Budget 2022 “just one small step” on climate, campaigners say
13 October 2021
The measures laid out in Budget 2022 are “just one small step” on climate action, campaigners have said.
In response to the reading...
Opinion: We need to transform our agriculture for the better. Here’s some ways we...
13 October 2021
The
path towards sustainable agriculture in Ireland is one that has to be
inclusive, including all those at a grassroots level.
Over
the past...
Icy ‘Glue’ May Control Pace of Antarctic Ice-Shelf Breakup
In Brief:
As the ice-and-snow rubble known as mélange melts in Antarctica’s ice shelves, rifts can grow and icebergs break off even in the...
A closer look: alternative budgets & climate
11 October 2021
As always, the Budget is set to be a Big News Day the country-over. It’s pivotal for every Department across the...
Explainer: peak and average electricity demand in data centres
7 October 2021
Well, data centres have had quite a media run of it the past couple of weeks – and most recently they’ve been...
UN FAO report on Irish agriculture a travesty, misrepresents reality and ignores NGO warnings
IMMEDIATE RELEASE A UN case study portraying Ireland as leading in the transformation to sustainable agriculture is deeply misleading and puts forward an image...
National Development Plan: Up to 80 percent of electricity to be renewable by 2030
5 October 2021
The Government aims to have up to 80 per cent of electricity to be from renewable sources by the end of the...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #39, 2021
Mann maps future inquiry from past findings
Paleoclimate and especially retrievable records of paleoclimate in the form of proxies represent a grand opportunity left us...
How Skepticism Can Protect You From Being Fooled
This is a re-post from the Thinking is Power website maintained by Melanie Trecek-King where she regularly writes about many aspects of critical thinking in an effort...
Motion for a data centre moratorium brought before the Dáil
29 September 2021
The Social Democrats have today called for a moratorium on data centres until a whole-of-Government strategy is devised.
Speaking in the Dáil this...
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