Reposted by Gráinne FSue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026stories from the last 24 hours alone this is, honestly, a national scandal 24011
Reposted by Gráinne FAnton van Walraven @avwraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think it is time to do a few things: -Phase out oil, gas, coal. -Stop expanding the fossil fuel industry. -Shut down AI. -MOVE VERY FAST TO PHASE IN RENEWABLES. 1103
Reposted by Gráinne FDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead. 379377398064
Reposted by Gráinne FJane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Anyone who has spent time in academia knows living, breathing people, usually white guys, who did hideous things and never faced consequences or felt an inkling of pressure to resign because they’re protected by the university. Doesn’t mean nobody did anything, but the consequences aren’t equal. 413729
Reposted by Gráinne FEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Imagine when most of Ireland looked something like this. Now consider that only around 1% remains, almost all wrecked. Few – if any – other places on Earth are in such dire need of rewilding. 431726299
Reposted by Gráinne FKees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We're currently on one of the faster tracks that lead to an early AMOC collapse according to this paper, adding a little over +2.5 ppm/year. Reducing the increase in atmospheric CO2 to +0.5 ppm/year would stave off the collapse. That requires something like 80% emission reduction. And rapidly, too. 25541
Reposted by Gráinne FSam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Maybe the solution to congestion in Dublin is not flying taxis, but a combination of more people being able to afford to live in the city instead of commute, and more of those who need to get in/out/around it doing so by public transport, bike, foot instead of car. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...rte.ieCould air taxis be the solution to Dublin's traffic woes?While Dublin is the third most congested city in the world, bringing air taxis in is more complicated than either enthusiasts or skeptics suggest 1412134
Reposted by Gráinne FThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462752
Reposted by Gráinne FLiz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 14/08/2026The “scan and pulp” story hit a nerve this week, but it’s only scratching the surface of what the AI industry is doing; which is fundamentally transforming the economics of human creativity and destroying the legal infrastructure - in place since the 1700s - that makes it a viable profession 11712
Reposted by Gráinne FIrish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The Irish Wildlife Trust are disappointed to see the number of newspaper articles reporting on this accident without giving the details of what happened. @irishenvnet.bsky.social @fairseas.ie #BlueShark #IrishSharks 12311189
Reposted by Gráinne FSocial Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Tackling the climate crisis and cherishing our environment - as well as saving Irish households money - requires real ambition. And Jennifer Whitmore is nothing if not ambitious, with visions for harnessing natural resources, re-discovering nature, ensuring food security, and ending animal cruelty. 3132
Reposted by Gráinne FIrish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Blog: The Government's own risk assessment has concluded that Cherry Laurel poses a High risk to Ireland's biodiversity. The IWT + Gaelic Woodland Project are calling on the Government to commit to a clear, published timeline for a nationwide ban on its sale. iwt.ie/cherry-laure...iwt.ieCherry Laurel Assessed as High Risk Invasive: The Science Is Clear. Ireland Must Now Ban Its Sale. - Irish Wildlife TrustThe assessment found that this widely sold hedging plant poses an overall High risk to Ireland's biodiversity, with High confidence. 12418
Reposted by Gráinne Fgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Sergey Brin is worth about $284 billion. After the proposed ONE-TIME 5% wealth tax, he would have roughly $270 billion. If, after that tragic loss, he spent $1 million every single day and never earned another cent, he would run out of money in the year 2766. Billionaires are an obscenity.latimes.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth taxBrin has been pouring money into Building a Better California, a group that's backing two measures that could nullify a proposed billionaire tax. 12548205
Reposted by Gráinne FAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026the Minister who is overseeing one of our worst years in terms of road safety claimed on national radio yesterday that the increase in deaths is in part due to increased population. a claim that is, frankly, bullshit 52511
Reposted by Gráinne FSam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Brittany Patterson, a mother of four, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct for allowing her 10-year-old son to walk alone to a nearby dollar store." (US news)nytimes.comShould Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime? (Gift Article)Some parents have been surprised to find themselves in the legal system’s cross hairs. 194
Reposted by Gráinne FDaryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 10/08/2026"Since its formation, this Government has shown little inclination to regain the ground which has been lost on Ireland’s climate targets." #IrishPol 02410
Reposted by Gráinne FDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Kinda tells you everything doesn’t it 311047
Reposted by Gráinne Ftimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Even here, this form of solar panel at this height could easily be installed on grazing land and livestock grazed under it without the remotest bother. I would suspect that were you to offer connections and/or grants, there would be an absolute stampede of farmers towards this. 919883
Reposted by Gráinne FAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026We've been sold a lie: that GDP growth equals progress. But what's the real cost? 🌍 20-40% of global land is now degraded 🦋 1 million species face extinction 💨 Pollution causes 9 million premature deaths/year A healthy economy cannot exist on a dying planet. 642034736
Reposted by Gráinne FMarion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026What a debacle. Trump destroying our children's future. 😢 077
Reposted by Gráinne FOliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 08/08/2026Excellent article by Senan Molony on FF/FG's "green retreat" — If you think a DOGE-like gutting of environmental policy is something only for Trump and the MAGA mob — — FF/FG in government are giving them a climate deniers run for their (our!) money. "Pragmatic" it is not. 22510
Reposted by Gráinne FGerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026This keep happening. Policies that you'd expect from Musk or Trump, positions you'd link to Farage or Badenoch, quietly set without fuss or bother because FFG have realized being dull and boring means going mostly unreported 02417
Reposted by Gráinne FCycling In Kilkenny @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Yes, yes they are. 094
