TV audiences are in for a surprise when they tune in for Thursday's weather reports - with children disrupting the usual forecast with a shocking bulletin from the year 2050. The Weather Kids campaign from the UN Development Programme, in partnership with the World Meteorological Organisation and The Weather Channel, aims to mobilise people around the world to take urgent climate action.
TV audiences are in for a surprise when they tune in for Thursday's weather reports - with children disrupting the usual forecast with a shocking bulletin from the year 2050. The Weather Kids campaign from the UN Development Programme, in partnership with the World Meteorological Organisation and The Weather Channel, aims to mobilise people around the world to take urgent climate action .
Forecasts, anchored by children, will play in 80 countries with support from Oscar-winning Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh, American actor Connie Britton and Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. READ MORE: Climate crisis will put Irish inshore waters under pressure by end of century "Everything is crazy. Schools are closed because it’s too hot. Wildfires are burning whole towns. And floods are making everything wet and gross,” says one young presenter. The segment warns viewers that rising temperatures will continue to bring more of the catastrophic climate change impacts we are currently experiencing to people and the global economy. These include a projected impact on 94 per cent of the world’s children, threats to food security and a potential rise in taxpayers’ bills globally of trillions of US dollars. The forecast ends with a powerful plea from the children: “It’s not just a weather report to us. It is our futur
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