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Róisín Moriarty

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Climate science and policy for a better, safer, fairer world 🌍🌎🌏 Working on carbon dioxide removal and national pathways to net zero and beyond Research Fellow @ucc.bsky.social 🇮🇪 roisinmoriarty.com Runner ⛰️ Snowboarder 🏔️ 🇮🇪🇫🇷

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Cathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social · 15h
The case for planning for the inevitable, well made.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 29/09/2026
Genuinely great to see solar, heat pump and retrofit grants targeting vulnerable homes. It's also good to see the boiler scrappage scheme come immediately rather than in January. I'm sure a lot of people retrofitting right now, and the companies, are relieved they will qualify.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We badly need to increase the level of transport capital funding for cycling and walking. We met Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers on the 15th to present our budget submission- www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/irish-cyclin... 1/3
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Irish Cycling Campaign Pre-Budget 2027 Submission
Our overarching message:Increase the Level of Transport Capital Funding Allocated to Create High-Quality Conditions for Cycling and Walking Countrywide ——————— Earlier this month, Irish Cycling…
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 28/09/2026
Despite finding success as a filmmaker in the 1950s and 1960s, Flora Kerrigan remains largely unknown today. A Research Ireland-funded project is helping uncover her story and shine a light on overlooked women in Irish film history. Read on @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/20...
Sarah Arnold examines preserved film reels in the Irish Film Archive
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"We each have responsibility to radically re-evaluate our own complicity in their power." I'm not normally one to recommend marking books but The Nerd Reich requires several different colour highlighters - there are so many quotes you will want to refer back to. My thoughts, condensed:
Absolutely essential to understanding what is happening in America, and the wider world, right now. Durán is an excellent journalist who, without hyperbole, lays out the facts, the timeline, and the men (it is mostly men) who are at the core of the concerted effort by intersecting parties to destroy America in its current form. He puts a spotlight on the motivating ideologies active in Silicon Valley, and how they connect and empower a disproportionately influential group of men (it is mostly men) in venture capital, crypto, Project 2025, the Republican Party, a new wave of "Christians", the military industrial complex, and a handful of billionaires. It is a clarion call to action, and ultimately hopeful. Durán offers broad solutions to set us back on the right path, as societies and as individuals: "We each have responsibility to radically reevaluate our own complicity in their power."
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Imagine, globally, if all the resources - money, time, lobbying, land, investment etc. - given to tech data centres were transferred to libraries. What a wonderful world this would be📚💙
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 02/09/2026
🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2027. If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! (1/2)
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Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2027
This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography. Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information...
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IFUT Strike Days The IFUT ballot has now closed, with the result an overwhelming majority (92.5%) in favour of industrial action, up to and including strike action.
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IFUT Strike Days
The IFUT ballot has now closed, with the result an overwhelming majority (92.5%) in favour of industrial action, up to and including strike action.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Myself, Seán Fearon and Pat Brodie have published a report today examining the exaggerated benefits and significant costs of data centres to Ireland. Below is a short thread on some of the key takeaways. Read the full report here: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... 1/6
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 24/09/2026
Minister Darragh O'Brien has announced a €2000 oil boiler scrappage scheme for older boilers, on top of grants up to €12,500 for heat pumps. I spoke on Morning Ireland about the latest incentive to get Irish homes off heating oil. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Govt to propose boiler scrappage scheme
Kieran McCarthy, Director of KMC Homes in Cork, and Hannah Daly, Professor of Sustainable Energy at University College Cork, discuss the decision by Energy minister Darragh O'Brien to bring a boiler s...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gran Paradiso Aug. 1980 | Sept. 2026 Incredible repeat photography of the Gran Paradiso glaciers 46 years apart, showing the magnitude of man-made glacial collapse in the Alps - which will never be white again! 🧊🔥 📷 Antonio and Riccardo Bussano 🙏
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The IFUT ballot having been completed, with 92.5% in favour of strike action, I will be on strike for 24 hours on October 14th and October 21st. There's also a one-hour walkout on Monday 5th October.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you aren’t reading Simon McGarr’s output, well I’m not sure what excuse you can manufacture. He is taking a scalpel blade to the cancerous tissue growing in Irish society right now. Read it. Sin é.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who is Irish football's Macklemore?
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 17/09/2026
Great news!
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 17/09/2026
Like the song says, if Ireland is willing to lead, then this could be the start of an all out football boycott, which would really be something but it needs to start somewhere #COYBIG martinleahy.bandcamp.com/album/dont-p...
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What about the cost of NOT investing in public transports? Air quality, missed climate targets, traffic congestion - there’s more to public transport that ticket sales. It doesn’t make sense to treat it as an enterprise that needs to break even.
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 16/09/2026
Westmeath the same
