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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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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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... "

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

"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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Absolutely!

Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

The citizens' assemblies on climate action and biodiversity loss gave government overwhelming undivided feedback from the public on what kinds of action they would like taken on both emergencies. They understood the benefits of taking action.

Our political leadership prefer the status quo...

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

Jeepers creepers!

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 2d

These aren’t offhand remarks. They’re a pattern.

They minimise. Mock. Downplay. Delay. Ignore.

The climate crisis is here. The question is: will our leaders wake up before it’s too late.

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

'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

End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.

www.nature.com

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

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

Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’ - Carbon Brief

The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in...

www.carbonbrief.org

Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

A little pick me up for Friday...feeling slightly better about this than I was last Friday!

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 2d

Good news. After the organisers of the Overshoot Conference revisited the data, they've found that in an optimistic scenario, global temperatures could return below 1.5 °C within the lifetimes of many reading this post.

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 3d

This is America ....a woman, a mother dragged out and pinned to the ground, in front of a school, by a gang of masked thugs empowered by a leader lusting after a peace prize. #America what have you become?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

It certainly is especially when you factor in how much joy and freedom they can bring. It makes me sad the people have forgotten that joy.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 3d

In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present

Le Monde has collected the accounts of three civilians from the West Bank who were detained for months without trial or judgment and subjected to food deprivation and regular beatings. Two years after the beginning of the war against Gaza, more than 11,000 Palestinians remain incarcerated in Israel.

www.lemonde.fr

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 2d

I’ve done it fairly often myself from Paris and London and never had any problems 🤞🏻

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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from Gare du Midi in Brussels!

I'm railing and sailing to Dublin today and thought I would bring you along with me.

The journey will be 1) the Eurostar to London 2) a train to Holyhead with a change in Chester and 3) a ferry to Dublin.

Crossing my fingers it goes smoothly🤞🏻

Photo of the entrance to the Eurostar terminal in Gare du Midi.

There are glass windows with decals showing Big Ben, the London Underground and a royal guard. The foreground is a grey tiled floor.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

"We decided to come join our friend...It only made sense that more frogs would join in this fight." 💚

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 3d

The idea of a house in Ireland being owned by a Cypriot based subsidiary of a Luxembourg investment fund shouldn't be possible. That's my line on this.
Otherwise this shit will just keep happening. You build more houses; they'll buy them up and continue exploiting people.

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Radio Kerry @radiokerry.bsky.social · 3d

On Kerry Today with @jerosullivanrk.bsky.social -
- 34 people, including 15 children living in a Killarney housing estate, face homelessness as their landlord begins a mass eviction process.
- 14 households have received termination notices.

www.radiokerry.ie/news/34-kill...

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