Reposted by Gráinne FJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026‘Then there was the casual, almost Muskian, manner in which minister Jack Chambers disbanded the climate division in the Department of Public Expenditure. In other words, the man holding the purse strings on big projects does not need any environmental inputs on their effects or improvement.’independent.ieThe great green retreat: Is this Government done with trying to save the planet?From pausing the carbon tax to scrapping the Dublin Airport passenger cap, the Taoiseach insists Coalition’s ‘pragmatic’ approach is the way forward while the Greens argue ministers are ‘defunding the... 615777
Reposted by Gráinne FAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...currentaffairs.orgThe Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human CivilizationThinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat... 501007485
Reposted by Gráinne FDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Director Adam McKay on the gargantuan lie being peddled by the world's governments and corporations. 610850
Reposted by Gráinne FYᗩY ᖴOᖇ ᗷIᑕYᑕᒪEᔕ 🚲 @yayforbicycles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Motorists are completely out of control. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...rte.ie'Deep concern' as lollipop people spat at, abused at workThere were 130 incidents reported by school wardens or lollipop people while at work since January 2024, figures released to RTÉ News through a Freedom of Information request show. 02110
Reposted by Gráinne FCllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This Government wants to gut Climate Law to hide its own failures. Its not just cowardly but irresponsible and negligent. #climate #climateaction 03715
Reposted by Gráinne FAidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Micheál Martin's response to the data centre questions has been to act as suspiciously as possible 1235
Reposted by Gráinne FKarlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This... yeah I know, costs, cost overruns: but a proper decent building w/ secure racks & so on... costs money! And supports cycling which takes cars off the road which benefits everyone (less traffic, lower emissions etc). Contrast the costs to support CARS... roads, car parks, accidents etc 1163
Reposted by Gráinne FAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Profit has again more than doubled at oil and gas giant BP as the war in Iran boosted fossil fuel prices. (Sky News)news.sky.comOil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - againThe "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market". 03216
Reposted by Gráinne FGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I think about this all the time. People get mad about bicyclists being on the sidewalk without ever considering *why* they are riding on the sidewalk. (And yes, of course bicyclists need to be respectful and safe when on the sidewalk.) 314314
Reposted by Gráinne FDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right?? 9625300
Reposted by Gráinne FRupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This wasn’t how it was supposed to be… The tragic truth is that, as some of us warned a decade ago, mainstream climate science has turned out to be the opposite of alarmist. It has turned out to be complacent and over-optimistic. Truthfulness - and strategic adaptation - are urgent. (Pse repost.) 48958
Reposted by Gráinne FAnna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it." 62708880
Reposted by Gráinne FGreenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 02/08/2026The intense heatwave at the end of June alone, is estimated to have killed 20,000 people. Climate crisis-driven heat is “sucking soils dry” as extreme drought spreads across Europe and other parts of the world. #MakePollutersPaytheguardian.com‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weatherLatest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely 211352
Reposted by Gráinne FJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“Judge Kathrin Lauchstädt prohibited parliamentary observers – from the Irish Parliament and the European Parliament – from taking notes on proceedings in the public gallery.” 02010
Reposted by Gráinne FFelicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026If you'd like to pre-order my novel A WINTER WEDDING (out Sept 17), here's a link to the splendid UK booksellers Blackwells which does free overseas delivery throughout the world, including the US & Canada 💙📚 ❄️Secrets. Sisters. Celebrity. Survival against the odds❄️ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... 01615
Reposted by Gráinne FSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The way we stop upland fires is dramatic rewetting and rewilding of our hills and reducing emissions like it's a life or death situation... Using every lever available to the state domestically and internationally to immediately cut emissions everywhere. It's literally the only way we can stop them 314448
Reposted by Gráinne FDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Woohooo let's goooooo 7648
Reposted by Gráinne FJoanne @joannefirth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My least favorite headline of the week. CLIMATE TRIALS NOW! 🔥🌎💥☄️ nbcconnecticut.app.link/YmGKa5Ape5bnbcconnecticut.app.linkMajor oil companies reap massive profits as U.S. and Iran fighting drives energy prices higherMajor oil companies reported massive profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments. 144
Reposted by Gráinne FJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Ireland, France, Luxembourg and Portugal declined to join this mob of 22. 1183
Reposted by Gráinne FDaryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 01/08/2026How many more times do this FFG & co gov have to show us what they are & what they really care about? Here's a clue, it's not equality, meeting climate targets, investing in public infra, providing social & affordable housing, diversifying the economy, meeting Intl obligations... #IrishPol 0113
Reposted by Gráinne FNaomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A playbook repeated from Turkey to Norway to Belarus. Rather than recognising it Europe’s right took an opportunity to pile on to a centre-left leader they resent: domestic troubles aside, Sanchez has outperformed them on economic growth while seeing a green energy switch pay off 215374
Reposted by Gráinne FDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Some journalist better fucking ask him what "woke" means and get him to spell it out *exactly* 815541
Reposted by Gráinne FEmma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026#Aughinish mess 🤦🏾♀️ “Important correction to the IT report: The Decision was not rescinded by ACP. It was quashed by order of the High Court on foot of judicial review proceedings brought by environmental NGOs, made on consent. The kind of proceedings the Govt is trying to restrict.” #spéirghorm 1115
Reposted by Gráinne FPádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Link to podcast I did with @thejournal.ie this week on fires, why the hills are flammable when they should be wet and why we need to get serious about rewilding www.thejournal.ie/podcasts/66f...thejournal.ieCould nature itself help stop Ireland's wildfires?Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News 02611
Reposted by Gráinne FCycling In Kilkenny @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Its that time of year, the time when Gardai ask motorists nicely to obey the law. Next week, they are going to ask for drug deals to please not sell drugs.rte.ieMotorists urged to 'slow down' during Bank HolidayGardaí have appealed to motorists to "slow down and stick to the speed limit" ahead of their Bank Holiday roads policing operation, which begins on Thursday. 1164