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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 58m

@irishtimes.com IT just dropped their Winter Edition of climate reporting and imagery dissonance. The Super El Niño will cause extreme weather, when more people than ever will struggle to heat their homes due to fossil dependency. Celebrating this phenomenon is ignorant, harmful journalism.

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Will El Niño and the polar vortex bring snow to Ireland this winter?

UK Met Office prediction has led some commentators to fear a very cold winter across Northern Europe

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People need assistance during this fuel crisis, but this is not the way to do it. Government has bowed to pressure from right wing lobbyists that chain us to fossil fuel dependence. The debt for this will be paid in human health and wellbeing. www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

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Carbon tax on home heating oil and gas to be reduced

The Minister for Finance Simon Harris said that carbon tax on on home heating oil and gas is being reduced and will not increase again in the lifetime of this Government.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another climate fiction short story on our blog, by @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social🌍 This installment envisions an alternative future of Ireland's food security, inspired by ideas from John Gibbons @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🌽 A better future is always possible - enjoy! medium.com/@irishdocsen...

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What If They Fixed It?

Part 3: The Department of Food Security

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When we let fossil fuel companies influence policy, we weave failure into governance. The science-policy-action interface is not so much a gap as it is a wilful roadblock, built on inertia, status quo bias, cognitive dissonance and above all, greed.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very true. We might run another public event on this soon - the situation is really dire

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The situation is dire. I gave two talks last year on Planetary Health - I had to actually update my slides from the July event to the October one, in order to reflect ANOTHER boundary being crossed. THAT'S how fast this is happening.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Planetary Health Check 2026 report has been released. www.planetaryhealthcheck.org 🩺If our planet were an ICU patient, it would be crashing. 🚨All alarms blaring. 🩻Chest compressions. ⚡Defibrillator. Instead, our leaders are ignoring the crash call. We need full, committed action NOW.

Stratospheric O3 depletion - green zone
Atmospheric aerosol loading - green, but nearing boundary
Ocean Acification - just crossed from green into orange
Freshwater change - into organe
Land system change- orange approaching red
Climate change (CO2 concentration)- orange approaching red
Climate change (radiative forcing) - well into red and black zone
Biogeochemical flows (Phosphorus) - red zone
Biogeochemical flows (nitrogen) - red into black zone
Novel entities - red zone
Biosphere integrity (functional) - red zone
Biosphere integrity - red into purple

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany - yet the German government now spends €2.5billion on fossil fuel subsidies. Meanwhile, here in Ireland, we don't even know how to calculate our heat-attributable deaths, and are expected to spend a whopping €7.5billion in fossil fuel subsidies this year!!! 🤯

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

After their hottest summer on record, France reduces their Just Transition Agency funding by 30%. The cognitive dissonance & backwards steps in climate action is not unique to Ireland. We need to break this inertia, or governance will follow mob mentality. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

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Après l’été le plus chaud jamais connu en France, le gouvernement envisage de réduire de plus de 30 % le budget de l’Ademe

Selon les informations du « Monde », l’Agence de la transition écologique verrait son budget d’intervention amputé de plus de 300 millions d’euros.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our Dr. Sean Owens reviewed this recently on our Medium blog! The Fourth Time We Drowned medium.com/@irishdocsen...

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The Fourth Time We Drowned

a book by Sally Hayden.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the impact of the climate crisis. This is not a one-off event. We will see this more and more, with regular reporting of how life-saving treatment gets delayed This was preventable through decisions that should have been made decades ago. www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-mor...

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Revealed: More than 1,000 NHS operations cancelled due to record UK heatwaves - Carbon Brief

More than 1,000 operations at NHS hospitals were cancelled due to heat during the UK’s record May and June heatwaves, Carbon Brief can reveal.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our government is patching over our energy crisis with paper and spit, at the cost of climate and health. They must stop sending the bill for their gross incompetence to the general public, who will be bled dry - figuratively, and almost literally!

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You may well be correct about solar eventually getting much cheaper, but this isn't happening fast enough to match the urgency of climate action. The science demands rapid, drastic system change, and this can only be delivered through governance - but ours is moving backwards.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

While it may be true that many people have the means to install solar, this leaves a huge equity gap in terms of energy access and fuel poverty. Policies must support everybody of all financial situations in just access to green energy. Government are instead backsliding on climate action.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Government are desperately trying to put a band-aid over the problem, while refusing to implement real, long-term solutions. The Irish public are victims of the fossil capitalism that our government insists on chaining us to - our people, our patients.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The decline of our Irish language is intrinsically linked with colonial ecocide. Tá ár dteanga, ár mbithéagsúlacht agus ár gcuid sláinte fite fuaite. Our language, biodiversity and health are intertwined. Labhair Gaeilge, agus bíodh grá agatsa don fhuinseog 's dair www.who.int/europe/publi...

