Global Warming rate at all-time high, says Maynooth University Scientists

The new report is accompanied by an open data, open science platform – the Climate Change Tracker’s Indicators of Global Climate Change dashboard which provides easy access to updated information on the key climate indicators.

Study in Ireland: According to new research by over 50 leading international scientists, including Prof Peter Thorne of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at Maynooth University Ireland, global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.26 degrees Celsius per decade, the highest rate since records started.

MU’s Prof Thorne, who contributed to the report said, "This is yet another reminder that we remain drastically off course to deliver on our global climate action ambitions and that we will increasingly suffer the consequences of our collective inactions. The lights on the dashboard are flashing an urgent red and we absolutely need to start paying attention and taking sustained, meaningful and consequential climate actions as governments, communities and individuals. Otherwise, things will get much worse very, very quickly.”

Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds is coordinating the Indicators of Global Climate Change Project. He said, “Our analysis is designed to track the long-term trends caused by human activities. Observed temperatures are a product of this long-term trend modulated by shorter-term natural variations. Last year, when observed temperature records were broken, these natural factors were temporarily adding around 10% to the long-term warming.”

Maynooth University Biologist wins funding for obesity-related cancer research

The biologist of the Maynooth University Ireland - Dr Fearon Cassidy has been named as one of 10 research fellows who will share €2.6 million in funding from DOROTHY which is a postdoctoral programme focused on research into public health crises.

While commenting on this, the Director of the Irish Research Council, Peter Brown, said: “The Irish Research Council is delighted to partner in the DOROTHY MSCA programme, supporting as it does early career researchers from a variety of disciplines to conduct and manage research projects that have strong relevance to public health crises. The programme aligns with the ambitions of Impact 2030: Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy to strengthen multi- and trans-disciplinary research to deliver enhanced outcomes for citizens and society, and to develop the national and international talent needed to do so.”

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