Pádraig Hoare: Climate change deniers are not in retreat
Tánaiste Micheál Martin's contention that "the vast, vast majority of people accept that the climate is changing" betrays a worrying complacency, which sits uncomfortably next to the Government's failing emissions targets.
A man stands ready to fight flames as they engulf a hillside this week in Apollana, Rhodes, Greece. Record-high temperatures have been reported in Europe, as well as widespread wildfires in Greece. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Little over 20 years ago, George W Bush stood on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and declared confidently that major combat operations had ended in Iraq and that the mission had been accomplished.
The invasion of the Middle Eastern country had begun just months earlier, with Iraqi forces no match for the so-called “shock and awe” tactics of American and British military might, which cut through the hapless army like the proverbial knife through butter.
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