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Role of the arts and culture in addressing the health impacts of climate change: Behavioural and Cultural Insights policy brief series

Publicaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These solutions mean we can look after our patients wholly, beyond their medical condition, at some of the most difficult and distressing times of their lives. Instead of this, Minister Chambers would rather entrench us in fossil dependence. There is no debate about public health expenditure.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cost-effiency of greener healthcare primarily comes through prevention, though resource management is important too. When we incorporate holistic, nature-based solutions at both community and acute levels, we can treat the whole person, and prevent chronic illness 🌱🩺

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ireland ranks as the 11th highest in the world for fossil fuel subsidies per capita, with €4.7billion spent by the Exchequer on fossil fuels in 2025. The State must invest in health over harm - including green, sustainable healthcare. Greener healthcare is, in fact, extremely cost effective 👇

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Regarding this, Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers was asked: "Do you think they simply don't have enough money to do what they need to do?" Minister Chambers: "I think the debate is over as to whether we've spent enough money on our health system." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Four HSE regions to lose power over day-to-day spending

Jack Chambers criticises ‘completely ineffective management of the control system’ and ‘really poor performance by certain regions’

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Farmers are stewards of our land, and should absolutely be supported as such - but in the right way. We must adopt new models of agroecological farming urgently. How we farm in Ireland - mostly livestock - will cost our farmers, our land and health immensely. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Irish farming is unprepared for impact of climate change, says advisory council

Extreme weather events being treated as ‘isolated incidents’ rather than fundamental change, says Climate Change Advisory Council

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From an emotional wellbeing POV, we need reminders that humanity is capable of real good, in the face of all that is wrong with our systems. Blind faith in technology will not serve us - climate action needs to be rooted in this humanity and empathy, and governance is failing in this.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This outlook is justified - I think there's a difference between future-oriented optimism and actually reminding ourselves that we're capable of enacting real good change. In times like these we need a bit of the latter now and again!

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our system isn't designed for people to have capacity to do such great things. We need everybody from all walks of life living sustainably, and that coherence comes from top-down government. But I think we desperately needed a reminder that humans are, for the most part, wonderful.🌍♥️

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We're in dire need of some climate optimism, thank you @eamonryan.bsky.social ! 🌍 What do you think - will Ireland reach a social tipping point with scattered pockets of climate action, that will incur policy change from central government? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Eamon Ryan: Here’s something you don’t often see - an optimistic column on the climate crisis

Regardless of what politicians say or do, people are starting to demand and deliver change locally

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It feels a little like the editorial team at the Irish mail on Sunday may have gone rogue on the owners as this is the second one they’ve asked for. Note the headlines are theirs obviously. My view is you have to talk to everyone before folks pile on here.

A comment piece in the irish mail on Sunday on the unep overshoot report, Ireland’s carbon tax and the upcoming ets2.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

'tis and all! Protested the fare increases on behalf of @irishdocsenv.bsky.social yesterday. The fare increases are absolutely an attack on public health and well-being. This decision will cost lives.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yesterday we protested the fare increases. Thousands die every year from air pollution, noise pollution, stress and sedentary activity. This is in addition to lives lost on the road. Tethering us to fossil fuels and private car use will cost lives.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gov: "Lookit, raising the fares is making us look bad." NTA: "We're trying to achieve zero-emission public transport by 2030, as per the Sustainable Mobility Policy. Are you going to fund this?" Gov: "Nah. We'd rather fund fossil fuels and drive congestion up" www.thejournal.ie/nta-fare-inc...

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NTA to be grilled on fare increases before Oireachtas committee

The committee’s chair said there are ‘legitimate questions as to whether increasing fares sends the right signal’.

