@stopclimatechaos.bsky.social march ending @oireachtasnews.bsky.social with a disappointing turnout, but then a damp day for it.

All nations committed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degC for good reason. Instead many governments are beholden to the fossil fuel lobby and even subsidize fossil fuel use with your money. We’re now at 1.4 degC & emissions are rising not falling. unfccc.int/process-and-...

🔊One day to go until the National Climate March! Will you join us tomorrow to march for climate justice?🌍✊ www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...

We’ve joined forces across civil society & have written a joint letter to the HM Treasury advising urgent tax reform on the UK’s heaviest, most polluting cars. We’re calling for change: a straightforward large vehicle levy, that would raise nearly £2bn for vital public investment. #AutumnBudget

Today is the #Health Day at #COP13, time to put health at the centre of climate change as health affect us all now, not in the future and multiple epidemics and pathogens as well as mental health and heat exhaustion affect billions of people worldwide. Act now! climade.health/climade-cop3...

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

“Rebuilding Ireland” (2016 housing plan) has disappeared for the web, so shared here for anyone who’d like a look back drive.google.com/file/d/1wEZJ...

Youth are the ones who live longest with the consequences of today’s decisions. At #COP30, youth of European climate movement stand up for intergenerational justice — echoing the ICJ ruling that ambitious climate action is a legal duty, not a political choice. Our future & planet are not for sale!

Atmospheric/climate scientists have been warning us for decades about the genesis of global warming.

🎤 What is wrong with Ireland’s #housing & #planning system My discussion today with Hugh Linehan, @irishtimes.com Inside Politics & Sean Keyes, Progress Ireland #Speirgorm Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0KXu... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i... Web: shows.acast.com/inside-polit...

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

See ye THIS SATURDAY! 💚 1pm 💚 Garden of Remembrance If you can't make it, show your solidarity by joining IRISH CYCLING CAMPAIGN, at the forefront of the fight to reduce Ireland's massive carbon emissions from transport (also, discounts on goodies!) www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/irish-cyclin...

Some of our courts still allowing drivers to avoid penalty points by use of discredited 'poor-box'. Yet again #motornormativity retains a get-out-of-jail card. Eleven years ago the High Court ruled that statutory provisions making penalty points mandatory “supersede” the tinyurl.com/2kjm2x8p

Join us for our November public meeting to meet reps from Dublin City Council’s Active Travel Programme Office re- • Active Travel Network progress • Project Consultations • Early Engagements • Plans for 2026 📆 Thu 13 Nov 📍 Academy Plaza Hotel off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0 ⏰ 7.30pm

She says this “silence effectively renders the long-Covid community as good as non-existent, hampering interest in treating the condition and funding for relevant research”.

It's good to have the very real hazard presented to #activetravel users by the continuing fatal fascination for SUVs highlighted in The British Medical Journal. One of the co-authors, James Nix, was a founder member of Cyclist.ie now the The Irish Cycling Campaign (ICC).

Join us at the National Climate March Saturday 15 November at 1pm Garden of Remembrance, Dublin We’ll be marching for climate justice to urge the Government to put people before big polluters @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social #stopclimatechaos #climateactionnow #endfossilfuels #climatejustice

With two confirmed cases of #BirdFlu #H5N1 in poultry flocks in #Ireland, I hope #biosecurity measures will include public health surveillance (serology) of flock owners & husbandry staff? www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Despite focus on cycling, active travel funding split 60/40 in favour of pedestrian infrastructure The €360 million per year active travel funding for urban areas, provided via the National Transport Authority, has primarily been allocated to pedestrian infrastructure, the authority has said. The…

"Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts" The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

At today's Road Safety GB National Road Safety Conf #20splenty will be presenting on how "Setting 20mph as an urban/village norm has the power to deliver one of the quickest wins for the UK and in particular England and Northern Ireland".

It seems to me that current ministers in transport have given up trying to reduce road traffic KSIs, so it’s #ZeroVision from them.

"ETSC regrets that Ireland has stepped back from a clear national default. International experience shows why a default works." A reminder that 85 of our urban areas are clearly defined & default could be implemented immediately in those cities and towns. etsc.eu/irelands-urb...

👏 Prof Lidia Morawska: global champion for truth, science and public health. While others hesitated, she spoke with courage - showing that #SARSCoV2 spreads through the air, indoors and over distance. Her work helped reshape global guidance, ventilation standards and public awareness - saving lives!

@cyclingwithoutage.bsky.social trishaws must be one of the design user types in all projects.

