Good Morning Britain's weather presenter Laura Tobin has shared the emotional message she wrote to her daughter about climate change. The 40-year-old appeared on Lorraine with stand-in host Ranvir Singh to talk about her latest book 'Everyday Ways to Save Our Planet'.
Laura explained that she was "surprised" and "overwhelmed" writing the book - which provides a number of sustainable swaps we can make in our day-to-day lives - and that the experience made her feel like she could be doing so much more too.
The TV meteorologist was asked about the "heartbreaking" letter she penned to her four-year-old daughter Charlotte which features at the start of the book. "I just want to say to her that I'm really sorry," she told Ranvir: "I'm sorry that we've known for such a long time that green house gas emissions are causing pollution that are making our planet overheat.
"I'm sorry that the glaciers are melting and the polar bears don't have ice anymore. I'm just sorry for all of the things we are doing that we could easily change... I hope that when she's my age, I'll be able to take her to Svalbard where I went and she'll see the things I saw and the landscape wouldn't have changed too much."
Laura received backlash when she visited Svalbard - located between mainland Norway and the North Pole - in 2021 for Good Morning Britain with many viewers questioning her carbon footprint. Speaking about it during her Lorraine interview on April 7, she explained: "It has to be weighed up with the positive and negatives and we had a footprint for flying... but we made a tiny negative impact and our flights were offset for what it's worth.
"But actually the positive impact we had on the plant... the millions of people who watched the show, who maybe wouldn't have seen an arctic documentary, who made changes far outweighed it."
Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV and ITV Hub.
