'We're going to see hundreds of millions of people forced from their homes because of the decisions we've made and critically the decisions we haven't made.'

John Gibbons on global temperature records being broken for 11 months in a row

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Different to our weekly ⁦The Last Word⁩ conversations, more background to the beliefs sincerely held by ⁦John Gibbons⁩ on the new Magnified podcast. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/mag…

Great to see the new protected bike lanes in Deansgrange open at last. Well, sort of.

This kind of parking would never be tolerated on a road, but when it’s “only” across a bike lane, sure what’s the problem?

“May 2023 to April 2024 is hottest on record – at 1.61C above pre-industrial”.

This kind of temperature jump wasn’t supposed to be even theoretically possible until second half of this century.
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Flicking through the ⁦The Irish Times⁩ this morning and thought for a long moment I had stumbled into 1983.

Imagine having an ethical framework so skewed that it requires your own students to protest just to persuade you to stop doing business with firms already on a UN blacklist for operating in the Occupied (Stolen) Territories.

But well done TCD Students' Union 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 for schooling your college.

“This is the worst #flooding I’ve ever seen”. Biblical downpours hammer swathes of US, including Texas.

No one, not even wealthiest country on Earth, is remotely ready for what we’ve unleashed.