John Gibbons
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John Gibbons: Even rainy Ireland is not immune to water shortages (opens the original)
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Weather whiplash is a term coined by scientists to describe the rapid see-sawing now being experienced as periods of extreme drought followed by torrential downpours, followed by droughts, heatwaves and so on. As the climate system heats up, the global water cycle has become more intense, and this is playing out here too. In just the last 30 years, Ireland has become markedly warmer and wetter: average air temperatures have risen by almost 1C, and there has been an overall increase in rainfall o
John Gibbons: Ireland needs an emergency food stockpile (opens the original)
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At any given time, around 1.7m tonnes of oil are held in the Irish Stateâs national reserve, most of it stored in facilities around the country. This strategic stockpile is managed by the National Oil Reserves Agency (Nora) and is designed to provide a 90-day emergency buffer in the event of a dire emergency in which Ireland is unable to import liquid fuels for an extended period. Nora is funded by a levy of 2c per litre of fuel sold. This levy might best be thought of as an insurance policy t
Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp (opens the original)
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âOur massive tampering with the worldâs interdependent web of life â coupled with the environmental damage inflicted by deforestation, species loss, and climate change â could trigger widespread adverse effects, including unpredictable collapses of critical biological systems whose interactions and dynamics we barely understand.â This is an extract from an open letter titled âWarning to Humanityâ signed by over 1,700 elite scientists, including scores of Nobel laureates. You have r
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