Research: climate change science & policy. Blog: https://climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/ –Adjunct faculty Dublin City University ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712; –eNGO research & An Taisce member; MSc. Sus Dev & BSc(Hon) Geology 30 yrs pro carpentry. 🚲 🏊
Looking forward to Gas Networks Ireland and all of its fellow European gas-grid operators foregrounding this report in their future PR and reporting. /s
Rebecca JohnOur major new investigation is out today packed full of revelations about the oil and gas industry’s decades-long deception over natural gas. We show how big oil and gas created the myth of “clean” natural gas before deceptively marketing it as a climate solution. @climateintegrity.org
This 1 hr film on John Maynard Keynes is well worth watching. His equality-based critique of the standard (neoclassical) economics' and typical political fixation on growth & finance, rather than people & balance, is as relevant now as it was nearly 100 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYr...
Keynes: The Secret Architect of the Modern World | FD FinanceYouTube video by FD Financewww.youtube.comAnn PettiforLord Robert Skidrlsky and I comment on Keynes's economic theories and policies in this film.,, open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
'He compared shock at increasingly “unprecedented” wildfires to someone climbing a mountain being surprised each day they had reached a new height. “If they continue climbing, they will almost certainly say exactly the same thing again tomorrow.”' #FossilFuelled www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘The worst possible combination’: what has caused Spain’s deadly wildfires?Blaze made worse by heat, strong wind and plentiful dry vegetation amid hollowing out of rural populationwww.theguardian.com"If they pass into law, the Strategic Gas Reserve Bill & Passenger Capacity Bill would create a dangerous precedent, allowing the Government to dismantle the Climate Act piece by piece when faced with choices that conflict with its legal obligation to decarbonise." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop itThe potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildrenwww.irishtimes.comWell worth listening to all 30 minutes of Frans Timmermans informative and insightful address (followed by Q&A), starting here in the conference video: www.youtube.com/live/78FEoqG...
Civil society driving the EU sustainability agendaYouTube video by VE Studiowww.youtube.comPaul PriceCurrently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.
Timmermans –Compares AI "race" to cold war nuclear risk. –International support for United Nations organisation urgently required for global governance to limit and regulate AI. –Diverting money from social to military spending is a major error that will further undermine EU & MS stability.
Paul PriceCurrently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.
Timmermans: –Energy transition & ETS monies to social crucial. –Big investment in social housing is crucial to transition [Ireland??] –Small farmers are supporting policies not in their own interest. –All politics is redistribution, but has been increasingly from people to capital [=corporations].
Paul PriceCurrently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.
Currently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.
Paul Price"Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda" Livestream Tuesday 30 June, 10am-3pm: Programme and link: www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/ou...
At this event, Christopher O'Sullivan, Irish Minister of State for Biodiversity is saying funding farmers to achieve nature restoration is the crucial required policy . BUT he fails to mention that funding farming without changing Ireland's high pollution cattle system just funds more of the same.
Paul Price"Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda" Livestream Tuesday 30 June, 10am-3pm: Programme and link: www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/ou...
"Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda" Livestream Tuesday 30 June, 10am-3pm: Programme and link: www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/ou...
Civil society driving the EU sustainability agendaOn 30 June 2026, the European Economic and Social Committee’s (EESC) Civil Society Organisations՚ Group will host a high-level conference in Cork, in light of the upcoming Irish Presidency of the Coun...www.eesc.europa.euOn the destruction of US science: "The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country. The motives include sheer bloody-minded hostility along with a desire to get their own hands on the funding. [Why?] it’s mostly stupidity, arrogance, & greed." www.science.org/content/blog...
The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in Americawww.science.orgDerek LoweAn unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:
