Emer Rice

TCD & CoE alumnus
Citizen of Planet Earth
We are in a climate crisis 🌎

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@Luas @scorched791 I’m in Belgard now. Waiting a long time and a luas just arrived with the real time info saying it would go to Connolly and then it just terminated. Can you please explain???

[Irish Doctors for the Environment @IrishDocsEnv]

Ireland's transport emissions continue to rise...

We urgently need to change the trajectory and one of the quickest and most efficient things we can do, is to get people cycling.

We need to make cycling safer in Ireland, starting tomorrow!

#ActiveTransport

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@Luas @BallyerSteve Okay, thanks - so what happened to all the other teams that should have arrived in that 40 minute period?

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@Luas @BallyerSteve 35 minutes now… how often are they supposed to arrive?

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@Luas @BallyerSteve What a joke, there’s been no luas leave Tallaght for the last 25 minutes and counting… and you say the service is operating without delays…

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Global temperatures in 2023 are extraordinary.

The various different datasets available all agree on this. We are breaking records by shocking amounts.

Graphic by @micefearboggis

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

Progress! Plan proposes most radical restriction of private traffic in Dublin city for decades https://t.co/hgz0vezvym

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@xmethuselahx @dumbstrfyr @GlobalEcoGuy You’re very silly

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

As climate-related damages hit, remember that this crisis is not due to generic "human activity". Excess emissions are due overwhelmingly to the core states of the global North, and the ruling classes that control the systems of production, energy and national legislation.

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

45% of cultivated crops (purple) are used to either make CO2-emitting fuel or feed methane-producing, water-consuming farmed animals for meat production. As crops fail and food demand grows, this percentage will need to drop dramatically. Humans can eat lentils. #climatecrisis

[EU Defence and Space @defis_eu]

#ImageOfTheDay

A #heatwave is ongoing in Europe ♨️

➡️Many records 🌡️ have been broken in Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany and #Spain

⬇️As measured by #Sentinel3 🇪🇺🛰️, on 11 July the Land Surface Temperature exceeded 60°C in Extremadura 🇪🇸

#OlaDeCalor

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

Visualisation from @TheEconomist on just how completely unprecedented & extraordinary the new all-time global heat records are.

Where they go next remains to be seen, but with #ElNino kicking in later this year, it’s hard to imagine what’s in the pipeline

[CliMatt (Matthew Shribman) @MatthewShribman]

“Liveable future crisis”

Millions of us are already being displaced from increasingly unliveable places.

Famine, heatwaves, flooding and intensifying diseases are already the reality.

People’s children will die from this crisis. People alive today will die from this crisis.

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@rtenews Isn’t the news here that El Niño is hitting in what is a warmer planet? Why do you not contextualise this report with reference to the combined impact of El Niño plus the impacts of climate change?

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

My new favourite climate graphic

From Jane Morton @SafeClimate's excellent free booklet 'Don't Mention the Emergency?'

[Emer Rice @emergerrard]

@drivetimerte more of @HoranBex please! So refreshing to hear someone say it as it is.

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

This is absolutely bananas.

There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable.

But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages?

Nope.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

One of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth has developed off the coast of Ireland and the UK, with water temperatures as high as 4-5°C above normal.

NOAA's Marine Heatwave Watch has categorized this event as a Category 4 (extreme) marine heatwave.

[Susan Clements @SusanCl74099101]

@EliotJacobson In the Financial Times today