Dr. Cara Augustenborg

Thank you @yurikageyama.bsky.social for a feel good story amid the gloom. I have a bug loving kid here in Ireland, but they seem to be a rare breed here! A culture of bug loving kids sounds like just what the world needs. 🐛🪲🐞

You forgot "removed endangerment finding underpinning all climate regulations" apnews.com/live/donald-...

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

You win best BlueSky post of the day!

I am so disappointed this is a view from Democratic party. Do better.

Good morning! ☀️

We are looking for a researcher (or research team) to support an exciting new report on how clean flexibility solutions can replace fossil gas. More info below 👇

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Sports clubs ‘frustrated’ by long delay to EV chargers promised under €15m Shared Island scheme Academic report warns delays in the process pose a ‘reputational risk’ to government climate initiatives

🚨2 years after Irish gov launched €15m Shared Island sports club EV charger scheme, none have been fitted.
Now a report warns the delays pose a ‘reputational risk’ to government climate initiatives
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Our application period is still open for those seeking environmental policy training in a beautiful English-speaking EU country! Feel free to get in touch to learn more!

‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students Europe may benefit as Trump’s campaign against Ivy League colleges is causing academics to consider emigrating

In today's Irish Times, my perspective as a former Fulbright scholar and current Programme Director for University College Dublin Environmental Policy MSc programme, where we are seeing significant increases in US/international applicant numbers this year.

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The wrong ICE is melting The wrong Amazon is burning

Sign of the day…

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

Not so fun fact: Every hour a person spends in space emits the same climate harming pollution as 2,000-4,600 people on earth (source link below), but today I heard Katy Perry say "everyone should do this to help them love themselves" 🙄

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Here's a first look at sea surface temperature data from the new NOAA ERSSTv6 dataset... this animation shows the yearly anomalies over the last 100 years.

Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...

Holey moley.

Couldn't have picked a nicer day for a field trip with my UCD MSc Environmental Policy students! Thanks to Baron Randal Plunkett for the personal tour of his novel ecosystem & beautiful estate at Dunsany Castle- to inspire our own campus biodiversity efforts back home!

Even harder to believe that she referred to it as "onerous" job today!

I thought her most powerful sentence was that we have no right to give up hope as long as the Palestinians still have it. 🙏

Every prince does too! ;-)

Mine did this and it turned out to be an over-sensitivity to fleas! Even after de-flea-ing him & the house, he still had to go on steroids etc to stop is skin from continuing to react long after fleas were gone. Hair eventually grew back

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes.
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The debate: Should the State develop a terminal for liquefied natural gas? Geopolitical upheaval, energy security and reliance on UK for supplies are forcing a rethink on the ban on LNG

interesting to read a very strong case against liquified gas investments WITHOUT even talking about the dangers of climate breakdown:

- running costs are enormous (and households pay)
- doesn't prevent weather-related disruption
- renewables are so cheap and fast they make it redundant

This post from @colmoregan.bsky.social ties in well...

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The rise and triumph of the fascist Idiocracy, brilliantly foretold in five frames by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

Administrative frictions in Ireland’s Shared Island Sports Club EV Charging Scheme - Public Policy The Government of Ireland has established targets to facilitate the country’s low-carbon transition, including targets to increase use of electric vehicles (EVs), as part of their Climate Action Plans...

In this brief, we examined the hurdles sports clubs volunteers have had to go through in this scheme and recommended areas to improve communication & confidence in the scheme (and hopefully trust in Government, more generally). 3/3

More at: publicpolicy.ie/environment/...

227 sports clubs received approval for charger installation but have been in the application process for 2 years with no chargers installed. 2/x

Our final @epaireland.bsky.social-funded policy brief on administrative frictions in Climate Action Plans has just been published, examining the Shared Island Sports Clubs EV Charger Scheme launched in February 2023. To date, no chargers have been installed... 1/X

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There are lessons to be learned from across the pond... #datacentres #Ireland

A climate ad at the #Superbowl was not on my bingo card! 👏👏

Another referred to high cost of Masters degrees in IRL compared to other EU MS. I've seen signs of that in our own MSc prog., and wonder if anyone is tracking this on national scale? 2/2

‘I presumed I’d be at least renting by now’: The lives of Ireland’s 25-year-olds Emigration, home ownership and climate change are among the issues weighing on the minds of Irish twentysomethings

This article made me so sad for young people in Ireland. Their lives are uncertain & lacking in the joy & hope I remember from my 20s. One even mentioned uncertainty of climate change as a contributor. 1/2

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