The Climate Alarm Clock

A special episode where Darragh has a chat with Irish wildlife expert Éanna Ní Lamhna. The episode was recorded on a very calm day aboard the Ku-ee-tu, moored on Lough Derg just outside of Dromineer, Co. Tipperary. The interview was an event organised by Nenagh Dromineer Literary Festival , and the podcast was recorded with funding from Green Foundation Ireland . Thanks to both organisations for h...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm The team are back together to chat about COP 30 which just finished up in Belem at the mouth of the mighty Amazon. Darragh, Anna and Ciara look at the highlights and lowlights of this year's Conference of the Parties and wonder why 56,000 people needed to be there. Commitment to the Paris Agreement is still hanging on, Just Transition is featuring more stro...

A special episode recorded at the Earth Rising Festival at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The team recorded some of the conversations we had with various contributors around the festival. Giving a flavour on what Earth Rising '25 was all about Presented by Darragh Wynne with Ciara Daly and Tom Spencer Produced by Robert Cotter Big thank you to all our contributors: LIsa Fitzsimons John Barry Aind...

The Climate Alarms Clock is back with a couple of special episodes Todays episode was recorded live at The Earth Rising Festival in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), in Kilmainham, Dublin on the 14th Sept 2025 Darragh, Ciara and Tom discuss some of the news stories from the summer past, reflect on the festival and the bigger questions surrounding climate change Trocaire campaign to lobby the...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm For our season finale, the gang's all here. We look at a new report that uncovers Ireland's dirty fossil fuel financing secrets. And we find some stories of adaptation in Ireland -- Monaghan prepares for the worst, trade unions want to bring in paid climate leave and we have hosepipe bans around the country. As Greta Thunberg demonstrates, climate justice i...

Ciara Days asks another climate question, what is greenwashing? How does it effect the planet and our push to combat climate change? She is joined by Darragh Wynne and our resident greenwashing expert Tom Spencer. They discuss the definitions and industrial use of greenwashing and get into the nuance of how marketing and consumerism affect us all. Drillled Podcast - interesting podcast about the d...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm Ireland's Climate Action Plan 2025 has finally been released. Darragh has read it so the rest of us don't have to and has all the answers about what's in there. He's joined by Anna and Ciara to discuss the Climate Action Plan, which was only just released when the wind industry warned that offshore wind will not hit 2030 targets. Are we worried about climat...

Coffee won't help us adapt but just in case: https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm We talk a lot about mitigating climate change by reducing emissions, but do we need to face up to figuring out how to adapt to the changes that we know are coming? Ciara, Anna and Darragh discuss climate adaptation, asking the tough questions about how we can adapt and whether we can. And what we need to deal wit...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm The insurance industry is warning that the climate crisis could lead to the end of capitalism. Darragh, Ciara and Anna look at what they are saying about climate risk and what that means in Ireland where more and more homes are threatened by rising sea levels. Separately, the EU has advised citizens to have a stockpile of 72 hours of supplies – is it time t...

Ciara asks Darragh and Anna whats the deal with meat? why is eating meat, fish and dairy bad for the planet? Support the Climate Alarm Clock buy donating money for the upkeep of the pod at BuyMeACoffee.com/TheClimateAlarm Explore the EAT Lancet Diet ; eating with plantetary means Ethical Farming Ireland campaign for a better life for the farm animals of Ireland You can listen here to our previous...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm Ciara has been struck down by a bug but Darragh is joined by Anna and Tom to review this week's climate news. We look at the International Energy Agency's latest report which shows that global energy usage grew to a record high in 2024, even coal usage continues to grow. And here in Ireland we're anticipating record growth in demand for electricity, largely...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm In this special climate question episode, Ciara asks where are we now with climate anyway? We go back to basics - what is climate change? How are we doing on climate action in Ireland? around the world? And what does it all mean anyway? Are we all fecked or what?

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Buy us a coffee? Data centres are in the news again and for all the wrong reasons. They're using more than 20% of Ireland's electricity, they're plugging into fossil gas and they're gobbling up our renewables. In this climate question episode, Ciara asks what data centres are all about and why are they a climate problem? We look at the impact of AI and find out about dark data. We all use data cen...

Darragh went on a field trip down to Cork to attend the Climate Justice Universities Union. Along with all the friendly and interesting people he met, Darragh sat down with Jennie Stephens and John Barry for a good chat about the problems relating to climate change and the role of universities. Visit the unions website: https://www.climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org Thank you to the union for hav...

We're in need of coffee to get us through this election, if you fancy buying us one! And you can find us and leave us a comment on Bluesky @climatealarmclock.bsky.social This week: COP29 ends with a bad deal for the Global South, some are calling it a 'slap in the face'. Darragh, Tom and Anna look at whether COP is fit for purpose and ask if it has any credibility left at this point. Here in Irela...

If you want to buy us a coffee, you can do that here ! Ten days out from a national election, manifestoes are raining down on us from Ireland's political parties (most of them). After spending the whole weekend examining policies (fun weekend), Ciara's climate question is how do we know where our political parties stand on climate issues? Ciara, Anna and Tom do a deep dive into various party posit...

G'wan and buy us a coffee here 2024 is officially the hottest year on record and it's only November. Meanwhile COP 29 has started in Azerbaijan... yes another COP, another petrostate and there's billions and trillions of climate finance being discussed. Ireland gets ready for a general election on November 29th, what do climate voters need to look at? Manifestos are coming out daily, how can we so...

Donate to the upkeep of the Climate Alarm Clock by buying us a coffee Offsetting carbon emissions seems to offer a way for individuals and businesses to reduce their carbon footprint, even if they can't eliminate emissions entirely. Offsetting funds projects like reforestation, renewable energy, and clean technology development. BUT evidence is mounting that offsetting is "junk" and being used as...

buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm Halloween is this week and there's a lot of scary news out there. The latest UN Emissions Gap Report warns that we are on course for 3 degrees of warming. There's no more time for 'hot air'. Darragh, Ciara and Anna agree with Oxfam that the scariest monsters this Halloween are the Bloody Billionaires! No more treats for them while they trick the rest of us. Billion...

Ciara wants to know why air travel is so cheap and what's wrong with cheap flights anyway - we all need a bit of sunshine don't we? And we're on an island after all. And aren't all the airlines going sustainable anyway? We hear a lot in the Irish media about the need to raise the Dublin airport passenger cap but not so much about the impact of air travel on the environment, or about how airlines c...

The Climate Alarm Clock is back, and we've just turned 3 years old! Buy us a coffee to celebrate :) Darragh, Ciara and Tom talk over the new reports from the WWF and the EPA. The Living Planet Reprt 2024 , is a stark report released by the World Wildlife Fund, reporting on biodiversity loss all over the world. Irelands Environmental Protection Agency has released Ireland's Shtate of the Environmen...

https://buymeacoffee.com/theclimatealarm In our final episode of the summer, Anna, Ciara, Darragh and Tom discuss Ireland's latest greenhouse gas emissions report - good news, bad news or both? Professor Barry McMullen has criticised the toxic positivity about the latest emissions, is he right? And a new report on Climate in the Mind has some interesting findings that point to the influence of mis...

Buy us a coffee and leave a comment :) We start with good news, the Nature Restoration Law is passed in the EU, thanks to the leadership of a 'rogue' Austrian environment minister. Darragh, Anna and Ciara discuss how it happened, the role Ireland played and some of the reactions. Then, what have the Greens done for us anyway? We chat about Eamon Ryan's resignation and legacy. Extreme heat is killi...