Simon Godolphin

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a “greenhouse effect”, demonstrating for the first time that water vapour and carbon dioxide trapped heat.

Theoretical concerns were soon raised that we might, through the practice of burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon, have inadvertently been altering our climate since the start of the industrial revolution.

In 1938 a British scientist published the first observational study suggesting that human carbon emissions were, indeed, heating the planet.

By the late 1950s, the science about global warming was so well established that legendary Hollywood film maker Frank Capra was hired to make a documentary, The Unchained Goddess, intended to educate the public about what then seemed a relatively far-off threat.

The film explained that the release by factories and vehicles of some six billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year – a paltry sum by today’s standards – was “unwittingly changing the world’s climate”.

In the 1970s scientists working for the oil companies privately confirmed to their employers that their research showed continued fossil fuel burning would dangerously raise global temperatures. The oil companies kept the information tightly under wraps for decades.

By 1982 an Exxon team had produced a chart predicting – though again confidentially – the increases in CO2 levels in the atmosphere over time. When the chart came to light in 2019, scientists realised that the team had, in fact, correctly plotted contemporary CO2 levels – at 415 parts per million – in what was then 37 years into the future.

The Exxon team had also correctly predicted what effect this would have on global temperatures: a disastrous rise of just below 1ºC.

In 1988 Nasa scientist James Hansen testified to the US Senate that he was 99 per cent certain global warming was already under way. His sounding of the alarm sparked for the first time headlines in mainstream media.

In response, the fossil fuel industry began aggressively funding “independent” think-tanks to spread disinformation, and create doubt about the established science.

In 2026, after more than a century of evidence-based warnings, all those predictions have been fully and catastrophically borne out – with heat records being toppled almost daily across western Europe. Drought and wild fires are the result.

And this isn’t even the worst of it. Things are going to get a whole lot hotter, and lot scarier, in the years and decades ahead.

Yet here we are, a century on, still hearing variations of the same arguments of denial promoted in the mainstream from the terminally dim-witted and serially dishonest.

This is an extract from my latest article Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors. Find a link to the full article in the reply post below ⬇️

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A major wildfire has been burning on Mount Kruje in Albania since Saturday, forcing residents from several nearby villages to evacuate.

Firefighters, military personnel and three helicopters worked through the night to contain the blaze, with steep terrain making it difficult for ground crews to reach affected areas.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

CANADA: B.C. Premier David Eby says the entire province is now under a state of emergency as crews grapple with dozens of out-of-control wildfires that have forced thousands of people to evacuate.
https://t.co/OOcIuHzGtM

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

The Arctic is en Fuego!
(Not really, it’s still cold up there, but parts are almost 40 degrees above normal!)
True story: In college (30 years ago) we learned that Global Warming would warm the poles much faster than the rest of the planet. They showed us primitive, yet vivid computer model map projections.
I internalized that and thought…. Ok, if climate change is real and models are right, then decades from now we’ll be able to verify this.
Sure enough it’s happening (has been for a while) as the Arctic is warming at 3-4X the global average, due partly to feedbacks from disappearing ice.
This, in part, has proven to me and solidified my understanding of climate change.
Nothing exists in a bubble in Weather. Its all connected. Each action has an opposite reaction. And when the Arctic (and Antarctic) is so off-kilter, extreme weather hi-jinx tend to ensue!

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Growing up in Germany, the Netherlands, and the American Midwest, I was extremely pro-Jewish and extremely pro-Israel. I believed every bit of the narrative we were fed. I even had a Palestinian guy in my class, and whenever he talked about his situation, I’d get angry. I called him an anti-Semite more than once. Looking back, I feel ashamed of how deeply I had internalized that mindset.

I genuinely thought Judaism was the best religion in the world. I even considered converting at one point to support these “poor, prosecuted people”. That’s how far gone I was. And all of that happened without me even knowing any Jews in real life. I had met maybe one or two in my life until a few years ago.

That started to change during my PhD. We had a research partnership with a Hebrew university. The academics we worked with were hardcore Zionists. They talked about Palestinians like animals. Justified the killings. Brushed off the land theft. That’s when the mask began to fall.

I started digging. I learned about the Balfour Declaration, how American Zionists played a role in destabilizing my own country of birth. I learned about the Nakba. How settlers destroyed water wells and entire orchards. How people who had lived there for centuries were treated like subhumans. I saw the ugly truth no one ever talks about.

