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Climate science and policy for a better, safer, fairer world 🌍🌎🌏 Working on carbon dioxide removal and national pathways to net zero and beyond Research Fellow @ucc.bsky.social 🇮🇪 https://roisinmoriarty.com/
"Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system"
Great post as always. That we haven't prevented it doesn't make it unpreventable
I saw it in Cork maybe a while ago. Feckin' sweet wrappers, through the whole show. He was great though.
He was different to the idea of Crean I had in my head from reading the book, so it challenged me a bit, which is good, I just wasn't expecting it!
Have you read Unsung Hero? It is so good. I didn’t like the show as much as I thought I would, but it is an amazing production.
When I worked @bas.ac.uk I walked past a huge portrait of him (the one with the armful of puppies) every morning 😀
Paul gets into the weeds on this (much like their previous paper on this topic - Defining a ‘Paris Test’ of national contribution to global climate mitigation: the Irish exemplar iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...) and alongside the report the data and analysis available online.
If you are interested to understand the ins and out of the Climate Change Advisory Council's equity assessment of Ireland's carbon budgets @swimsure.bsky.social and @ejni.bsky.social released a working paper last week that applies a consistent 'Paris Test' across the carbon budgets.
Country music and climate change, listen to the latest episode of @cc-offtherecord.bsky.social where we put Conor Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie in the hot seat #storytelling #adaptation
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
'I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician, I'm a plumber'
The green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton, with Reform in second and Labour finished third
The question has to be asked why do media in #Ireland follow this same playbook?
What is the motive behind rarely mentioning the driver? Press Ombudsman & Press Council silent.
Great podcast: The Bar of Ireland explores facts around Government's proposed changes to environmental judicial review process. Guest Phoebe Duvall, An Taisce's Senior Planning & Policy Officer, outlines direct impacts to public's access for environmental justice.
on.soundcloud.com/qwXfKBywYLZs...
🇮🇪 "Overall, this report concludes that the CCAC Proposal requires greater advisory clarity to set out a rigorous carbon budget basis for effective climate mitigation policies, sufficient to limit emissions-related warming within a fair-share 1.5ºC threshold, as required by the 2021 climate Act."
the economic style of reasoning
🌱 Green Careers Series | Ep 8
Meet Diarmuid Torney, Director of DCU Institute for Climate & Society and DCU lead for the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.
From politics & economics to fair transitions, he explains why inclusive decision-making matters.
Watch here: buff.ly/IVO4hkP
New cycle mechanic courses to take place at Rediscovery Centre in March and May
Two new cycle mechanic courses to take place at Rediscovery Centre in Dublin -- the Cytech Technical Three and Technical e-bike Courses are to run at the end of March and the end of May. The centre said that the first…
Next climate change off the record with Professor Conor Murphy is coming soon...
Small rejoinder to the cohort of people who confidently tell you Ireland should turn to nuclear power.
After inventing solar and wind, it just doesn’t make economic sense, and it takes too long to implement.
On holiday, at pub quiz. Question: what is the longest river in the British Isles? Answer: the Shannon. Irish gang in the pub were not having it
“Economic revenue must not come at the expense of protecting the environment and human rights”
‘The country’s presidency of the European Union from July to December this year is a chance to show leadership’
- UN Special Rapporteur fact finding mission in Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
“The global spread of petro-masculinity is increasing pressure to import fossil fuels from the US, to build more data centres, to invest in militarisation, to weaken our commitment to peace & to brace ourselves for even more devastating future floods & storms.”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
🇮🇪 Well worth a read for anyone interested in outside expert's view on environmental & climate issues on the island of Ireland:
End of [visit to Ireland] Mission Statement, by Astrid Puentes Riaño, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The Antarctic Peninsula faces “substantial and irreparable damage” if global warming exceeds 2°C, polar scientists have warned today 🧵
Deliberate democracy experiments constantly show that people can agree on sufficiency policies that increase the well-being of the majority.
On the contrary, in the real representative democracy our parties pursue limited self-interest of institutions and corporations, and themselves.
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Ketan's new report puts such a fine point on the incredible greenwashing value to big tech companies of lumping *all data-driven prediction or decision software,* some of which has real climate benefits, under the umbrella term "AI," which many people associate with language models such as ChatGPT.
🚨BREAKING NEWS!
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
How much land and power would it take to decarbonise Dublin Airport?
Check out our new RTE Brainstorm article: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Great, plain English, Brainstorm piece by @ucc.ie researchers on what it would take to decarbonised #DublinAirport -- more than you would think @rte.ie
This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.
Funny how there's a pretty consistent editorial campaign aimed at getting Ireland to "pull our weight" in Europe's defence, but there isn't one asking us to pull our weight in addressing our fair share of climate emissions #spéirgorm
