Róisín Moriarty
@roisinmoriarty.com
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/
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
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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Ireland's green image is largely a fabrication.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
Ireland second highest in EU for greenhouse gas emissions per person
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Ireland second highest in EU for greenhouse gas emissions per person
Farming and forestry responsible for 38% of State’s total output of gases linked to climate change
www.irishtimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Ireland's green image is largely a fabrication.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
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🎙️ Dr Paul Deane @ucc.ie will be our next guest.
We had a great chat with Paul on topics from Irish music, capsule wardrobes and how nice it is to live in climate friendly home.
Coming soon...
#climatechange #climateaction #climatecommunication
@drclarenoone.bsky.social
@roisinmoriarty.com
We had a great chat with Paul on topics from Irish music, capsule wardrobes and how nice it is to live in climate friendly home.
Coming soon...
#climatechange #climateaction #climatecommunication
@drclarenoone.bsky.social
@roisinmoriarty.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🎙️ Dr Paul Deane @ucc.ie will be our next guest.
We had a great chat with Paul on topics from Irish music, capsule wardrobes and how nice it is to live in climate friendly home.
Coming soon...
#climatechange #climateaction #climatecommunication
@drclarenoone.bsky.social
@roisinmoriarty.com
We had a great chat with Paul on topics from Irish music, capsule wardrobes and how nice it is to live in climate friendly home.
Coming soon...
#climatechange #climateaction #climatecommunication
@drclarenoone.bsky.social
@roisinmoriarty.com
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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'These findings “underscore the need for stricter journal policies to screen and retract ghostwritten papers, in order to safeguard science integrity, as well as public health and safety,” Kaurov and @naomioreskes.bsky.social wrote'
Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems
A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.
usrtk.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
'These findings “underscore the need for stricter journal policies to screen and retract ghostwritten papers, in order to safeguard science integrity, as well as public health and safety,” Kaurov and @naomioreskes.bsky.social wrote'
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We're at the Mass Climate TD Lobby today in Buswells Hotel. It's hosted by the Stop Climate Chaos and it is a crucial opportunity to meet your TDs face to face and tell them that climate action is important to you.
The event runs to 8pm this evening.
The event runs to 8pm this evening.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We're at the Mass Climate TD Lobby today in Buswells Hotel. It's hosted by the Stop Climate Chaos and it is a crucial opportunity to meet your TDs face to face and tell them that climate action is important to you.
The event runs to 8pm this evening.
The event runs to 8pm this evening.
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If you want to do something good, donate to the Sameer project - we hear a lot about 'on the ground' aid work but this is the genuine thing. Solidarity and care in struggle.
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you want to do something good, donate to the Sameer project - we hear a lot about 'on the ground' aid work but this is the genuine thing. Solidarity and care in struggle.
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...
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“Ads for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned in the UK for misleading consumers about the environmental sustainability credentials of their products.” 🙄
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
Nike, Superdry and Lacoste ads banned in UK over ‘misleading’ green claims
Advertising watchdog says all three firms misled shoppers by using term ‘sustainable’ in paid-for Google adverts
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“Ads for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned in the UK for misleading consumers about the environmental sustainability credentials of their products.” 🙄
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
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You ever just wish governments would call a spade a spade?
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
You ever just wish governments would call a spade a spade?
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
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Some great speakers at this local event. @leafybatter.bsky.social @cosybatter.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social @janetphorner.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @caitrionalk.bsky.social @bohsnews.bsky.social
This is happening tomorrow (Wednesday, 3rd December).
Read contributions from some of the speakers in this month's themed issue on Ireland's energy transition.
rundale.org
Read contributions from some of the speakers in this month's themed issue on Ireland's energy transition.
rundale.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Some great speakers at this local event. @leafybatter.bsky.social @cosybatter.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social @janetphorner.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @caitrionalk.bsky.social @bohsnews.bsky.social
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From an environmental POV which is the better heating option, using a condensing gas boiler and zoning your home OR burning wood you have sourced and seasoned yourself?
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
From an environmental POV which is the better heating option, using a condensing gas boiler and zoning your home OR burning wood you have sourced and seasoned yourself?
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Day 2: Musical Advent Calendar. 🎄
youtu.be/b74A7BP6Rvo?...
youtu.be/b74A7BP6Rvo?...
Robson & Jerome - I Believe
YouTube video by RobsonandJeromeVEVO
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Day 2: Musical Advent Calendar. 🎄
youtu.be/b74A7BP6Rvo?...
youtu.be/b74A7BP6Rvo?...
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🐝 The @biggive.bsky.social’s #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE!
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🐝 The @biggive.bsky.social’s #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE!
