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Rebecca Fisher
06/06/2024
Eamon Ryan has branded the surging rate of global temperatures ‘truly frightening.’ This week, the EU’s Copernicus Programme concluded May 2024 was the warmest in recorded history. Speaking on the growing trend, the Green Party leader stressed the rapid progression of climate change globally. ‘Last month was the twelfth [hottest] month in a row globally – which was a record,’ Minister Ryan toldNewstalk Breakfast. ‘There’s never been a warmer May, there’s never been a warmer April, never been a warmer March and we are in the last 12 months over 1.5°C.’ ‘The concern scientists have is that by going over that limit, you risk some tipping points where you start to get runaway climate change,’ Minister Ryan added. ‘In other words, maybe the ice sheets reduce in a way that allows further heat to be reflected off and that begins a feedback loop that you can’t stop.’ Under its Climate Action Plan, the Irish Government issaid to be committed to halving our carbon emissions by the end of the decade. ‘We need to adapt and I went to Government yesterday and we had a framework on how we adapt,’ he said.‘Some of the investments we need to make, we’ll be adapting to climate change that is coming inevitably and we can’t stop.’ ‘One of the ways we can do it – in my mind and I was arguing this in Cabinet yesterday – is that we can do a lot of what we call nature-based solutions.’ Today's top videos
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