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In my column today I explore the parallels between our approach to public health and the climate crisis. We should draw lessons from successful and popular health measures, like the smoking ban.

Should we treat greenhouse gas emissions like smoking?

At a time of climate crisis: It’s not about saving the planet — but about saving ourselves

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah Daly

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4 years

My husband sent me this 🧐

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3 years

We should celebrate the blooming hawthorn like the Japanese celebrate cherry blossoms.

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Hannah Daly

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This is an outrageous sentence. No one was hurt. Nothing was damaged. Their protest was against new oil and gas licences, which are baking our planet, our only home.

Just Stop Oil

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🥫 BREAKING: 3 YEARS 8 MONTHS COMBINED IN PRISON FOR THROWING SOUP ⛓️ Phoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. 🚔 Phoebe received a further 3 months for

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3 years

I have become aware of a pile-on against me for pointing out the unsustainability of dairy and beef expansion. The ad hominem attacks and extremely bad faith representations of my arguments, my motivations and my expertise are quite something. Thanks to those defending me.

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1 year

In case anyone missed the latest data point, like I did. Just incredible.

John Gibbons 🇵🇸

@think_or_swim

1 year

OMFG. “Global mean surface temperature anomalies for the month of September between 1958 and 2022, with projected 2023 value and uncertainty. Temps shown relative to a 1991-2020 baseline period” HT: @hausfath

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Hannah Daly

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3 years

In response to the IPCC report this week, the Irish farming lobby appears to be coordinating a misinformation campaign to spread confusion about the warming impact of methane. They then accuse any scientist correcting them of lobbying, sometimes getting personal. Some examples:

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Interesting that restoring former wetlands to carbon sinks and ecosystems again is described as “immoral” because it leaves the land “idle”. Part of the transition to sustainability requires a mindset change to value land that is soaking carbon and providing space for nature.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

“If we’re serious about keeping the planet liveable, we have to regulate and tax huge cars out of existence.”

We should regulate SUVs out of existence

They’re not only awful for the climate, they’re also killing pedestrians, including children in driveways

www.ft.com

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Some days it all gets hard to take.

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Hannah Daly

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10 months

This is brilliant. 1 million disposable coffee cups saved in @UCC this year. The cafes simply don't provide them any more. The world has not fallen apart - people bring their own cup or put a €2 deposit on a reusable one. Plastic drinks bottles are not sold on campus either.

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Hannah Daly

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This makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it. Why is this not major, major news in Ireland? A high chance of abrupt cooling in Ireland within the next two decades.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣

@rahmstorf

5 months

Just attending a 3-day workshop on the danger of abrupt ocean circulation changes. Discussions are quite worrying. E.g. in 35 to 45 % of high quality models, convection in the open North Atlantic collapses in the 2030s due to #globalheating . -> Major climate disruption. ☹️

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“Many economists remain stuck in an inexorable growth narrative... A fixation on a narrowly defined efficiency, productivity, perpetual growth has resulted in a discipline that has become blinkered to the ecological catastrophe we now face.”

President condemns ‘obsession’ with economic growth

In reception for think tank Tasc, Michael D Higgins condemned ‘neo-liberalism’ and urged country to ‘rebalance economy, ecology and ethics’

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

What a superhero.

Dr. Dan Cady 🇺🇦 ☮️ 🟧

@DanCady

2 years

Just dropping this here.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

I got chatting with a retired man on the bus. “Are you a student?” he says. “No, a professor” I reply “”Good girl yourself, well done!” 😇

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

Disappointing to see @EPAIreland delete a perfectly reasonable tweet encouraging people to cut down red meat intake to lower their impact on the climate.

EPA deletes post encouraging public to cut down red meat intake

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deleted one of its social media posts which encouraged the public to reduce red meat intake, after admitting ...

www.independent.ie

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

I continue to be alarmed by calls for more fossil fuels as the answer to a fossil fuel crisis. If governments had taken energy efficiency & renewables seriously in the past, households would not be facing these energy bills. The way out of this is not more fossil fuels.

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Hannah Daly

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Living in “the real world” - a phrase I dislike as much as “be realistic”. In *the actual real world*, where there are laws of physics, we are causing a climate crisis, and in *the real world*, Ireland’s grid can’t take more mega data centres.

