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Leo Hickman

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Leo Hickman

@LeoHickman

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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Joined August 2010

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Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Feb 13, 2025
I very rarely post here now – or monitor it, tbh - so for sane, informed, nuanced news, discussion etc about climate-related matters, please follow me at the other place... bsky.app/profile/leohic…
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Aug 1, 2018
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...
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jun 22, 2024
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...
Press Trust of India
@PTI_News
Jun 22, 2024
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 - ptivideos.com)
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Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jul 19, 2022
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"
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
May 17, 2019
+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...
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jul 22, 2022
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
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jan 20, 2021
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
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jan 17, 2023
An image for our age...
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Feb 28, 2022
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."
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jul 18, 2022
Here's the half-page cartoon on the comment pages of today's Times...
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Jun 17, 2023
*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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Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Aug 1, 2018
Replying to @LeoHickman
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"
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Nov 17, 2016
In just a few short sentences, Obama nails it... newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Dec 11, 2023
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."