Galway County Council's Biodiversity Office is asking members of the public to help record sightings of the common frog across Co Galway
03.03.2026 11:27
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Galway County Council's Biodiversity Office is asking members of the public to help record sightings of the common frog across Co Galway
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Apparently Coillte have informed agencies that they will not be moving forward with the Portumna Forest Park Masterplan. Turning an important public woodland into holiday homes is inappropriate commercialisation at a time when we need community led nature restoration in public forests
Monaghan County Council’s use of public land as the centre of a community‑led meadow restoration project is exactly the kind of initiative that should be rolled out across the country through Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan.
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Good golly… we are playing with fire: “Marine-based sectors in East Antarctica, representing ~5 m of potential sea-level rise, are at risk of losing stability at 2–5 °C.”
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Another potential early warning sign of an AMOC collapse described by vanWesten and Dijkstra. “These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping”
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Rossacroo woods in Kerry is overrun by invasive sika deer, making natural regeneration of trees impossible.
A new fence will change that for some years, as another did in the past before it was breached, as this one inevitably will be.
Our native forests need natural predators like lynx back.
"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social
i’d be surprised if people spent significantly less time outside in the 90s compared to today tho i’d gladly be proven wrong on that.
yeah i think anything in the range 600-1000 is considered okay. the paper does mention time spent indoors as an area of consideration/further research so at least they didn’t ignore it but the methodology doesnt seem to factor that in.
a difference between an indoorsy population vs an outdoorsy one
an excellent observation, though as outdoor co2 level continues to rise so should our indoor levels rise as well? atmospheric co2 concentration determines the floor for the air quality we can hope to achieve indoors so i wouldn’t say thise are independent variables but at the same time i’d expect
*for reference*
normal blood ph levels are between 7.35 - 7.45.
acidosis occurs in the 6.8-7.35 region. this is a fairly large window with the lower end involving severe damage.
values below 6.8 result in death.
source: dept.harpercollege.edu/chemistry/ch...
if any @irishdocsenv.bsky.social would like to chime in i’d love to hear your thoughts on this 🙏
of any studies currently that examine the impact on our acidity regulation systems in a scenario where respiratory compensation is compromised due to the very composition of the atmosphere.
this means the other mechanisms will need to work overtime just to maintain pH balance. in my completely unprofessional assessment this will put strain on the kidneys, which i can’t imagine is an optimal way to function.
i would greatly appreciate any literature on this topic. i am not aware-
The body regulates the acidity of the blood by four buffering mechanisms. • Bicarbonate buffering system • Intracellular buffering by absorption of hydrogen atoms by various molecules, including proteins, phosphates and carbonate in bone. • Respiratory compensation. Hyperventilation will cause more carbon dioxide to be removed from the body and thereby increases pH. • Kidney compensation source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_acidosis
Rising atmospheric co2 is a huge problem here because one of the ways our bodies regulate blood pH is through breathing. as the levels of co2 in the atmosphere continue to rise, the efficiency of exchange of the gas between our body and the air we breathe will decrease.
Increased concentration of atmospheric co2 is beginning to put stress on our bodies (which need to maintain a careful pH balance in our blood in order to… survive) phys.org/news/2026-02...
an offshore windfarm
Earth has delivered a warning - we’ve already experienced a near-collapse of AMOC once.
We must insulate homes and build resilient food systems NOW, before it's too late.
And above all, we must stopping burning fossil fuels.
a parched field in Europe
A full shutdown would be catastrophic for Europe.
Northern Europe would become too cold and unstable for reliable agriculture.
Southern Europe would face deepening drought.
Food systems across the continent would be thrown into crisis.
2009's event was temporary and natural. Today, it’s melting Arctic and Greenland ice - caused by the burning of fossil fuels - that is weakening the AMOC.
In other words, human activity is pushing the system towards long-term, permanent collapse.
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aerial view of Southampton, New York
In 2009, the AMOC suddenly but temporarily weakened, driven by a confluence of rare atmospheric conditions.
The result? A glimpse of a future that none of us are prepared for.
The UK had its coldest winter in a century.
Sea levels in North Eastern USA rapidly rose by 13cm.
satellite image of snow covered Britain from 2010
New York underwater.
Agriculture in Northern Europe wiped out by a big freeze.
Southern Europe plunged into drought.
That’s what's coming if the AMOC current in the Atlantic keeps slowing or shuts down altogether.
How can we be so sure? Because we got a preview in 2009. 🧵
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I think "killing children is always bad" is maybe the easiest simplest position to hold.
Surpressed UK govt report warns #ClimateChange risks ecosystem collapse, water & food insecurity - loss of arable land, severely reduced crop yields, fisheries collapse - & novel zoonotic disease, driving mass migration, political extremism & even nuclear conflict
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