Ireland and the climate crisis - Change tune on global warming

While virtue-signalling legislators can declare as many climate change emergencies as they fancy, the practicalities of achieving substantial reductions in the use of the fossil fuels on which advanced economies currently rely cannot be under-estimated.

Donald Trump is ticked off by our president for his “regressive and pernicious” decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement, and the former US secretary of state John Kerry, speaking in Cork, complains that presidents and prime ministers are not only avoiding the truth about the threat but also attempting to alter it “through thousands of lies”.