📺Watch back: Prof Peter Thorne @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social was on CNN this morning discussing the current European heatwave 🌡️ video.snapstream.net/Play/8OW4EGh...

Interesting piece from ICARUS Research Fellow Dr Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social on Ireland’s new dynamic electricity tariffs.

ICARUS Director Professor Peter Thorne featured in The Guardian on the “mind-bogglingly crazy” spring heatwaves affecting Europe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"At a time when worsening climate vulnerabilities require an urgent phase-out of fossil fuels, AI and its data centres are causing a devastating increase in polluting fossil-fuel use." - Prof Jennie C Stephens, @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

On June 17th, I will be at Craicacademia to talk about #climatechange and extreme weather events. 🎟️ Tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/craicademi... 📍Rascals Brewing Company, Dublin 8. I hope to see you there! #scicomm #sciencecommunication #publicengagement @maynoothuniversity.ie

Congratulations @lionel-swan.bsky.social on your first retrospective attribution study focusing on the abnormally warm and dry summer of 2018!

The convergence of geology, climate, vegetation and human history enabled peat to accumulate on an extraordinary scale over thousands of years, write Dr Nannan Li and Dr Lisa Orme of @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social and the Department of Geography. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Great to host Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com at ICARUS, Maynooth University, for an engaging seminar on climate change. She spoke about bridging the gap between climate projections and real-world adaptation and resilience planning. Thank you to all who attended.

Not to be all morbid but this from @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social colleagues is fascinating and highlights the value of massively improved forecasts and warnings from Met Eireann over time rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📺Watch back: Dr Gerard McCarthy, an oceanographer working in @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social , appeared on the Sáile documentary on @tg4.bsky.social this week. (appears 26:00 to 31:00) www.tg4.ie/en/player/pl...

Ireland must prepare for sharper swings between drought and flooding. Dr Shaun Harrigan of ICARUS contributes to major report highlighting growing climate impacts in Europe https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-social-sciences/news/mu-scientist-warns-growing-extremes-irish-droughts-and-flooding

We’re delighted to welcome climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe to ICARUS for a seminar on translating climate projections into effective adaptation and resilience strategies. 📅 Tuesday 5 May, 11am 📍 ICARUS Seminar Room, Laraghbryan House, Maynooth University

ICARUS Professor Jennie Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social highlights the need for “exnovation” – the deliberate shift away from harmful processes or products that no longer serve society well – in her latest piece for The Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

ICARUS Director Prof Peter Thorne spoke to RTÉ as Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council’s Adaptation Committee following its latest report: “If even a proportion of recommendations had been implemented, we would not be in the mess we are now.” www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

A new World Weather Attribution study shows recent extreme March temperatures in western North America would have been virtually impossible without climate change. Great to see ICARUS Postdoctoral Researcher @clairebergin.bsky.social contributing as a reviewer 👏

Militarisation and war are catastrophic for climate justice - and are boosting corporate climate obstruction. Check out my latest column in @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication. Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables. link.springer.com/article/10.1...