Tag Archives: Climate Change

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Yesterday morning.

Lahinch Beach ,County Clare.

Ray Foley writes:

A climate change event organised by local campaigner and Green Schools officer Roisin Ni Ghairbhith that took place in weather conditions that can only be described as cat. Still a few hundred showed up and the vibe down on the beach was brilliant. To top it all off every participant left with a native Irish tree #earthtoparis #cop21

Meanwhile…

Clare

Yesterday.

Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare.

Gavin Nugent of The Green Party writes:

A climate gathering took place in Co. Clare yesterday. The organiser, Roisin Garvey, a member of the Clare Green Party, also had a hand in organising the stunning image above, along with local environmentalists and surfers. Keep It In The Ground is the international anti-fossil fuel slogan.

Pic: Kev L Smith

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Joe Murray, from Afri, writes:

“Here’s a new video we’ve been working on with students from Mount Temple School [U2’s alma mater] in Clontarf, Dublin ahead of the historic Paris climate talks, COP21. Any help appreciated getting the word out. We feel it’s especially important now that the march in Paris is banned.”

Related: Paris climate march banned: what do you want to say to UN climate talks? (The Guardian)

Afri

st aodan'sSome of the green-minded, tree-hugging, recycle-giddy fourth classers at St Audoen’s

Oi!

Stop messing about.

Geoff writes:

We’re fourth Class in St. Audoen’s National School in Cook St, Dublin 8. We’re doing a project at the minute to help combat Climate Change. We came up with the idea of a petition for  people of the world to commit to changing three small things that are accessible to everyone. Namely:

1: Shop locally and buy at least ONE extra product from your country every week.

2: Turn off the lights in rooms that you’re not in and plug out your television at night.

3: Recycle just a little bit more than you do.

We’ve been following who has been signing the petition in class and we have reached places as far away as America and Australia. Please help us reach as many people as possible. Sign and share with your fiends.

Sign here

Perishing eco-friendly, proto hippy tykes.

CG

Fancy a chat about the climate?

No wait come back.

Chris ‘Green’ Green writes:

I think your readers might be interested in this event we’re hosting tonight. Climate Conversations, a series of lectures about communicating climate change and spelling out what a changing climate means for Ireland, is back for its third year running.
David Begg of ICTU, Claire O’Connor former international director for Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, Oisin Coghlan from Friends of the Earth and Eamon Ryan from the Green Party will all be speaking and taking questions from the audience.
Tonight’s event takes place in Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin  at 7pm, and FREE tickets are still available here. For those outside of Dublin you can watch on a livestream here…

FIGHT!

Climate Conversations (Facebook)

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Eoghan Rice writes:

Shunned by the Oscars, myself and Alan Whelan have just launched our short(ish) film about Ireland and climate change.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports:

“For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.

One of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as Willie, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun’s energy can largely explain recent global warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified before Congress and in state capitals, and starred at conferences of people who deny the risks of global warming.

But newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests.

He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher (New York Times)

Previously: You’re Getting Warm

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[From left: Minister of State for Training and Skills, Ciaran Cannon pictured with environmentalist and former RTE presenter Duncan Stewart in the Aviva Stadium in 2011]

Duncan Stewart went on Newstalk Breakfast this morning to talk to host Shane Coleman about the media’s coverage of climate change.

However, Mr Stewart became annoyed with Mr Coleman just minutes after the interview began.

Independent.ie are reporting Mr Stewart said:

“How much time have I got? Tell me how much time I’ve got. Do you want me to talk here? Then tell me how much time I’ve got.

“I want to know, I’ve a lot to say here. I can walk out of this studio this minute if you wish, unless you tell me how much time I’ve got. Do I have to go to another radio station to say it?”

‘Give me ten minutes or I’m leaving’ – Duncan Stewart has meltdown on live radio (Independent.ie)

Listen back to full interview here

Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

YebHe’s the Filipino climate commissioner, above, who announced he was going on hunger strike nine days ago, at the UN negotiations in Warsaw, saying he wouldn’t eat “until a meaningful outcome is in sight”.

Well.

Maeve McLynn writes:

“He’s still fasting and the international support for him has really taken off. Yeb started a petition with Avaaz calling for all countries to face up to climate change and really work to tackle it. He will personally hand the petition over to the COP Presidency before the end of the negotiations (tomorrow).”

You can sign the petition here.

At the time of posting, it’s just over 289,000 short of one million.

Previously: Climate Change Hunger Striker

Thanks Maeve

Dublin

Enjoying the Indian summer?

Well.

“The fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has taken years to produce and involved hundreds of scientists, was published this morning. It is meant to guide governments in dealing with rising temperatures. “Delegates said the report raised the probability that most global warming was manmade to 95%, from 90% in its previous report in 2007. “The report concludes that many of the observed changes in climate are unprecedented not just over decades but over millennia. It says oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea levels have risen and concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased. “It found each of the past three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than in any preceding decade since 1850.”
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“It predicts that by the end of the century, global surface temperatures are likely to increase by at least 1.5C at minimum and over 2C at the higher end. It warns heat waves will occur more frequently and last longer.”

 

IPCC report finds 95% probability most global warming manmade (RTÉ)

Previously: Free Tomorrow?