Climate change is a catchall phrase used heavily by the liberal media
and political classes.
During Storm Barra, the Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan told RTE that “The weather is getting stormier due to climate change”.
However, according to an in-depth analysis by Dr. Lisa Orme, a palaeoclimatologist working in ICARUS (Irish Climate Research and Analysis Unit) and as a lecturer in the Department of Geography Maynooth
University, has a different explanation to the causes of our current state of storminess.
In her analysis published on the RTE website, Dr Orme says “One of the causes of high storminess in these periods was an atmospheric circulation pattern known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).
This is an index reflecting the difference in pressure between a low pressure anchored over Iceland and a high pressure over the Azores.”
“When the pressure difference is high (known as a positive NAO index), the westerly airflow over the Atlantic strengthens and a series of storms are directed over northern Europe.”
“This was one of the main causes of the high storminess in the 1910-1920s and 1980-1990s, and is a factor that continues to influence the year-to-year and decade-to-decade storminess variability in Ireland.”
The question must be asked, should Minister Eamon Ryan, who does not have any scientific background, be pressured to provide the Irish Community with the scientific evidence that has led his government to
impose punitive carbon taxes and climate change policies?
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