Leeforum
@leeforum.bsky.social
A group researching flooding and flooding solutions in Cork, Ireland.
www.leeforum.org
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Bloomberg News: "Meanwhile, Ireland’s Central Bank found that the physical fallout of climate change is feeding through to borrowing costs across sectors ..."
January 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Bloomberg News: "Meanwhile, Ireland’s Central Bank found that the physical fallout of climate change is feeding through to borrowing costs across sectors ..."
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Construction generates between 10 and 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but cities can slash their climate impact by designing buildings in a more efficient way
We must completely change the way we build homes to stay below 2°C
Construction generates between 10 and 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but cities can slash their climate impact by designing buildings in a more efficient way
www.newscientist.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Construction generates between 10 and 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but cities can slash their climate impact by designing buildings in a more efficient way
Our anti environment government strikes again.
Solar PV grants wound down.
m.independent.ie/regionals/co...
Solar PV grants wound down.
m.independent.ie/regionals/co...
Strong feeling in Cork over winding down of solar-panel scheme – ‘they should be increasing it’
The state grant to help people meet the cost of installing solar panels on the roofs of their homes should be increased and not decreased and phased out as is currently planned, a Fermoy councillor ha...
m.independent.ie
January 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Our anti environment government strikes again.
Solar PV grants wound down.
m.independent.ie/regionals/co...
Solar PV grants wound down.
m.independent.ie/regionals/co...
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The sooner-than-expected impacts of climate change could cost the world trillions of dollars. A report warns that we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming, which could damage economic growth.
Sooner-than-expected climate impacts could cost the world trillions
A report warns that we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming, which could damage economic growth
www.newscientist.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
The sooner-than-expected impacts of climate change could cost the world trillions of dollars. A report warns that we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming, which could damage economic growth.
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The AMOC isn’t just losing speed but also becoming less effective at its job of moving heat. This "suggests the decline may not be a gentle, predictable slope, but an accelerating curve, with climate consequences that could arrive faster and with greater force than previous models suggested."
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The AMOC is getting shallower—a process called "shoaling". Our new paper in Geophysical Research Letters explores why the depth of the overturning matters just as much as its strength for North Atlantic heat transport: 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/01/14/a...
A Stalling Engine: How “Shoaling” of the Ocean’s Conveyor Belt Accelerates the Decline of Ocean Heat Transport
This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Future Shoaling of the AMOC and Its Impact on Oceanic Heat Transport to the Subpolar North Atlantic” by Lee et al. (…
ocean2climate.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
The AMOC isn’t just losing speed but also becoming less effective at its job of moving heat. This "suggests the decline may not be a gentle, predictable slope, but an accelerating curve, with climate consequences that could arrive faster and with greater force than previous models suggested."
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🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM
🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
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The Government is seeking to dramatically erode public right of access to justice via courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on those challenging unlawful planning or policy.
Today is the last day for making submissions, please have your voice heard.
www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
Today is the last day for making submissions, please have your voice heard.
www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
January 15, 2026 at 10:34 AM
The Government is seeking to dramatically erode public right of access to justice via courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on those challenging unlawful planning or policy.
Today is the last day for making submissions, please have your voice heard.
www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
Today is the last day for making submissions, please have your voice heard.
www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
Everything that's wrong with Ireland in one screenshot.
January 15, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Everything that's wrong with Ireland in one screenshot.
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2025 global climate highlights are out:
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record
See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record
See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:34 AM
2025 global climate highlights are out:
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record
See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record
See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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The current government want to make Judicial Reviews probhibitively expensive for environmental cases.
This is fundamentally undemocratic, unconstitutional and unlawful.
It will put access to justice out of reach for many.
email [email protected] with your submission before 5.30pm 15th Jan.
This is fundamentally undemocratic, unconstitutional and unlawful.
It will put access to justice out of reach for many.
email [email protected] with your submission before 5.30pm 15th Jan.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The current government want to make Judicial Reviews probhibitively expensive for environmental cases.
This is fundamentally undemocratic, unconstitutional and unlawful.
It will put access to justice out of reach for many.
email [email protected] with your submission before 5.30pm 15th Jan.
This is fundamentally undemocratic, unconstitutional and unlawful.
