# climate-change - Sunday 25 July, 2021
# Roasting
# Roasting
Test your knowledge of the all-time highs and lows of Irish weather.
# Dixie Fire
# Dixie Fire
Fire officials said the blaze had charred nearly 298 square miles acres of timber and brush in Plumas and Butte counties.
# climate-change - Saturday 24 July, 2021
# Zhengzhou
# Zhengzhou
Li Yongsheng lay on a ventilation duct after floods hit the city of Zhengzhou.
# climate-change - Friday 23 July, 2021
# CLIMATE ACTION BILL
# CLIMATE ACTION BILL
“Today is a landmark day,” said Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.
# climate-change - Tuesday 20 July, 2021
# Hot Hot Hot
# Hot Hot Hot
Met Éireann said at least nine weather observing stations have met heat wave criteria.
# Bootleg Fire
# Bootleg Fire
The blaze has prompted over 2,100 evacuations and destroyed 67 homes.
# climate-change - Saturday 17 July, 2021
# Rhineland
# Rhineland
Politicians have so far broadly refrained from politicising the issue.
# climate-change - Monday 12 July, 2021
# Weather Pain
# Weather Pain
The latest projections suggested there might be fewer storms – but that the ones that do come would be worse.
# climate-change - Tuesday 6 July, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
But the MEP says while the citizen-led revolution is inspiring, legislators must do better on climate.
# climate-change - Monday 5 July, 2021
# Global Warming
# Global Warming
Finland’s national meteorological institute registered its hottest temperature for June since records began in 1844.
# Lord Of The Rings
# Lord Of The Rings
Footage of the inferno went viral over the weekend.
# Climate
# Climate
Records were first established in the country in 1909.
# climate-change - Friday 2 July, 2021
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
The environmentalist says we ignore the record-breaking temperatures this week at our peril.
# climate-change - Thursday 1 July, 2021
# What The Frack?
# What The Frack?
Eddie Mitchell of Love Leitrim outlines concerns of border communities that fracking may be set to get back on the agenda in the North.
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
He made the statement when questioned on the use of liquified natural gas terminals in Ireland today.
# Heatwave
# Heatwave
In Vancouver, police have responded to more than 65 sudden deaths since the heatwave began.
# climate-change - Sunday 27 June, 2021
# Troubled Waters
Over 20 salmon farms operating with expired licences for over a decade, writes Niall Sargent in final part of Noteworthy investigation into salmon farming State has investigated several cases of possible licence breaches by Ireland's largest salmon company No enforcement over various farms’ failure to carry out assessments for impacts on marine biodiversity
# climate-change - Friday 25 June, 2021
# Climate Emergency
# Climate Emergency
The People Before Profit TD says Ireland’s society and climate will not gain anything from data centres.
# climate-change - Thursday 17 June, 2021
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Thomas Muinzer says Northern Ireland waited a long time for a climate bill and now gets two.
# climate-change - Sunday 13 June, 2021
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
Boris Johnson said the G7 wanted to “drive a global Green Industrial Revolution to transform the way we live”.
# climate-change - Thursday 3 June, 2021
# Free Ride
# Free Ride
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action has published a report on halving emissions in the transport sector by 2030.
# climate-change - Wednesday 2 June, 2021
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
WWF is urging leaders meeting at the Cop26 climate summit to commit to action to curb global temperature rises to 1.5C and avoid catastrophe.
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
It follows a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities imposed by the US president on his first day in office.
# climate-change - Monday 31 May, 2021
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
The findings are based on simulations of climate, with and without human-induced emissions.
# climate-change - Monday 24 May, 2021
A new report from NUIG’s Centre for Human Rights calls on the State to use its weight at the UN to push for a global ban on fracking.
# climate-change - Tuesday 4 May, 2021
# Cost Of Carbon
# Cost Of Carbon
Noteworthy shows that State revenue from an EU carbon trading scheme went into controversial forestry programme and a rural transport scheme.
# climate-change - Monday 3 May, 2021
# Cost Of Carbon
Companies are starting to volunteer their emissions data but State bodies slow to reveal all details to public, writes Niall Sargent. While emissions levels are falling in many sectors, Noteworthy analysis shows that sectors such as agriculture and aviation are stagnating or growing. Ireland is doing well on finding energy efficiencies but there is still a mountain to climb.
# climate-change - Tuesday 27 April, 2021
# Wildfires
# Wildfires
Pádraic Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust says Government policy, particularly around the burning of land for agriculture must be overhauled.
# climate-change - Saturday 24 April, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
Melting glaciers are shifting the Earth’s axis, a new study has found.
# climate-change - Thursday 22 April, 2021
# Leaders Summit
# Leaders Summit
Biden has doubled US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions.
# climate-change - Tuesday 20 April, 2021
# High Court
# High Court
The ruling was made in the High Court today.
# climate-change - Sunday 18 April, 2021
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
The countries said they are “committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle the climate crisis”.
# climate-change - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Nature
# Nature
One in four birds is now on the so-called red list.
# climate-change - Tuesday 13 April, 2021
# Greenhouse Gases
# Greenhouse Gases
This compares with a decrease of approximately 11-12% across Europe.
# climate-change - Wednesday 31 March, 2021
# CLIMATE CRISIS
# CLIMATE CRISIS
The biggest losses were in Brazil, three times more than in the next highest country.
# climate-change - Sunday 28 March, 2021
# CLIMATE CRISIS
# CLIMATE CRISIS
Author Laurie Laybourn-Langton says global governments must learn the lessons Covid-19 and take immediate action to tackle climate change.
# climate-change - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
The head of Friends of the Earth says the Bill does well on targets but falls short on just transition and fracked gas.
# climate-change - Tuesday 23 March, 2021
# CLIMATE ACTION BILL
# CLIMATE ACTION BILL
The Climate Action Bill has been launched by the government.
# climate-change - Monday 22 March, 2021
# GoodInformation
# GoodInformation
A new all-Ireland constitution can enshrine into law the inviolable rights of nature and create a space to ensure a safe climate future.
A shower and t-storm; breezy in the p.m.
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