Greta Thunberg has warned that 40C heatwaves in the UK are “only the beginning” and says Britain’s leaders have “their heads completely buried in the sand” regarding climate change.
Her comments follow revelations that Labour ministers met fossil fuel industry lobbyists more than 500 times during the party’s first year in power, while Labour MPs took tens of thousands of pounds in donations from oil and gas lobbyists.
The activist, 23, was speaking as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a rare red heat-health alert for the first time since 2022, with temperatures forecast to reach as high as 40C later this week.
“This is what experts have been warning about for decades,” Thunberg told Metro. “This is unfortunately only the beginning.”
She added: “We know that the climate crisis is here and now, and not a faraway threat in the future, and those suffering the most are the ones who have contributed the least to cause it.”
The red alert – which indicates heat that is life-threatening for even the healthy population – covers the East and West Midlands, London, and southern and east England from 1am on Wednesday until 11pm on Thursday.
The heatwave could also disrupt transport infrastructure, food and water access, energy supplies and force businesses to close, UKHSA warned.
Thunberg said: “What is most concerning about this is not only that we continuously shatter heat records and destabilise the entire biosphere way faster than models have been predicting, but that it is not treated as the existential crisis it is in media and politics.
“The UK’s responsibility for the climate crisis cannot be overstated, still its leaders continue acting as if there was no tomorrow.”
Research by UKHSA published last year found that as well as the elderly, the very young and people with pre-existing medical conditions, people experiencing poverty, overcrowded housing or difficult economic circumstances are also at far greater risk in the heat.
Thunberg’s comments were echoed by climate scientists, including professor Friederike Otto of Imperial College London, who said politicians had failed to respond to the first red heat-health alert in 2022.
“Our first 40C day was supposed to be a wake-up call, but clearly someone hit snooze,” she said.
“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974.
It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.
When Greenspan was still working in the corporate sector, Rand’s ideas about the “utopia of greed” infused him with a powerful sense of mission: apparently, making money wasn’t just good for him - it was good for society as a whole.
As for those who got trampled? Rand helped with that too: “Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should,” Greenspan wrote.
This mindset served him well as Fed Chair, where he supported shock therapy in Russia (72 million impoverished) and in East Asia after the 1997 economic crisis (24 million pushed into unemployment). Not to mention attacks on welfare and trade unions in the U.S....
JD Vance, with his tight concentric circles of "love," is just the latest manifestation of this worldview.
the Colombian election was obviously rigged and stolen with a variety of methods, the most obvious being the fact that Trump openly endorsed and campaigned for a candidate and took credit for picking this obscure degenerate Zionist Israel First lunatic to be the new president. In reality of course his Mossad handlers Kushner and Witkoff picked him.
There was also clear rigging of the vote itself via the election system being controlled by the Bautista brothers, two Zionist frauds who were convicted on bank fraud in the 80s yet magically were put in charge of the entire election infrastructure and allowed state actors, meaning Israel, to manipulate the vote results in favor of their asset.
All of this is obvious, transparent and known, yet the entire Western media class, being owned and controlled and comprised of Zionists themselves, has been actively laundering it all, with the AP today casually referencing that Trump endorsed the Zionist asset as if it is entirely normal to interfere in the internal elections of other countries in this obvious way. "Russiagate" was the most pathetic joke in modern political history.
ben & jerry (ben cohen & jerry greenfield) tried to boycott their ice cream from being sold in israel, so unilever went behind their back and sold a portion of the company to an israeli licensee against their wishes. israel is selling ben & jerry's through corporate domination
Israel is pushing the Palestinian Authority to collapse.
Palestinian Authority public employees will get their March 2026 salary — paid in June, months late — at 50% of what they're owed, with a floor of 2,000 shekels. The rest goes on a list of debts the PA says it will pay "when financial conditions allow." That list has been growing for years.
This is not the PA mismanaging money. Clearance revenues — taxes Israel collects on the PA's behalf under a decades-old agreement — make up 60-70% of the Palestinian Authority's entire income. Israel is supposed to transfer that money every month. It has been doing the opposite: deducting it, freezing it, withholding it outright.
Israel's own finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has confirmed this is deliberate — his office has openly said the freezes are "to protest" Palestinian diplomatic moves at the ICC and UN.
