Climate change - off the record

Houses of the Oireachtas (Parliament) Ireland Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy Live CR3 online: https://www.oireachtas.ie/public/_resources/themes/oireachtas/hourly/live.php?cr3&audio Next meeting: 17 Sep 2025, 12:30, CR3, LH 2000 12:30 Engagement with Climate Experts on the Carbon Budgets - Professor Barry McMullin, Professor (Emeritus), Dublin City University - Mr. Paul Price, Researcher, Dublin City University - Professor John Sweeney, Professor Emeritus, Maynooth University - Professor Hannah E. Daly, Professor in Sustainable Energy and Energy Systems Modelling, University College Cork https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/climate-environment-and-energy/

Wednesday 17 Sep 2025, 12:30, CR3, LH 2000
"Engagement with Climate Experts on the Carbon Budgets"

in Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Online live CR3: www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...

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Tomorrow at 12.30pm, I'll join Paul, Prof. Barry McMullin & Prof. John Sweeney to give evidence to the Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy as they hold hearings on Ireland's second carbon budget programme.

The session is live-streamed at the link below👇
@autofac.bsky.social

16.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 42    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 2

kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and looking at the camera . Alt: kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and looking at the camera, he is a little bit nervous

Really excited to be recording our first #podcast this afternoon with Professor @peterthorne.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie

Little bit #nervous ...

16.09.2025 14:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Basing Ireland's carbon budgets on temperature neutrality would undermine obligations under the Paris Agreement

Today @hannahdaly.ie and I have published a policy brief on Ireland's carbon budgets and the implications of basing them on an approach called temperature neutrality.

@ucc.ie

You can find key messages and recommendations in here ⬇️

15.09.2025 11:06 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

🚨 New publication: A policy briefing report on the adoption of temperature neutrality as the basis for Ireland's carbon budgets.

This Wednesday, I will discuss this, and more, with the Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy.

15.09.2025 11:10 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Earth’s capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon Around 1,460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground, but this limit could be reached by 2200.

alternative title: "we've gotta stop burning $hit"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

05.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 242    🔁 96    💬 11    📌 4

I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG 🧵)

05.09.2025 18:05 — 👍 184    🔁 67    💬 5    📌 26

Home | SUSI SUSI is Ireland’s national awarding authority for further and higher education grants.

📢 Students are encouraged to visit www.susi.ie to check their eligibility for financial support under the expanded criteria. Undergraduate students from households with a reckonable income below €115,000 may qualify.

04.09.2025 13:21 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

John Gibbons: Ireland had a 'Goldilocks' climate - but we've been killing Goldilocks Climate writer John Gibbons shares an extract from his new book about how Ireland risks ruining our ‘climatic sweet spot’.

Extract from my new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, which launches today, is now published on @thejournal.ie, via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

www.thejournal.ie/readme/john-...

04.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 40    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

...and real world policy, shaping how Ireland (and the world) understands and responds to climate change.

More information coming soon...

#climatechange #climateaction #climatecommunication

@drclarenoone.bsky.social @roisinmoriarty.com

@maynoothuniversity.ie @ucc.ie

03.09.2025 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pictured is Professor of Climate Science, Peter Thorne, from Maynooth University. Photo shows an image of a scientist speaking at an IPCC press conference.

🎙️ Exciting news! Our first guest on the podcast is the inspirational Professor @peterthorne.bsky.social

🇮🇪 Peter is one of Ireland's leading climate scientists, Coordinating lead Author for the @ipcc.bsky.social and a Lead Author of Ireland's Climate Change Assessment

🌍 His work bridges science...

03.09.2025 12:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0