As climate breakdown bites, we have a choice: Use public money to bail out the private for-profit insurance industry, or scrap that model and socialise insurance. www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate change is turning parts of Europe into an insurance nightmare
The European Central Bank and EU insurance regulators have called on Brussels to set up an EU-level reinsurance scheme and a public natural disaster fund.
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It’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.
The latest from the Irish Times investigations unit. ‘A ticking environmental time bomb’: What lies beneath Aughinish Alumina www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘A ticking environmental time bomb’: What lies beneath Aughinish Alumina
An Irish Times investigation shows the Russian-owned Co Limerick industrial plant is consistently polluting groundwater
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I have known Le Porge since I was a child. Much of it is now ash. We were warned this would come. We kept burning fossil fuels anyway. Adapting to this is not a plan. Stopping the cause is.
The world is on fire, yet still most of our political leaders doggedly defend business as usual, so emissions continue to rise, and nature to collapse. How can they keep up the pretence that driving us and nature off a cliff is 'acting responsibly'? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Europe wildfires: Officials warn that wildfires could still be burning in November – as it happened
Firefighters in France and Spain face another day battling wildfires, as another heatwave set to hit this week
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This NASA FIRMS map gives an idea of how close the major wildfire has gotten to Bordeaux. A huge swathe of the area west of the city has been burned. The darker areas are the ones that have burned most recently.
Mayo people waking up this morning without a post mortem to face into, checking to make sure it wasn't all just a fever dreams, and finally knowing how it sounds when hope and history rhyme.
5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change
5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change
So here are 5 handy tips for finding your inner coward when it comes to writing articles about the effects of the climate crisis while avoiding mentioning the climate crisis.
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I'm delighted with Mayo's win, and this will make me seem like an awful cranky bollix, but the amount of AI slop being circulated in the aftermath is disappointing. Every meme and every GAA club post is just the same slop. 🤢 I am a cranky bollix. Maigh Eo abú.
Wasn't expecting to be at the "[Major European City] officials are considering a total evacuation" stage of climate breakdown by 2026, but here we are.
Virgin Media News@virginmedianews.bsky.social · 2w agoNearly 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes as devastating wildfires continue to spread across France and Spain. Bordeaux officials are considering a total evacuation of the city if needed, while firefighters in Spain say some blazes are spreading too quickly to tackle head-on.
A wonderfully impressive commemorative sculpture, titled ‘Spioráid Ban Chiarraí’ was unveiled in Tralee Town Park yesterday. It honours the revolutionary women of the county - I was honoured to be on the committee which choose this particular submission. Isn’t she formidable, as were those women.
Tonight, a new investigation reveals how much water each individual data centre campus has used in the past two years. But our findings also show how pharma plants have used more than double that of data centres. Story w/ @davidmacredmond.bsky.social Read just after midnight on thejournal.ie 🔜
I made a programme five years ago that included #wildfire experts saying that Ireland was going to need to start thinking more like a Mediterranean country. There was a good deal of sniggering. We might owe them an apology. #Speirgorm #Climate Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!
“Europe is struggling through climate breakdown. France’s heatwave shut schools and stretched hospitals past their limits, with so many people dying in their apartments that morgues have run out of space. Outdoor workers have faced conditions beyond what the human body can safely withstand.”
As Europe swelters, Paris judges say consumers aren’t to blame — TotalEnergies is
A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris. The judgment does not halt the company's fossil-fuel expansion. But it d...
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Want to keep people cool AND generate energy? Solar panel shading systems! This is a new timber-framed office and laboratory in Basel, by Herzog de Meuron
Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light...
Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months
One reason people don't trust AI is that it's being pushed on us by obviously evil people doing obviously evil things at their obviously evil companies
Futurism@futurism.com · last mo."This isn't something we normally test for."
The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.
Shrouds of mist rolling over Croagh Patrick this evening.
I wonder how much the recent increases in minimum wage cost McDonalds and Supermacs versus how much the government has handed them back via this VAT cut? jrnl.ie/7090165
Big chains are the winners from the poor targeting of Ireland’s hospitality VAT rate cut
With insolvencies declining, is a €681 million VAT cut really the best way to support hospitality?
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Nice way to stretch Ireland's security resources during the EU presidency. Wonder whose idea this golfing trip was? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump is expected to visit Ireland in September
US president expected to visit Doonbeg golf course in Co Clare and possibly play in pro-am event on day before Irish Open
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It seems like households* that have "done the right thing" and installed solar panels & battery storage are about to get absolutely screwed by energy sellers. *Me. I'm about to get screwed 🙋♂️ www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
Energy supplier’s huge 82pc increase in night rate electricity to hit EV and solar panel users
Massive Pinergy night rate hike hits EV and solar panel users with higher bills and lower export payments. See how this change affects you now.
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I'm not really seeing the same kinds of nutty conspiracy theories about data centres or satellite internet that we see around tech like 5G and vaccines. (But maybe I'm missing it.) Does this tell us something about who controls the conspiracy theory narrative? (Hey, a conspiracy theory!)
If you are unlawfully made homeless, and complain about your landlord to the Residential Tenancies Board, they will close your complaint because you can’t give them a permanent address you live at (because you were unlawfully made homeless).
