As below, one can use the GWP* method to give an indicative view of the crucial importance to New Zealand minimal fair share action of early, deep and sustained methane mitigation (in addition to net zero to net -ve CO2e for CO2+N2O).

The "scientific report" underpinning this New Zealand decision is a travesty.
-Makes false assumption p.28 that limiting to 1.5ºC global warming can be achieved via merely reaching climate neutrality ('no additional warming').
-And allows 1.5ºC failure scenarios.
environment.govt.nz/assets/publi...

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

YES, grid-tied solar PV battery systems in Ireland CAN be installed with an isolation switch so they can be operated off-grid in case of storms or other outages.

Safe Electric: "off-grid backup systems can be installed as long as it is done safely by a registered contractor."

This is such an extraordinarily bad idea - and I suspect would have very little popular support across the EU: so not just bad in itself, but very bad for EU democracy as a whole...

Another significant environmental crime

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

jrnl.ie/6805578

New Zealand's agri methane Government decision betrays its Paris Agreement global commitments to limiting global warming equitably.

It says, the short-term profits of NZ agri-food corporations are far more important to them than national promises to protect the future wellbeing of people & nature.

We’re entering a fascinating new phase of the #climate end-game, one where leaders, from Mark Carney in Canada to Micheál Martin here, perfectly understand how dire the situation is, yet decide - choose - to do absolutely nothing.

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

To be clear: corporations are *agents* - they have agency to act in the world, over and above the agency of their constituent human components. But they are not sentient, and have no *moral* agency beyond what is built in by design. In the case of for-profit corps it is actively *omitted* by design.

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....

To the IT it seems nothing says "victim" like a €21k Hermes handbag: the carpetbagger, updated for IE 2025.
slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc...

'As Raworth wrote in Doughnut Economics: “We have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive; what we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.”'

Editorial in Nature - Beyond GDP

So bloody useless

Excellent overview of the recent Overshoot conference at @iiasa.ac.at by @carbonbrief.org

Bottom line for me...the core message is the same...

it is more urgent than ever to take action to reduce emissions

every fraction of a degree matters #climateaction

Disappointingly, "growth is good" was the core message in the lead-off keynote (economist) overview at the @seai-ie.bsky.social research conference yesterday. Along with following panel, it was as if Paris & carbon budgets & sectoral ceilings had never happened.
O/w the research presented was good.

Pod of this week’s Last Word on the Environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available.

Astute listeners may spot that I’m deeply unimpressed by our so-called “climate” minister, Darragh O’Brien, a man as out of touch with reality as he is out of his depth.

www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

"The eyes of future generations are on [us], silently urging us to act bravely and quickly [...] to save them from a collapsed biosphere.

Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"

Crucial question, crucial book.

*Read it.*

This, while shocking, could be fixed so quickly. It's simply not good enough, and our waterways are paying the price.

'over 40% of these failures were avoidable, caused by poor plant operation, equipment breakdowns, and inadequate maintenance, training, or procedures'

Very important paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social that shows, as I have argued, that tax policy is climate policy. We cannot phaseout #fossilfuels without attacking their wealth.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see this new article published yesterday - co-authored with @orlakelleher.bsky.social

“The implications of the European Court of Human Rights' climate rulings for climate litigation in Ireland: a new legal reality”, in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal

Class 1 e-bikes, which require pedaling and have electric assist that tops out at 18mph, are very different than throttle-operated class 2 and 3 bikes, which are themselves very different from the bigger, faster electric motorcycles that are proliferating under the “ebike” label.

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

This is honestly the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time- banning the use of the words burger & sausage on plant based products.

The world is burning & war ravaged, & this is what our Parliamentarians think they need to 'fix'?

P.S. Fish also don't have fingers, right @oisinc.bsky.social?

For sure! Even so, getting past wrongly equating AI Mode with genAI was a still mental block that kept me from looking at it 🙄
I hadn't realised that it could integrate our usage, battery in/out with low cost night grid, and solar forecast.
Or, as surprisingly, how it would solve for these.