Paul Price
@swimsure.bsky.social
Research: climate change science & policy.
Blog: https://climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/
–Adjunct prof. Dublin City University
ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712;
–eNGO research & An Taisce member;
MSc. Sus Dev & BSc(Hon) Geology
30 yrs pro carpentry.
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Blog: https://climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/
–Adjunct prof. Dublin City University
ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712;
–eNGO research & An Taisce member;
MSc. Sus Dev & BSc(Hon) Geology
30 yrs pro carpentry.
🚲 🏊
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As the calendar year begins, a reminder of the rapid acceleration of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, driving increasingly severe #climate changes. Shown are the past 2000 years of CO2 concentrations.
Stop burning fossil fuels.
Stop burning fossil fuels.
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
As the calendar year begins, a reminder of the rapid acceleration of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, driving increasingly severe #climate changes. Shown are the past 2000 years of CO2 concentrations.
Stop burning fossil fuels.
Stop burning fossil fuels.
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Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
January 4, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
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Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...
'Reading Rafael Behr’s piece on AI reminded me of a short story by the American author Fredric Brown.
Scientists build a supercomputer and ask it the final question: "Is there a God?"
The computer cogitates and answers: “There is now.”'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Scientists build a supercomputer and ask it the final question: "Is there a God?"
The computer cogitates and answers: “There is now.”'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
We must take control of AI now, before it’s too late | Letters
Letters: Anja Cradden proposes ways of managing tech companies before we reach crisis point. Plus letters from Mike Scott and Gerry Rees
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'Reading Rafael Behr’s piece on AI reminded me of a short story by the American author Fredric Brown.
Scientists build a supercomputer and ask it the final question: "Is there a God?"
The computer cogitates and answers: “There is now.”'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Scientists build a supercomputer and ask it the final question: "Is there a God?"
The computer cogitates and answers: “There is now.”'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"The Trump administration continues to act as if the story of the ransacking of the library of Alexandria is a playbook instead of a cautionary tale."
Cancelling science doesn't make reality go away.
#Don'tLookUp
Cancelling science doesn't make reality go away.
#Don'tLookUp
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist, write @michaelemann.bsky.social & Bob Ward
- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"The Trump administration continues to act as if the story of the ransacking of the library of Alexandria is a playbook instead of a cautionary tale."
Cancelling science doesn't make reality go away.
#Don'tLookUp
Cancelling science doesn't make reality go away.
#Don'tLookUp
"If AI progress stalls and the money dries up, there will be economic chaos. If AI progress advances and leads to massive waves of automation, there will also be economic chaos."
The Aige of Stupid.
The Aige of Stupid.
"Many tech investors believe young people who have never spent time in an office are best-positioned to construct our AI future. Whereas 30 y.o.s are already supposedly lost to byzantine ways of workplace bureaucracies, those a decade junior are blank slates." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Would You Trust a 22-Year-Old AI Billionaire With the Global Economy?
My week partying with the young founders at the heart of the AI boom
www.theatlantic.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"If AI progress stalls and the money dries up, there will be economic chaos. If AI progress advances and leads to massive waves of automation, there will also be economic chaos."
The Aige of Stupid.
The Aige of Stupid.
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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"Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery." via @washingtonpost.com at www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science
Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery." via @washingtonpost.com at www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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And climate science has long pointed out 1.5ºC & 2ºC carbon budget limits, overshoot timing & net zero insufficiency eg:
"Energy Policy in the Greenhouse" 1989 report law.stanford.edu/publications...
Stocker 2013: 1.5°C target unachievable by 2012, 2ºC by 2027.
climatehomes.unibe.ch/~stocker/pap...
"Energy Policy in the Greenhouse" 1989 report law.stanford.edu/publications...
Stocker 2013: 1.5°C target unachievable by 2012, 2ºC by 2027.
climatehomes.unibe.ch/~stocker/pap...
From Warming Fate to Warming Limit: Benchmarks to a Global Climate Convention | Stanford Law School
From Warming Fate to Warming Limit was the first comprehensive evaluation of the implications of a 2 degree warming limit, the temperature target subs
law.stanford.edu
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And climate science has long pointed out 1.5ºC & 2ºC carbon budget limits, overshoot timing & net zero insufficiency eg:
"Energy Policy in the Greenhouse" 1989 report law.stanford.edu/publications...
