Gave my 2 cents on latest Copernicus European weather report to ⁦Newstalk Breakfast⁩ earlier today. In short, global #climate system is accelerating towards a precipice & we need to hit the brakes on emissions asap. newstalk.com/podcasts/highl…

Baffling to see how a proposed greenway in Carlingford, which brings huge benefits, has stoked such vehement local opposition. My contribution to this report on ⁦Claire Byrne Live⁩ yesterday begins at 8’00” below. rte.ie/radio/podcasts…

Once again, ⁦Martyn Turner⁩ absolutely knocks this one out of the park in this weekend’s ⁦The Irish Times⁩.

Seriously, what do you think are the long term prospects for a species that routinely engages in such pointless atavistic savagery against the living world – and one another? (Faroe Islands, yesterday)

Satirical magazines doing a far better job of conveying absolute horror of the ongoing genocide in #Gaza than heavily sanitised "both sides" approach of most media outlets.

“Farming is the canary in #climate coalmine. It’s farming climate is coming for first”. Great thread by Keith Brennan on how farm orgs lobby for more & more of the same, even as the very foundations of our once-stable weather systems crumble.

Class – and bang on the money – from the good folks at Yellow Dot Studios.

This week’s The Last Word on Environment with Matt Cooper coming up shortly. We’re discussing threat to wildlife posed by robot lawnmowers, plus Drax #greenwashing & bat 🦇 fungus deaths.

“Scientifically, this is not a #ClimateCrisis. We are now facing something deeper. Mass extinction –really putting humanity’s future at risk. This is a planetary crisis” - Johan Rockström

Gaza is “the biggest scandal in history”, an appalling crime against a civilian population, says former French PM Dominique de Villepin, “yet there’s a silence, the media don’t even mention it any more”

Pod of this week’s ⁦The Last Word⁩ on Environment with ⁦Matt Cooper⁩ below. We discussed hazard robot mowers pose to wildlife, especially hedgehogs 🦔, plus spike in pesticide usage after outbreak of deadly bat 🦇 fungus led to more infant mortality. todayfm.com/podcasts/the-l…

Might re-watch this old classic on RTÉ TV later this evening. To give it a more contemporary feel, just substitute “Krakow Ghetto” for “Gaza” and “Jews” for “Palestinians” and maybe then we’ll be able to begin to empathise with today’s Holocaust victims.

Smart, sharp and on-point from writer Sally Rooney. Our current growth-obsessed economic pathway is the road to #climate chaos and ecological ruin. This isn’t a controversial or edgy take, it’s what the science has been screaming at us for literally decades.

Terrifying news. Ireland btw is a MASSIVE per capita contributor to methane emissions. Ah well, a few people here are make money off it, so guess that’s alright then? scitechdaily.com/methane-levels…

Czechia, yesterday. As we continue to heat the atmosphere with GHGs & pump up hydrological cycle, weather disasters get ever more frequent & severe until our capacity to recover & rebuild is eventually overwhelmed. That’s how civilisations end.

This will get worse, before it gets... much, much worse. #ClimateEmergency independent.ie/world-news/eur…

More special pleading for a small cohort of intensive farmers to continue down an unsustainable high-pollution path that mainly benefits PLCs, under cover of protecting “family farms”, as explained by Sadhbh O' Neill - 🍉End genocide now in a 🧵

Think about it for a moment: people desperately trying to prevent scenarios like this are criminalised and jailed for up to 5 years for *peaceful* protests against #climate breakdown. In truth, they are heroes and we owe them everything.

Coming up on #TonightVMTV with Ciara Doherty and our panel from 10PM: 🚨 Support for Fianna Fáil among farmers hits historic low 🚨 One-on-one with Social Democrats Leader, Holly Cairns 🚨 Thousands injured after pagers explode across Lebanon Virgin Media News Virgin Media Television

Contributed my 2 cents to a discussion earlier on ⁦TonightVMTV⁩ around nitrates, water pollution & Ireland’s derogation (audio not included here as Skype line was pretty patchy).