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How Will Climate Change Affect You? Climate change is the biggest threat to the world today. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are already creating havoc in parts of the world. The issue has been hotly debated by experts and policy-makers; it is now widely accepted that human activity has played a crucial part in climate change. Nobody now denies the urgency of the situation. But how will climate change affect Ireland? What do we know about climate change? What is happening now? What will happen in the future, and what can we do about it? RTÉ's Environment Correspondent Paul Cunningham takes us on a tour of Ireland, meeting people whose lives and livelihoods have already been affected or will be affected in the future farmers whose lands have been flooded and who find their crops threatened by unseasonal weather; coastal residents whose homes are in danger of collapsing into the sea; and ordinary parents whose children will bear the cost of our actions today. He also speaks to Ireland's leading weather and climate experts and campaigners, who paint a realistic picture of what lies in store for us over the coming decades; businesses whose responsibility for leading change is as big as their carbon imprints; and Environment Ministers, former and current, Noel Dempsey and John Gormley. Cunningham looks at the proven facts and the various scenarios that may be played out. Finally, the author sums up what we can do to prevent disaster on a local and global scale. Ireland's Burning is a highly readable, accessible book that addresses an issue that is not going to go away.
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The book is subtitled `How climate change will affect you' and I was expecting a detailed exposition of the likely effects of climate change on Irish weather systems, agriculture, transport etc. We get a little of this, but only a few pages amidst the 318: predictions of storms in the Shannon estuary, the effect of drought upon beef and potato production, sea rises along the Wexford coast and the appearance of trigger fish in Irish coastal waters. In fact the book is virtually entirely made up of interviews with Irish people directly or indirectly connected with the issue of climate change. These include the theologian Sean McDonagh and Green politician John Gormley and a host of people vaguely connected with `green' initiatives - eco-tourism, bio-fuels etc as well as those with a more tangential relationship to the issue - a Dublin commuter, potato farmer and contrarian columnist Kevin Myers. It's all rather discursive and laid-back with not much in the way of narrative voice - little connection is made between points made in the different interviews - and it has a rather Sunday-supplementish feel, but Cunningham is more skilled than he shows, and the scientists in particular are given the opportunity to make interesting and vitally important points. The target readership for the book, I assume, is the concerned but under-informed Irish citizen and this book should do a useful job in helping to sort out reality from the sceptics' conspiratorial myths.
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Given the rainfall in Ireland for the past two summers it would have perhaps been more accurate to title this book Ireland's Drowning. This book has little to offer in the way of scientific rigour. Its basis for the AGW argument appears to be that a local weather forecaster and minor celebrity , Ger Flemming, states that the computer models and software they use to provide daily forecasts from the MET service in Ireland are now reliable. The basic premise is that these same models demonstrate that the climate is overheating fast and confirm global warming! Anyone living in Ireland will be startled to learn that the Met service can forecast the weather for the next day , never mind in 50 years time. More unbalanced scaremongering.
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