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Róisín Moriarty

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Climate science and policy for a better, safer, fairer world 🌍🌎🌏 Working on carbon dioxide removal and national pathways to net zero and beyond Research Fellow @ucc.bsky.social 🇮🇪 https://roisinmoriarty.com/

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · Sep 3

Exciting news! We, @drclarenoone.bsky.social
and I, are starting a climate change #podcast 🎙️ called

*Climate change--off the record*

@cc-offtherecord.bsky.social

where we talk to experts about the ups and downs of working on climate change

Stay tuned...

@ucc.ie #climateaction

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 10h

This is absolutely brilliant!

Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 5d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 11h

Great to see this new citizen science data rescue project by Met Eireann up and running: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met... especially proud of our ICARUS graduates Rhonda and Ciara for taking this on. Local followers do go along and digitise a few values please.

Irish Weather Rescue | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Calling all weather and climate enthusiasts! Help us recreate the past climate of Ireland.

www.zooniverse.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

"People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful"

@eryk.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social is really great:

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 13h

Great thread here, shows the ‘green record’ of Heather Humphreys.

Is this what ‘pro business’ means?

#Aras25 #SpeirGorm

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 13h

Why is the Government delaying publication of the land use review?

As someone who participated in the process, I would say it's because the government does not like what the Land Use Review reveals or the scale of change it necessitates.
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Eamon Ryan: Why is the Government delaying publication of the land use review?

Fears around the report are misplaced and it is long past time for it to be published

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 17h

@ucc.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social
@maynoothuniversity.ie

Episode 1: IPCC Scientist Professor Peter Thorne

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 17h

We were a bit nervous recording our first podcast with Ireland’s IPCC superstar @peterthorne.bsky.social but @drclarenoone.bsky.social and I had a great chat with him 🙂

As someone who works on climate change if left me with a lot to reflect on, in a good way #climateaction #hope & everyday chats

Climate change - off the record @cc-offtherecord.bsky.social · 17h

“Even in our lives climate change is not the only thing we have going on…”

It was so nice to chat with @peterthorne.bsky.social about how important it is to have everyday conversations about climate change with everybody

🎙️ Ep1 out now

@ucc.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social
@maynoothuniversity.ie

Spotify – Web Player

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 17h

We should be able to do this via Podcast Index…

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Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe instead of asking about candidate's pets a week before polling day, media could ask candidates their view on existential threats like #climatechange? Just a thought..

#Áras25 #SpéirGorm

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Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 5d

I've listened to 3 presidential debates so far & learned nothing on candidates' position on climate. I've even emailed to ask them this & have yet to receive replies. Anyone else feel same?

@rte.ie @virginmedianews.bsky.social @heatherhumphries.bsky.social @catherineconnolly.bsky.social

a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and saying `` anyone ? '' .

ALT: a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and saying `` anyone ? '' .

media.tenor.com

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Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ @dfertl.bsky.social · 1d

#MicheálMartin: “I don't think we can mitigate for #climatechange”:
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
For Martin (an unmitigated opportunist & cynical coward) #climateaction is too “polarising”
In his own words at COP27:
"future generations will not forgive us”
#SpéirGorm
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Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18h

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 19h

"As profitable energy companies raise customers’ prices, TD says it’s time to bring back price regulation. 'We are approaching the point (if we’re not already there) where we can justifiably claim that competition has failed'". 2/

As profitable energy companies raise customers’ prices, TD says it’s time to bring back price regulation

“We are approaching the point (if we’re not already there) where we can justifiably claim that competition has failed,” says Labour energy spokesperson Ciarán Ahern.

www.dublininquirer.com

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 19h

The International Energy Agency "found that the gap between what it costs to produce energy in this country and what it is sold for is one of the largest in the world". 1/

Energy firms accused of ‘price gouging’ as international report shows they fail to pass on lower costs

Electricity companies in Ireland are failing to pass on falls in the cost of wholesale energy to consumers and businesses, a new report has found.

www.independent.ie

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 1d

Well said @starrock2.bsky.social

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 2d

It might sound a bit hippy dippy, but what’s really clear to me is that whatever damage we are doing to nature we are doing just as much if not more to ourselves psychologically

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

Given a choice between
1. Honouring commitments on fighting one of (if not THE) greatest ever threats to humanity - climate breakdown
2. Cute hoor politics

Fianna Fáil opt for ... Cute hoor politics.

Leopards, spots, and all that.

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 4d

The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 2d

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork.

At a time when a nationwide Nature Restoration Plan is being drafted we still see rare habitats being destroyed, often with very little consequence #RestoreNature
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Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 3d

Added to which there is a policy of helping polluters to meet the standard for compliance, rather than prosecuting in the higher courts for repeat offenders.

This policy has worked for some businesses, but probably sends a message to others about polluting being consequence free.

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 3d

The Derryadd Bog complex supports nationally important populations of wintering Whooper Swan, a qualifying interest of the Lough Ree SPA. BNM should be allowing these bogs to restore themselves instead of pumping them dry to facilitate a wind farm that’s already been quashed in the High Court

Mid Shannon wilderness Park - Awareness Group @midshannon.bsky.social · 3d

Whoopers return to the bogs for 2025. As usual, BNM continues to remove their habitats through unauthorised methods with the blind eye from local authority & Gov.

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Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social · 3d

Drink the wine, make all the love, spray yourself with the good perfume every day. Stuff the larder, gather your tribe, build your community, learn to save seeds, create growing spaces, teach yourself how to preserve, be dead on, buy solar panels and don't worry about the small stuff.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

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Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

abcnews.go.com

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 3d

It has been very very busy few weeks but so happy that the first episode of climate change off the record will be coming out very soon! @drclarenoone.bsky.social

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 4d

"How bad the heat gets depends on whether the world takes radical action to change course and stop burning fossil fuels."
www.theguardian.com/environment/... by @ninalakhani.bsky.social

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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Roderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 4d

The Taoiseach creates a false choice here. Climate Action is about making life better, making energy cheaper, making our atmosphere cleaner.
But that requires leadership. We see none from this Government.

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 4d

Absolutely!