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Hannah Daly

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4 months

“Planned Google data centre will create almost quarter million tonnes of co2 emissions” annually - this is around 10% of the total budgeted emissions for the electricity sector in 2030.

Planned Google data centre will create almost quarter million tonnes of carbon emissions

Planned facility would indirectly contribute 224,250 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum without any mitigation measures

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

"E-bikes are a scourge on the fabric of any city" Because they weigh more than regular bikes, take up street space, make noise (!!) and go up to 25km/h? Has she not heard of CARS??

Finn McRedmond: Electric bikes might be fun, novel and flashy, but they're not really bikes. They...

What was the point of decades-long campaigning to implement cycling-infrastructure in Dublin - only to quickly fill these lanes with motorised vehicles?

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

This is scary stuff: new research shows that the ice shelf which buttresses the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt, irrespective of future emissions. It means we have to plan for inevitable sea level rise, which will probably be faster than expected.

Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

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We’ve spent the last few years modelling the future of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, and I regret to inform you that it’s not good news.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

It is entirely feasible to cut methane emissions by 30%. It requires redirecting farming subsidies to less polluting activities - like growing trees, crops, rewetting or rewilding - and compensating farmers for any loss of income. They just don't want to do that.

Daniel Murray

@DanielTMurray

2 years

The Minister for Agriculture was briefed to tell his counterparts on trade missions that it was ‘not feasible’ for Ireland to cut methane emissions by 30%, despite the Taoiseach signing up to global methane pledge for 30% reductions at COP 26.

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Hannah Daly

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This is just a phenomenal book that should be widely read. I have started mentioning in many conversations “did you know Ireland’s native ecosystem is RAINFOREST??” Everyone replies “no!” with an astonished face. I didn’t know myself until I started following @IrishRainforest .

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

I’m very honoured to be named @UCCResearch Communicator of the Year.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Today’s column: EVs are not a silver bullet solution to our unsustainable transport system. Reallocating road space and car parking to public transport, walking and cycling will require both political leadership and bottom-up support.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Delighted to hear Min. Ryan’s support for transforming the Leinster House car park to a public green space, an extension of the national gallery. What a positive signal this would give to the public on climate leadership from politicians. I hope for strong cross party support.

TonightVMTV

@TonightVMTV

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NEWS: Green Party Leader @EamonRyan has told #TonightVMTV he is in favour of getting rid of the car park for politicians at Leinster House.

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Hannah Daly

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4 years

Dear student, My name is not "Hey". Regards, Dr. Daly

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

2 years

After a long chat with my plumber, I’ve realised it’s not so much that we need to “get people on board” for decarbonising heat, but “get plumbers on board”.

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

SUVs jumped from 10% of new car sales in 2010 to nearly 60% this year (still growing!). Larger, less aerodynamic cars are wiping out lots of the efficiency gains from electrification and make the roads less safe. @brian_caulfield

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Hannah Daly

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3 years

So instead of pressing pause on data centre developments to understand how much we can reliably add to the grid without compromising climate targets, they will be allowed fast-track planning? Wow.

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

The EPA’s tweet didn’t cause anger because it was wrong, irrelevant or against its remit, but because it confronted the prevailing narrative about foods Ireland exports, threatening the industry’s social licence. My take in today’s @IrishTimes

Why did the EPA delete a tweet about eating meat?

At a time of climate crisis it’s time to factor sustainability into dietary guidelines

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Googling “The Climate Book” to order my copy (of what I’m sure will be a landmark book). Check out the second, third and fourth books Google promotes. Oh dear.

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

2 years

“We need rewilding on a massive scale in Ireland” yes! @IrishRainforest I took these photos in and around Killarney NP - rhododendron, spruce plantations, no tree saplings, bare hills, a dying forest that should be our treasured ecological heritage.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

In my column in tomorrow’s @IrishTimes I discuss how toxic culture wars attacks and disinformation have poisoned the debate on agriculture and climate, stoking farmers’ anger. This unprofessional and unprovoked tweet illustrates my point perfectly.

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Hannah Daly

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2 months

“Men who don’t drive are losers”. I can’t believe this is how the State authority for road safety is framing the loss of your driving licence because of dangerous driving.

