If you are of a certain age and you enjoy a bit of a shout at the telly this is on on Monday. #Speirgorm

Overnight from Colorado comes the news that Global Warning has won Best Feature Film at the 20th Colorado Environmental Film Festival and will be screened as the closing film. What should an environmental award look like if it is to properly recognise the world’s resources are finite. Answer: 😐

Angel Sharks are in real danger of going extinct locally, which would speed up their demise globally, because of the way the Irish government is issuing tangle net licences. #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Each week on #RTECountrywide we tackle a pressing question affecting rural affairs/farming/environment. For mischief I’ve started asking newest #AI models the same question. All consistently really really badly wrong. On facts, orgs, conclusions … everything. Not hallucinating, just rubbish.

It’s never been easier to become an award winning journalist. I’ve just “won” an online film festival I didn’t enter. All I have to do is send them $175 to receive the actual award*. *Award may be smaller and more plastic than depicted.

Many Irish dairy farms have been operating at a loss since September. A sustained collapse in the price of internationally traded powdered milk has left them working at below the cost of production. There’s serious consequences. #RTECountrywide 1/ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Each of these thirty failures to take climate action reads like an episode description for each of the thirty programmes in the RTÉ Radio series Hot Mess. All available to download for free. Link in next post. #Climate #SpeirGorm www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Why the weather wobbled? Dr Jennifer Francis is one of the best #climate science communicators anywhere. She simplifies the incredibly complex forces degrading the Jet Stream to explain why our weather is increasingly getting stuck. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment” How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The discovery of a cow using a tool in the same way a chimp or an octopus would has prompted a reappraisal of bovine intelligence by scientists Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

“Sprats don’t care if they’re caught by big boats or little boats.” How do you balance coastal community vitality with protecting the marine environment? Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #RTECountrywide

Price of a pint versus cost of a pint While you can pay up to €10 for one, barley farmers will get no more than 2.5 cents a pint. All kinds of crazy social, environmental and financial impacts from pricey pints #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

It’d be too much to hope it would fry the internet for a bit, wouldn’t it? #Aurora #NorthernLights #Ireland #Wicklow #Speirgorm

#Aurora #NorthernLights #Ireland #Wicklow #SpeirGorm

I was in #Greenland in 2023 (before Trump ever expressed any interest in it). For what it’s worth, nobody I met in ten days there had anything good to say about Danish colonisation. They also chuckled a lot at the money lost by those trying to get rich on Greenlandic rare earths, oil and gas.

Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me. In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery. 1/

Some media is looking a little “captured” too.

A year on the land. RTÉ Countrywide 2025 review Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The #climate series Global Warning has now reached an audience of 8 million around the world since October. @aljazeera.com has made it free to watch. There’s a thirst for this kind of information. Please share it. #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting #Journalism youtu.be/F8vI5_gN90g?...

The mighty little herb that might go a long way to solving river pollution. Field trials show that Ribwort Plantain can absorb anywhere between 30% and 90% of the nitrogen in cow’s urine. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Greenhouse gas emissions per capita. The broken grey line is the path required for 2030 targets. Ireland is miles wide of it. The nearest neighbours are crushing it. #climate

98% of sludge from #IrishWater’s sewage plants is spread on land. While we have done a lot of research on impacts on #water quality I found very few researchers working on what it does to #soil and #food. Seems like a bit of an oversight now 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Bluetongue Virus's arrival in Ireland is a #climate change story as well as an animal welfare concern. Endemic in sub-tropics, but unheard of in Europe until the late '90s. Changing humidity and temperature allowed the infected midges to survive in ever more northerly areas. Graphic: WOAH

Iceland has assessed the possible tipping point this century of the Atlantic’s overturning circulation as a national survival issue. I made a programme about how scientists have arrived at that conclusion. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #amoc #climate #climatecrisis

500,000 hectares forestry. 100,000ha rewetting, 68,000 acres solar panels, 1000 onshore wind turbines, 120,000ha grassland for Anaerobic Digesters etc. Where will it all go? Minister O’Brien says we’re getting the (long awaited) Land Use Review for Christmas. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Big rain prompts big decisions. A month’s worth of rain fell on this Kildare farm in a few days last week. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I visited a farm outside Monasterevin on Saturday after #StormClaudia. Met Éireann told me this area received the November monthly average of #rain in the space of five days. Full interview on #Countrywide on RTÉ Radio on Saturday.

How to get Ireland to take #Climate Action: Point out the Brits are beating us hands down. (Emissions per capita world rankings)

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

“I can assure you, and I have the full backing of an Taoiseach, Micheál Martin on this … that we will fund the Nature Restoration Plan” - Minister Christopher O’Sullivan A promise worth making a note of. It happened in this conversation. 👇 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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...

The secret to good comedy is . . . . . . . . . Timing Bill Gates argues against decarbonising to avoid #Climate Change on the same day that a hurricane nearly violent enough to be called a Category 6 hits Jamaica. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/b...

“But there’s no interest in #climate change any more!” Barely a fortnight on YouTube and Global Warning has already been watched half a million times. Plus look at the appetite in the comments for more reliable info. @aljazeera.com has made them free to air so share them. youtu.be/F8vI5_gN90g?...

I bags first go of it.

The eye watering prices we are paying for beef are caused by all sorts of hidden factors and come with unforeseen social, environmental and cost of living pros and cons. I spent a few days in suckler cow country. Deep Dive Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Global Warning: Ep 2 Against the tide. How do we adapt to what is coming? The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely. #Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting 📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...

" #Climate change is no longer a distant fear, it has now become a clear & current threat. Things that used to happen on geological timescales are now unravelling in *our* lifetimes" - @philipb-h.bsky.social #GlobalWarning ⚠️ @aljazeera.com

Global Warning now on Al Jazeera. Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here. 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur... #Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found? A: it wasn’t anybody’s job. I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

With everything going on in the polycrisis #Climate has been very much pushed to the side. So I’m impressed (and a little relieved) that @aljazeera.com has bought and scheduled a documentary series I made. Starts next Thursday. #GlobalWarning #ClimateCrisis

Nobody can be blamed for the largest fish kill in Irish history Everyone along the Blackwater River was complying with the rules. Might the rules no longer be fit for purpose? #Climate #Biodiversity #Rivers Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I’m doing a #climate thing at the Hinterland Festival on Saturday. Despite or perhaps because the programmers describe me as a hot mess, there’s only a few tickets left. 👉 www.hinterland.ie/p-576-philip...

This is an example of the kind of work my producer/cameraman colleague Fady Hossam has been making inside #Gaza. He and his brother got hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike while searching for food on Thursday. Fady is the sole breadwinner for many relatives. 🧵

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By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil. It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi. 🧵

Head scratcher: EPA emissions projections show Ag will miss its legally binding targets by a country mile BUT … All the tech needed to get the job done exists in the real world. So why isn’t it being used? 🧵1/4 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Why spend public money now preventing extinction, when in the future you can give it to a private company for “de-extinction”. Makes perfect sense 👀 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🤯 Environmental concern is not the preserve of the well heeled. 25 years of surveys in America show the poor care more about the natural world than the rich or the middle class. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’ve been rumbled. I made a programme about the Irish government’s agri methane accounting trick just two months ago. Link below