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# Global Warming

Last month
May 2023
# Drought
Drought persists as Spain records hottest April on record
Three years of scant rainfall and high temperatures put the country into long-term drought.
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May 8th 2023, 6:24 PM
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2023
# Global Warming
Climate change: The last eight years were the hottest in modern records
The World Meteorological Organisation has released its State of the Global Climate report for 2022 – and the forecast is stark.
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Apr 21st 2023, 12:40 PM
# Climate
'High probability' of global warming reaching 2 degrees by mid-century, study suggests
Professor Peter Thorne of Maynooth University said the research should be taken seriously, but added that it is just a single study.
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Jan 31st 2023, 1:28 PM
Last year
2022
# factcheck
FactCheck: The recent cold spell is not evidence against climate change
Ireland has seen significant rising temperatures overall
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Dec 22nd 2022, 2:31 PM
Voices
John Gibbons: By the time Ireland takes the climate emergency seriously, it'll be far too late
The environmental campaigner says none of the main political parties have the slightest appetite to push through measures that are unpopular with the public or resisted by lobbyists.
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May 10th 2022, 10:30 PM
# Global Warming
Wildfires getting worse worldwide and governments are unprepared – UN report
The report said nations spend too much time and money fighting fires rather than preventing them.
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Feb 23rd 2022, 9:54 AM
# Climate Change
Even 1.5 degrees of global warming will be ‘catastrophic’ for coral reefs – study
The climate risk is even worse for coral reefs than set out in a UN assessment in 2018, a study has found.
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Feb 1st 2022, 9:30 PM
# Global Warming
Ireland felt above-average temperatures in 2021 for the 11th year in a row
The forecaster has warned that hot weather last year was in line with global temperature rise driven by human-caused climate change.
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Jan 7th 2022, 12:50 PM
All time
# Thwaites Glacier
World's widest glacier retreating rapidly and facing threat of collapse, research warns
A collapse would cause global sea levels to rise and put millions of people at risk of extreme flooding.
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Dec 15th 2021, 3:24 PM
# Climate Change
New draft of COP26 deal weakens language on fossil fuel phaseout
“The world is watching us,” COP26 President Alok Sharma told delegates.
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Nov 12th 2021, 8:35 AM
# cop26
Obama says world 'falling short' on climate change as Ryan says Ireland 'willing to step up'
Here’s what happened at the UN climate summit in Glasgow today.
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Nov 8th 2021, 9:59 PM
# Climate Change
The Good Information Project is turning its attention to the climate crisis
The next cycle of The Good Information Project will take a more in-depth look at the climate crisis.
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Oct 11th 2021, 12:10 AM
# Infrastructure
'28 degrees is a major challenge already': Warming would acutely impact Ireland, expert says
A Maynooth professor and climate report author says any change in extreme weather would be difficult for Ireland.
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Aug 10th 2021, 6:00 AM
# CLIMATE CRISIS
Climate report: Scale of changes ‘unprecedented’ - but not too late to slow warming
A UN report on climate change has found “deep reductions” in emissions are crucial to limit global warming.
'All countries must play their part': Minister says climate report is 'stark reminder' of crisis
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Aug 9th 2021, 9:00 AM
# Global Warming
Heatwave hits Nordic countries, with 34C recorded in the Arctic
Finland’s national meteorological institute registered its hottest temperature for June since records began in 1844.
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Jul 5th 2021, 7:14 PM
Voices
Opinion: One challenge for the DUP in power will be to finally accept a climate bill
Thomas Muinzer says Northern Ireland waited a long time for a climate bill and now gets two.
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Jun 17th 2021, 8:00 PM
# Climate Change
Global warming responsible for one in three heat-related deaths, says study
The findings are based on simulations of climate, with and without human-induced emissions.
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May 31st 2021, 4:34 PM
Voices
Opinion: Ireland's green energy plans have a big tech data centre problem
Dr Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie question whether large tech companies should really be the priority in the government’s energy plans.
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Mar 29th 2021, 6:30 PM
Voices
Opinion: We failed to prepare for pandemics, we cannot do the same with climate change
Author Laurie Laybourn-Langton says global governments must learn the lessons Covid-19 and take immediate action to tackle climate change.
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Mar 28th 2021, 8:30 AM
# Global Warning
UN warns that the world is facing 'catastrophic' warming
The UN weather agency said the warmest three years on record were 2016, 2019 and 2020.
