There are two main aspects to the climate change phenomenon. The first is the political movement variously represented by Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion and factions of the Green and left parties. The second is how governments exploit the fear of a threatened global catastrophe to impose new taxes and other restrictions on their citizens. […]
You might not have noticed, but this was supposed to be the Climate election. It was all decided relatively far in advance of the thing, with most of the narratives pre-scripted. Young voters, emboldened and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion, and Saoirse McHugh, were supposed to rise up and push Ireland to the international […]
Climate researchers now admit that the worst case scenario for carbon emissions is no longer plausible, with a key climate model used until recently overestimating the the amount of coal the world would burn.
Climate scientists generally believe that man-made impacts on global climate can only be practically detected in climate records since around 1950, as our CO2 emissions were comparatively very small before then. Figure 1 below shows this very clearly with over 86% of total estimated CO2 emissions since around 1950. Whenever the media report on climate […]
Because of our proportional election system, Ireland is nearly always governed by a coalition between at least two political parties. The last majority, one party Government was elected in 1977, when Jack Lynch promised everything short of Nirvana to win the election, and then fell from power shortly thereafter when it became apparent that he […]
Ryan admits that not only did he fly to December’s climate summit in Madrid, but he remains at the steering wheel of his 2.5 litre van, loves his meat and dairy diet, and has no plans to change.
“NO FARMERS, NO FOOD, NO FUTURE”. Low prices and carbon taxes mean “It’ll be GAME OVER over for rural Ireland”. Farmers tell Gript why they are protesting in Dublin. #gript
Greta Thunberg is among a number of climate activists that have condemned Roger Federer’s ties to Credit Suisse bank, a major sponsor of fossil fuel companies globally.
The rare case of a headline being both accurate, and misleading, but, completely entertaining: “The home secretary, Priti Patel, has defended anti-terror police for putting the Extinction Rebellion environmental protest group on a list of extremist ideologies, saying it was important to look at “a range of security risks”. While accepting that XR was not […]
Fine Gael’s radical climate bill will see you pay more for fuel, more for heat, more for services, more for cars #gript References “This bill seeks to totally ban the sale of fossil fuel cars in Ireland by the year 2030. It also includes the adoption of a five-yearly carbon budgets, which […]
The father of teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg says he and his wife ‘stopped flying and went vegan to “save” their daughter rather than help the planet’, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that they were not ‘“not climate activists” but had made radical changes to their lifestyles after seeing the positive impact it had […]
Séamus Healy, TD, on Climate Change: Climate change is a real and distressing phenomenon which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our society. We only have to think of a country like the Philippines and, more recently, the Pacific island of Vanuatu, to see the utter devastation that climate change is wreaking on the most […]