Category Archives: Just Stop Oil
Rain in Spain a harbinger of ever more climate pain
The horrifying floods that killed over 200 people in the Valencia region of Spain dominated the headlines in October 2024, but as I explained in a piece at the time for TheJournal.ie, these were far from isolated incidents. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme weather, Global Warming, Just Stop Oil
Tagged flooding, Friederike Otto, Spain, TheJournal.ie, Valencia, World Weather Attribution
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Dialling up the global thermostat another notch in 2022
It sounds almost a cliché to say that last year was a year of weather extremes. After all, which year out of the last 20 hasn’t been? After all, according to the WMO, the past eight years have been the … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Economics, Energy, Global Warming, Irish Focus, Just Stop Oil
Tagged Business Post, CCAC, COP27, EPA, heatwave, Sinn Fein, World Weather Attribution
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Turning climate protest into an art form
An ingenious protest involving soup and a famous painting threw the global spotlight on the climate emergency in a way that a thousand scientific articles, petitions and marches seemed to have failed to do. I was asked by TheJournal.ie for … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Just Stop Oil, Media, Protest
Tagged Andreas Malm, Antonio Guterres, IPCC, Just Stop Oil, Living Planet Report, Scientist Rebellion, Shell
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