Peter Thorne: World can stabilise global warming within lifetime of today's junior infants

Prof. Thorne said the alternative to reducing emissions "is a climate system that continues to get worse and worse".

The world can stabilise global warming within the lifetime of today’s junior infants, and Ireland must lead by breaking its "fossil fuel addiction", instead of waiting for other countries to do so.

That is according to one of Ireland’s leading climate change scientists, who was reacting to the World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO) stark findings that a range of climate change indicators had broken records in 2021.