Summer of 2024 was world’s hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says
The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify.
The boreal summer of June to August this year blew past last summer to become the world’s warmest, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin. The exceptional heat increases the likelihood that 2024 will outrank 2023 as the planet’s warmest year on record.
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News in Ireland
- Time limit on school abuse inquiry being considered: The Government would put a time limit on a commission of investigation into the abuse of children in schools in order to expedite a redress package for survivors, under plans being considered by the Coalition.
- More than 25,000 bike thefts reported to gardaí since 2019: More than 25,000 bicycle thefts have been reported to gardaí since 2019, according to official data, but cycling campaigners estimate that three quarters of victims do not report their losses.
- Calls for curriculum review after publisher pulls text on Irish family ‘stereotype’: A number of TDs are seeking a review of the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) programme for secondary schools after a publisher withdrew a book which portrayed a “traditional” Irish family in a way that was described as prejudiced and a crude caricature.
- People moving to Ireland from EU states ‘a factor’ in Ireland’s housing crisis: Immigration may be a factor in the continued rise in the number of homeless people in recent months despite increases in the amount of new social housing being delivered, Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien has said.
- Weather forecast: Today will be warm and dry with long spells of sunshine in most areas. It will be cloudy at times in the south with the chance of some showers developing there later. Highest temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees. Tonight will be mostly dry with long clear spells though cloudier at times in the south. Humid with temperatures not falling below 11 to 15 degrees.
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The Big Read
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Opinion
- Justine McCarthy: If you laughed at the one about the Leinster House bike shelter, you’ll love the one about the loo rolls.
Sports
- England return to Lansdowne Road to play their first competitive match in Ireland for 34 years: On June 29th, 2021, I queued alongside thousands of others outside Lansdowne Road. Three years earlier I had bought tickets for a last-16 Euro 2020 match allocated to the Aviva Stadium on that date, which turned out to be between England and Germany, writes James McDermott.
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World
- Tough climb ahead for friend of Ireland as Michel Barnier is appointed French prime minister: The reaction in Irish political and diplomatic circles when the news came through that Michel Barnier had been appointed French prime minister was one of unqualified delight.
Life & Style
- ‘She lived on her own until she was 98′: Meet Ireland’s oldest woman: Ruby Druce is unfazed when reminded that she is, at 108 years old, Ireland’s oldest person. “Am I? I think I am,” she says. I will be 109 at the end of the year.” She gives a brief chuckle and then adds: “When your man above pulls the plug, off you go.”
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