Climate change

Now back to the man dominating tonight’s news Donald Trump. A man who’s certainly made no secret about his attitude towards global warming.

A huge ice shelf attached to Antarctica, known as Larsen C, may be about to break away.

Donald Trump hasn’t just dismissed the evidence about Russian hacking he’s also famously sceptical about climate change. There’s been more worrying research today showing there has been no slowdown in the rate of global warming over the last 15 years.

It’s less than a month now before climate change sceptic Donald Trump takes over the White House.He won the US presidential election partly on a platform of using more fossil fuels with fewer environmental rules. Now President Obama has announced climate protections which his successor might not be able to reverse.

With temperatures tonight falling as low as minus nine, campaigners are warning that four million households in Britain are still struggling to afford heating, causing illness, anxiety and affecting their chances throughout life.

This certainly is a pivotal moment. Mr Trump’s plans for energy, climate policy and trade will have an enormous impact, not just on the US, but the rest of the world. With me now to make sense of it all, our Business Editor Siobhan Kennedy and our Science Editor Tom Clarke.

William Yeatman, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and James Thornton, founder and CEO of the environmental law organisation, Client Earth.

2016 is set to become the warmest year on record. Global temperatures so far are 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.The data has been released as climate scientists meet in Morocco to push ahead with the detail of the historic Paris climate agreement.

The election of Mr Trump has left many environmental campaigners fearful for the future. He’s called global warming a hoax and said he’d cancel the historic Paris Climate Agreement within 100 days of taking office.

Almost every country in the world has signed up to the “historic” agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.

The Lake District village of Glenridding is cleaning up again after a torrent of flood water crashed through its main street for the second time in five days.

With a decision on whether to allow the building of a third runway at Heathrow airport due soon, climate change protesters cause traffic chaos by blocking car access to several terminals.

The three-bedroom family home near Bridgend – which took just 16 weeks to construct – can export more power to the grid than it consumes, experts say.