Laura Tobin: Everyday Ways to Save Our Planet

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But then you see others who throw their recycling in the wrong bin, or people who don't realise the detrimental effects of food wastage.

I loved it and that day I phoned the Met Office to find out what you needed to do to be a weather forecaster. The forecaster explained some countries, like China, have had some of the clearest air they’ve had in over 25 years. The jet stream is a conveyor belt of winds high up in the atmosphere - and it is this that brings weather fronts to our shores.People were coming up to me saying they had watched it with their family and they were looking at how they live their lives. The world is heating up at an alarming rate - last year was the joint warmest on record, and the last decade our warmest ever. However, by next Tuesday, the south is likely to see below average temperatures of 18 degrees celsius with the north hitting highs of 14 degrees celsius. But with such a contentious topic as climate change, some fans were bound to get a bit rowdy in the comments.

She stated: "The amount of people that watched, who maybe wouldn’t have watched an Arctic documentary, was in the millions.

Carol Kirkwood, 59, took to Twitter to wish weather presenter Laura Tobin a big well done, following her revelation that she had written a new book. The meteorologist also shared more shocking statistics in her new book - one in particular which stated that the UK only recycles 47% of it's plastic waste.

Laura explained that we have seen global average sea levels rise by 21-24cm since 1880, with about a third of that happening in the last two and a half decades alone. As in her daily contribution to climate change with travelling to a different place to give the weather forecasts. By writing this book I hope to encourage people to make small changes - but that's all I can really do.Higher temperatures actually cause more rain because warm air holds more moisture, which increases the risk of extreme rainfall events. It’s one of the biggest things we can do to save money, otherwise heat goes out through the walls and windows. My teacher, Mr Hannant, asked all the boys to stand in one straight line and all the girls to stand in another straight line next to the boys, as though we were about to start two conga lines. Laura Tobin has predicted that the residents of a small village in Wales will be first to suffer from rising-sea levels within the next 30 years.