Ignoring climate change: Heatwave exposes our vulnerability

A great white shark may not have been seen in Kerry or Cork, offshore at least, in recent days but one was recorded in Spanish waters.

A 5m-long great white was recorded near the Balearic Island of Cabrera, south of Mallorca for the first time in 30 years. The arrival of a great white shark at a resort, no matter how magnificent an animal it may be, is not the kind of added attraction a seaside town might hope for. Peter Benchley’s Satan fish in Jaws holds too powerful, too visceral a grip on our imagination. Whether that fish reached Cabrera because of warming waters, one of the consequences of climate change, is an open question but it seems a reasonable first thought.