It will put access to justice out of reach for many.
email [email protected] with your submission before 5.30pm 15th Jan.
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This is complete madness.
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke will this morning bring a major plan to build more data centres across the country to Cabinet for sign off.
jrnl.ie/6924426t
jrnl.ie/6924426t
Cabinet to sign off on plan to build more data centres across country
Electricity demand from data centres has grown from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 22% in 2024.
jrnl.ie
January 13, 2026 at 7:30 AM
This is complete madness.
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
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So often, a judicial review has been the only way communities can defend their local ecosystems, like the wild native kelp forests in Bantry Bay, West Cork.
Now the government wants to put that avenue out of reach.
Please tell them you're totally against this disgraceful step.
Now the government wants to put that avenue out of reach.
Please tell them you're totally against this disgraceful step.
Have your say by January 15 deadline.
In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair.
For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
#environmentaljustice
In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair.
For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
#environmentaljustice
An Taisce urges public to object to ‘unlawful’ caps on judicial review fees
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
So often, a judicial review has been the only way communities can defend their local ecosystems, like the wild native kelp forests in Bantry Bay, West Cork.
Now the government wants to put that avenue out of reach.
Please tell them you're totally against this disgraceful step.
Now the government wants to put that avenue out of reach.
Please tell them you're totally against this disgraceful step.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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#ClimateEmergency
"Hotter oceans contribute to rising sea levels, disrupt fragile marine ecosystems and fuel extreme weather."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocea...
"Hotter oceans contribute to rising sea levels, disrupt fragile marine ecosystems and fuel extreme weather."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocea...
Ocean Temperatures Just Hit a Dire New Record
The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record
www.scientificamerican.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
#ClimateEmergency
"Hotter oceans contribute to rising sea levels, disrupt fragile marine ecosystems and fuel extreme weather."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocea...
"Hotter oceans contribute to rising sea levels, disrupt fragile marine ecosystems and fuel extreme weather."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocea...
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An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies. Is this the tool we need to effectively prosecute the world’s biggest carbon emitters?
The secret weapon that could finally force climate action
An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies. Is this the tool we need to effectively prosecute the world’s biggest carbon emitters?
www.newscientist.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies. Is this the tool we need to effectively prosecute the world’s biggest carbon emitters?
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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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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
The world is on course for a 2.6°C increase.
' that means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa'
Sea level rise will only be a secondary concern after this.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
' that means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa'
Sea level rise will only be a secondary concern after this.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The world is on course for a 2.6°C increase.
' that means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa'
Sea level rise will only be a secondary concern after this.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
' that means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa'
Sea level rise will only be a secondary concern after this.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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✓ Increasingly expensive disaster costs
✓ Higher reinsurance pricing (insurance for insurers)
✓ Insurers reassess their portfolio exposure / raise premiums
✓ Replacement costs rise
✓ More people move to high-risk areas
✓ Home values decline
...and more.
The link? Growing risks from climate change.
✓ Higher reinsurance pricing (insurance for insurers)
✓ Insurers reassess their portfolio exposure / raise premiums
✓ Replacement costs rise
✓ More people move to high-risk areas
✓ Home values decline
...and more.
The link? Growing risks from climate change.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices. n.pr/47QGKwH
It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
n.pr
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
✓ Increasingly expensive disaster costs
✓ Higher reinsurance pricing (insurance for insurers)
✓ Insurers reassess their portfolio exposure / raise premiums
✓ Replacement costs rise
✓ More people move to high-risk areas
✓ Home values decline
...and more.
The link? Growing risks from climate change.
✓ Higher reinsurance pricing (insurance for insurers)
✓ Insurers reassess their portfolio exposure / raise premiums
✓ Replacement costs rise
✓ More people move to high-risk areas
✓ Home values decline
...and more.
The link? Growing risks from climate change.
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File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
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grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.'
Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
grist.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
Tidal barrier anyone?
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
Antarctic glacier's alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
www.newscientist.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Tidal barrier anyone?
My nearest and dearest asked 'what's Bluesky?'
'Antifa Twitter' I said
'Antifa Twitter' I said
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My nearest and dearest asked 'what's Bluesky?'
'Antifa Twitter' I said
'Antifa Twitter' I said