Emma Thompson was wrong, but 'generally justified'

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Emma Thompson - wrong
 but generally justified.

ctress and Greenpeace activist Emma Thompson was interviewed on BBC Newsnight about Shell’s drilling in the Arctic and associated climate change threats.

In the interview, Thompson made some inaccurate statements about the timescales associated with those climate threats. However, her concerns are generally justified.

Read the Guardian story - “What Emma Thompson got right and wrong on climate change”.

Oscar-winner travels to Artic to tell our PM that climate change is real

Tony Abbott’s comment that climate change is “crap” haunts him.

Oscar-winner, Emma Thompson, is
unhappy about PM's idea that climate
change is "crap".

That claim has travelled around the world settling in the most interesting places, including on the mind of Oscar-winning actor, Emma Thompson.

And now the British actor has travelled to icy wastes of the artic to make her point about the ineptitude of that comment.

Ms Thompson and her 14-year-old daughter, has visited the Smeerenburg glacier in the north-west of Spitsbergen, which is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

While there she singled out Mr Abbott and has her picture taken holding a sign that reads: “Tony Abbott climate change is real, I’m standing on it!”

A story detailing the trip and Ms Thompson’s protest headed: “Emma Thompson visits Arctic to send Tony Abbott a climate change message” has been published in The Guardian.