John Gibbons

About

John Gibbons is a Dublin-based specialist writer and commentator on climate and environmental issues. He blogs at ThinkOrSwim.ie. You can follow him on Twitterย @think_or_swim.

onOct 18, 2017 @ 07:34 PDT

Hurricane Ophelia hit Ireland earlier this week, leaving three people dead, some 170,000 people without electricity, and water supplies for over one third of a million people in jeopardy as a resul...
onJul 21, 2017 @ 08:11 PDT

Irelandโ€™s first minister for Climate Action, Denis Naughten, quietly signed off this month on the Druid/Drombeg exploration field off Irelandโ€™s west coast which is eyeing an estimated five billion ...
onJun 13, 2017 @ 00:00 PDT

The second meeting in a month of the newly formed climate sceptic group, the Irish Climate Science Forum, took place behind a veil of secrecy and a media blackout in Dublin on June 1, DeSmog UK can...
onJun 11, 2017 @ 07:35 PDT

Theresa Mayโ€™s general election gamble has seen a little-thought-of and highly controversial party thrust into the spotlight: Northern Irelandโ€™s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Having failed to ga...
onMay 5, 2017 @ 13:50 PDT

The inaugural meeting of a newly formed climate sceptic group, the Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF), took place in Dublin on Thursday night, DeSmog UK canย reveal. The organisers described the me...