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.

Judges remarks commending Rising Tides at this year’s Association of International Broadcasting awards. Trailer in the next post. Ep 2 repeated tonight on @RTEOne at 10.35 #Climate

EU Commission Chief Science Advisers call for a ban on geo-engineering ways to reflect the sun’s heat back out to space as a response to the #climate crisis. The advice to policy makers stresses the need to concentrate on emissions reduction.

How to do Managed Retreat, and how not to. First look at how the French are responding to flooding in the Pas de Calais. Houses built on flood wplains will be demolished and the area will absorb water during floods, protecting the higher density city of Blendecques. #Climate #Adaptation

That the paper of record @irishtimes.bsky.social has made the same mistake twice now must mean I give off more McConaughey energy than I thought.

Against very stiff competition from CNN, Al Jazeera and The BBC, myself and @EcoEye’s documentary series for @rte, Rising Tides, picked up a second place gong at the Association of International Broadcasters in London. #ClimateCrisis

#Hurricane Season in the Atlantic ends on Saturday. The first season above 1.5 degrees for the whole year. How does it compare? #Climate 2024 $191bn 375 deaths 2023 $4.13bn 15 deaths 2022 $118bn 239 deaths 2021 $80bn 106 deaths 2020 $54bn 35 deaths

The state of Ireland’s first marine protected area shows how little we have done to actually protect our coastal waters. Long read or listen from @oliveheffernan.bsky.social pulls no punches. hakaimagazine.com/features/for...

Currently 5% of all Irish farmed land, shooting for 10% by 2030. A clear-eyed conversation around what works and doesn’t work in the organic sector. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

#Climate change happens to other people, not me. These maps produced by the EPA reveal a fascinating failure of imagination. This first one shows a very high level of acceptance that the climate has changed.

Ribwort plantain (Plantago laceolata). Regarded as a weed in intensive farming. But when found in species rich grassland it has a crazy number of overlooked benefits, not least that cows love it and seek it out as a natural wormer. 1/

I only made this back in March. Complete rewrite needed now. The New York Times is reporting that the Executive Order withdrawing America from the Paris Agreement has been drafted by the Trump team.

Jellyfish are having a moment. Annexing Lough Hyne in Cork. Killing a million salmon in Scotland and causing headaches for fish farmers in Donegal. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

These are the “Mauve Stinger” jellyfish that have inundated Lough Hyne in West Cork just featured on Countrywide on RTÉ Radio 1. I’ll post a link to the full report later.

Sometimes graphs are better than 1000 words on #climate Hotter ….