A presentation given to leadership series, Tangible Ireland on Climate Change by Dr Shirley Gallagher;SysPro;Systems for Progress Limited

2. Introduction
• Greenhouse Effect
• Climate versus Weather
• Recent Extreme Weather
• Third Industrial Revolution could solve our
problems
• But we need a political plan

3. Climate Change
There
is no
Planet
B

4. US Cartoon from 1995

11. In 2010,
98% of Scientists studying climate change
agreed,
CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSED BY
HUMAN ACTIVITY
we are in the anthropogenic age

12. DATE TAKEN
Winter Solstice
21st December 2015

14. • The last decade has had the hottest
years since records began
• Wettest December in UK since
records began
• Floods 2009, 1 in 100 year flood
• Plots being redrawn
• It would appear - Extreme Weather
is here to stay

20. 597, 037,026, 999
Global Warming

21. Current Pathway to 2 Degrees

23. We know we need to keep it in the ground
Bhutan is the only country carbon neutral

25. Ireland

26. Our Taoiseach, Enda Kenny has been quoted by
Irish Independent’s Paul Melia that Ireland had
no intention of doing anything regarding CO2
emissions until at least 2020, until the economy
recovers and that in the meantime climate
change is not a priority. He added that Ireland’s
current emission reduction targets are
‘unrealistic’ and ‘unreachable’.
COP21

27. Ireland
13th Richest country according to GDP
Action is needed now
CHANGE IRELAND

29. @shirleyatsyspro
Go raibh maith agat
Thank You
Q&A