Ireland must face up to challenging climate change forecast
WE won’t be able to grow potatoes, will have to put a different type of tarmac on our roads, learn to be clever with water use and find a way to stop our railway tracks buckling as the summer landscape begins to resemble southern Spain.
These are just a few of the problems Ireland will face in the next 100 years as global warming takes hold, according to senior climate adaptation scientist Barry O’Dwyer, who, like others, is trying to mitigate against what’s likely to come down the tracks.