Stocker 2013: 1.5°C target unachievable by 2012, 2ºC by 2027.
climatehomes.unibe.ch/~stocker/pap...
"Energy Policy in the Greenhouse" 1989 report law.stanford.edu/publications...
Stocker 2013: 1.5°C target unachievable by 2012, 2ºC by 2027.
climatehomes.unibe.ch/~stocker/pap...
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Deer numbers have been rocketing in the UK and Ireland, causing *massive* damage to nature and society.
The solutions?
Eat wild venison instead of farmed meat, and reintroduce missing native predators like lynx.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The solutions?
Eat wild venison instead of farmed meat, and reintroduce missing native predators like lynx.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why Britain has a deer problem
Deer numbers have rocketed over the last 40 years and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic.
www.bbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Deer numbers have been rocketing in the UK and Ireland, causing *massive* damage to nature and society.
The solutions?
Eat wild venison instead of farmed meat, and reintroduce missing native predators like lynx.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The solutions?
Eat wild venison instead of farmed meat, and reintroduce missing native predators like lynx.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
'scepticism of climate science has largely disappeared from [UK] opinion pieces and editorials, but criticism of the policies required to tackle climate change is pervasive.'
IOW, the media message has become: yes, climate change is a major problem but, let's not bother doing anything about it.
IOW, the media message has become: yes, climate change is a major problem but, let's not bother doing anything about it.
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
theconversation.com/we-analysed-...
theconversation.com/we-analysed-...
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
theconversation.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
'scepticism of climate science has largely disappeared from [UK] opinion pieces and editorials, but criticism of the policies required to tackle climate change is pervasive.'
IOW, the media message has become: yes, climate change is a major problem but, let's not bother doing anything about it.
IOW, the media message has become: yes, climate change is a major problem but, let's not bother doing anything about it.
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Violent, antisocial farmers’ protests have delivered concession after concession from the European Commission. Why would they stop?
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Violent, antisocial farmers’ protests have delivered concession after concession from the European Commission. Why would they stop?
Happy Solar New Year!!
Winter solstice morning,
crashing surf,
sun rise at the beach,
chilly blue clouds,
wave smoothed sand,
swimmers' footprints,
after a sea dip,
ice blocks for feet.
Time for hot drinks!
#HSNY
Winter solstice morning,
crashing surf,
sun rise at the beach,
chilly blue clouds,
wave smoothed sand,
swimmers' footprints,
after a sea dip,
ice blocks for feet.
Time for hot drinks!
#HSNY
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy Solar New Year!!
Winter solstice morning,
crashing surf,
sun rise at the beach,
chilly blue clouds,
wave smoothed sand,
swimmers' footprints,
after a sea dip,
ice blocks for feet.
Time for hot drinks!
#HSNY
Winter solstice morning,
crashing surf,
sun rise at the beach,
chilly blue clouds,
wave smoothed sand,
swimmers' footprints,
after a sea dip,
ice blocks for feet.
Time for hot drinks!
#HSNY
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Pod of my final Last Word on the environment for 2025 with Matt Cooper on Today FM is now available.
Did my level best to put as positive a spin as possible on what has been yet another grim year for #climate, environmental issues.
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
Did my level best to put as positive a spin as possible on what has been yet another grim year for #climate, environmental issues.
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
The Last Word On The Environment: Good News in The Fight Against Climate Change
For The Last Word on the Environment this week John Gibbons joins Matt to give us some reasons to be cheerful in the fight against climate changeThey discuss...
www.todayfm.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pod of my final Last Word on the environment for 2025 with Matt Cooper on Today FM is now available.
Did my level best to put as positive a spin as possible on what has been yet another grim year for #climate, environmental issues.
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
Did my level best to put as positive a spin as possible on what has been yet another grim year for #climate, environmental issues.
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
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The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
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Huge congratulations to our Head of Advocacy Dr Elaine McGoff on honour of wonderful & well-deserved Water Warrior Award 2025 from DCU Water Institute. She's a tireless champion dedicated to protecting our precious freshwater ecosystems
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
@dcuwaterinstitute.bsky.social
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
@dcuwaterinstitute.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Huge congratulations to our Head of Advocacy Dr Elaine McGoff on honour of wonderful & well-deserved Water Warrior Award 2025 from DCU Water Institute. She's a tireless champion dedicated to protecting our precious freshwater ecosystems
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
@dcuwaterinstitute.bsky.social
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
@dcuwaterinstitute.bsky.social
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Just finished the final weekly Last Word on the environment of 2025 with Matt Cooper on Today FM.
