Tag Archives: climate change
John Bull takes climate change by the horns
We’re the ones with the Greens in Government, yet it’s Britain that has gone and set up a new department of Energy and Climate, headed by Ed Miliband. The UK is also to adopt a more severe target to cut … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Sustainability
Tagged Britain, carbon, climate change, Coal, emissions, Greenpeace, Miliband, Poland
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Half-baked Alaskan science bears closer scutiny
They say the first casualty in war is the truth. The same surely applies to elections, and none more so than the crucial US election on November 4th next. Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has shown a startling contempt for … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Irish Focus, Sceptics
Tagged Bush, climate change, CO2, Energy, environment, Exxon Mobil, global warming, Newstalk, Palin, sceptics
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Sleepwalking across the climate ‘Red Line’
As of three years ago the Earth was already committed to rise of global mean temperatures by 2.4°C. This is the shocking conclusion of a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). This is … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Sustainability
Tagged albedo, Arctic, Biodiversity, climate change, deglaciation, EU, glaciers, IPCC, Northwest Passage, WWF
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Whatever you do, do nothing
And so the G-8 Summit draws to a close in Japan. This Group of Eight major nations somehow manages to exclude from membership both India and China, which between them account for more than a third of humanity, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Irish Focus
Tagged Bali, Bush, climate change, G-8, Japan, John Gibbons, Kyoto, Oxfam
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Still singing the same sad old song
Denial is a powerful thing. Climate change deniers these days are, like the polar bears, an endangered species, as wave after wave of science fact gradually washes away the last stubborn traces of our excuses for inaction. Of course, there … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Sceptics, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, Gibbons, Lomborg, Myers, Neligan, sceptics
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Weaning ourselves off the fetish of growth
A cynic, according to Oscar Wilde, is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. He could have easily been talking about economists. It’s hard to open a newspaper or turn on the radio these … Continue reading
If you care about climate, Lisbon matters
What is it about us Irish and referenda? One minute the national discourse is rattling along as usual, and the next, there are swarms of (previously unheard of) groups popping up out of the woodwork to warn us of the … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus
Tagged Chavez, climate change, Coir, EU, Gormley, Iraq, Libertas, Lisbon, Treaty, Venezuala, Youth Defense
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Food shortages come home to roost
It’s been said that a recession is when your neighbour loses his job; a depression is when it’s your job that goes. This comes to mind as reports have been pouring in over the last while about soaring food prices … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Sustainability
Tagged China, climate change, food crisis, hunger, poverty, Wal-Mart
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Let them eat cake
It takes around 230 kg of corn to feed a child in the ‘developing world’ for a year, according to UN estimates. By a ghoulish coincidence, that’s around the same amount of corn as is needed to produce enough biofuel … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Sustainability
Tagged Biofuels, Bush, climate change, famine, hunger, Oil
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Some like it hot?
Climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg was in Dublin last Friday telling the folks at the IMI national management conference that everything’s just honky dory on the climate front – a business-as-usual message that was no doubt eagerly lapped up by that … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Sustainability
Tagged Arctic, climate change, GISS, global warming, ice melting, IMI, James Hansen, Lomborg, NASA
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The sweet smell of excess
‘Fused with idealism, heritage moulded to modernity, classicism reinterpreted through originality…inspired by a search for balance and harmony in a chaotic and contradictory world’ The above verbiage is taken verbatim from the current Aer Lingus Sky Shopping magazine. It’s describing … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, David Beckham, Kate Moss, marketing, perfume, Sustainability
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ESB finally sees the light
Ireland, it appears, is at last starting to get serious about tackling our huge energy requirements, and the dagger that our massive dependence on imports of oil and gas in particular holds to our collective throat. We are reckoned in … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Irish Focus, Nuclear, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, CO2, Coal, Eamon Ryan, ESB, Ireland, Moneypoint, Peak Oil
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Watch out, Gaia’s about…
At 88, James Lovelock is for many people the Grandfather of the modern ecology movement. He today is admired and despised by people in the general ‘green’ movement in about equal measure. Apart from a highly successful career as a … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Irish Focus, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, Gaia, global warming, James Lovelock, overpopulation
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Ssssh, don’t mention the ‘E’ word
There’s an episode of the 1970s comedy, Fawlty Towers, in which German visitors come to stay in the hotel. Basil Fawlty goes to great lengths to avoid any references to World War 2 (it was then barely 30 years after … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Irish Focus, Sustainability
Tagged Basil Fawlty, climate change, collapse, extinction, Sustainability
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A vision of beauty
Nature is under relentless assault, entire ecosystems are being obliterated, an area of natural forest the size of Croke Park is burned or cleared every second. Around every 12 minutes, yet another species goes extinct. The news is, to put … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, extinction, species loss, Sustainability
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