so that is my reflection. over your time reporting, do you think the language has changed? i think at the guardian you have taken the decision to use the term climate crisis , for example. that is an evolution in language. that is hugely important. when i started 18 years ago, | writing about climate change and global warming, global warming sounds lovely. - if you ask someone if they would like a bit of global. warming, they say, oh, yes please. i climate change sounds nice and gentle, like something gradual. what we know is that - when the climate changes, it does so abruptly, - weather goes to extremes. what we are going to see is nothing gentlej and nothing pleasant. we are going to see real extremes of weather, i we are already seeing them, we are seeing floods - in pakistan, - droughts in africa. so we need to reflect that in our language. | we need to reflect what - the scientists are telling us. so we have stopped talking very consciously at the guardian, -
over your time reporting, do you think the language has changed? i think at the guardian you have taken the decision to use the term climate crisis, for example. that is an evolution in language. that is hugely important. when i started 18 years ago. writing about climate change and global warming, global warming sounds lovely. - if you ask someone if they would like a bit of global. warming, they say, oh, yes please. - climate change sounds nice and gentle, like something gradual. what we know is that - when the climate changes, it does so abruptly, - whether it goes to extremes. what we are going to see is nothing gentlej and nothing pleasant. we are going to see real extremes of weather, i we are already seeing them, we are seeing floods - in pakistan, - droughts in africa. so we need to reflect that in our language. | we need to reflect what - the scientists are telling us. so we have stopped talking very consciously at the guardian, - about climate change and started talking.