We discussed the EU’s ill considered back-pedalling on phaseout internal combustion vehicles, plus rise of renewables & remarkable drops in battery costs that are a potential game-changer.
We discussed the EU’s ill considered back-pedalling on phaseout internal combustion vehicles, plus rise of renewables & remarkable drops in battery costs that are a potential game-changer.
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just finished the final weekly Last Word on the environment of 2025 with Matt Cooper on Today FM.
We discussed the EU’s ill considered back-pedalling on phaseout internal combustion vehicles, plus rise of renewables & remarkable drops in battery costs that are a potential game-changer.
We discussed the EU’s ill considered back-pedalling on phaseout internal combustion vehicles, plus rise of renewables & remarkable drops in battery costs that are a potential game-changer.
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It's worth cataloguing what has happened in the water world in the last few weeks alone.
It paints a picture of a Government who are not at all prioritising the health of our waterways, and who are failing on multiple fronts to put in place the measures we actually need.
A watery rant 🧵
It paints a picture of a Government who are not at all prioritising the health of our waterways, and who are failing on multiple fronts to put in place the measures we actually need.
A watery rant 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's worth cataloguing what has happened in the water world in the last few weeks alone.
It paints a picture of a Government who are not at all prioritising the health of our waterways, and who are failing on multiple fronts to put in place the measures we actually need.
A watery rant 🧵
It paints a picture of a Government who are not at all prioritising the health of our waterways, and who are failing on multiple fronts to put in place the measures we actually need.
A watery rant 🧵
🧵 SEAI "Energy in Ireland 2025" report is out today:
Despite more demand, electricity emissions down.
Overall tho 81% of energy supply still from fossil fuels.
Coal use ended at Moneypoint power station.
Transport exceeding 2021-2025 SEC by 7%.
Aviation: new record high.
www.seai.ie/sites/defaul...
Despite more demand, electricity emissions down.
Overall tho 81% of energy supply still from fossil fuels.
Coal use ended at Moneypoint power station.
Transport exceeding 2021-2025 SEC by 7%.
Aviation: new record high.
www.seai.ie/sites/defaul...
www.seai.ie
December 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🧵 SEAI "Energy in Ireland 2025" report is out today:
Despite more demand, electricity emissions down.
Overall tho 81% of energy supply still from fossil fuels.
Coal use ended at Moneypoint power station.
Transport exceeding 2021-2025 SEC by 7%.
Aviation: new record high.
www.seai.ie/sites/defaul...
Despite more demand, electricity emissions down.
Overall tho 81% of energy supply still from fossil fuels.
Coal use ended at Moneypoint power station.
Transport exceeding 2021-2025 SEC by 7%.
Aviation: new record high.
www.seai.ie/sites/defaul...
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Why have we seen such repression of climate activists around the world?
Because activists were so successful in changing the narrative around fossil fuels
Because activists were so successful in changing the narrative around fossil fuels
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Why have we seen such repression of climate activists around the world?
Because activists were so successful in changing the narrative around fossil fuels
Because activists were so successful in changing the narrative around fossil fuels
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“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
momentummag.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”
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Ireland's energy regulator finally published its data centre connection policy. It facilitates a new era of fossil growth to facilitate this enormous energy user.
hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...
hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...
A new era of fossil fuels to facilitate data centres?
Reaction to the CRU policy in relation to data centre connections
hannahdaly.ie
December 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Ireland's energy regulator finally published its data centre connection policy. It facilitates a new era of fossil growth to facilitate this enormous energy user.
hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...
hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...
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Call me cynical, but I wonder if this is the price we’re paying for the extension of the nitrates derogation 🤔
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
EU fishing quota agreement 'catastrophic' for Ireland
Fishing organisations have described the outcome of the EU fishing quota agreement for next year as "catastrophic" for the Irish industry.
www.rte.ie
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Call me cynical, but I wonder if this is the price we’re paying for the extension of the nitrates derogation 🤔
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...