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Jan 14th 2021, 9:10 PM
# melting
The Arctic endured one of its hottest years in 2020, study finds
The year 2020 did not beat the record set in 2012, but came quite close.
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Dec 8th 2020, 9:27 PM
# Climate Change
Last month was hottest September on record globally, EU says
This year has now seen three months of record warmth – January, May and September.
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Oct 7th 2020, 8:02 AM
# Climate Change
Richest 1% of world's population 'responsible for more than double the carbon pollution of poorest half'
In Ireland, the richest 10% of the population emits nearly the same emissions as the bottom 50%.
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Sep 21st 2020, 8:03 AM
# Hot stuff
The 2010s were Earth's hottest decade on record
Ireland saw its warmest winter on record since 1900.
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Aug 13th 2020, 12:15 PM
# melting ice
Global warming could see most polar bears disappear from Arctic by 2100
Researchers said ‘aggressive’ cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed.
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Jul 20th 2020, 5:59 PM
Voices
'This pandemic is nothing compared to what climate change has in store'
John Gibbons lays out the stark climate facts and urges us to take coronavirus as a warning that it’s now time to act, or perish.
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May 2nd 2020, 7:30 AM
Voices
Opinion: The climate 'canary in the coal mine' is gasping for breath. We've reached the Anthropocene
Even the most entrenched climate denialists would find it hard to argue that things aren’t changing, writes Mark Kernan.
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Feb 29th 2020, 2:00 PM
# Ireland's climate crisis
'It is much worse than you think': The climate crisis and what it means for Ireland
Ireland – like every country – faces significant challenges to respond to climate change.
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Aug 26th 2019, 7:30 AM
# Climate Change
July confirmed as the hottest month on record
Nine of the 10 hottest July months have occurred since 2005 – with the last five years ranking as the five hottest, according to a US agency.
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Aug 15th 2019, 9:17 PM
# Global Warming
Donald Trump denounces Paris climate accord as 'ineffective' and 'expensive'
Trump has gone as far as branding climate change a conspiracy in the past.
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Jul 9th 2019, 8:03 AM
# NASA study
In just 3 years, Antarctic sea ice shrank by an area four times greater than France
From 2014 to 2017, “the Antarctic lost almost as much as the Arctic” over almost 40 years, and now stands at a record low.
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Jul 2nd 2019, 7:19 AM
# Global Warming
Scientists have recorded the highest level of CO2 emissions on earth since records began
The last time earth’s atmosphere contained this much CO2 was more than three million years ago
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May 14th 2019, 7:34 AM
# new guidance
Met Éireann staff advised not to talk 'despair' over climate change and to use positive language
An internal communique says using words like “inevitable” could create a feeling that nothing can be done.
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Feb 25th 2019, 6:30 AM
# hot hot hot
The last four years were the hottest on record, UN confirms
The 20 warmest years in history all occurred within the last 22 years.
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Feb 6th 2019, 9:39 PM
# global leaders
'The Garden of Eden is no more': David Attenborough issues stark climate warning at Davos
“We need to move beyond guilt or blame, and get on with the practical tasks at hand,” Attenborough told his audience.
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Jan 22nd 2019, 9:59 AM
# On the up
Taoiseach: 'Householders will have to pay more to fill their cars, for electricity and gas under carbon tax hikes'
Varadkar said the increase in carbon taxes will be needed over the next number of years.
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Nov 21st 2018, 3:53 PM
# Global Warming
Met Éireann staff told not to link specific extreme weather events with climate change
The advice in a guidance document for staff says linking extreme weather to global warming was a problem.
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Oct 19th 2018, 6:20 AM
# Global Warming
Trump backs off climate change hoax claim ... but says he doesn't know if it's man made
Trump said he doesn’t want to put the US at a disadvantage in responding to climate change.
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Oct 15th 2018, 7:15 AM
# heating up
Exceptionally hot weather expected for another four years, researchers say
Manmade global warming and a natural change in the Earth’s temperature will join forces over the coming years, the study suggested.
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Aug 15th 2018, 2:32 PM
# warmer oceans
Climate change is speeding up a rise in sea levels
Warmer ocean water is destabilising ice shelves.
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Jun 17th 2018, 9:45 AM
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