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 […]
Why are our workers being punished?” Carol Nolan TD for Offaly hits out at Government climate policy which she says is devastating jobs in the midlands region. She asks why rural workers and rural Ireland are being adversely affected by a government implementing populist policies. Nolan says the announcemnet came as a huge shock to […]
It’s often been said that climate alarmism has all the trappings of a conspiracy theory. It’s an idea that is held with such cult-like devotion, that no amount of contrary evidence will ever persuade its devotees that they might be wrong. It doesn’t matter if their predictions fail constantly; they are so wedded to their […]
Thousands of Dutch farmers have descended on The Hague in their tractors after new rules were implemented to clamp down on nitrogen emissions from the agriculture sector