A personal view of Australian and International Politics : Climate change protests spread around the world on global day of action

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Three teenage girls walk through the streets of Nairobi carrying placards.

Photo: Around a thousand protesters march to demand action on climate change, in the streets of downtown Nairobi, Kenya. (AP: Ben Curtis)

Students worldwide are taking to the streets to demand more action against climate change after an estimated 300,000 Australians gathered at rallies around the country.

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Protests began in the Pacific on Friday, with an estimated 300,000 Australians taking to the streets
Climate change rallies spread to Asia, Africa and Europe throughout the rest of the day
The day of action is being held ahead of the United Nations climate summit in New York next week

Warming unprecedented in 2,000 years

Research shows Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period weren't globally coherent periods of warming or cold.

As Friday began around the world, rallies spread across Asia into Africa and Europe, with school students joined by supporters of all ages.
The global day of action was called ahead of a United Nations climate summit in New York next week.
In Nigeria, 37-year-old Seye Adegbpye, 37, told the BBC she joined the climate change protest in Lagos as she had noticed water levels getting higher and flooding getting worse every year.
"The city is also getting hotter and hotter," she said.
"Even though there aren't many of us here today, I'm hoping our Government will hear our requests and implement policies such as increasing the number of trees that are planted around the city."
Banashree Thapa, 23, joined climate protests in Delhi, outside the Lodhi garden.
"I am the daughter of a forest ranger but what will he protect if there is nothing left to protect?" she asked the BBC.
"This is beyond climate change," she says. "This is nature's wrath. And it's coming for us. That's what brought me here."