Monthly Archives: July 2021

Winds of (climate) change finally blow through Montrose

Posted on July 31, 2021 by John Gibbons

I filed the article below for DeSmog, the international website specialising in climate denial and disinformation, in late July, in the wake of the sudden about-turn within RTÉ’s senior management over its climate coverage. IRELAND’S NATIONAL broadcaster has publicly apologised … Continue reading →

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Climate emergency still failing to capture sustained media focus

Posted on July 24, 2021 by John Gibbons

Here’s a piece I filed with the Business Post in July which took a look at how the alarming extreme weather events ramping up this summer are still failing to raise a red flag in the media, both here and … Continue reading →

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More power to our fledgling solar industry

Posted on July 15, 2021 by John Gibbons

The missing piece of the puzzle from Ireland’s transition to clean and renewable energy has long been solar power. While wind energy has grown in just a couple of decades from almost nothing to providing more than two fifths of … Continue reading →

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The heat is on: climate emergency deepens

Posted on July 2, 2021 by John Gibbons

After the savage heatwaves that swept the northern hemisphere in June and continuing into July, I was asked by TheJournal.ie to contribute a piece putting these ominous events into context. Here’s what I wrote: “WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE this historic event”. … Continue reading →

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