Changing Shades of Green: The environmental and cultural impacts of climate change in Ireland The Irish American Climate Project

“People want to know that there are sacred places that we will protect.  They want to know that we have a barometer in our being that stops us from doing the irreversible"

             (Martin Hayes)

Full report

» Changing Shades of Green (PDF, 1.8MB)

Individual sections

» Rain in the music: Martin Hayes (PDF, 120K)


» Connemara fishing: Terry Gallagher (PDF, 132K)


» Cry of the curlew: Dermot Somers (PDF, 80K)

» Poetry & the Irish landscape: Theo Dorgan (PDF, 124K)

» Changing shades of green: Dermot Somers (PDF, 160K)

» Bog burst: Tiernan Henry (PDF, 168K)

» Memory awakened: Grace Maher (PDF, 76K)

» Reduced flow (PDF, 156K)

» A westerly approaches: Ken Whelan (PDF, 168K)

» Touching the hawthorn: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,
Michael D. Higgins & Fidelma Mullane
(PDF, 156K)


» Conclusion: Easter, 2016 (PDF, 116K)

Links

ICARUS (Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units)

This unit, home to our science team, is based at NUI Maynooth.

U.S. House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Security

This site, build by the staff of Rep. Ed Markey, was named best website

among all government sites in the US.

Alliance for Climate Protection

This leading group was founded in 2006 by Nobel Prize winner  Al Gore.