RSA Ireland

@RSAIreland

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When you lose your licence, you become reliant on other people to take you where you need to go and you become a burden for others. If you get caught drink or drug driving, you will be disqualified 🚫 🔗 #RoadSafety #DriveSafely #VisionZero

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Hannah Daly

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1 year

I got chatting with someone organising against renewables, who has faith in hydrogen as an alternative... They were surprised to learn that hydrogen is an energy *carrier* and decarbonising with that fuel would actually require more renewables than direct electrification.

Irish Examiner

@irishexaminer

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Cork County Council has turned down planning permission for a large-scale 126-hectare solar farm south of Midleton, after receiving dozens of objections from locals over the proposed development

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Hannah Daly

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This is monumental. For 75 years, Bord na Móna has been Ireland's peat extraction company. This year it ended all peat extraction and yesterday it rebranded as a Climate Solutions Company, producing renewable energy and having stewardship over rehabilitating peatlands.

Bord na Móna

@BordnaMona

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Today marks the beginning of a new era for Bord na Móna, as we launch our new brand identity, repositioning our business as Ireland’s Leading Climate Solutions Company.

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Great to see - I live on a one-lane rural road with an insane 80 kph speed limit. I can’t take my kids out for a walk or cycle without being extremely stressed. New guidance recommends reducing to 60 kph, and speed limits in residential streets to 30kph

Revealed: The big reductions in speed limits for many Irish roads in bid to prevent death and injury

Speed limits are set to be cut on a significant number of roads as authorities seek to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries.

www.independent.ie

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8 months

@GardaTraffic In most cases it’s not possible to take personal responsibility for your safety as a cyclist because the infrastructure mixes you with dangerous vehicles.

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2 years

I would caution anyone thinking of switching their bank to @RevolutApp . They seem to have misplaced a large chunk of my money and have been extremely frustrating to deal with.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Every summer it gets harder and harder to stomach that we plan to make climate change worse for nearly three more decades.

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Hannah Daly

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3 years

"There is absolutely no hard science to confirm that the methane produced by cattle and other ruminant animals is adding substantially to the greenhouse gas burden that is impacting the plant as a whole." This is absolutely false but is stated in farming media *all the time*

Agriland

@AgrilandIreland

3 years

Farming is a fundamental part of the solution and not the villain of the piece...

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

The fact jet kerosene is subject to neither excise nor carbon tax - not even for internal flights, or private jets - is a regressive distortion of climate and transport policy.

Irish Examiner

@irishexaminer

2 years

Tax on private jets landing in Ireland not ruled out by Eamon Ryan

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

The world is on fire - we are throwing petrol on the flames. Nature is declining faster than ever. It is outrageous that these hill fires, many on peat, are still allowed and financially rewarded for sheep farming. These hills want to be reforested - we should let them.

Seán Mac an tSíthigh

@Buailtin

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Major hill fire Dún Chaoin in West Kerry… a number of houses in danger. Fire crews have been working tirelessly trying to control it since 4pm this afternoon.

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Hannah Daly

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3 months

I’ll be on the Six-One @rtenews shortly to discuss the news that electricity demand from data centres in Ireland grew by a staggering 20% last year. They now consume 21% of our electricity, posing a major threat to our carbon budgets.

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Hannah Daly

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2 years

Super excited to pick up the @GreenCampusUCC e-bike for a 2-week trial. According to Pat @uccenergy this bike helped 6 people decide to give up their car so far (!!) and has encouraged lots of e-bike purchases on the bike-to-work scheme. Such an impactful initiative.

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Hannah Daly

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3 years

Very good letter in response to Senator Michael McDowall’s article yesterday which questioned the need to take urgent action on climate change.

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3 years

The Taoiseach has defended allocating some of the most valuable public space in the capital to parking for life for former parliamentarians. Why not plant a green there instead and give them all a free lifetime public transport ticket, or an ebike?

Taoiseach defends free Leinster House parking for ex-parliamentarians

Micheál Martin said 'the role that former parliamentarians paid to our or society' has to be 'acknowledged'

www.irishexaminer.com

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Hannah Daly

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4 months

Has RTÉ (or any Irish media) reported on the risk of multiple breadbasket failure from climate change?