Even up to October 7th, I still thought: there are good Jews and bad Jews, just like in any group. But since then, what I’ve witnessed is beyond shocking. Almost every Jewish voice I’ve come across, online, in media, in real life, has been defending genocide. Demonizing anyone who dares speak up for Palestinians. Calling people Nazis, animals, anti-Semites, just for standing on the side of humanity.

That kind of moral blackmail used to work on me. Being called an anti-Semite as a German? That was the worst thing you could say. But not anymore. Not after seeing who’s really fueling the hate. Not after hearing the things that are being said… things that sound like they came straight from hell.

What changed me was not hate, it was clarity. I realized Zionism is not about survival but dominance, and it has nothing in common with Christian values, either.

And honestly, what still puzzles me, what I genuinely don’t understand, is why they behave the way they do.

They say they want peace. They say they’ve been hated throughout history, kicked out of country after country, persecuted without reason. But then you look at how they act,right now. They smear anyone who dares to criticize Israel. They slander. They don’t try to make allies, they issue threats. They demand people be canceled. They justify war crimes. They talk about exterminating others.

If they really want to be liked, if they want to live in peace, if they want people to stop criticizing them, then why do they act like this? Why don’t they try kindness, truth, humility? Why not show some decency, some humanity, especially now that the entire world is watching?

It makes no sense, unless domination is the goal. Not peace. Not coexistence.

Because when I listen to people like Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro or that Randy Fine dude, what I hear isn’t just propaganda, but pure venom. It’s a kind of moral filth that feels like it crawled out of hell. The arrogance. The dehumanization. The glee in war and death.

You can’t act like this and expect the world like you. You can’t demand sympathy while trying to silence those who demand the truth. You can’t play eternal victim while behaving like a tyrant. Eventually, people wake up. Just like I did.

I used to believe everything they told me. Now I see it clearly. Thank you! 🙏🏼

[Met4Cast - UK Weather @Met4CastUK]

There appears to be an uptick in bot farms targeting those talking about climate change.

The abuse and misinformation is off the scale.

Leave a like 👍🏻 if you’re human and care about science.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

The vicious attacks I got on this platform for saying exactly this over the last 10 years was beyond the pale of polite conversation
Unfortunately I turned out to be exactly right but wish I had been wrong

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The disaster is that politicians and oil companies don’t believe that climate change will be catastrophic.
They believe we’ll adapt - and they’ll get even richer.
Lots of media believe this too and so are not conveying the danger to the public.
The problem is: they are wrong.

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

The intense European heatwave continues today, with scorching temperatures reaching 45.5°C in Spain, 44.6°C in Portugal, and 42.9°C in France. The extreme heat has fueled destructive wildfires across France, Portugal, and Spain.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Patras, Greece tonight 🔥👀

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Records smashed as this brutal heatwave continues to bake SW France. Bordeaux hit 41.6°C (106.9°F) — shattering its 2019 record. Bergerac, Cognac & Saint Girons also broke all-time highs. This is the climate crisis, unfolding in real time. #Heatwave #ClimateEmergency #France

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

The world is in a complete and utter mess, on every level, due to insane, incompetent, and just evil leadership, and the manipulation by billionaires/oligarchs, pulling the strings of politicians.

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to say anything constructive.
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[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

Flooding in Chicago, USA.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Wes Streeting took £224,575 in donations from people and companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023-2025. 🚨🚨🚨

I find that unconscionable. RT if you agree!
https://t.co/8eggILDBzm

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Scientists warned us in the 1950s.
NASA warned us in 1988.
Al Gore warned us in 2006.
The media and government failed to express the full magnitude of what was coming.
The public looked away.
Now it’s here and the future is no longer what most people think it is.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Cannes, south of France, this morning, home of the iconic film festival. Ive run out of words to adequately express how badly the media continues to fail us

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please RT this! 💙💙💙💙💙
#RebuildTheNHS @EveryDoctorUK

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Propaganda by omission is how they brainwash.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.

https://t.co/HaRTAvTvVI

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

While you were having a coffee this morning and enjoying the day, this is what the Zionists did in Rafah.
Most of us support this indirectly through the taxes we pay and the support of our governments and by purchasing products from Multinational corporations that support this genocidal regime.
If you don't oppose this shit you might be part of the problem.
At some point too much silence becomes complicity.