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12th August 2021
10:54am BST

Speaking on the Environment Protection Agency's findings, Eoin Moran, the director of Met Éireann said: "As citizen’s in Ireland and around the world are now seeing the impacts of climate change, through evermore extreme weather events, fires and flooding etc; high quality observations of the climate are crucial to help inform society’s response to the climate emergency.
"Scientific long-term monitoring of the climate underpins climate research and the development of climate services which support policymaking and decision-making in the face of the urgency of the climate crisis."
The EPA's Irish findings comes just days after the UN said that major climate change is "inevitable and irreversible" in their latest report.
The research showed that human activity is changing the Earth's climate in "unprecedented ways".
After its release, the UN secretary-general António Guterres, warned: "This is a code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk."Explore more on these topics: