How screwed is the climate, how do we stop it screwing us, how do we unscrew it. Three episodes of Global Warning has considered answers to all the above, and @aljazeera.com has made it free to watch on YouTube. Ep 1: How Screwed Is It? 👉 youtu.be/F8vI5_gN90g?... 1/3

My God.

"For 1000s of years, Iranians understood the balance: Never draw more from an aquifer than nature could replenish. That wisdom, once central to survival, has been buried under decades of short-term thinking & political negligence." [Ireland's agri-ruled politics is water negligence too. #nitrates]

When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE

Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation. Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...

Valuable lesson here from one-time #climate “hero” Bill Gates: never, ever trust billionaires – on any subject. Only thing they care about is themselves, as I explained to Matt Cooper yesterday. Oh, and not sure about Micheál Martin either. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Only about 10% of the world's population has ever flown. Yet, the aviation industry is responsible for roughly 2–4% of global CO₂ emissions. Does that seem fair? Why should our flights around the world be subsidised and encouraged at such a cost to the planet? This must change.

Rumour is a dirty political deal is afoot whereby Ireland gets Nitrates Derogation renewal in return for approving the EU Mercosur deal. Makes nasty sense: IFA etc & rural TDs get to say "best we could get" to rural voters, meanwhile 🇮🇪🇪🇺 Big Dairy profit from both. Nature & health FAIL of course.

The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.

Taoiseach decries slump in #climate action…abroad, of course. Meanwhile, back home, Taoiseach opposes solar farms & 100% supports Ireland’s climate-destroying and water-polluting livestock sector. Go figure. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"Will the 🇮🇪Government use its financial and political capital now to secure a cleaner, cheaper, fairer future, or will it keep betting that Europe won’t enforce its own climate law? If the latter, then we’ll not only have lost time and money, but also the opportunity to build a sustainable country."

There is a co-ordinated attack underway on access to justice & environmental democracy, with the Irish public being bombarded daily with anti-judicial review messaging from all sides. This is to soften up the public before their right to access justice is removed- it's manufacturing consent.

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

This is great journalism from SkyNews on the right-wing cesspit that X/Twitter has become & its malign influence on UK X users. Probably the same in Ireland & elsewhere. [I disagree with one of the expert comments. Non-right-wing X users did NOT "cede the space", they left when the space was taken.]

“Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts.” John Gibbons doesn’t mince his words, giving an honest appraisal of the environmental outcomes of dairy. @thinkorswim.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Politicians must wake up to Ireland’s duty to act on climate, says leading scientist #Cop30 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

@saveladyislandlake.bsky.social hosting important public meeting at 7pm on Nov 17 at Lady’s Island Community Centre on nitrate pollution. An Taisce's Head of Advocacy & freshwater expert @elainemcgoff.bsky.social will be speaking on the science behind this ecological crisis. #SaveLadysIslandLake

Looking forward to taking part in a public interview around my book, THE LIE OF THE LAND at the Dublin Book Festival in TU Grangegorman with Prof Pat Brereton from 12.30 tomorrow. Link below for the last few (free) tickets: lnkd.in/ewb6596f

I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.

Nice to get a bit of a write-up in my hometown paper, the Kilkenny People, to mark THE LIE OF THE LAND being shortlisted for the Book of the Year award.

I also urge you to think about that second chart - to give an accurate picture, the charts on the bottom left should show methane's warming impact as far, far higher.

There are many ways that cows emitting methane constantly are completely different from closed power stations. Firstly, their ongoing emissions are a choice and a lever we still have agency over. Secondly, they also cause a load of long-life GHGs, directly and indirectly.

Vietnam: Five and a half feet of rain in a day. Smashes previous 24 hour record by two and a half feet. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

We're glad to have co-signed this complaint to @rte.ie . Appalling that our national broadcaster did not address climate change in the Presidential debates. Young people deserved to hear what their next President thought on the issue most shaping their future. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"If Europe’s institutions allow this shift to continue, they will not just lose civil society, they will privatise accountability itself, and with it, the credibility of European democracy and governing capacity. Democracies rarely fall by force; they erode through complacency."

