Will Ryan

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.

Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Initially thought this would be rinse of Mamdani’s style of videos. But god it’s so refreshing to see accessible Green Party communication. So simple. @greenparty.ie would benefit to have this type of coms.

The real threat is that this bill will allow for the proliferation of private energy-intensive industries, such as data centres, to run rampant. It’s a scapegoat for the Government not investing in public infrastructure to meet energy and housing demands, let alone climate goals.

If you want energy security, don’t spend €900 million (price has tripled from an estimated €300 million last year) on an emergency reserve that requires €60 million annually to maintain. That’s not a strategic investment in our security; that’s a state burden. 2/

Minister blocked in bid to end scrutiny of law giving him power to approve gas reserve Darragh O’Brien had asked all-party committee to waive hearings on proposed gas reserve law

Mr O’Brien said however: “The risk of not having a gas reserve is one that cannot be ignored."

Luckily blocked for now. But it needs to be evidently clear that the "Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve Bill” creates more risk than it removes. 1/

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Government to fast-track fines for tech companies over Al abuse

Cabinet to sign off on plan to build more data centres across country Electricity demand from data centres has grown from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 22% in 2024.

“The abusive tool must be heavily regulated, which is why this government has authorised the construction of more of the environmental destructive infrastructure it needs”.

Irish govt reps: It's complicated, or something.

Fucking gowls, the lot of them.

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

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Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa

Transforming lives, from the bottom up, with no need for imperial wars.

Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

* your fossil heating, fossil mobility, fossil plastic wrapped lifestyles keeps societies hostile to the worst gangs / people on this planet.

Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.

Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.

The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

And this is just getting started on a global basis.

2026 will be a fascinating year in the world of energy.

mend it, don't end it.
#COP

COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

Here's what 1,600 lobbyists gets you #COP30

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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

“However, he said none of this changed his view that the State needed to invest in LNG as a strategic reserve and he did not believe it was a contradictory stance.”

Who wants to place their bets on the chances of LNG only being used for “strategic reserve“ or whatever that means.

Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?

I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.

But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.

I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...

“may every future billionaire who writes about Ireland be haunted, not by ghosts, but by the stubborn, unprofitable truth that a republic is measured not in financial investment — but in who it chooses to help, and who it casually hurts.”

Number of tourists down 7.5% so far this year - CSO The number of tourists coming to Ireland is down 7.5% so far this year compared to 2024, according to data from the Central Statistics Office.

One way to reverse this trend?

Start bringing nature back to Ireland via major rewilding.

People will be ever less interested in visiting a country that's ever more devoid of the indigenous ecosystems that should make it special.
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Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

The *seventh* debate of #Aras25?

One of the most common #ruralpursuits is: driving huge distances to access life saving emergency medical care. Limerick, Clare & Tipperary North all served by the one ED.

It is interesting that he chose to harrass Connolly, who has never been in government, rather than Humphries, who was a cabinet minister when the Gender Recognition Act was passed.

It's almost like it's not really about what he says it's about, isn't it?

Her name IS Heather to be fair to him... It's just unfortunate that the real heather caught fire while she was left in charge of it.

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

nice little omission to the actual energy source that data centers will use private wires for - gas turbines.