@seanochuinn.bsky.social
Environmentally conscious, dad of 1. Wondering what future we're leaving for our kids
This is excellent. Labour's response? More extraction of fossil fuels. It's not good enough.
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 6h agoThis is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
‘Renewables offer humanity an unlikely exit ramp off our current highway to #climate hell – if only our politicians & business leaders had the wit & mettle to grasp this slenderest of lifelines’ My take in Irish Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp
Every month that passes brings us another step closer to tragedy
irishexaminer.com
Your regular reminder that this is only the early stages of climate change and if we don't act soon we will trigger changes that no-one can limit or control as feedback loops kick in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert
Some 19 major Italian cities - including Rome, Milan and Naples - are already on red alert, and by Monday all but two will be.
bbc.co.uk
Their capitalist system is going to burn our planet unless we stop them. The climate crisis is here and yet the government is rolling back inadequate environmental protections at home and abroad. www.thejournal.ie/readme/wildf...
Wildfires at home and abroad: The climate crisis is here, and Ireland is far from prepared
With wildfires raging across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on climate action.
thejournal.ie
We SO need to leave monoculture plantation forestry behind. It usually • Burns like petrol • Drives out nature • Drives out local communities • Drives climate breakdown • Helps kill tourist economies... • Produces crap timber • Is *highly* vulnerable to pests and diseases ENOUGH already.
Rachel@slightlycaustic.bsky.social · last wk.
Europe is on fire. 🔥 The U.S. is on fire. 🔥 Canada is on fire. 🔥 Tornadoes are whipping through the Midwest. Tropical storms are getting stronger. But tell me again how climate change isn’t real?
A weather model suggests temperatures of almost 50 degrees are possible in France. Anyone who claims there is no climate change, who disparages science in this field, or who denies that human activity is the cause, is making a statement that has nothing to do with reality #ClimateEmergency #FarRight
As a species, we are right now unthinkingly recreating the very conditions that gave rise to global mass extinction events in prehistory.
Nature@nature.com · last wk.Fern-covered landscapes dried out and fuelled gigantic wildfires some 200 million years ago during the mass-extinction event that ended the Triassic period of geological history go.nature.com/45r5jzz
In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.
In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
Together, wind and solar generated 44 percent of Germany’s electricity, while fossil fuels generated roughly 43 percent, according to data from the Energy Institute, a think tank based in London. The figures represent a major milestone for the German “Energiewende,” or “energy turnaround,” a national push to ramp up renewable energy and phase out gas, coal, and nuclear power.
e360.yale.edu
Our discussion on why governments fiddle while the world burns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...
Europe is BURNING - why are politicians not acting?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtube.com
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest The film is out now 🎞
The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres. England faces 5bn litre a day shortfall for public water supplies. A trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. Widespread hosepipe bans. No national grid for water. Poor infrastructure. No national plan.
Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’
theguardian.com
Scientists harness the magic of CRISPR to map genetic drivers of basal-like breast cancer. This kind of breast cancer, which is usually triple negative, disproportionately affects younger women of color. 🧪 medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...
A long‑standing mystery in the deadliest breast cancer just yielded 81 new treatment targets
Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery of how abnormal chromosomes drive cancer, identifying 81 new genes involved in aggressive breast cancer. The discovery expands understanding of the cell...
medicalxpress.com
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will be screening at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin for a full week from next Thursday the 23rd. I'll also be doing a Q&A that evening, and saying a few words on the Friday.
Irish Film Institute@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago🍃 AN IRISH ATLANTIC RAINFOREST screens at the IFI from Friday 24th July. Tickets for an advance Q&A screening on Thursday 23rd July are also available. 🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/an-irish-atlantic-rainforest/ 📆 Opens Fri 24th July
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
For the first month ever, solar power provided a quarter of the EU’s electricity this June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race. Via Euronews: Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race. #Euronews www.euronews.com/2026/07/14/s...
Solar met 25% of EU power needs in June thanks to quick installations
Solar was ahead of coal, gas, nuclear, wind and hydropower.
euronews.com
No more data centres! Serious investigations need to happen by Uisce Éireann into water usage in data centres. Nobody knows or even seems to want to know how much water is being used by these energy-guzzling data centres. #BanDataCentres #HosepipeBan
Time to start using the term "climate reality", rather than "climate change".
Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...
Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.
A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production
anthropocenemagazine.org
My late husband died of lung cancer about 22 years ago. He was a high energy theoretical physicist and when we were told it had metatisized to his brain, it broke his heart. If something could have prevented that...😢 Brain cancer breakthrough at McMaster University share.google/u71uco5p5QIF...
A new therapeutic approach developed by McMaster researchers could help prevent brain cancer. Here’s how.
A team of researchers at McMaster University may have unlocked the key to intercepting cancer cells before they reach the brain.
share.google
A mother who claimed her 18-month-old twins died from being vaccinated is now facing murder charges in their deaths. Andrea Shaw spoke on a podcast produced by Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine organization previously headed by RFK Jr, and claimed her twins died soon after being vaccinated.
Mother who claimed vaccines killed 18-month-old twins charged with their murders
Days after the twins' deaths, their mother, Andrea Shaw, and her husband appeared on a podcast produced by an anti-vaccination organization.
local12.com
The simple fact is that how we get our food is by far and away the main cause of nature loss worldwide, whether it's turning natural habitat into livestock pasture, flushing poultry excrement into rivers, sieving the seas for marine wildlife, or whatever else. We can't fix it while ignoring this.
Yellow Dot Studios@yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 2mo agoPrecision fermentation could radically transform our food system — without radically transforming what foods we eat. That's why we're teaming up with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to make a short film about it, and we need your help to make it happen. ⬇️🐄❌ www.gofundme.com/f/no-cows-ne...
Volunteers are working to restore Scotland's endangered Atlantic rainforest by collecting over 11 million rare native seeds to plant 8 million new trees. This grassroots effort involving hand-picking seeds from remote terrain showcases the power of community action in reversing biodiversity loss 🌱
‘Literally growing the future’: volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m seeds
Teams painstakingly combed endangered Atlantic habitat over several years, helping to grow 8m native trees
theguardian.com
Irish rivers have been turned into open sewers for private profit, with official government support.
An Taisce@antaisce.bsky.social · 2mo agoA quarter of our cleanest rivers lost since 2010-2012 — sites supporting iconic species like Salmon & Freshwater Pearl Mussel Nutrient pollution identified as main driver of decline — 43% of our rivers have excess nitrogen, primarily due to intensive agriculture www.antaisce.org/news/no-impr...
As the climate breaks down in real time, for the Irish government it's not happening fast enough. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Law paving the way for scrapping of Dublin Airport passenger cap approved
Minister says new measures could be enacted this summer
irishtimes.com
MAGA is trying to claim, “but the border is closed!” as if it's some counter argument. Screwworm flies have wings hence why prevention efforts were located in Central America and Mexico. DOGE teenagers eliminated those programs thinking it was fraud. And now we suffer from MAGA beliefs.
