Greta Thunberg tells Trump to 'listen to the science' after arriving in New York – as it happened

Sweden's teenage environmental activist says she's going to miss 'sitting for hours and staring at the ocean, doing nothing' after setting foot on dry land

10.07pm BST

If you want to hang with Greta Thunberg, make America Greta again, do your bit to protest inaction on the climate crisis, etc, etc, then midtown Manhattan is where you need to be this Friday.

She's going to be taking part in a general strike outside the United Nations headquarters.

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9.54pm BST

OMG do NOT ever try to condescend to Greta Thunberg! Listening in on a conversation she just had with some journalist or other (not the Guardian, I hasten to add, that comes later, keep an eye on the website for her interview!), dude asks her: "Don't you just want to be a kid?"

Thunberg says: "I would love not to have to do this and just go to school, but I want to do this because I want to make a difference.