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
@viacampesinabe.bsky.social
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
@viacampesinabe.bsky.social
ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests
Our member organisation operates in full accordance with international law ; its primary role is to support farmers in Palestine.
viacampesina.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
@viacampesinabe.bsky.social
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
@viacampesinabe.bsky.social
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Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time, write Dr Sarah Arnold of MU's Dept of Media Studies & Kasandra O'Connell @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?
Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time and at the forefront of a transformative period in Irish society, write Dr Sarah Arnold
www.maynoothuniversity.ie
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time, write Dr Sarah Arnold of MU's Dept of Media Studies & Kasandra O'Connell @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
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PhD opportunity: Extreme Night-time Heat and Health in Northern Ireland under Climate Change, Ulster University www.ulsteruniges.com/post/phd-opp...
PhD opportunity: Extreme Night-time Heat and Health in Northern Ireland under Climate Change
SummaryHot nights are becoming a recognised climate risk with direct consequences for health and emergency care. Consecutive humid nights are linked to higher rates of cardiovascular and stroke admiss...
www.ulsteruniges.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
PhD opportunity: Extreme Night-time Heat and Health in Northern Ireland under Climate Change, Ulster University www.ulsteruniges.com/post/phd-opp...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Recently I've read a number of books and articles expressing net-nostalgia, about how better everything was online in the 90s. For those who missed it, let me explain how literature searches worked back then. Thread 👇
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Recently I've read a number of books and articles expressing net-nostalgia, about how better everything was online in the 90s. For those who missed it, let me explain how literature searches worked back then. Thread 👇
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'Science in Resistance: Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice'
Fernando Racimo
9th Dec 7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018
Free and all welcome but registration required: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-ej...
Any questions or queries, please email [email protected]
Fernando Racimo
9th Dec 7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018
Free and all welcome but registration required: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-ej...
Any questions or queries, please email [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
'Science in Resistance: Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice'
Fernando Racimo
9th Dec 7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018
Free and all welcome but registration required: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-ej...
Any questions or queries, please email [email protected]
Fernando Racimo
9th Dec 7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018
Free and all welcome but registration required: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-ej...
Any questions or queries, please email [email protected]
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And Andrew Jackson's comprehensive article debunking the Government's Silicon Valley, anti-regulation playbook.
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
And Andrew Jackson's comprehensive article debunking the Government's Silicon Valley, anti-regulation playbook.
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
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There have been very few opinion pieces published in national papers on this major issue, despite legal and planning experts spelling out exactly why scapegoating Judicial Reviews is dangerous.
Orla Kelleher in Irish Legal News.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...
Orla Kelleher in Irish Legal News.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...
Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis. In recent weeks, journalists, developers, tech entrepreneurs, the Minister for the Environ...
www.irishlegal.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
There have been very few opinion pieces published in national papers on this major issue, despite legal and planning experts spelling out exactly why scapegoating Judicial Reviews is dangerous.
Orla Kelleher in Irish Legal News.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...
Orla Kelleher in Irish Legal News.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...
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OK so it's dark and rainy and I feel like this story should be shared. The movie Grace Of My Heart is a sort of 'film á clef' loosely based on Carole King's life, interpolating a fictional romance with a character based on Brian Wilson. Musical director J Mascis said they HAD TO use a theremin...
Allison also told an absolutely fucking great Beach Boys anecdote (from Grace Of My Heart soundtrack recording sessions) which would on its own make this one of the great Q&As
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
OK so it's dark and rainy and I feel like this story should be shared. The movie Grace Of My Heart is a sort of 'film á clef' loosely based on Carole King's life, interpolating a fictional romance with a character based on Brian Wilson. Musical director J Mascis said they HAD TO use a theremin...
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Day 1: Musical Advent Calendar 🎄
youtu.be/J3c18V3ChIs?...
youtu.be/J3c18V3ChIs?...
David Essex - A Winter's Tale (Video)
YouTube video by DavidEssexVEVO
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Day 1: Musical Advent Calendar 🎄
youtu.be/J3c18V3ChIs?...
youtu.be/J3c18V3ChIs?...
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
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Iceland has assessed the possible tipping point this century of the Atlantic’s overturning circulation as a national survival issue.
I made a programme about how scientists have arrived at that conclusion.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#amoc #climate #climatecrisis
I made a programme about how scientists have arrived at that conclusion.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#amoc #climate #climatecrisis
Ep 27 - AMOC
The evidence for and against the Atlantic's overturning current reaching a tipping point this century.
www.rte.ie
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Iceland has assessed the possible tipping point this century of the Atlantic’s overturning circulation as a national survival issue.
I made a programme about how scientists have arrived at that conclusion.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#amoc #climate #climatecrisis
I made a programme about how scientists have arrived at that conclusion.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#amoc #climate #climatecrisis