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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you missed out on tickets to the @tomflood.bsky.social lecture in Dublin on the 22nd September we've got some good news for you. The lecture has been moved to a larger venue due to demand. www.eventbrite.ie/e/reframing-... @irishcycle.com @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @dublincommuters.bsky.social

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Reframing Road Safety | A public lecture by Tom Flood

Reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, road violence and active transportation. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We'll be there 📢 Join us this evening to protest the gross injustice and attack on public health our government is committing against its own people.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

PSO routes were offset by €940mil over last year. In April, carbon tax increase was postponed and fossil fuel subsidies amounted to €750mil in just a few short weeks. I am curious to know what gov's definition of a sustainable funding model for transport is. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Commuters to face increased fares on buses and trains

Rising cost of State funding for public services has been a spending concern for some time

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Public transport fare hikes - while fossil fuel subsidies remain. Government seem determined to steer us towards car-dependence, if you'll pardon the pun. Cost of living, air pollution, emissions - this is an attack on public health and well-being. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Commuters to face increased fares on buses and trains

Rising cost of State funding for public services has been a spending concern for some time

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

⚠️ 🌍 ⚠️ We stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction⚠️ 🌍 ⚠️ ✒️ 🙏 If you are an academic or healthcare professional, please consider signing. 🙏✒️ framaforms.org/we-stand-wit...

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We stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction | Framaforms.org

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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“The Climate Act has been weaponised by certain individuals.” ~Jack Chambers TD, Minister for Finance.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The 1.5°C target is dead and lost. Human health, wellbeing and life on earth is at extreme risk from the impacts of climate change. The cost of climate inaction will be paid in blood.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our statement regarding the 1.5°C Paris Agreement failure, the Nepal-Tibet disaster, and climate justice. 🌍 The calls to action are ringing ever louder. Our governance, nationally and internationally, is failing. The cost of inaction is climbing exponentially. The time for drastic action is now.

Statement
Call to action: climate Justice and NEpal-tibet Glacier flood disaster
The UN has formally declared the 1.5°C target limit for global heating lost. We will exceed this limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, with unprecedented levels of destruction and loss of life as we approach tipping points and risk irreversible damage.
This is a deliberate failure of governance over the past eleven years, fuelled by inertia, cowardice and greed.

Last week, our hearts broke for the people of Tibet and Nepal, whose lives have been destroyed by the most extreme impacts of climate collapse.
We stand in solidarity with our fellow healthcare workers in this region, who are now dealing with the human cost of climate change.
Nepal is one of the lowest global contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, over 10,000 people have lost their lives to climate-related disasters in the past 30 years, with landslides and floods together accounting for almost 70 % of the total climate-related disaster mortality in Nepal (1).
The Nepali Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has now called for a global effort to tackle climate change. Just six weeks prior, Friends of the Earth Nepal issued the Nagarkot Call for Action on Climate Justice, warning of accelerating Himalayan ice loss - which went unheeded.
This is the epitome of climate injustice - the people who tread most lightly upon our Earth are the ones who pay the ultimate price.

Now, the UN has called again for urgent climate action to minimise the catastrophic impacts of rising temperatures, as previous action has been insufficient.
The calls to action and alarm bells are ringing louder than ever. The evidence linking rising temperatures, glacier loss and climate change to human activity and fossil fuel consumption is unequivocal. This poses a very real threat to life on this planet that cannot be overstated.

As healthcare professionals, we strive to do no harm. It is our responsibility to advocate for our patients when their health is at risk. We cannot protect our patients and our people if world leaders insist on embedding fossil fuels into our systems. These decisions are intentional, systemic and are grossly negligent of the common good.
Once again, we call for our leaders to act with integrity and take the urgent, bold climate action at the level that science - and justice - demands.

In Ireland, this means drastic action. Much like the Paris Agreement, we too have climate targets that our government has agreed to, but failed to act upon.
The EPA has stated we will only deliver half of the emission reductions agreed. Ireland has the second-highest GDP per capita in the EU, yet the second-highest greenhouse gas emissions. This is a blind, deliberate failure in national governance to commit to climate action in the interest of public wellbeing.
For us in Ireland, taking necessary climate action means reducing emissions from transport, livestock, energy, aviation and industry. While every individual has a part to play, the just transition requires big system change from government: updated and wholly implemented climate policies.
The climate crisis is an escalating public health emergency. We must answer the mounting calls to action with bravery. Science, justice, and the wellbeing of all life on this planet, depends on it.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Delighted to sponsor this and have you over, Tom! Looking forward to Sept 22!

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're now living the climate crisis we were warned about decades ago. Our condolences and solidarity to the Tibetan and Nepali people and fellow healthcare colleagues as they deal with the human and health cost of climate change. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 356

Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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