Met Éireann forecasts heavy rain, spot flooding and cold nights over the weekend Friday weather will be mainly dry apart from showers on Atlantic coasts © Noel Sweeney Ireland has been under weather warnings earlier in the week, as Storm Bram brought very strong winds and high coastal water...

Spot on 👇 "The extension may spare the Government a political problem, but it places even greater pressure on a compromised environment & sets the country up for a grim ecological reckoning." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit... .

i find that a lot of people would rather be soothed than informed about the realities of where the climate is headed. people just wand a headline that tells them everything will be fine, so that they can stop paying attention and excuse inaction.

please pay attention i BEG

The adaptation challenge is immense and needs to begin now to prepare our homes, infrastructure, society and agriculture for the future. This was not an easy article to write as its like the plot of a disaster movie, but unfortunately this is non-fiction.

This is not some distant threat. Collapse is a process with every fraction of weakening driving increasing impacts such as cold winter extremes, European summer heatwaves, reduced rainfall, rapid sea level rise, shifted global rain belts and southern hemisphere warming.

The odds are stacked against us in preventing this disaster, but rapid and deep decarbonisation is our best hope. There is no longer a choice that reduces the risk to under 10%, but rapid action could reduce it to 25%.

In this article I look at the latest research to uncover what drives the AMOC, how it is vulnerable to global warming, why scientists are now confident of its weakening, what we can expect, not just in Europe and the American west coast, but globally, and what if anything we can do about it.

The latest research confirms AMOC weakening together with a tipping point that is getting closer and closer. Governments are starting to notice with Iceland the first to declare it a national security threat. drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake... #climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint

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‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

Three years, three records. The Climate is a crisis, whatever Trump or Reform might say - and it is man made. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

"climate science"

Monthly global climate data update from @climate.noaa.gov for the month of November 2025. Third hottest month of November since 1850. datagraver.com/climate-data... #climate

too many people seem to be delulu about the progress on climate targets. like yea things are being done but NOT FAST ENOUGH we need to do MORE, and crucially, do it FASTER while we still CAN

There’s a difference between doomerism - “it’s all terrible and there’s no answer” - and the warning given here, which is “it’s currently heading in a terrible direction and we need to *make damn sure* we DO something about it.“ Because we can. But currently we aren’t.

2.5 used to be the limit. Now it's four. She knows what she's talking about. Read her thread 🧵 #ClimateChange

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I know it can be UNBEARABLE to hold this knowledge right now — and it’s very hard to see how to have hope in this dark — but we have to remain poised to grab the next political opportunity to turn this ship around, which we won’t be ready to do if we think THIS what we have now is “progress.” 6/n

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Given that the only thing that has ever led to climate progress was the global wave of alarm that rose in the wake of *The Uninhabitable Earth* and the IPCC Special Report of 1.5 C, I think it is irresponsible and counterproductive to downplay how much danger we’re in. 5/n

Furthermore, even if the world were bending the curve of emissions down, the range of warming for our “current trajectory” actually includes 4C by 2100 — and it’s not like heating has been *slowing down* recently. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-... 4/n

Look around you. Do you see policies being implemented at scale? Do you see the end of investment into new fossil energy? Do you see phasing out of existing fossil infrastructure? Do you see massive renewables deployment and the lowering of demand for energy and materials? You do not. 3/n

The projections of warming by 2100 that encourage people to say reassuring shit like this are *estimates of emissions* that take current pledges and policies into account. They ALL posit that emissions will bed sharply down, and soon. 2/n

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

My attempt to cut through some of the misinformation around farming and water quality as we approach decision time on Ireland’s nitrates derogation www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

🎯 'The ignoring of facts, the sidelining of scientists and the breezy assertions, repeated ad nauseum, that Irish agriculture is ‘sustainable’ are largely responsible for the mess Irish farming finds itself in. Honesty alone will not dig us out of the hole, but it would be a start.'

New paper: Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

Confirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!

Ireland worst in EU for transgender healthcare with four-year wait times, Dáil hears www.irishtimes.com/p... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Yes. I read a an essay about this by a political scientist 15 years ago and it’s lived rent free in my brain ever since. In a nutshell, he said, the more unstable and out of control the world seems, the more people are willing to cede power to authoritarian leaders.

Less than 1% of global climate funding reaches Indigenous peoples and traditional groups, despite their leading roles in environmental conservation, particularly in the Amazon. Across Brazil, organizations are working to align financial procedures with the reality of local communities.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no... "[...] All that time news editors have told me not to be too downbeat; let’s have some optimism. This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves."

Like its 10 million people Double the population of Ireland and there's so little coverage. Think how much worry and anxiety these people must feel facing this.

This is climate change. This will keep happening closer and closer to you, until it's you moving.

‘We sent the kids home. Then all our cellphones went out’ – This is climate breakdown

"Bill Gates' climate comments are a distraction" | My new commentary for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People fleeing climate change are as legitimate refugees as those fleeing war & persecution. The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees. Their homes will never to be safe to return to. theconversation.com/how-the-rich...

This is why I advise in The Language of Climate Politics that saying we’re better off now than we were before the Paris Agreement only lowers urgency & helps fossil fuel interests: the IMPACTS of lower levels of heating are proving to be so much worse than we thought even just ten years ago. 3/4

“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%” (AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.) 1/4

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping? Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki. Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊 youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NEW: Trump’s climate policies could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths by 2115, our analysis found. “The sheer numbers are horrifying,” a climate advocate said. “These are people with lives, with families, with hopes and dreams.”

It says a lot about our new President that one of her first public events was with @antaisce.bsky.social to highlight our climate challenge and the need for climate justice 👏 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢 Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain. That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds

An IPAS centre burnt out with fireworks thrown into it - women and children lucky to get out alive - when are we going to start taking the far right violence in Ireland seriously? It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.