John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
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Freaking out - & speaking out - on #Climate. Campaigning journalist John Gibbons [email protected] Blog: thinkorswim.ie thinkorswim.bsky.social
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http://www.climatechange.ie/media-archive/ 03-11-2010 17:28:47
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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.
“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
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…
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 🧵
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).