Paul Price
@swimsure.bsky.social
Research: climate change science & policy.
Blog: https://climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/
–Adjunct prof. Dublin City University
ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712;
–eNGO research & An Taisce member;
MSc. Sus Dev & BSc(Hon) Geology
30 yrs pro carpentry.
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Blog: https://climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/
–Adjunct prof. Dublin City University
ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712;
–eNGO research & An Taisce member;
MSc. Sus Dev & BSc(Hon) Geology
30 yrs pro carpentry.
🚲 🏊
Enshittification or bust?!
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Enshittification or bust?!
Reposted by Paul Price
I should add that current projections are for an *exceedance* of IE carbon budget 2 (2026-2030) of 40-60%. It is simply not credible to suggest we can haul that back and *also* expand the data center sector. (Conversely: AI bubble burst and data centre *contraction* could actually help... 😬)
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I should add that current projections are for an *exceedance* of IE carbon budget 2 (2026-2030) of 40-60%. It is simply not credible to suggest we can haul that back and *also* expand the data center sector. (Conversely: AI bubble burst and data centre *contraction* could actually help... 😬)
It is VdL who has turned to an extreme position: supporting Israel despite its atrocities in Gaza even after the ICJ ruling; failing to energise sufficient support for Ukraine; and now unwinding her own Green Deal by blatantly allying EPP with the far right & corporate power.
Why respect that?
Why respect that?
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It is VdL who has turned to an extreme position: supporting Israel despite its atrocities in Gaza even after the ICJ ruling; failing to energise sufficient support for Ukraine; and now unwinding her own Green Deal by blatantly allying EPP with the far right & corporate power.
Why respect that?
Why respect that?
Reposted by Paul Price
In cybersecurity, we talk about social engineering: taking advantage of social norms and human empathy to gain unwarranted access to sensitive systems.
I see this as social engineering at scale, attacking common blind spots in people's psyches in order to consolidate power.
The risk is colossal.
I see this as social engineering at scale, attacking common blind spots in people's psyches in order to consolidate power.
The risk is colossal.
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In cybersecurity, we talk about social engineering: taking advantage of social norms and human empathy to gain unwarranted access to sensitive systems.
I see this as social engineering at scale, attacking common blind spots in people's psyches in order to consolidate power.
The risk is colossal.
I see this as social engineering at scale, attacking common blind spots in people's psyches in order to consolidate power.
The risk is colossal.
Reposted by Paul Price
The hierarchy is clear: 75–85% of emission reductions through 2050 come from using less fossil fuel.
CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%.
Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one.
2/3
CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%.
Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one.
2/3
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The hierarchy is clear: 75–85% of emission reductions through 2050 come from using less fossil fuel.
CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%.
Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one.
2/3
CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%.
Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one.
2/3
Reposted by Paul Price
Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
Report 9 from #COP21 - Wednesday December 9, 2015
Our ninth from Paul Price, a member of An Taisce's Climate Change Committee. Paul is a conservation carpenter with a MSc in Sustainable Development.
www.antaisce.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
Report 9 from #COP21 - Wednesday December 9, 2015
Our ninth from Paul Price, a member of An Taisce's Climate Change Committee. Paul is a conservation carpenter with a MSc in Sustainable Development.
www.antaisce.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
Even at Paris #CoP21, I witnessed early efforts by New Zealand etc to downplay importance of cutting agri methane:
'It was disappointing that it was up to me rather than the senior climate scientists on the panel to correct these basic points in the Q&A afterward.'
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
'It was disappointing that it was up to me rather than the senior climate scientists on the panel to correct these basic points in the Q&A afterward.'
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Report 8 from #COP21
Report 8 from #COP21 Tuesday December 8, 2015 Aaagh! It’s already early Wednesday morning, so this report is getting very late. I wish I could update you what we here have been told in regular fo...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Even at Paris #CoP21, I witnessed early efforts by New Zealand etc to downplay importance of cutting agri methane:
'It was disappointing that it was up to me rather than the senior climate scientists on the panel to correct these basic points in the Q&A afterward.'
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
'It was disappointing that it was up to me rather than the senior climate scientists on the panel to correct these basic points in the Q&A afterward.'
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Oops, dead link for the above Paris 2015 report, so find it here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
'it is hard to see how limiting warming to a high likelihood of less than 1.5ºC is even technically possible...because the required average global rate of emission cutting needed is already very high.'
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
'it is hard to see how limiting warming to a high likelihood of less than 1.5ºC is even technically possible...because the required average global rate of emission cutting needed is already very high.'
Report 7 #CoP21
Report 7 #CoP21 Saturday 6 December 2015 On Saturday I learned a bit more about the negotiations but I can only add some hearsay on the state of them beyond what you can read in the media. In the un...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Oops, dead link for the above Paris 2015 report, so find it here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
'it is hard to see how limiting warming to a high likelihood of less than 1.5ºC is even technically possible...because the required average global rate of emission cutting needed is already very high.'
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
'it is hard to see how limiting warming to a high likelihood of less than 1.5ºC is even technically possible...because the required average global rate of emission cutting needed is already very high.'