Essay by Eric Worrall
Their film is too important to publish on youtube, but they want national TV coverage for their cause.
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health
Pippa Neill Environment reporter
Thu 8 Oct 2026 19.00 AEDTThe British government must be honest about the scale of the threat posed by climate and nature breakdown, researchers have said, after nine out of 10 people surveyed after watching a briefing on the issue felt more motivated to act.
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The team behind the event crowdfunded to produce the People’s Emergency Briefing, a film outlining the urgent threats that climate and nature breakdown pose to food security, the economy and public health.
The film, which has so far been viewed by an estimated 185,000 people at more than 3,400 screenings, calls on the government to stage a primetime, televised emergency briefing on the climate and nature crisis.
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Of the 13,000 people surveyed, 87% said watching the film made them more motivated to act. Watching the film is associated with a “substantial shift” in environmental understanding and concern.
Furthermore, 89% of people said the government should respond to the crisis with emergency-level mobilisation, similar to the Covid-19 pandemic or the second world war.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/08/britons-kept-in-dark-scale-of-climate-crisis-first-of-its-kind-emergency-briefing
The Guardian article goes on to claim the British Government is “hiding” the scale of the climate emergency from the people – like you poor Brits aren’t already being bombarded with wall to wall climate messaging.
The People’s Emergency Briefing or National Emergency Briefing or whatever they are calling themselves today, their website is here.
This isn’t the first time this group has come to our attention;
Obviously going to a screening and having a bunch of climate enthusiasts badger me afterwards might be a bit much, so I looked at their website to see if there is a youtube I could watch or something.
Turns out there isn’t an online link to watch;
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Q: Why isn’t the film online? / Can I host an online screening?
The film is designed to be watched together with a facilitated discussion afterwards.
This helps people process the information emotionally, and the majority report feeling more hopeful connecting with others and finding agency to take action.
Physical gatherings of constituents also provide an excellent way to draw in the local MP – and it’s really powerful when MPs watch it together with their constituents.
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Read more: https://www.nebriefing.org/faq
When I first wrote this article I thought what they were asking for was to show their film on national TV, but turns out that isn’t the case – they want the government to give the nation an emergency briefing, then continue showing their film in private screenings.
From the FAQ;
Q: Why aren’t you asking government to broadcast the film?
We are not asking for the film to be broadcast on TV. Instead we think the government should hold its own emergency briefing.
A government briefing can reach everyone in a way that an environmental film cannot.
Government has a responsibility to help keep the public informed about major national risks, and throughout history that has often involved working with broadcasters to communicate urgent public information clearly and responsibly.
So we are asking the government to hold a live emergency briefing to the nation. It should be introduced by the Prime Minister to signal to the public that this is a situation of the utmost seriousness. The briefing should be delivered by independent experts to maximise trust and public buy-in. It should be broadcast on prime-time TV and radio, and mark the start of wider public information campaign, including across social media.
Whilst we wait for government to brief the nation, civil society is stepping up to spread the word, hosting screenings of our film, the People’s Emergency Briefing. The film is helping make the case for the government-led briefing that we are calling for.
Read more: https://www.nebriefing.org/faq
So lets see if I’ve got this right. Their film is too important for youtube, but they want the government to give a climate emergency briefing which doesn’t include a showing of their film, because that will somehow be different to say doing a live broadcast of their film on social media.
If the British government went ahead and did what this climate group want, it would be the biggest flop since when Aussie Prime Minister Albanese’s tried to do a presidential style address to the nation, and ended up wasting 3 minutes of everyone’s life.
One thing I loved about living in Britain was people get really passionate about their personal interests, you could find groups dedicated to all sorts of causes or activities. I really enjoyed visiting steam engine restoration displays, as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution Britain has an amazing collection of ancient machinery which some people have taken the trouble to restore and maintain. If I was still in Britain I would probably go to one of this group’s screenings, just for a laugh.
But I never knew of such a group to demand prime time TV for their hobby. Its a bit arrogant of the People’s Emergency Briefing group to assume everyone shares their enthusiasm for their hobby.
