Tara Quinn
@taraquinn.bsky.social
Principal climate change scientist, interested in how we experience and adapt to climate change.
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We were a bit nervous recording our first podcast with Ireland’s IPCC superstar @peterthorne.bsky.social but @drclarenoone.bsky.social and I had a great chat with him 🙂
As someone who works on climate change if left me with a lot to reflect on, in a good way #climateaction #hope & everyday chats
As someone who works on climate change if left me with a lot to reflect on, in a good way #climateaction #hope & everyday chats
“Even in our lives climate change is not the only thing we have going on…”
It was so nice to chat with @peterthorne.bsky.social about how important it is to have everyday conversations about climate change with everybody
🎙️ Ep1 out now
@ucc.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social
@maynoothuniversity.ie
It was so nice to chat with @peterthorne.bsky.social about how important it is to have everyday conversations about climate change with everybody
🎙️ Ep1 out now
@ucc.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social
@maynoothuniversity.ie
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October 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
We were a bit nervous recording our first podcast with Ireland’s IPCC superstar @peterthorne.bsky.social but @drclarenoone.bsky.social and I had a great chat with him 🙂
As someone who works on climate change if left me with a lot to reflect on, in a good way #climateaction #hope & everyday chats
As someone who works on climate change if left me with a lot to reflect on, in a good way #climateaction #hope & everyday chats
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Tune into @rteradio1.bsky.social at 6.35pm today to hear Prof Conor Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie and Dr Ruth Quinn @atu-ie.bsky.social discuss the growing impact of climate change on Ireland’s weather patterns.
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tune into @rteradio1.bsky.social at 6.35pm today to hear Prof Conor Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie and Dr Ruth Quinn @atu-ie.bsky.social discuss the growing impact of climate change on Ireland’s weather patterns.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Doesn't have to be this way. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Doesn't have to be this way. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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“We've gone beyond living in a tragedy. We're complicit in it".
Western complicity in Israel’s mass extermination campaign against civilian population of Palestine is a crime we will never be forgiven for.
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Western complicity in Israel’s mass extermination campaign against civilian population of Palestine is a crime we will never be forgiven for.
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Aid will be too late when famine hits Gaza, warns UNICEF
Famine is so close in Gaza that when it does hit it will be too late for aid to arrive and there will be mass death, UNICEF's Global spokesperson James Elder has warned.
www.rte.ie
June 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
“We've gone beyond living in a tragedy. We're complicit in it".
Western complicity in Israel’s mass extermination campaign against civilian population of Palestine is a crime we will never be forgiven for.
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Western complicity in Israel’s mass extermination campaign against civilian population of Palestine is a crime we will never be forgiven for.
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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The World Health Organization's emergencies director Mike Ryan said the situation was an "abomination".
"We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza"
All States must act now to stop this.
This atrocity must end.
"We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza"
All States must act now to stop this.
This atrocity must end.
Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described scenes of starving children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of total collapse".
Gaza aid work on verge of collapse, UN and Red Cross warn
Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described horrific scenes of starving, bloodied children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of tot...
www.rte.ie
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The World Health Organization's emergencies director Mike Ryan said the situation was an "abomination".
"We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza"
All States must act now to stop this.
This atrocity must end.
"We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza"
All States must act now to stop this.
This atrocity must end.
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters
A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.
www.bloomberg.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much.
The real #TwoTierPolicing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
The real #TwoTierPolicing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Hundreds of tractors block Westminster
Farmers from across the UK protesting in London against changes to inheritance tax.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much.
The real #TwoTierPolicing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
The real #TwoTierPolicing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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The UK Met Office high resolution model is showing some of the strongest gusts forecast. We are looking a historic storm tonight and tomorrow with a lot of impacts. Please take care and prepare for power outages, charge all your battery devices and if you have a private water supply fill bath.
January 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The UK Met Office high resolution model is showing some of the strongest gusts forecast. We are looking a historic storm tonight and tomorrow with a lot of impacts. Please take care and prepare for power outages, charge all your battery devices and if you have a private water supply fill bath.
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Step 1 in recovery after an urban wildfire is extremely complex debris removal. Great reporting from the @nytimes.com : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
Once the Fires Are Out, California Must Remove Tons of Dangerous Debris (Gift Article)
Clearing the toxic remnants of burned buildings around Los Angeles will require a complex and expensive mobilization. California has been there before.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Step 1 in recovery after an urban wildfire is extremely complex debris removal. Great reporting from the @nytimes.com : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
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New year, new job?
The UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security is looking for a Lead for our Climate and Health Assessment Team.
£68-82k permanent role. Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time all considered. Deadline 14th Jan.
The UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security is looking for a Lead for our Climate and Health Assessment Team.
£68-82k permanent role. Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time all considered. Deadline 14th Jan.
Climate Health Assessment Team (CHAT) Lead - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK
Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service
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January 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
New year, new job?
The UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security is looking for a Lead for our Climate and Health Assessment Team.
£68-82k permanent role. Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time all considered. Deadline 14th Jan.
The UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security is looking for a Lead for our Climate and Health Assessment Team.
£68-82k permanent role. Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time all considered. Deadline 14th Jan.
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The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day on record this decade — even with modest levels of global warming. Scientists raise the alarm in a study published in Nature Communications.
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The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030 - Nature Communications
The first day with no sea ice in the Arctic will be a visible sign of climate change. This work reveals that this could occur before 2030 already and becomes more likely as the world warms. As the ice...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:15 PM
The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day on record this decade — even with modest levels of global warming. Scientists raise the alarm in a study published in Nature Communications.
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