RTÉ News

@rtenews

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As the world is warming, it threatens European wine production, but also brings new opportunities for wine making in Ireland

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Hannah Daly

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3 years

The idea that the planet keeps getting warmer until CO2 emissions fall to zero has properly blown the minds of some of my students.

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Hannah Daly

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3 years

To be clear, beef and dairy production will probably always be part of Irish agriculture and industry, climate change academics are not attacking farmers. But the first step is to tell the truth about the global scientific and political consensus on climate change.

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5 months

These power stations were closed because extracting and burning peat for electricity is the climate equivalent of razing rainforests, and they didn’t even produce much electricity.

Ciaran Mullooly MEP

@ciaranmullooly

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It’s time to speak up about what’s happening at our power stations …. why was Shannonbridge and Lanesborough closed - and our jobs lost on the bog ? To burn thousands of litres of diesel oil? #GreenMadness

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Hannah Daly

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Very worrying to see this racism take hold in Ireland. Last night a hotel intended to house asylum seekers in Galway was burned down.

Galway hotel fire: Gardaí believe blaze at premises due to house 70 asylum seekers started delibe...

Ross Lake House Hotel in Rosscahill had been named by the Department of Integration as an accommodation centre

www.irishtimes.com

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This is a disgrace, and is common all around Ireland. Macroom got a €280m bypass and we can’t even build footpaths for kids to walk to school.

Sarah Kate Photography

@SarahkateMurph3

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Today’s commute in Macroom. Priority is given to cars. There’s no footpath here for both a secondary school and a primary school, so we dodge moving cars @SRTS_Ire @CorkSafetyAlert @irishexaminer @rtenews

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This massive data centre planned in Co. Kildare would generate most of its electricity using on-site fossil gas turbines, to overcome the constraints in the local power network. It would emit an astonishing *29 million tonnes* of CO2 over its lifetime..

Kildare County Council says planned data centre runs counter to national policy

More information sought on scheme

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

1 year

RT if you agree that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, greenhouse gas emissions & projections should be reported on in the media as much as GDP is.

CO2_Earth

@CO2_earth

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🌍📈 🏆 We just pushed the atmosphere to a new RECORD HIGH for WEEKLY #CO2 😰 424.40 ppm CO2 at Mauna Loa (via Maunakea) in 17th week of 2023 🏆 Up 4.21 from 420.19 ppm a year ago 😰 @NOAA data 🌍 records 🌍

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2 years

Revealed: How the livestock industry funds the ‘greenhouse gas guru’. Mitloehner is a pro-meat scientist, funded by the livestock industry, whose downplaying of livestock’s role in climate change has been very influential in Ireland. via @UE

Revealed: How the meat industry funds the ‘greenhouse gas guru’

Internal documents chronicle the livestock sector's deep ties to leading academic Dr Frank Mitloehner

unearthed.greenpeace.org

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The state teaches my daughter about being a safe pedestrian - even gives her a high-vis vest - when there is *no footpath* connecting her school the few hundred meters to town. No cycle lane, no pedestrian crossing, NO FOOTPATH!

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1 year

I'm glad this one didn't get cancelled by the car industry!

EPA Ireland

@EPAIreland

1 year

“Who has two thumbs and helps reduce Ireland’s emissions every day?” People who cycle! 🚴 Happy #worldbicycleday to you two-wheeled heroes. To those of you who have been thinking about making the switch from your car to cycling – today’s the day!

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One of Europe’s largest GHG emitters launched a series of personal attacks on Ireland’s climate minister @EamonRyan today. Pathetic. I know who will come out on the right side of history.

Ryanair

@Ryanair

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Highlights from today’s @Fingalcoco meeting… Everyone: “isn’t the passenger cap damaging Irish tourism?” @EamonRyan : “and this is how I hold my handlebars”

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I can’t fathom how we tolerate roads are so lethally unsafe for pedestrians, especially children, that causes such devastation. Children should - at the bare minimum - have footpaths, pedestrian crossings and enforcement to protect them from vehicles on their way to school.

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1 year

It’s disingenuous to claim that the EPA tweet was dietary advice - it was intended to inform environmental behaviour, which is totally within their remit.

Oonagh Duggan

@NatureNymph

1 year

Alarming to read Sen @voteTimLombard say that the @EPAIreland ‘are out of control’ & calling for them to ‘be brought to task’. Urge @FineGael @LeoVaradkar to step up, have a word w/politicians who seem to challenge envtl science & the EPA supporting CC behavioural change.

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I published this last week, questioning the “carbon leakage” rationale for not cutting Irish beef exports. No substantive arguments against the points I raised in the article, but lots of personal attacks and astonishing misinterpretations.

Beef is not sustainable, so why are we subsidising it for export?

Ireland should not use other countries’ poor climate record as cover for our own

www.irishtimes.com

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This year, Ireland stopped generating electricity from peat - the most polluting electricity source there is - after more than 70 years. This year might also be the last one where we burn coal for electricity. Great news!

Daniel Murray

@DanielTMurray

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ESB ‘determined’ to stop burning coal at Moneypoint next year - chief executive Paddy Hayes via @businessposthq

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Meanwhile, my kids are robbed of their independence because we design the public realm around the need to own a car.

RSA Ireland

@RSAIreland

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RSA announces three-year partnership with Live Nation The 2024 partnership will see RSA stations at Electric Picnic and the launch of a new campaign ‘Lose Your Licence, Lose Your Independence’. The partnership aims to encourage everyone to get home safely

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The first @UCC delegation has arrived at #COP27 ! We are here #TogetherForImplementation , representing UCC research on renewable energy, circular economy, hydrogen, alternative proteins, water-energy nexus and climate policy. @lyons_phd @NathanCAGray @Raffa_Piz @o_sibrahim

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Where it had been made free, public transport use went ⬆️22% .. driven by ⬇️in walking by 7% ⬇️in cycling by 13% only 1%⬇️in car trips Better quality & quantity of public transport, congestion/parking charges & land use planning will reduce car trips.

Eamon Ryan

@EamonRyan

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Price alone does not get people to shift to public transport. Quality, frequent, accessible services are far more likely to persuade them. And that’s what we’re focusing on. Free public transport would mean just 1% reduction in car travel, says report

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My 5-year old asked me what a carbon budget is at breakfast, and I broke out in a sweat.

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Ireland produces beef at more than 5 times the per-capita rate of the second-highest producer. For dairy the figure is 80% higher.

Janusz Wojciechowski

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Production of beef and veal meat from slaughtered animals in 🇪🇺 per capita in kg in 2020: 1 🇮🇪 131,4 2 🇳🇱 25,4 3 🇦🇹 24,5 4 🇧🇪 22,2 5 🇫🇷 22,1 6 🇩🇰 21,2 7 🇸🇮 17,8 8 🇱🇺 16,5 9 🇫🇮 15,8 10 🇱🇹 15,4 11 🇵🇱 14,7 12 🇪🇸 14,5 13 🇸🇪 14,3 14 🇩🇪 13,1 15 🇮🇹 12,1 16 🇭🇷 10,3 Source: Faostat /1

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My eyes are going to pop out from rolling at all the climate denial trolls swarming around today, and the politicians from major political parties blaming the Green Party for climate inaction (!!)

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If there were “mechanisms” to “offset” the emissions from this flight, there would be no need for a global climate summit.

TheJournal.ie

@thejournal_ie

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Varadkar said it was "not ideal" but added there are mechanisms in place which will allow him to offset his emissions. There can no vote pairing in no-confidence motions, unless a member is sick.

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It’s becoming common to see trains between Cork and Dublin fully booked out. That’s a great sign that people are using more public transport - and should be a signal to add more capacity 🙏 @IrishRail @Dept_Transport @TIITraffic

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I think it’s time to stop talking about Ireland’s *ambition* to cut GHGs very quickly. It’s a *legally-binding commitment*.

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Hannah Daly

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6 months

Spraying animal faeces on public buildings is an unhinged way of protesting.

NEXTA

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French farmers pour manure on the office of the biodiversity agency in Cleracq in the department of Lo and Garonne.

