Thread by @MrMatthewTodd

While all this focus is on @GaryLineker, he gets criticised a lot for tweeting about this because he understands that most people don’t understand the magnitude of what we are facing in our kids lifetimes and maybe our own. Worth watching. A thread #MOTD #MOTDboycott #football

If you’re in any doubt of the facts: NASA climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2021-08-0… Met office metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climat… Margaret Thatcher Stephen Hawking The PR campaign against the facts:

How millions is spent on PR, lobbying and disinformation, to stop you from understanding they are polluting the world as they earn billions and billions: #JustStopOil forbes.com/sites/niallmcc…

Lots of people try to play it down and suggest that it won’t be that bad and that scientists are not personally worried. They are. Here’s NASA’s @ClimateHuman in tears talking about his fears for his sons future #garylineker #MOTD

People often say ‘the climate has changed before!’. They are right - and it’s catastrophic when it does. This is what can happen when volcanoes release huge amount of CO2 like we are today by burning fossil fuels. #Lineker #motd #DavidAttenborough

How bad can it get? Really, really bad - and we are currently going the wrong way. Boris Johnson warned it could collapse society. This is a thread about that by scientist Dr Aaron Thierry who has been arrested simply for protesting to demand action #MOTD #DavidAttenborough

People say ‘What about China!’ China is acting but they are right. China does need to do much more and the only way it will do is if the public demand our governments act and make lobbying countries like China, India, the US, Russia, Australia, a priority

The weather across the world is already going crazy - this year looks set to be another year of insane weather - so there is no time to lose.

The world has not taken enough action because the public have been confused by constant propaganda in the media funded by the polluters. Sounds like a conspiracy theory? It’s true theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Lots of the media is owned by billionaires who don’t want the rich to pay for the world to take action, and they have created a cynical culture where caring for the planet is seen as weird or ‘tree hugger’ish

And the @bbc @bbcnews has fallen victim to this too theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Though they are nowhere near as bad as most of the rest of the media, some of whom have intentionally misrepresented, suppressed or lied about the facts, which makes us less likely to understand and demand action and puts us all in danger - which is why they do it

Now the situation is so bad scientists are pleading with us to act. Many are protesting such as those with @ScientistRebel1 and are even been jailed for doing so - something which the media is terrible at reporting itv.com/news/2019-11-0…

Scientists are at their wits end, terrified by their findings and don’t understand why the media is not telling the public how serious the threat is to us all, on front pages of newspapers and the top of news reports more regularly #MOTD #lineker

And that is because of media barons like Rupert Murdoch who control enormous sections of the global media, from The Sun and Talk TV to Fox News, who believe they know more about climate change than NASA, Oxford etc and the worlds scientists

And this has informed a cynical attitude in many people in the media who treat climate change protests as worse than climate change itself #Motd #lineker #DavidAttenborough #climatecrisis

Meanwhile, all over the planet it is getting worse and worse. Record bbc.co.uk/news/uk-641734… Record nypost.com/2021/07/01/dea… Record huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sicily-i… Record nypost.com/2021/07/21/rai… Record cbsnews.com/news/flooding-…
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Lots of people pretend it’s not happening but looking away doesn’t make it go away. If we don’t rise up and demand change and that the media front pages the full truth, then it is going to get far, far worse. Prof Will Steffen from Australian National University:

There will be loads of faceless accounts, bots etc tweeting abuse and outdated arguments under this, mostly funded by Russia & the US oil industry who make billions weekly from burning fossil fuels. They rely on people not thinking for themselves and have conned a lot of people