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?...

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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

We have updated and re-cut Rising Tides, the series shown on Irish TV, for an international audience. Al Jazeera will screen it in July under the new title Global Warning. @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social

Hot Mess has an archive of 30 episodes. The contributors are the best #climate people in their field. It’s a public resource. Please share. Apple 👉 podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/h... Spotify 👉 open.spotify.com/show/3BGS0Cn... Pocketcasts 👉 pca.st/podcast/6245... RTÉ 👉 pca.st/podcast/6245...

There is an enormous gap between what the Irish government says it will do on climate, and what it is actually getting done. There is an even bigger gap between what it says it’ll do and what science says needs to be done. “Hot Mess” episode 30 Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Ships are fuelled by bunker oil. A fossil fuel so unrefined you could tar roads with it. Somehow the shipping industry has contrived to stay outside the Paris agreement. How do we clean up the 12,000 ships arriving in Irish ports every year? Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Don’t blame the badger Somehow a manageable problem has grown into something just beneath the level of a full blown national crisis. TB - a €1bn eradication programme that isn’t working Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Public service broadcasting at its very best. Another excellent episode of Hot Mess by @philipb-h.bsky.social for @rte.ie, this one focusing on #climate impacts of shifts in the Jet Stream . open.spotify.com/episode/2S8H...

Hot Mess - Climate Refugees In Malawi I met a family no longer able to feed themselves in large part due to break down of the climate. They were intent on traveling to Ireland for a better life, but a sister already here had a rude shock for them. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The River Maigue An RTÉ Countrywide rivers special about a waterway typical of so many. At risk of irreversible decline from pollution, while also hanging in the balance with many signs of regeneration. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The possibility of the Atlantic Ocean Circulation slowing down is real. “When?” is the unanswered question. Today’s episode of Hot Mess sets out the arguments for and against a collapse this century and what it means for countries in the North Atlantic. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The meandering Jet Stream is already the most immediate and destructive impact of #ClimateChange on Ireland. Dr @jfrancisclimate.bsky.social is a brilliant communicator who explains why the Jet Stream lost its way for Ep26 of Hot Mess. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

In the last few weeks traveling around the country I recorded a lot of wildlife and livestock enjoying spring. I put them all together in one place. The radio audience loved it, you might find it a bit of a refuge too. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Is the government trying to talk its way out of reducing emissions from farming, instead of supporting what it knows will work? Hot Mess is back for a fifth series on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight, or right here 👇 now. www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Work on the Nature Restoration Plan has begun. The ambition of those involved in making recommendations to government seems to be for something much bigger than just another agri-environment scheme. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Today I heard for the first time that wilting daffodils are a reliable sign that the soil is now warm enough for grass to start growing. Which, if true, raises questions about the uptake of fertilisers sown before that. Anyone?

BFBI Business Programme lead Dr Catherine Farrell on @rteradio1.bsky.social #Countrywide with Philip Boucher Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social on the importance of engaging farmers and rewarding (via long-term mechanisms) rewetting land for the #climate & #biodiversity benefits www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Ireland has recently paid €100 million in fines for breaching its 2020 emissions targets. The next set of targets could incur fines as high as €26 billion. This is a conversation about the role Irish farming could play in reducing that bill. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Over two years delay to ACRES environmental payments for some is undermining faith in future eco schemes. The anguish in the voices of proud men unable to pay their bills is palpable. #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Cynically cute calf zoomie clickbait to suck you into serious minded debate on radio tomorrow morning. #CountrywideRTE #RTERadio1

Great friend and brilliant colleague Claire Prior captured very nicely here by @lornasiggins.bsky.social www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Slurry spreading. Since Jan 1st more farms than ever before are now required to use low emissions technology to spread. But there’s a problem. But there’s also a solution. 🧵 Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

This poem is now well over a century old. Does that mean, that despite the undoubted power of the line and resonance with today, the centre actually tends to hold?

The extent of Storm #Eowyn’s impact on forests cannot be seen properly from the ground. This drone footage taken today above a stand I visited in Meath shows how wind hardened trees around the edge remain standing while the centre has been flattened.

This week I talked to two men with big roles in shaping the next 5 years on #farms and in #environment. #Water quality, #Mercosur, #Climate emissions and #NatureRestoration. First - the self described “boots on the ground” new Agri Commissioner, Christophe Hansen. www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Storm #Eowyn is being forecast as one of the most intense wind storms to hit Ireland. We will have to wait for attribution studies to assess what role #climate change did or didn’t play. By coincidence I have been reading papers on current impacts of AMOC slowdown. 🧵

We are poking the sleeping bear of permafrost thaw with a short stick. Last year in the Arctic Circle was the 2nd warmest since 1900. The nine warmest years have been the last nine years. The Arctic tundra is now a net emitter of greenhouse gases, not a sink.