We need to look at the academic/professional qualifications of out senior civil & public service managers & ask do they have sufficient scientific understanding of what’s at stake?
As for the bulk of our politicians!

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Canal tents 'not sustainable' as asylum seekers relocated.
Really dreadful to see good tents trashed in this operation using a construction spoil truck with grab & metal barricades installed along the canal banks. rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Sir Ed Hillary Checking Tenzing Norgay's oxygen equipment, before leaving Camp IV, 25.05.1953. 'Friends are as important as achievement, ..teamwork is the one key to success & that selfishness only makes man small. ' — Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.

Photo ©: Royal Geographical Society.

The deadline for our #ReachForTheStars astrophotography competition has been extended to May 17th meaning there's even more time to enter! 🌟
With a forecast for visible aurora over Ireland this weekend we hope to see some great snaps of the phenomenon 📸 #DIASDiscovers

There is a significant gap between Irish people's attitudes to climate change (typically they are worried about it and think it requires action) and their understanding of its causes, particularly from their own actions.

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Cyclists who kill or injure pedestrians face harsher prison sentences in proposed UK law change. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/0…

The Attracta Beauty Awards announce the brands who reached the Finalists stage of the competition for ABA24 #beautyawards #Skin #beautyproducts

An amazing, unintentional “achievement” of the public health measures during the #Covid19 #pandemic : We’ve eradicated by accident one of the four #influenza strains in humans: Yamagata lineage B. Bottom line: We do have tools to control respiratory viruses!

Globally April 2024 was the warmest April on record and the 11th consecutive month with record high mean temperatures #CopernicusClimate 👇
➡️1.58°C warmer than the estimate pre-industrial April mean temperature
➡️13th consecutive month with record high global sea surface temps👇

When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now. buff.ly/4dtDgT4

Another month setting a new record for global sea surface temperature... this time for April

Graphic using NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/d…). Methods detailed in doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D….

The longer the H5N1 situation goes on and seeing the reluctance on surveillance and control of the new mammal reservoir, the more convinced I am that we will face a problematic situation with this virus. It’s a question of time. There’s a window of opportunity but it’s not seized

The average number of extreme heat days—often measured as days with temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit—continues to rise each decade.

This heat has real consequences for human health, and equally real—but sometimes subtle—economic costs. brookings.edu/articles/ameri…

More data on patients dying from hospital acquired COVID infections

Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0… via ABC Australia

Decades ago in department of transport a policy maker made the decision that freight in #Ireland should be handled by road transit. That decision & the requirement to have connectivity for regional jobs development then led inexorably to motorways.