Storm Éowyn and the cost of muddled climate messaging 

RTÉ’s recent articles seem to go out of their way to disassociate climate change from Storm Éowyn without sufficient evidence to do so

Extreme weather events provide a window to the future, giving us a sense of what we may experience and need to adapt to if we fail to reduce emissions fast enough and the motivation to take action and reduce emissions before it’s too late.  Picture: Met Éireann

Record-breaking fires in California, record-breaking temperatures across the globe, and now record-breaking winds in Ireland — it’s impossible not to wonder why so many records are being broken, yet RTÉ has published not one, but two articles to tell us "there will be a great temptation to see [Storm Éowyn] as more evidence of climate change in action. But even the climate scientists themselves admit that is not the case".

I’m a scientist, and I admit that I’m disheartened by RTÉ.