Turning climate protest into an art form
An ingenious protest involving soup and a famous painting threw the global spotlight on the climate emergency in a way that a thousand...
Feeding the planet without destroying the Earth
My review of ‘Regenesis’ by George Monbiot appeared in The Irish Times in mid-June. The author has, since its publication, been on the...
Coming up short on fanciful sectoral emissions goals
As the controversial sectoral budgets for Ireland were published, the Irish Examiner asked for my take on how they measured up, particularly the...
Austerity or catastrophe: options grow ever narrower
Our chronic dependence on an invented system of growth-based capitalism that is destabilising the global climate system and laying waste to the natural...
Silent killers of the biosphere revealed
I ran this article in the Irish Examiner in early October to mark and honour the 60th anniversary of the publication of ‘Silent Spring’...
Sorting scientific fact from fiction on climate
Seeking out and clinging to reassuring myths as an antidote to the often frightening realities around the climate emergency is a surprisingly common...
Bringing the climate emergency to book
When this blog first when live in late November 2007, the world was a quite different place. That year, global CO2 levels, as...
The 1.5C danger line draws ever closer
I contributed the article below to TheJournal.ie in mid-May to mark the publication of a worrying new report from the World Meteorological Organisation....
Carbon offsetting a cynical cop-out on climate action
In the late Middle Ages, there was a roaring trade within the Catholic Church in the sale of indulgences, as handy way for...
We can feel the heat, but are we getting the message?
As the scorching summer of 2022 swept across Europe (it was to be the hottest summer ever recorded on the continent) I filed...
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