Our changing climate - Warnings we can’t ignore

IT is far easier to accept the idea of climate change than it is to imagine how our world might change because of what now seems an irreversible phenomena.

Researchers at Maynooth University have tried to put a shape on our changing world and have predicted that summers will be hotter and drier and that winters will be much stormier and wetter. They also suggest it is time for us to accept this “new normal”, and prepare for the challenges it will bring.

The trends identified are startling in their clarity and the message they convey.