Irish Examiner View: Ignorance undermining fight against climate change

President Trump's dismissal of the science that defines global warming is an example of his and his supporters' wilful and dangerous ignorance.

Anyone, or at least most of those who watched David Attenborough's Extinction: The Facts on Sunday evening may not have had the kind of night's sleep necessary to put a Monday-morning bounce in their step. Photo: Sam Barker

Anyone, or at least most of those who watched David Attenborough's Extinction: The Facts on Sunday evening may not have had the kind of night's sleep necessary to put a Monday-morning bounce in their step. 

It did not inspire optimism, rather the opposite, especially for parents of young children. The programme was so darkly dystopian that the events he, and myriad academics, described almost requires a new kind of vocabulary even if only to capture the sense of helplessness many feel as this planet is ravaged.