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Fady and his brother were wounded by shrapnel from an Israeli bomb. Tareq’s injuries were so serious he required medical evacuation last Friday. Luckily Fady was able to accompany him. They are in Paris now, and hoping to be reunited with their families in Cairo.

Yep. Jet Stream collapse is where it’s at.

I’m doing a #climate thing at the Hinterland Festival on Saturday. Despite or perhaps because the programmers describe me as a hot mess, there’s only a few tickets left.

👉 www.hinterland.ie/p-576-philip...

I can personally vouch for the integrity of this GoFundMe. Of the many times I thought his situation could not get worse - months in a tent on the beach, house flattened on his return - this is the worst. If you can’t donate please share this. 👇👇👇👇

gofund.me/0c79ba3b

This is an example of the kind of work my producer/cameraman colleague Fady Hossam has been making inside #Gaza.

He and his brother got hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike while searching for food on Thursday. Fady is the sole breadwinner for many relatives.
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Which should be compared with what the Gardai told me at the time.

PS - I coined the nickname “Kitchen Table Historian” back in 2014. I regretted it almost straight away. It undermined the investigative rigour of Catherine’s work. Time to let it fade away, I think.

Thanks to Catherine we are dealing with our history in a literal forensic examination, and being guided by the evidence.

It feels like a turning point. Or at the least a marker being laid down for a new standard to we hold ourselves to.

Thank you Catherine.

Her North Star was that she knew what the facts said and where the evidence would lead anyone that studied it.

It took 11 years, but today we have started unearthing the past and setting it right. No more “sure you know what went on in there” nudges and winks.

It was ferocious. For providing her a platform I received only a fraction of the abuse Catherine did, but for me the volume was completely unprecedented. For her I know it was nearly overwhelming. Not that she buckled or wavered under it.

In 2014 she was unequivocal that the correct response to her revelation was to exhume the babies, identify and reunite them with as many relatives as could be found.

I couldn’t deny the logic of her position, but I didn’t think she had correctly figured how much pushback there would be.

By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil.

It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
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Thomas is right. Your questions are answered within the piece.

Because the fines are imposed at a national level, not sectoral. The correct question is “why should the polluters not pay for it?”

That is the reputational risk the industry is running - burdening the taxpayer with the bill from its polluting. I think they have been promised at a very high political level (erroneously) that the fines won’t be imposed.

The beef industry has made less progress in offering incentives.

I asked the Sustainability Manager from Larry Goodman’s ABP were they happy to run a very profitable multi billion euro business and get the taxpayer to pick up the bill for their polluting.

Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The dairy industry explains why it hasn’t yet incentivised farmers to adopt these tools.

The choice is stark. Either business and taxpayers pay for this work to be done now, or we reduce the herd by 1 million to avoid billions in fines.

Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The first part of this programme is on the Cavan dairy farm of Thomas Duffy.

Adding up what he has done, and what he could do if he received financial support for the new tools, he estimates his farm could achieve a 33% CO2e cut.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

How to reduce farming emissions Two weeks ago the latest set of results showed that if business continues as usual that not only would the climate change target not be met, but that emissions could increase.

Head scratcher: EPA emissions projections show Ag will miss its legally binding targets by a country mile

BUT …

All the tech needed to get the job done exists in the real world. So why isn’t it being used?

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www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Here … just for you …

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Get a terraforming start up on board too and for the right price we could promise to Restore Factory Settings on the planet every 200 years or so. Oh think of the shareholder wealth this will create.

Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as it seeks to cut endangered species list The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

Why spend public money now preventing extinction, when in the future you can give it to a private company for “de-extinction”.

Makes perfect sense 👀

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Hi Matt,
Thank you for this work.
Did the periods and areas of reduced wind speeds in 2023 that caused the warming correspond with wobbles in the jet stream?

What I find fascinating about this is that it makes a nonsense of all the existing ideas about having to reach a level of affluence before taking action on the environment. It suggests precisely the opposite is true.

In fact, the richer you are the less you actually care about the environment.
Red = Poor.
Blue = Mid income.
Green = Rich
(Poll by Gallup)

Eco-paradox USA: The relationships between economic growth and environmental concern generally, and by different income groups Environmental values are commonly explained through three theories: post-materialism suggests affluence enables environmental concern, materialism arg…

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Environmental concern is not the preserve of the well heeled. 25 years of surveys in America show the poor care more about the natural world than the rich or the middle class.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ep 25 - Methane Does the programme for government rely on bad science for reducing methane emissions from farming?

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

We’ve been rumbled.

I made a programme about the Irish government’s agri methane accounting trick just two months ago. Link below

We have updated and re-cut Rising Tides, the series shown on Irish TV, for an international audience. Al Jazeera will screen it in July under the new title Global Warning.
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social