Palestinian officials now estimate Israel is sitting on close to $5 billion in Palestinian money it has simply refused to hand over.
Israel's policy is to push the Palestinian Authority toward collapse by withholding Palestinian funds and creating an unsustainable financial crisis.
The objective is clear: weaken the PA, trigger unrest across the West Bank, and then use the resulting instability as a pretext for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.
The world must act before it is too late.
Israel continues to terrorize our families in Gaza. Just now, more gunfire from Israeli tanks and more flares lighting up the sky. The local time is 12:50 a.m.
Yes, after midnight.
How would you feel if it were you, your spouse, and your children living in a tent on the street, listening to bombs and bullets day and night? Watching the sky light up with flares every few hours, sometimes every few minutes?
Every day, every minute, every time you walk with your children to school, to the park, or back home, look them in the eye and ask yourself these questions.
How would you feel if you lived minute by minute, expecting a bomb to fall and burn you and your family alive or tear you to pieces?
Yes. This has been our families’ reality for more than a thousand days.
Oh my heavens. Israel carried out a double-tap terr*rist strike in Gaza. Please watch.
The victim in the strike is named Raghad Ashour. She was an 18-year-old student heading to take her general secondary education examination.
She was from Beit Hanoun and her father was slaughtered in a previous israeli terr*rist attack. She was the only child for her parents.
Every day, I read reports of Palestinians in Gaza succumbing to wounds they suffered in earlier Israeli terr0rist strikes.
How much of that ever gets reported?
Here is the latest:
This evening, 17-year-old Ahmad al-Khozondar succumbed to wounds he sustained in an Israeli terr0rist strike on Khan Younis a few days ago.
Yes, he was severely wounded. But how many Palestinians who later die from their injuries might have survived if Israel’s cruel savage siege had not prevented life-saving medical equipment and supplies from entering Gaza, and if Israel had not denied patients the chance to leave for specialized treatment abroad?
Israel continues to carry out terr*rist attacks in Gaza.
Today at 3:24 p.m., israel’s terr*r forces bombed a tent in Khan Younis. One Palestinian was killed. His name was Ismael al-Masri.
At 4 p.m., israel’s terr*r forces shot a teen boy in Khan Younis.
At 5 p.m. israel’s terr*r forces bombed a motorcycle, killing one Palestinian and injuring more in Khan Younis.
At 5 p.m. israel’s terr*r forces shot and wounded two Palestinians east of Khan Younis.
A summer camp for Gaza’s amputee children. June 2026.
There are over 1,500 amputee children right now since October 2023. Israel did this. Your governments enabled this. Many watched and justified!!
As I said two years ago:
The scars on our children’s faces will look for you.
Our children’s amputated legs will run after you.
In the early 2000, this clip was shown on Palestine TV. A few weeks later, Israel completely destroyed the Palestine TV building in the West Bank, but not before I obtained the footage from them.
I'm posting it to show you a glimpse of how these jewish supremacist parasites have been targeting and terrorizing our children for decades.
Her win is not just a signal that Dems want greater pushback against Trump's repressive policies but it is also a rejection of the pro-Israel intimidation the Democratic establishment is in on or too afraid to confront. Columbia University had her arrested, now she will represent their district in Congress.
One of the killings involved a ten day old baby being shot by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight whilst the baby was being breastfed : an independent UN Commission says Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank
Videos shared by settlers on social media lay bare the ideology of dispossession and ethnic cleansing that drives the settlement enterprise in the West Bank.
Leaders and members of settler militias openly boast about using violence to force Palestinian communities off their land and drive them from their homes. These actions are carried out with the military’s full backing and with the explicit encouragement and support of Israeli policymakers.
Since October 2023, settler violence and military raids have forcibly displaced at least 4,635 Palestinians in the West Bank. Entire communities have been driven out of their homes in 62 cases, with another 15 communities partially displaced.
@PulaRJS I noticed the same thing in the @guardian earlier today.
Is it a conscious decision, a conspiracy, to leave Gaza out of the Starmer “obituaries” or is it really not on their mind at all?
https://t.co/dnH55HXHJm
@PulaRJS Where did it all go wrong? The BBC and Starmer might each ask themselves the same question - and find that the answer has a lot to do with Israel and the parts they played in its transformation from apartheid to genocide.