Simon Bursell

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Can we please get a signal boost on this super important news clip?

This man just removed the passenger cap at Dublin Airport! He is nothing more than an environmental vandal, a nihilistic wrecker of our shared future. How dare he speak about decarbonisation? Absolutely full of it.

The Dept website has just yesterday evening changed the status of the massive arramara application from 'applied' to 'withdrawn' this is good news but both Arramara and Bioatlantis still have applications in for seaweed rights in mayo, galway, and kerry

Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast.

Is your area affected? Get in touch to start a local campaign ✊️

my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

There may be no turning back this climate crisis As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.

The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold.

Climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences.

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Malta, Austria, Romania, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.

Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters Seals also among the animals killed as by-catch of growing crayfishing industry

Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters

"That the Irish Government still allows this form of destructive fishing throughout Irish coastal waters is an absolute disgrace"

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

this in a country where the government is deprioritising climate action

Ireland in the storms: Flood barriers won't save us if we keep draining the land After flooding in the past, successive governments promised protections, but instead, doubled down on dredging and delayed land-use reform, leaving communities exposed, writes Pádraic Fogarty.

After Midelton was flooded in 2023 Leo Varadkar said we needed a Land Use Plan. The Plan is ready but @micheal-martin.bsky.social won't publish it.

Instead, he's legally designating rivers as "highly modified"

jrnl.ie/6946724

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I guess if I ran the transport for one of the few EU countries without a rail link to the airport from the capital; without decent cycle or walking infrastructure, in a car clogged pollution nightmare, this is the kind of badly researched ill-informed nonsense I’d be expected to produce.

All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms — Plan was expected to be put to the Cabinet today before it was withdrawn from the meeting of Government Ministers. A reported plan by Ireland’s Government to make the wearing of helme…

"A reported plan by Ireland’s Government to make the wearing of helmets and high-vis mandatory for e-scooter and “e-bike” users includes all bicycles, even those without a motor, the Department of Transport has confirmed this afternoon."

CETA: a free trade agreement that is anti-constitutional and waters down our rights and protections so mega-corporations make more money. But we all win.

This coming from a gov who is trying to remove regular people's access to environmental info and justice and participation in the planning process.
Just voluntarily handing over enormous power to corporations.
We already have laws protecting investors, if they aren't good enough then change them

I know there's a massive amount going on but the government amending the arbitration act to sign us up to CETA needs serious coverage and the risks of corporate courts need to be spelled out.

The Irish political response to flooding is a big part of the problem.

The short electoral cycle means ministers want to be seen to 'act' and be decisive.

That's why they love diggers and concrete. Transforming our rivers into drains. Lots of opportunities for photoshoots - 'getting things done'

Screenshot from Irish Times article: "The researchers said the high volume of rain that fell in the seven days up to and including Storm Chandra turned the heavy but “not particularly remarkable” rainfall into a “devastating” flood event. They found the magnitude of the rainfall over the full week was 9 per cent greater than it would have been in the cooler Earth that existed before climate change. “We would have expected similar seven-day rainfall to happen once in every 150 years,” they said." #Ireland #Climate #Environment

Truly feels like we're sleepwalking into our own annihilation

🇮🇪 will do spectacularly badly with impacts from Climate Change.

We think short term.

2 of many: Still building on flood plains; 83% of our fruit & veg is imported.

No real adaptation & mitigation plans for increasingly serious ☔️ events.

Not to mention AMOC. 😬

Gov 🤷

#SpeirGorm

Semiotilicious

fossil fuel companies and big livestock farming groups have globally poured so much money into the far right in order to stop us focusing on them and instead turn on other ordinary people. All so they can extract more money from us.

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.

A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”

A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

Denmark’s plan for a greener country offers ideas worth Ireland’s attention Carbon tax on farming and taking land out of agricultural production among bold moves by the Danes

If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland?

www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

UN treaty to protect ‘extraordinary’ marine life due to come into force World-first pact aims to protect 10 million species from threats like climate change, overfishing and deep-sea mining.

A big day for the sea as the treaty to allow for the creation of Marine Protected areas on the high seas comes into force today!

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout

The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.

Delaying the 2026 Climate Action Plan is deeply concerning. Efforts are already way off-track & the CAP is the main tool for closing the delivery gap this decade. Saying we must wait for post-2030 carbon budgets is conceptually backwards - delay now makes future targets harder and more expensive.

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Petition to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?

There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th.
Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...

John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible

An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says Catherine Connolly Figures of possible fines of between €8bn and €26bn for breaching emissions targets ‘incredible’, President says

It says a lot about our new President that one of her first public events was with @antaisce.bsky.social to highlight our climate challenge and the need for climate justice 👏

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...