Cormac Madden
@cormacmadden.bsky.social
Climate crisis and full spectrum sustainability in organisations. Electrification. Climate action in Ireland.
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A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse
A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...
www.sciencedaily.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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House Republicans plan to rescind billions of dollars conferred by the Inflation Reduction Act to fund a portion of Trump's tax package, issued by a key house committee on May 11. This includes $400 billion in loans to help industries lower greenhouse gas emissions.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US House to Claw Back Biden’s Climate Law to Fund Trump Tax Cuts
US House Republicans plan to help pay for an extension of President Donald Trump’s massive tax cuts by clawing back unused funds from scores of programs and grants in his predecessor’s signature clima...
www.bloomberg.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
House Republicans plan to rescind billions of dollars conferred by the Inflation Reduction Act to fund a portion of Trump's tax package, issued by a key house committee on May 11. This includes $400 billion in loans to help industries lower greenhouse gas emissions.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Una Mullally: Michael Healy-Rae’s trees-on-peatland plan is environmental vandalism
Una Mullally: Michael Healy-Rae’s trees-on-peatland plan is environmental vandalism
The Minister of State displays an alarming lack of knowledge of part of his brief
www.irishtimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Una Mullally: Michael Healy-Rae’s trees-on-peatland plan is environmental vandalism
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Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this.
This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.
This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this.
This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.
This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.
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Inspired by this illuminating chart, I made one based on Irish data as well. The correlation (and let's be real, causation) between gas prices and electricity prices cannot be clearer.
March 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Inspired by this illuminating chart, I made one based on Irish data as well. The correlation (and let's be real, causation) between gas prices and electricity prices cannot be clearer.
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"Essentially what this boils down to is that we have to continue polluting and destroying the environment in order to save it."
A razor-sharp climate reality op-ed by Karen Ciesielski, precisely skewering the pathetic greenwashing of so many business leaders.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A razor-sharp climate reality op-ed by Karen Ciesielski, precisely skewering the pathetic greenwashing of so many business leaders.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Destroying the planet to save it — what could possibly go wrong?
Environmentalists, unlike business advocates, can see too clearly how the world works and are willing to call it out
www.irishtimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 11:36 AM
"Essentially what this boils down to is that we have to continue polluting and destroying the environment in order to save it."
A razor-sharp climate reality op-ed by Karen Ciesielski, precisely skewering the pathetic greenwashing of so many business leaders.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A razor-sharp climate reality op-ed by Karen Ciesielski, precisely skewering the pathetic greenwashing of so many business leaders.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Harmful man-made chemicals pervade our environment and our bodies. This is the third great global environmental issue after climate and biodiversity. The EU has not delivered on promises to protect EU citizens. Until now.
Please consider supporting this campaign.
action.wemove.eu/letter/2024-...
Please consider supporting this campaign.
action.wemove.eu/letter/2024-...
Write to your leaders for a forever chemicals ban!
Please write an email to the European Commission and your national environment minister, who will be discussing chemicals action next week. We have left the email box to the right blank for you to wri...
action.wemove.eu
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Harmful man-made chemicals pervade our environment and our bodies. This is the third great global environmental issue after climate and biodiversity. The EU has not delivered on promises to protect EU citizens. Until now.
Please consider supporting this campaign.
action.wemove.eu/letter/2024-...
Please consider supporting this campaign.
action.wemove.eu/letter/2024-...
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New research shows that electrifying US appliances would dramatically improve *outdoor* air quality, to the tune of about $40 billion in health benefits per year. www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...
Breathe easy | Rewiring America
Household electrification as a public health intervention to improve outdoor air quality.
www.rewiringamerica.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:21 PM
New research shows that electrifying US appliances would dramatically improve *outdoor* air quality, to the tune of about $40 billion in health benefits per year. www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...
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If you love south Dublin beaches & walking the coast to Wicklow you have 2 days left to make a submission to the Consultation on the railway protection plans that will change them forever. #ECRIPP
[The railway has to move inland, these works won't save it for long.]
www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-...
[The railway has to move inland, these works won't save it for long.]
www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-...
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 AM
If you love south Dublin beaches & walking the coast to Wicklow you have 2 days left to make a submission to the Consultation on the railway protection plans that will change them forever. #ECRIPP
[The railway has to move inland, these works won't save it for long.]
www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-...
[The railway has to move inland, these works won't save it for long.]
www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-...
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Renewable energy only fights climate change when it displaces energy created through burning coal, oil and gas.
Increased energy demand in Ireland is almost entirely driven by data centres, so even though there are more renewables coal, oil and gas are still being burnt to meet increased demand.
Increased energy demand in Ireland is almost entirely driven by data centres, so even though there are more renewables coal, oil and gas are still being burnt to meet increased demand.
Electrification is Ireland’s missing climate link
Electrification is the bridge between Ireland’s renewable energy potential and its climate commitments
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Renewable energy only fights climate change when it displaces energy created through burning coal, oil and gas.
Increased energy demand in Ireland is almost entirely driven by data centres, so even though there are more renewables coal, oil and gas are still being burnt to meet increased demand.
Increased energy demand in Ireland is almost entirely driven by data centres, so even though there are more renewables coal, oil and gas are still being burnt to meet increased demand.