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Expanding Irish airport capacity by 25% would cause an increase in emissions of approx. three quarters of a million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to adding ~290k fossil fuelled cars onto the roads. It's equivalent to the GHGs avoided by ~20% of the wind energy already installed. 🧵

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New column: We’re already on a trajectory to overshoot carbon budgets - the new Taoiseach will need to take a lead on delivering the next Climate Action Plan. Here, I propose eight top priorities to immediately accelerate climate action.

Eight steps to immediately accelerate climate action

Taoiseach must take lead in implementing next climate plan to keep targets on track

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@HannahEDaly

1 year

No paywall on this one. EPA said they removed it because "Our intention was ..not to cause any confusion". I'm confused about what could have caused confusion. There is no doubt that red meat has a very high climate impact.

EPA deletes 'eat less meat' tweet following IFA protest

A tweet advocating consumers cut back on red meat consumption has been deleted by the Environmental Protection Agency following objections from the Irish Farmers' Association.

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

1 year

Disappointing to see @EPAIreland delete a perfectly reasonable tweet encouraging people to cut down red meat intake to lower their impact on the climate.

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Almost half of people say Government not doing enough on climate change, survey finds

Temperatures in the seas around Ireland and the UK were 3-5 degrees higher than normal in June - and climate change is to blame. Graphic: NOAA

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@HannahEDaly

2 years

“All set for Christmas?” is about as diplomatic as asking “how’s the PhD going?”

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@HannahEDaly

4 years

An incredibly misleading article about the contribution of methane to global warming, aiming to delay meaningful cuts in Irish GHGs. There is zero scientific doubt that methane from ruminants is a strong driver of warming. Shame on @irishexaminer

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1 year

Very dangerous to plan for future tech “fixing” climate change, like continuing a terribly unhealthy lifestyle with the belief that a drug will fix the problems it creates. We already have all the tech we need to cut GHGs very rapidly* - which would bring wider benefits -

John Gibbons 🇵🇸

@think_or_swim

1 year

Listening to techno-optimism dross from (non-expert) Prof Luke O’Neill on how carbon capture, new inventions etc etc are going to “solve” #ClimateCrisis with Brendan O’Connor in @rte radio just now. Soothing, delusional nonsense

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@HannahEDaly

2 years

.. his mistake was because only students and sustainable energy professors take the bus ..

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2 years

In my latest @irishtimes column I address school transport. The failure to build safe walking & cycling infrastructure and expand school bus services means most children are now driven to school.

Reimagining the school run for a sustainable future

At a Time of Climate Crisis: Electric schoolbuses could be a silver bullet for sustainable transport

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@HannahEDaly

5 months

How can the CEO of a state-owned company, @DublinAirport , continue to get away with such misleading statements about the climate impact of airport expansion? Their own planning application shows CO2 growing by 22%.

Hannah Daly on LinkedIn: Dublin Airport emissions will rise by 22% if passenger cap is lifted, DAA…...

Dublin Airport's GHG emissions will rise by 22% - nearly 750,000 tonnes - if its cap on passenger numbers is lifted, according to analysis in its planning… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

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patrick bresnihan

@PBresnihan

5 months

'People just don't understand that we can expand airport capacity whilst also reducing emissions'. Pure gaslighting by CEO of Dublin Airport Authority on @RTERadio1 this morning.

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

3 years

These are prominent voices in the industry who have not been able to credibly counter any of the scientific arguments put forward.

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@HannahEDaly

2 years

Grassland on drained peatland emits nearly as much CO2 as the power sector in Ireland. Instead, it should be a precious carbon sink - that can only be achieved by re-wetting. It’s also part of mandatory carbon budgets which will require rapid decarbonisation this decade.

Barry Murphy

@BarryMurphyAg

2 years

4/ However, @mattcarthy says the “best case scenario” is that there are no @greenparty_ie TDs elected at next election. Also says @sinnfeinireland doesn’t support rewetting proposals. @farmersjournal @icmsa

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@HannahEDaly

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As @businessposthq reports the gvt is launching a review of Ireland’s self-made energy crisis, Paul Deane points out that continuing to connect data centres while encouraging households to reduce energy use is not a good look

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@HannahEDaly

1 year

“To Ireland or to deserts” is the new “to hell or to Connaught”

Joe Galvin

@Joey_Galvin

1 year

Far-right minister Amichai Eliyahu: Nuking Gaza is an option, population should ‘go to Ireland or deserts’ via @timesofisrael

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2 years

I’m a proud daughter!

