The day ⁦RTÉ News⁩ and other Irish media outlets cover the #ClimateEmergency with same intensity & sense of urgency they apply to reporting on delayed flights, then you will know things are getting serious. rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

"Focusing" more on climate while bigging up Europes most polluting airline is not what I thought Kevin Bakhurst was promising. #TellTheTruth #Greenwash #StopAdvertisingCarsAndAirlines

What is the The Irish Times’ headline this morning? The catastrophic floods in Spain, Greece or Hong Kong? Or the abnormal heatwaves at home in Ireland? No, again, Enoch Burke trumps the #ClimateCrisis and #BiodiversityCrisis.

“Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.” — George Bernard Shaw (The Irish Times front page today, as real-time breakdown of global #climate system accelerates)

Absolutely shocking that this man is given air time. Allowing someone to blame an increase in road deaths on pedestrian behaviour unchallenged like this borders on dangerous journalism, NewstalkFM. Speed kills! Lowering our speed limits is a no-brainer that will save lives!

If this tweet thread could be pinned to the door of every newsroom, then maybe, just maybe, more journalists would get off the fence and start treating the #ClimateEmergency as THE story of our lifetimes.

More power to the data centre guy for leveraging his weather posts into a national platform to oppose climate action, but media orgs that invite him to talk about how reducing emissions won't save us from the impacts of climate change should point out his conflict of interest.

"Nobody in the media debated the need to dedicate resources to helping audiences understand #Covid and then playing the story big. Most outlets ran multiple Covid stories every day, which helped even casual news consumers understand that something important was happening."

RTE: Climate Crisis has 'opened the gates to hell' (via Reuters press release Also RTE: Promotes greenwashing bullshit while celebrating vast new aviation and fossil fuel emissions irishevs.com/rte-climate-co… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

It's easy to blame cartoonish villains like Murdoch but Ireland's domestic media (including @RTE) have also done untold damage by promoting climate denial and disinformation.

Why is this not getting more internat attention New York Times World Lisa Friedman Bill McKibben? Dutch people have been blocking a highway into The Hague daily to protest €37 billion fossil fuel subsidies for > 2 wks. 10,000s arrested, police violence in the city of international peace.