will be accepted at the polling station. The list contains plenty of options for older voters, but few for younger voters. electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-list-…

Horrendous what they are going to do to last untouched place on Earth - Deep sea ocean It will destroy vital eco systems and marine life and release a massive new carbon sink that absorbs up to quarter of global emissions a year BAN DEEP SEA MINING Foto: mdpi.com

“Before landscapes die, they first vanish in the imagination”. This is the story of a small brook on the outskirts of London, the Aldersbrook, which has survived against the odds, but in the worst state imaginable, & my attempts to act as a guardian of this river & its rights🧵

Seems like any young girl in Iran who makes a post or a video in support of #WomanLifeFreedom is kidnapped and sent to Evin prison. This girl (18) is literally awaiting rape then execution. Her name is #FarnushEsmi say her name, save her life. #IranRevolution2022 #sickening

Rishi Sunak posing this winter of strikes as ‘ordinary people’ v ‘union bosses’ in his pool interview with Paul McNamara today - but if hundreds of thousands of people are going on strike are they not ‘ordinary people’?