An Taisce to bring Kilkenny cheese plant case to the Supreme Court
9 August 2021
Campaigners will be bringing the recent decision to grant planning permission to a cheese plant in Kilkenny to the Supreme Court.
The board...
“Strong, rapid” methane reductions needed to limit future warming
9 August 2021
Strong, rapid and sustained reductions in methane emissions are needed to limit further warming, according to the latest report from the world’s...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #32
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, August, 2021 through Sat, August 7, 2021
The following articles...
What impact will the Circular Economy Bill have on our clothing habits?
5 August 2021
It’s estimated that the fashion industry is responsible for 10 per cent of global carbon emissions – which is more than...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #31, 2021
Want to make a dangerous bet?
Modes of climate science denial run across a spectrum, with the "soft" end being "climate change has happened in...
What’s the carbon footprint of a wind turbine?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sara Peach
Dear Sara,
Wind turbines are an absolute joke. Has anyone actually figured out the amount of...
The Climate Action Bill recently became law. Now what?
4 August 2021
Climate campaigners have worked for years in Ireland
to see this kind of legislation enacted. Once proposed by the Government, the Bill
went...
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip
In Brief:
The pioneering campaign drops probes from a plane into the sea to track how seawater is melting glaciers and lend insight into the...
New agricultural strategy “detrimental” for sector, environmental groups warn
3 August 2021
The newly published Food Vision 2030 Strategy threatens to be “yet another detrimental blueprint for agriculture”, according to a coalition of environmental...
Oxfam: ‘net zero’ targets can distract and delay emissions reductions
3 August 2021
Governments and
corporations rely on ‘unreliable’ and ‘unrealistic’ carbon removal schemes to
reach ‘net zero’ by 2050, a new Oxfam report has said....
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