ESB installs Ireland's first giant green batteries in Cork Harbour to store wind power.“We have to take every measure possible.” Read More Related Articles “Financing and directing subsidies into fossil industries and methods that are accelerating climate change is a real problem that if we want to do something really powerful in terms of turning the tide on climate then we have to make sure we redirect these subsidies, particularly the ones that have gone into fossil fuels, into the clean wind, solar energy and clean mechanisms that generate the energy we need. “There’s a further €1.6bn supporting other potentially environmentally damaging activities for example subsidizing areas in agriculture and transport. She added: “In Ireland €2.5bn go to indirect subsidies and preferential tax treatment to support fossil fuel activities in Ireland. Green Party MEP Grace O’Sullivan says the public need to understand “there will be a price to pay” for climate change.
Irish Water warned customers yesterday (MON) that low reservoirs in Donegal and Kildare were causing supply issues, while restrictions were placed on areas of Galway, Waterford, and Cork. “We need to use protective measures to ensure cities are not vulnerable to increased water supplies in a situation where there will be a lot of competition from commercial supply and agriculture.” “In Belfast, there is a great reliance on one reservoir as well. “We have a winter problem and in summer the drier conditions will mean we will likely have water supply problems in the eastern part of the island in cities like Belfast, Dublin, and Cork. “It’s not in any doubt anymore and they are becoming more severe.”įor Ireland, he says it means “heavier rain and more intense downpours” in winter. They suggest extreme events are between 10 and 100 times more likely as a consequence of what we’ve put into the atmosphere. “We can run them with greenhouse gas loadings in the atmosphere which reflect pre-industrial periods and greenhouse gas loadings that reflect the current levels. “One is called attribution where we can run climate models, not once but several hundred times in the same period. “But there have been very significant advances in climate science in the last few years. “In the past, I would have had to adopt the standard answer of saying we can’t attribute an individual extreme, be it heat, be it cold to climate change because it hadn’t occurred in the past and was hard to say. It’s something that’s been forecast for a long time. “This is not unexpected for climate people. “We are seeing these kinds of events more frequently and in a more severe fashion than we did before,” he added. Prof John Sweeney, climate expert at Maynooth MU
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