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock Today they are outweighed 1 to 20 Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A billionaire who thought we shouldn't give the poor free COVID vaccines, and hung out with Epstein, wrote some weird, vague stuff about how climate change "isn't that bad" and now the media is covering that rather than a record climate fueled hurricane. The age of oligarchy sure is exhausting.

In their Letter to the Editor published in the Irish Times @irishtimes.com, the scientists set the record straight by rebutting multiple errors in John FitzGerald's opinion piece last week: "Framing the debate as a false dichotomy...distracts from the real choices" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"

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...

Treat Lough Derg like a bin, and it will show you what that looks like. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

#CO2 Credits: "The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I 100% endorse this message. The spoiled votes are a 3rd or 4th order story in this election and disproportionate attention and airtime is a measure of the level of editorial discomfort with talking about Connolly’s success and FF/FG failure.

Another aquatic ecosystem, not 'at risk', or 'on the verge', but actually collapsed. "like staring at a face distorted by botched plastic surgery and trying to imagine the real person beneath" www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Good governance is the same. Complex multi-facited challenges often require complex solutions & trade-offs. Anyone selling “common sense” fixes to systemic problems is usually a grifter with an agenda, not a leader with a plan.

Roger Hallam, speaking today by video link to the very good TU Dublin Climate MESS conference. RH: "Seeding pro-social connectivity is crucial to counter rising fascist influence." Excellent discussions this morning on data centres and doughnut ecomomics in the Irish climate action context.

Yes. ‘Carbon neutral’ flawed concept as it is comes out of GWP100 analysis. It is a slight of hand to keep using it after switching to GWP* - which has to go way negative in climate scenarios achieved by net zero GWP100.

No Irish citizen can be blind to the issues here, or not have a perspective on them. Every Irish person knows these are serious profound perspectives that deserve more than a spoiled vote. You have to be inhuman not to cast your vote for what you believe in. Nihilism is not on the ballot.

Degenerative AI "If brains need friction but also instinctively avoid it, it’s interesting that the promise of technology has been to create a “frictionless” user experience" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wouldn’t it be quite something if a book about Ireland & the #climate crisis were to win non-fiction Book of the Year in the @irishbookawards.bsky.social? With your help, this CAN happen: please follow the link below and *vote* for THE LIE OF THE LAND, then pass it on! www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

This 🇩🇰 dairy farmer, Torsten Wetche, tells the #PlantFoodSummit audience how he maximised food production on his farm — and that’s *not* by raising more cows and intensifying production. He chose to have fewer cows, raised on grass, and diversified production to grow plants for food — not feed.

So ... big test of EU credibility on #ClimateAction coming up? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BEYOND delighted and honoured to be Shortlisted tonight for non-fiction Book of the Year at this year’s Irish Book Awards! THE LIE OF THE LAND continues to make waves!

A very useful thread summarising today's ICJ ruling on Israel's obligations re aid to Gaza. For the conclusions, start here; for the reasons, scroll back. (Nb this is not the Genocide Convention case, which is still pending)

Ex-IFA head works for FG... 9 ex-IFA heads endorse FG for the presidency... but they're apolitical 🤔 www.independent.ie/farming/news...

On the two definitions of climate tipping points (dynamic and quantitative): A system has a dynamic tipping point when its evolution is dominated by a self-amplification feedback until a qualitatively different state is reached... www.pik-potsdam.de/~anders/publ...

Absolutely no mention of the ordinary people housed in the facility being terrorised by this mob. Where is the human empathy, compassion, solidarity? #NotGoodEnough

This is as good an opportunity as any to test the true strength of the “farming vote”. (for the record, 140,000 full and part-time farmers, in total, comprise less than 3% of our population, yet they have the politicians running scared) www.independent.ie/farming/news...

#rtept #aras25 #Climate anyone?