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Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And THIS is how you do it. Aaron Rowe has just sacrificed an invaluable boost to his music career because his integrity and humanity isn't for sale. I think he's going to be OK. #AaronRowe #FreePalestine #Macklemore
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Irish officials flagged “high risk” before sign-off on dual-use exports to Israeli arms industry. State granted multiple licences for export during height of Israel's assault on Gaza and Lebanon, followed by a swift shift to restrict exports in late 2024. thecurrency.news/articles/236...
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Environmental Protection Agency Ask Government To Remove 'Environmental' & 'Protection' From Title If They're Just Going To Ignore Them loom.ly/geH7WzU
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 11/09/2026
It’s not often a news story about AI makes me smile 🙂
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026
As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:
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Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up
The eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families.
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 09/09/2026
catastrophic climate change
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 09/09/2026
“A single event may have multiple drivers, but we are seeing an increase in these events and are likely to see more as the permafrost and glacier melt continues.”
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Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floods - Carbon Brief
On the morning of 26 August, flash floods surged through a Himalayan border region of Nepal and the Chinese region…
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 08/09/2026
*can’t
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 08/09/2026
If your name was Róisín or Collette (or a couple of others I can remember) you’d never be able to forget 😆
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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
"Legitimate concerns" ?
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The deification of Mladic and the glorification of the genocide in Bosnia by Belgrade and Banja Luka is a baptism of blood. It aims to make the Serbian public complicit in the horrors of the 90s and, more importantly, to socialize them to embrace future rounds of violence.
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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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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A significant contributor to the gender pay gap and the continuing financial disparity between men and women is the undervaluing of all of the unpaid care work done by women in Ireland. Women all over Ireland get up early, every morning, and go to work, unpaid and unvalued.
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today you're going to see a lot of tributes and assessments of Gloria Steinem (I thought this one very good: www.thecut.com/article/glor...). You'll also see some people raising her involvement with the CIA, and others ignore it. (That obit doesn't even mentioned it.) What was that about?
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Gloria Steinem Loved Women
The feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement.
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 04/09/2026
Worked at the British Antarctic Survey during my PhD (at UEA, Norwich) & lived in Cambridge. In a pub…asked straight out what I was doing ‘at Cambridge’, how dare an Irish person be there. Thankfully everyone else around the table was as shocked as I was. No smart retort from me though…
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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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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 03/09/2026
About sums it up…
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 02/09/2026
...but they need strong political will and multilateralism, effective policies, inclusive governance and finance.
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 02/09/2026
The risks of overshoot are clear but so too are the actions that we need to take to keep 1.5 degrees in reach. 1. Stop burning fossil fuel 2. Reduce methane emission 3. Protect nature These are all things that can be done... #LimitingOvershoot
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I attended the unveiling of a memorial to the dead women & children of Sean Ross Abbey where 1,090 "illegitimate children" died over a 37-year period, many of malnutrition. The nuns still own the land so their permission had to be sought to erect a memorial to their victims. This is Ireland in 2026.
A bearded man stands next to a headstone which says "For those who think of them today, a little prayer to Jesus say - Dedicated to the Mothers and Babies who died in Sean Ross Abbey 1931-1969"Two women stand and look at the memorialA large crowd of people, some holding flowers, watching the unveilingA small group of Mother & Baby Home survivors and activists stand by the memorial
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 01/09/2026
... that the very-low emission scenarios have, in turn, become harder to achieve given that global emissions have yet to decline.'
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 01/09/2026
Accessible explainer about the new emissions scenarios that will inform the IPCC's 7th assessment report (AR7) from @carbonbrief.org 'The fact that the worst-case scenarios of the past have become increasingly implausible is good news. However, this is tempered by the fact...
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Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change - Carbon Brief
Every few years, climate modelling groups run a coordinated set of simulations that explore climate change in the future. Carbon Brief unpacks how the new scenarios were designed and how they differ.
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You can join the waiting list: office.eu
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Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite
Welcome to Office EU, the open-source productivity platform for all who value a free, transparent and sovereign working environment.
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Vol. 2, no. 6 of the CO2 Newsletter, Sept-Oct 1981 is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. All 18 issues are heart-breakers. allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9
CO2 Newsletter vol. 2 no 6  page 1

"Southern Hemisphere Puzzles: will warmer be wetter? will warmth grow ice?
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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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