Environment & Science Editor with @IrishTimes; special interest in climate crisis, renewables, SDGs and sustainable food. Co-author of Supergrid Super Solution
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Ending Ireland's dependence on gas and oil is proving painfully slow
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🚨 NEW | Electric cars saved oil-importing countries $20 BILLION in crude oil imports in the six months since the US-Israel war with Iran began ⚡📉
China saved an estimated $14 billion, while EU countries avoided $3.1 billion in oil imports.
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ALT 🚨 NEW | Electric cars saved oil-importing countries $20 BILLION in crude oil imports in the six months since the US-Israel war with Iran began ⚡📉
Kevin O'Sullivan retweeted
Fact-checking trolls, Part 2.
Climate models have accurately predicted global warming and climate science is based on thousands, millions, and even billions of years of paleoclimate data.
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Leaving Cert results day 2026: Follow our live coverage with our education team as students across Ireland receive their grades irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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China has been installing solar power at the rate of 100 panels a second. Its solar capacity is now double that of Europe and America combined.
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Analysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time
✍️ Written by @DrSimEvans
📉 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/Heqn0QC
ALT Number of new EVs and petrol cars sold in the UK, units per 12-month period. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA).
Kevin O'Sullivan retweeted
Data centre electricity demand could exceed entire power usage of Irish Republic - Oireachtas AI committee will hear about environmental impacts & uses for AI
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I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.
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Now the world’s second biggest #rainforest, the #Congo, appears to be emitting #carbon dioxide rather than absorbing it as the world heats up. Just the latest devastating feedback that could accelerate #climate change
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“COP30 was meant to be the COP of ‘Truth and Implementation’ - this failed", says PIK Director @jrockstrom. "We don’t need more negotiations; we need implementation. Within 5–10 years we will breach 1.5°C, entering dangerous terrain for billions.”
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Sierra Club Releases Nearly 1,000 New Emails from Trump’s EPA
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'Sinister, criminal or reckless' Too many questions remain over Blackwater fish kill - concerned groups say inconclusive final report must not be final word on it
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NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡
Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system.
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Kevin O'Sullivan retweeted
Top hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel on the DOE scam climate report:
“The DOE is presenting a distorted view of the science of climate effects on extreme weather that is bound to mislead the public.”
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#STOPKILLINGJOURNALISTS @NUJofficial members gathered tonight in Dublin in solidarity and protest at targeted killing by Israel of @AJENews journalists
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According to a new market report from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), there are now 83 GW of #offshorewind capacity installed globally, with 48 GW more in the construction phase worldwide as of May this year. offshorewind.biz/2025/08/01/…
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IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ | @DrSimEvans
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ALT Global electricity generation by source, terawatt hours, 1990-2026. Figures for 2025 and 2026 are projections. Renewables include wind, solar, hydro, bioenergy and geothermal. Source: IEA electricity mid-year update 2025.
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The ICE Age Ends: How Electric Cars Are Shutting Down Gas Stations & Garages
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Today’s EPA announcement ignores the blindingly obvious reality of the climate crisis and sidelines the EPA’s own scientists and lawyers in favor of the interests and profits of the fossil fuel industry. Weakening safeguards that reduce greenhouse gas pollution will harm American competitiveness in a global economy that is moving away from oil, gas, and coal and will increase the suffering of communities that are overburdened by the dirty co-pollutants caused by burning fossil fuels.