Action movie: Gillian Metheringham watches The People’s Emergency Briefing

‘I felt shock at some of the facts that were revealed.’

by Gillian Metheringham 6th November 2026

‘This is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetime,’ said Hayley Fowler, a professor of Climate Change Impacts at Newcastle University. She was speaking on the screen to a gathering of Stroud residents in Gloucestershire recently. We had come to see one of the screenings of The People’s Emergency Briefing: On the climate and nature crisis, and most of us thought back with alarm to the summer heat we had just experienced. The least extreme? It sounded shocking, even to those of us who already knew it to be true.