Cycling Ireland

@CyclingIreland

2 years

Tom Daly has been elected President of Cycling Ireland at the 34th Annual General Meeting

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@HannahEDaly

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It blows my mind that it’s legal to blanket-spray hedges with weedkiller. The left picture is what several hundred meters of a local road looks like - the right picture is what it should look like (humming with insects).

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@HannahEDaly

2 years

Climate activists and carbon capture scientists are working on the same ultimate goal. Implying that activists, by glueing themselves to roads, are impeding the work of CCS scientists from getting to work is not a constructive take.

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@HannahEDaly

1 year

Electricity demand from data centers grew by nearly one-third in 2022, and accounted for 18% of metered electricity consumption. This growth - 1.4 TWh - almost entirely matched the growth in electricity from wind generation in 2022, 1.5 TWh.

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@HannahEDaly

3 years

This is why I find the argument to grow beef and dairy exports on the basis of food security insincere and immoral. No one is going to bed hungry for lack of Irish butter or steak. It’s climate *change* that will cause food insecurity.

Harriet Burgess

@Harriet_Burgess

3 years

If we are going to seriously address food scarcity, Irish agriculture needs to change. One third of global grain production – enough to feed 4 billion people – is fed to livestock. Our obsession with meat and dairy production is contributing to global hunger, not ending it #rtept

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Instead of increasing tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs, we should be taxing new fossil fuel cars out of existence. Ireland (and other countries without a domestic vehicle manufacturing industry to protect) will be hurt by this move.

John Ainger

@johnainger

4 months

NEW: The EU will slap additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on electric vehicles shipped from China, escalating a global trade war - BYD - 17.4% - Geely - 20% - SAIC - 38.1% - Others who cooperated -- average of 21% - Those who did not - 38.1% via @markets

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@HannahEDaly

2 years

The Irish Farmers Association taking pride in lobbying against ambitious carbon budgets, with a strategy based on fear, and blaming the Green Party for climate policy that every political party voted for and that has wide public support.

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2 years

In my local Facebook group there are more and more complaints about the hourly bus service to the city - it’s regularly full, leaving stranded passengers late for work, college etc. There’s no wonder we are one of the most car-dependent countries in Europe.

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@HannahEDaly

5 months

In response to mothers protesting against airport expansion, Dublin Airport said it has plans to cut GHGs by 51%. But this target only covers ground operations, not flights. It’s utterly deceptive. Expanding flights will increase GHG emissions.

NewstalkFM

@NewstalkFM

5 months

Mothers take to the streets in protest over Dublin airport expansion

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

11 months

How about stop victim blaming and build proper paths and crossings so people don’t have to drive everywhere to feel safe?

Radio Kerry News

@radiokerrynews

11 months

Kerry County Councillor calls for hi-vis clothing to become compulsory for pedestrians and cyclists

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2 years

It was a great privilege to start writing a column - At a Time of Climate Crisis - for the @IrishTimes in 2022, covering what was a pivotal year for energy and climate (of course, every year is pivotal). Below a thread of my articles (including op-eds) from last year.

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

3 years

A national rural network of cycle lanes inside hedges - paying landowners to maintain - what a wonderful change this could make to the countryside. Kids taking themselves to school and training, sustainable tourism, less traffic on the roads, more connected rural communities.

Pat

@pat_rice_irl

3 years

@CorkCyclingCrew @HannahEDaly There is a fix. Change CAP so that farmers could be incentivesed to create cycle paths inside the ditch.

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Hannah Daly

@HannahEDaly

2 years

Footpaths and protected bike lanes around all schools and crèches are a cheap, healthy, pollution-negative measure to prevent lots of unnecessary car trips. It’s mind-boggling they’re so absent. I wonder how many families have to have two cars because of this? Mine is another.

Robert Lawson

@fuzzbizzed

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Spent far too long discussing preschool and school logistics and "do we need to buy a second car?" this morning because my daughter's preschool only NINE HUNDRED METRES AWAY has no footpath, no bike route, and just a dangerous country road with speeding drivers to get there.

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