Step A: watch the CAGW climate disaster alert film.
Step B: undertake an analysis of the statements claimed as fact in the alert film, and consider the results in the context of “governments shouldn’t act on opinions, but should act on actual facts that demonstrate an issue warranting government action with taxpayer funds”.
Step C: don’t wait for it, there’s too much money floating around where people can get their hands on it.
Step D: Never mind the ever-growing influx of 3rd worlders taxing ever more the resources of govt and the taxpayers with the supporting of social (free-loader rewarding) programs (pay-outs).
This is the Cloward and Piven goal—overwhelm the system and make it crash. They do not offer a replacement as destruction (aka, anarchy) is their goal.
Every single one of these “experts” knows full well that the population of the UK could all drop dead tomorrow and it would not make one jot of difference to global temperature or climate. So why would otherwise honest people be doing this? What motivates them? They can’t all be CCP supporters.
Indoctrination. They have been spoon-fed global warming and climate crisis for decades.
As Goebbels had it: tell a small lie and you will be found out. Tell a big lie and repeat it often enough and you will be believed.
This is an absurd comment, Boff. If all countries whose emissions per capita were similar to or less than that of the UK, it would amout to somewhere around 40 to 45% of global emissions. How do you justify your UK exceptionalism?
The point is as a nation if the U.K. suddenly stopped emissions of carbon dioxide, as demanded by this U.K. based group speaking to the government and population of the U.K. alone, then the global effect would be negligible in the grand scheme of things.
This is based on the hypothetical assumption that carbon dioxide controls climate.
Hey we will give you a gold star or medal if you want in the climate olympics .. personally we don’t even want a participation certificate. Go team UK 🙂
re: “The film is designed to be watched together with a facilitated discussion afterwards.”
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Isn’t this called The Delphi Technique or some such?
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https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-10-5251-4_99
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I\ntroduc[ing] the Delphi technique … and explor[ing] its applications … . The Delphi technique is a method of gaining consensus on a particular topic through the use of rounds of questioning of experts in the field. It has three characteristics that make it distinct from other group interaction methods: (1) anonymous group interactions and responses, (2) multiple rounds of questioning, and (3) the provision of feedback to the group between each round. Each characteristic is designed to reduce bias in gaining consensus, such as removing the influence of societal and peer pressures and encouraging the convergence of ideas
Just goes to show that what the climatistas (and the far left in general) lack in their understanding of science and their perception of reality they more than make up for in emotional manipulation and propaganda.
Gives you some idea of how desperate they are; clearly they can see the narrative slipping away from them.
Exactly. All people with useless degrees like Communications and Humanities can do is create narratives. It’s not about knowing anything, but what you can convince others to believe.
Delphi, or something simpler: Tell big enough lies, often enough, and people start to believe.
It is simply Joseph Goebbels technique.
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How are Britons kept in the dark about the climate crisis when they are bombarded 24/7 for years with news about the non-existent climate crisis?
This whole BS is to blame the looming food, health and economic crisis – 100% result of climate action,Net Zero,fertilizer sanctions,war on meat and destruction of fossil fuel supply – on climate.
The same bombardment happens on NPR. When not discussing the climate threat, they’re dumping on Trump and his administration as fascists and morons. I can never turn it on without hearing one or the other within 15 seconds. They’re nuts.
I tell some leftists that NPR is lying to them like all the corporate media, but with a snootier tone (as I push the end of my nose up with my carefully arranged finger). I can’t stand 5 seconds of NPR.
Climate alarmism is a mental disease.
Screenings average 50 people per event. In any neighborhood or community, one can easily find 50 people with a strong interest in a particular subject, in this case, the climate emergency hoax. Before, during, or after viewing the movie and listening to a raving lunatic facilitator, of course the gathered group of cultists would feel an urgent need to address the topic. They believed that before they even showed up.
The “pseudo-scientists” should be worried about the 11% who did not feel motivated coming away from the events. Thinking this mob is batsh** crazy, there is no telling what the 11% might go and do.
“Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis..”Oh really? How do you keep people in the dark about weather patterns? Britons are known for talking about the weather, which must mean they experience it, and if they are not reacting much perhaps there is no crisis. The Boxing Day Tsunami was a crisis as was the Great Japan Quake.
“So we are asking the government to hold a live emergency briefing to the nation. It should be introduced by the Prime Minister to signal to the public that this is a situation of the utmost seriousness. The briefing should be delivered by independent experts to maximise trust and public buy-in.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket! /sarc
I think the decades of “experts” being wrong about “climate” and so many other things is a good reason to ignore the latest “emergency” talk.
One must understand that this has nothing to do with climate. It is, as stated by a high mucky-muck at a Brazil COP, about de facto world redistribution of wealth (and, of course, world control of the peoples).
I think this is a great idea. In fact it’s so good, why don’t the do a double emergency briefing and include Professor Dieter Helm testimony to the Scottish Parliament about the problems with the electrical grid and overall energy system to go with it.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1415487411649681
Eric, I’m already ahead of you on this issue. https://libertarianism.uk/2026/06/30/notes-on-the-peoples-emergency-briefing-film/.
“Government has a responsibility to
help keep the public informed about major national risksdirect millions [ Editorial note : Remember to update this to ‘billions’ once the fix is in place ] of pounds of taxpayer money in my (/ our) direction.”Advocates gonna advocate.
Grifters gonna grift.
Rent-seekers are always going to look for new revenue streams.
What?
Oh, I see. They want us to process emotionally because the crap they put out doesn’t hold up when people use their analytical skills.
Ah, you hit on the composition of US Liberals—they are all about emotionalism. One has to gauge how one feels about everything and then act accordingly to make oneself feel good about themselves.
It seems not. In the NHS, they have about one or two bureaucrats for every medical practitioner (if that is even a valid thing anymore).
Does anyone actually work in the UK anymore? I mean real productive work, not stage work or pretend work.
The drive to distract the population from its sliding competitiveness is relentless in the UK.
“Furthermore, 89% of people said the government should respond to the crisis with emergency-level mobilisation, similar to the Covid-19 pandemic or the second world war.”
Since the alleged problem is the release of to much CO2 to air, it seems that the opposite, an emergency-level non-mobilization, would be appropriate. A mobilization moves people and stuff and that requires burning lots of fuel. Or perhaps they are thinking of Ox carts. But Oxen have digestive systems that …. These advocates are olympic-level ignorant including the 89% of listeners who agreed.
Marxist propaganda since the end of the Russian revolution never ended, it just went underground.
Their government has either failed at or deliberately abdicated its most basic responsibilities to the citizenry. So to mask that complete failure, they’ll create an imaginary crisis to distract you and to justify their further existence.
The last time I watched a film designed to be watched together with a facilitated discussion afterwards was when I discovered where babies came from.
Talk about the nanny state.
What, no Roger Hallam or George Monbiot among the group in the picture? I’m shocked.
What we see here is yet another example of those who do not seem to realize and understand that they are in a cult. The difference between a cult and science is totally lost on them—a cult whose doctrine consists of the abuse and manipulation of science.
Sounds a lot like the ICLEI meetings with facilitators at each table of control the discussion away from the real goals of this Agenda 21 program. These agents when craft to table’s report to suit the already determined meeting goals and make it appear to support ICLEI. If the film is so good and persuasive, why does it need small, controllable groups and facilitators?
The very fact that The Guardian is publicizing this information/alarmism undermines its credibility in one fell swoop. When does that rag ever publicize a good-news story about the climate/environment anyway?
They believe there is still a “prime-time TV and radio”? How cute. 😆
They do not want to be forced into a position where they have to defend their stupidity, dishonesty, and lies in their video. I completely understand how they feel ..
[“The film, which has so far been viewed by an estimated 185,000 people at more than 3,400 screenings“]
That’s an average of just 54 people at each screening … a real blockbuster (:-))