Kevin Brennan

UCD Engineering Grad.
Easily amused.
All views are someone else's.

[Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1]

The recent heat wave in Antarctica was a genuinely terrifying event, with temperatures smashing historical records and not even remotely within the normal bands.

@erikbryn @maggieNYT @MichaelEMann @billmckibben

[Councillor Carolyn Moore @carolynmoore_ie]

I can't stop thinking about this extraordinary intervention from Mary Robinson on the Late Late last week and how no one seems to have heard what she said, including Ryan Tubridy, who brushed off the words 'our children will have no future' like he had a cameo in #DontLookUp.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

30°C above normal in the Arctic today.
40°C above normal in the Antarctic today.
It would be unbelievable if it were not true.
And it is terrifying beyond words.
The war we have waged against the natural world has, in climatic terms, just gone nuclear.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Coal is neither out nor down. It's actually booming.

My latest @bopinion column looking at a huge energy and climate change problem that's not going away simply with nice words | #coal #COP26 #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/XeuGS7bBIE

[Sheds Direct Ireland @ShedsDirectIre]

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This game is stupid. The answer is always SHEDS and I refuse to accept otherwise.

[Joanna O'Malley @Joanna_OMalley]

"Environmental crime is in the top 5 most profitable global criminal enterprises, generating up to almost $300 bn annually. Associated tax revenue losses amount to nearly $30 bn per annum, notably in poorer, environmentally-rich countries."

@F4BInitiative's newest report:

[World of Science @scientists_feed]

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion.
Video credit: The Curiosity Show

[Jay Steen @jjmsteen]

Bought some LED lightbulbs, got an unexpected taste of Brexit deregulation in action

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

If you needed more proof
in https://t.co/gOl6QNfYjN
by @MitchKSmith (during Delta wave)

[Kevin Brennan @kabl3s]

This is incredible and great to see from Bohs, but at the same time deeply upsetting.

[Bohemian Football Club @bfcdublin]

We did it🔴⚫️

Toys, clothes & vouchers for EVERY kid in Direct Provision in Ireland

Bualadh Bos to the thousands who donated to the club @BangBangD7 @PantiBliss others & the dozens of volunteers

To the @TheRDS & club partners @DHLExpressIre who we couldn’t do it without✊🏻

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

The EU Commission posted this on Instagram, but failed to mention that EU policy is to DELIBERATELY BLOCK wider vaccine production globally, so BILLIONS cannot get the vaccine.

This is vile. It’s like taunting people: hey, get a jab, oh right, we made sure you can’t, ha ha!

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

#COP26 has barely started. Activists declaring it dead on arrival makes fossil fuel executives jump for joy. They want to undermine and discredit the very notion of multilateral climate action.

[James Earl @jamesdearl]

If you listen or watch one thing today, Sir David Attenborough’s speech to the COP26 conference has to be it. An outstandingly chilling reminder of why time is ticking. Oh, and at 95 years old, wow.

[Kevin Brennan @kabl3s]

COVID has shown that people are willing to make sacrifices and follow rules, but loathe hypocrisy in guidelines.
Misunderstanding the climate crisis in the media means climate policies will be scoffed at like dancing at a nightclub vs concert regardless of merit.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

We need to have a serious discussion about the climate and ecological emergency. I don't usually watch the TV but I've been watching it for nearly 2 weeks whilst house sitting. It's now crystal clear that there is mass misunderstanding about this crisis.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The Paris Agreement, which commits governments to leave fossil fuels in the ground, is not legally binding.
The Energy Charter Treaty, under which companies can sue governments for leaving fossil fuels in the ground, is legally binding.
Our lives depend on reversing this.

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

A great figure from #IPCC #AR6 integrating historic (@ed_hawkins) & future (@alxrdk) warming stripes.

The most striking element for me is that from today, the temperature only goes up.

We can stop climate change getting worse, but hard to reverse it.

https://t.co/JsLfcuC19m

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

Carbon offset forests burning as a result of wildfires fueled by climate change is so darkly satirical that you'd expect it to be a Black Mirror episode, but it's reality. We can't net-zero our way out of disaster https://t.co/H1MWkP6HW3

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Maynooth University team wins Irish Times Debate final https://t.co/ksDDjhpd5j