I don’t like to say “I told you so” but this week’s frightening news that the world is likely to breach the 1.5C climate threshold by 2027 should come as no surprise if you have been reading my columns. Countries pledged, under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to hold global temperatures to no higher thanContinue reading “Catastrophic climate change could become unstoppable.”
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Do they know it’s Christmas? The media are ignoring the crisis in East Africa.
As most of us prepare to enjoy Christmas with plenty to eat and drink our media are ignoring the dreadful fate of people in East Africa. The poorest and most vulnerable children on the planet are being killed in huge numbers by climate breakdown. We still listen to “Do they know it’s Christmas” on theContinue reading “Do they know it’s Christmas? The media are ignoring the crisis in East Africa.”