Irish Examiner view: Climate change is here. Politicians have to work together to combat it

The spat between Coalition TDs highlights an alarming gap within the Irish Government on the issue of carbon emissions

We are already seeing the devastating effects of climate change, so the haggling over emissions reduction targets must end.

The attack this week by Kerry Fine Gael TD Brendan Griffin on Climate Minister Eamon Ryan, which included a suggestion that Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) be banned from the minister’s south Dublin constituency was as amusing as it was alarming.

The SUV, of course, is the vehicle of choice of a collective for whom the issues surrounding climate change are probably the least of their daily concerns.