Time to kill lies on climate change — before it kills human life on this planet

What we need in the wake of last week’s floods is for awareness of the climate challenge to be inherent in every Government decision, writes Victoria White.

‘An Inconvenient Truth: warning of more extreme weather as climate change effect hits home’ read the front page headline over this newspaper’s report on the Donegal floods last Thursday.

It was astonishing. Climate change almost never makes headlines in Ireland. A direct connection between a severe climate event and the changing climate is almost never made.