Paul Murphy TD warned however that the anti-water charge movement would reassert itself if the government pushed ahead with the OECD’s recommendation in that regard.
With many still living with little to no access to electricity, American politicians are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity with offshore wind turbines on the East and West Coasts. The U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA) has already documented that offshore wind continues to be one of the most expensive forms of electricity generation. Energy […]
Credit to Aoife Moore in the Examiner for this scoop: The government is examining the potential for an “insane” pilot scheme to shoot seals with high-powered rifles from boats. The scheme would see licenses granted potentially in Kerry and Cork to protect fishermen’s catches. The latest population estimates available to government indicate that there are […]
“The IPCC is partly a scientific organisation, partly a political organisation”. That was what Richard Tol, a convening lead author of the 5th review of climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told Michael Shellenberger when he interviewed him for his recently released book, Apocalypse Never. In 2010, Tol was assigned to the team to draft the […]
Last night the Dáil debated the National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Bill 2020. The aim of the Bill is to make it legal for the government to direct the funding generated by the levy you pay on petrol/oil products into its Climate Action Fund. Although the levy has been set […]
From Down Under comes another shockwave for environmental campaigners, already concerned at the abdication of an Extinction Rebellion leader in favour of nuclear power last week. A former leading green campaigner, Michael Shellenberger, previously one of Time magazine’s ‘Heroes of the Environment’ says he “cried wolf” on climate change, and wants to apologise for how […]
A former spokeswoman for the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion now says that her fellow environmentalists should join her in embracing nuclear power. Zion Lights is now director of Environmental Progress UK, but was formerly a leading spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK and the founder of its newspaper, The Hourglass. Her decision to campaign for nuclear energy will have […]
Covid-19 looks likely to rank among the most startling black swan events of history. A black swan in economic parlance disturbs the existing paradigms, sails into sudden view out of seeming nowhere and shatters settled doctrines about white feathers, orange beaks and blacked up eyes. Who could have predicted? We were looking in the wrong […]
Our colleagues in the rest of the Irish media have adopted an approach to covering extinction rebellion which can at best be described as friendly, and at worst be described as outright propaganda. This article in the Irish Independent over the weekend certainly falls into the latter category. The fear is that asking hard questions […]
If it weren’t so weird, the Extinction Rebellion would be hilarious. Watching a bunch of entitled middle class morons who are convinced that they have insider knowledge of our imminent demise is comical. But once you get a group of brainless, time rich hysterics from a foliage wearing death cult together in one place, things […]
Proctor and Gamble, the consumer goods giant that owns brands such as Charmin and Bounty, is facing increasing pressure from environmentalists to start using recycled wood pulp in the manufacture of its toilet paper.
“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” These were the spirited words of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg in her address last week to the United Nations. Miss Thunberg’s claim that we are “in the beginning […]