A spooktacular #IBIKEBoo in #Dublin last night👻🎃🪩🚲 @ibike.ie brought the tunes #alternativedublin rewarded the fanciest dressed We roll again 🗓️28 Nov 25 🕕6 PM 📍Parnell Sq N #IBIKEBop #CriticslMass

We were at the Mansion House for yesterday's launch of the Climate & Health Alliance’s discussion paper - ‘Active Travel: the Magic Pill. A great collaboration between health care professionals & active travel advocates. #MovementIsMedicine climateandhealthalliance.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

@irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social was at the launch of the Climate & Health Alliance’s discussion paper ‘Movement is Health’ or #ActiveTravel the magic pill. @willandrews01.bsky.social @janetphorner.bsky.social Dr. Elaine Mullan. climateandhealthalliance.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Movement is medicine! Brilliant interview with our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke! As part of the Climate Health Alliance, we launched the 'Active Travel: The Magic Pill' report today!

"But everyone knows what I mean when I say "bike"! While that may be true, when we talk about 'bikes' it's easy for many people to forget about those who need to use non-standard cycles such as trikes, recumbents and tandems.

“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them” I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social grist.org/culture/cars...

@paulsaxmd.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with his analysis on 2 new COVID vaccine studies. If you want data, nuance & common sense, have a read. Key takeaway: COVID vaccine makes sense for those at greatest risk for severe infection (eg. elderly). Link: tinyurl.com/yc63e9c2

Can the review please also ask whether we need illuminated bonnets and light-up logos? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn971jlpvvro And before anyone moans about bike lights being too bright (a) they're not, compared to cars; and (b) ask yourself WHY cyclists might fear they won't be seen

Negotiating or trying to cut a deal with physics really is a mug’s game, as our children will find out soon enough. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

"The most important determinants of successful natural colonisation: the availability of seed sources and low levels of herbivory... Natural colonisation and tree planting can be combined to meet diverse woodland objectives, but this has been little explored to date."

Exactly! Traffic engineers extensive use of them in #Ireland does not create safe cycling infrastructure. No more than beg-buttons do.

"It’s vital that we put money behind the idea of ecological capital, which is the natural wealth of soils, water, and biodiversity that underpins our entire economy. Without acknowledging its value, we keep treating it as free and infinite, right up until it’s gone."

A press release by @garda.ie & RSA "statistics show a rise in pedestrian injuries on Irish roads between October and December each year. Of the road fatalities so far this year, 29 were pedestrians". So what proportion were killed simply because they had to step off a blocked pavement?

Beautifully written piece by Lydia James as she reflects on Irish Cycling Campaign's Bicycle Space at Electric Picnic 2025. www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/irish-cyclin...

You can post a photo of your bike at your poĺling station, with #ibikeivote

Love 30, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, ourselves & other road safety campaigners are calling on the Minister Darragh O’Brien to issue a commencement order without delay for the default urban speed limit of 30km/h as defined in the Road Traffic Act 2024. www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/call-for-com...

Wild! This NOAA video shows how quickly fossil fuel CO2 can accumulate. It shows daily fossil CO2 over a 2 year period (2011-2012), starting with a concentration of *Zero*: "By the end of 2012, the entire Northern Hemisphere is red, illustrating a total accumulation of about 9 to 10 ppm of CO2"

This isn’t an accident. It’s policy by design. The required reallocation of space from cars back to people simply hasn’t happened. We’re still designing cities around cars... And the consequences? Huge impacts on our health, our shared environment. and the planet.

You can’t beat the vortex mixer! assets.fishersci.com/TFS-Assets/C...

Another interview about #Aras25 now on @virginmedianews.bsky.social with Heather Humphreys in hot seat, but nothing about what she hopes for her term in office. These interviews/debates are below par for public broadcasting in my view.

It’s hard to understand why folks would choose to get their coffee out of a capsule rather than from a bean of their own choosing brewed in a simple device!

“Councils investigate 1,600 Airbnb-style lets suspected of planning breaches Airbnb lists more than 1,000 homes in Dublin city” —for context, in all of 2024 Dublin City new dwellings built: north inner city 440 south east inner city 95 south west inner city 279 www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

@irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social affiliated group Love30.ie for Safer Speed Limits along with the Dublin Commuter Coalition, and other road safety campaigners are calling on the Minister for Transport, @darraghobrientd.bsky.social to issue a commencement order without delay for the default urban

Health Canada issues it's guidance for #DavosSafe air in health care settings as reported here: ospe.on.ca/advocacy/pol...

NEW: "Opening the EU market to vehicles certified under US standards would weaken the protections that save lives in Europe," say more than 80 civil society organisations and the administrations of Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris in a letter to EU policymakers and officials. etsc.eu/accepting-us...