Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I spoke to the Irish Times earlier about the situation on Old Cabra Road where a petrol station owned by Lissan Coal Company is preventing the delivery of safe pedestrian and cycle infrastructure and faster bus journey times because it affects their commercial profits.

“We wish to state plainly and unequivocally that, in our informed view, there is no basis in science and no discernible basis in law for [the Minister's] assertion." – Experts' “extreme concern” over the delay in publishing an updated national Climate Action Plan. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Good overview of the tangle net issue from @philipb-h.bsky.social this morning with input from fishermen and scientists. Dept. of Ag. officials will appear at the Joint Oireachtas Committee next week to answer for their inaction. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Pod of this week's Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM is now available. We discussed initiative to arrest decline in hedgehog numbers, plus we looked at how councillors are still trying to rezone land on flood plains www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Join us this Saturday as we stand together for safe cycling paths and safe crossings for our children and our community. Let’s make Cabra safer for all. Saturday 21 February 2026 11am–12pm Outside Go Petrol Station, Old Cabra Road #SaferStreets #ConnectingCabra #Cabra #CommunityAction

Just like Icarus, we are indeed flying too close to the sun, driven by Government policy and uncritical media coverage. My letter in The Irish Times this morning.

Fixed that headline for you: ‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance. PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This Valentine’s Day, we can all only dream of one day finding someone who is as obsessed by and devoted to us as the Business Post is to… Dublin Airport.

It's depressing stuff. Garden centers still selling rhododendron & Laurel. Organizations with large campuses still planting things like Laurel. The authorities doing nothing to regulate the import of invasive species & pathogens. But when 5 wild boar show up, it's DEFCON 1 & all hands on deck.

It's hard to keep up with the destruction of America's institutions, but this is a big one.

Read our open letter to the Taoiseach and Climate Minister, arguing that there is no legal or scientific justification for delaying Ireland's Climate Action Plan. It's urgently needed to close the carbon budget delivery gap this decade, and further delays will increase overall costs.

Open letter to IE govt: protesting the continuing delays in issuing the 2026 update to the Climate Action Plan (CAP26), and the spurious grounds being offered for that. www.postcarbonireland.org/etc/2026/Let...

We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad

As Ireland secures Nitrates derogation, scraps airport limits and tries to scupper Mercosur trade deal, what a GREAT time to go to the EU with the béal bocht routine, begging to be saved from our own greed & stupidity yet again.

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

The Minister for Climate to seek Cabinet approval this morning to lift the passenger cap that is in place at Dublin Airport. A move that will dramatically increase emissions, worsen climate change, and harm human health.

Weeks of severe storms and catastrophic flooding across the country — all made worse and more frequent by climate change. Our politicians’ response? Our Minister for Climate Action’s response?! More emissions.

"We're for the jobs the comet will bring..." #DontLookUp

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in January 2026 10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Many people think that eating insects could be a good solution to climate change. Nope. Not really. Read more here, and see why Project Drawdown says this is "Not Recommended" as a climate solution. drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

Another excellent piece by Pádraic Fogarty. The Nature Restoration Law and the Land Use Review offer the government a real opportunity to address challenges like flooding head-on, but I have little faith they’ll take it. www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm...

There are literally 100s of flood relief schemes in place, and only a handful have been judicially reviewed. Enniscorthy hasn't even got planning permission but judicial review is being blamed for delay.

When you look at this alongside the failure of the gov to publish a sectoral emissions target for land use, the failure to identify funding for the Nature Restoration Law or the failure to reform Coillte or Bord na Mona, you can see how there is no intention to deal with land use issues

After Midelton was flooded in 2023 Leo Varadkar said we needed a Land Use Plan. The Plan is ready but @micheal-martin.bsky.social won't publish it. Instead, he's legally designating rivers as "highly modified" jrnl.ie/6946724

I wonder what our President will make of this bill?

This is cycling in Copenhagen. No hi-vis. No helmet mandates. People cycle because it’s safe — by design. This is what cycling should look like. Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...

What a wildly stupid idea. Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes. That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.

And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling. This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

Government 'Gas Bill" is a trojan horse for fossil fuel growth and ensures climate action failure - stripping people, places and nature of the potential for a positive, viable future - @antaisce.bsky.social www.antaisce.org/news/gas-eme... #LNG @aideenod.bsky.social @autofac.bsky.social

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Irelan asks for "no additional heating approach" to farming. IE if emissions don’t increase, they can be "climate neutral" Try that with anything else. Ecuador can have no crime problem if homicide numbers stay stable. Ukrain can be at peace if bombing rate stays the same. A better world beacons

Spain's government is among the few in Europe now providing a clear alternative to the far right - pro migration, pro climate action and not apologising for it www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

It is grossly negligent for a national broadcaster to report on Ryanair’s profit margins without once mentioning emissions, given it is one of Europe’s biggest CO₂ emitters. This is not journalism. It is head in the sand reporting with a generous helping of free corporate PR.

Using SCSI estimates suggests retrofitting DCC's Wood Quay HQ might cost roughly €70.2m. The council's CEO, Richard Shakespeare, says it'd cost roughly €350m-€400m, so it makes sense to abandon Wood Quay and build a new HQ on Kevin St. But the council won't explain how it got those numbers.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

🇮🇪 Government's proposed Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve Bill would enable fossil fuel lock-in, violate EU law, & (Head 20) subvert the Climate Act's key s.15. 📢 Deadline TODAY 5pm for submissions to the Joint Committee on Pre-Legislative consultation on the Bill. www.oireachtas.ie/en/committee...

Late last year the government designated 466 rivers as 'highly modified', meaning they will continue to be dredged for the purposes of agriculture, ensuring towns and villages face greater flood risk www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

We're at 80.37%. C'mon Ireland. France is at 307%!! Where's your competitive spirit. This petition is the queen of petitions, 👸. I know you've signed a lot already, but don't skip this one by. It's got clout! #JusticeForPalestine #Speirgorm

Sharing again, because we still haven't passed the threshold. We are at 77%. This petition is really important. Sign, share and make sure others sign, please. 🙏 eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public #Speirgorm #Speirghorm #JusticeForPalestine

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This is spectacular! Sales of fully battery powered trucks have shot past diesel trucks in China. Forget about hybrid and hydrogen trucks. We can now stop calling heavy trucking a "hard to abate" sector.

Just waiting for #RTE #drivetime to segue from breathless vox pops with those affected by flooding to informed discussion of why these more extreme precipitation events seem to be getting more common...

The climate change bill is skyrocketing — but with bold adaptation now, Europe can protect lives, strengthen economies and become climate resilient. Worsening climate impacts could cut EU GDP by 7% by end of the century. But Member States are responding, introducing national adaptation policies ...

30 times more money is spent destroying nature than protecting it www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

The central and eastern United States will be one of the cold spots (relative to average) compared to anywhere in the world over the next 7 days. There's always lots of variability in temperatures from place-to-place. But our planet is still warming up, and this is due to human-caused climate change

[Truly amazing what this Govt can accelerate when they want to. But sectoral emissions ceilings? Update to climate action plan? What's the rush?]

Whether we eat animal or plant-based foods makes a much bigger climate difference than how far they've travelled from. Meat (even locally produced) causes far more GHG emissions than tofu (even made from imported soybeans) or modern meat alternatives (made, for example, from peas & vegetable oil). 👇

Question: What formed Irish soils after the last Ice Age? Answer: Natural ecosystems such as rainforest, over 1,000s of years. Conclusion: Sheep grazing uplands (for eg) is just mining the fertility built up by the very nature it killed off and continues to keep out, while giving NOTHING back.