Ireland’s recent flooding is only a taste of things to come. Few towns in Ireland even have a flood defence scheme, much less a system of levees. One challenge facing Ireland by the year 2050 is the persistent risk of rainfall. Increased rainfall brings with it an increased risk of floods, as well as storms [...]
Also tagged Celbridge, Cork, Earth Sciences, Flood, Hurricane Charlie, Ireland, Natural Disasters and HazardsI’m getting a lot of email about this today, so to save time, here are some of the points I made on Today FM’s Sunday Business Show. Before reading my points below, please read this, this, and maybe even buy this.
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Published in The Dubliner.
Not changed utterly. Things will change in Dublin, but they will not change utterly. Dublin in 1970 was similar to Dublin in 2009, and Dublin in 2050 will be outwardly similar. The intervening days between today and 2050 – about 15,000 of them – offer us the opportunity [...]
Published in the Sunday Independent. and on the 2050 blog.
THE decisions you take in the coming days, weeks and years will affect the choices that your children will be able to make when they become adults and take up the reins of Irish society in the coming decades. So the answers you give to the [...]
Take a look at the data below, which comes from this recently released CO2 emissions report by the CSO. (You can get the data I used to make the chart here).
I’ve taken the largest emitters of CO2 by sector, and graphed them. The data pull out an interesting story. We see a mitigation of the [...]
A barrage of emails has me thinking about climate change in Ireland, what we can expect, and more importantly, what we might do about it right now. And I’m not thinking about recycling. I’m thinking about policy responses centered around forward planning, a sort of flanking move on the most likely effects of climate [...]
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