Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
With deep regrets, as the publisher of irish environment online magazine, I announce the permanent suspension of the publication of the magazine, a one-person …
Not likely going to get commitments in Paris for steady post-2030 cuts that ultimately lead to 2 degrees C. But not all is lost.
1 Apr 2015Idea of ‘fixing’ the climate by hacking the Earth’s reflection of sunlight is wildly, utterly, howlingly barking mad
1 Mar 2015On how the TTIP is attempting to remove regulatory ‘barriers’ which restrict the potential profits to be made by transnational corporations on both sides of the Atlantic
1 Feb 2015On the failures of Northern Ireland planning and oversight enforcement for development activities on Lough Neagh
1 Jan 2015On the EU 2030 climate and energy targets, or lack thereof, and impact on island of Ireland
30 Nov 2014On the encouraging implications of the recent People’s Climate March for a climate movement
1 Nov 2014On the author’s Wild Ireland Tour by bike to highlight island’s biodiversity
1 Oct 2014On need to wean ourselves of fossil fuel energy and ‘transition’ to cleaner energy with more sustainable resources owned by the community
1 Sep 2014UK Supreme Court holds underground encroachment by gas extraction companies is an actionable trespass and the landowner is entitled to compensation for the intrusion onto his land
1 Aug 2014A new report recommends Ireland take a greater share of gas and oil contracts, although ownership of the natural resources will remain with license holders.
1 Jul 2014An environmental crime on an unprecedented scale, one of the largest illegal landfill sites ever uncovered in Europe, in Derry.
1 Jun 2014Gas drilling facilities have sporadic emission spikes that spew toxins harmful to human health, but states rarely monitor these fleeting events
1 May 2014Ireland’s premier current affairs programme’s failed attempt to cover climate change
1 Apr 2014Likely that the EU’s third ever GM crop will be approved for cultivation amid consternation and controversy before the next planting season
1 Mar 2014Problems and disappointments with EU 2030 climate and energy proposals
1 Feb 2014Using metaphors to explain climate change
1 Jan 2014On the implications of the recent global climate talks for Ireland’s obligations to reduce GHG emissions
1 Dec 2013On sea lice and salmon,the Irish Government’s actions, an EU investigation, and charges of maladministration
1 Nov 2013On solar’s role in Germany’s goal of receiving 80 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2050
1 Oct 2013On the implications of the Irish government’s failure to include targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions in its Climate Bill
1 Sep 2013Controversial German lobbying tactics delay EU’s car emissions reduction measure
1 Aug 2013F-gases are super greenhouse gases, hundreds or thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide.
29 Jun 2013Actual warming this century on our current emissions path is all but certain to be catastrophic, even if equilibrium climate sensitivity is closer to 2°C than 3°C or more
1 Jun 2013In a move that may sound the final death knell for the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS
1 May 2013