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THE Royal Irish Academy’s Committee on Climate Change has added its voice to the growing number of organisations predicting more extreme weather, more floods, more landslides, more rain and the extinction of 20% of native Irish plant species.

If that was not enough the academy also predicts that 40% of Irish peatlands could be lost by 2075.

Earlier this week, we were warned that an outbreak of the bluetongue virus that affects cattle and sheep may occur if temperatures continue to rise.