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Welcome to the Irish Climate Science Forum “THE GOOD NEWS ON CLIMATE” October 16, 2022 Introducing the ICSF: The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) was founded in 2016 and its members include Irish scientists, engineers and other professions. We are committed to identifying and disseminating the latest climate science to all with an open and enquiring mind, driven by the imperative of objectivity without vested interests. We are self-funded through modest personal contributions; to ensure scientific objectivity, we do not accept corporate or sector funding. We seek a sustainable future for Ireland and its people. Accordingly, we aim to better inform national energy and climate-related policymaking in the best long-term national interest through arranging lectures and engaging in relevant public consultations. We advocate progressive policies to 2030, based on prudent energy efficiency and conservation, consistent with safeguarding our national economy, international competitiveness and environmental sustainability. Longer term policies to 2050 should be based on evolving technology, better-understood climate science and ongoing observations. ICSF and Climate Science: Earth’s climate has continually changed over its 4.5 billion-year history. In recent millennia and centuries, since the most recent Interglacial, there have been warm periods (such as in the Medieval, Roman and Minoan periods), with the coldest period within that timescale being the Little Ice Age, which ended about 1850. Since then, the planet has gradually warmed by about 1°C and sea level has risen by about 20cm. Global temperature observations over the last 40 years indicate an average temperature increase of just over 0.1°C per decade, which if continued, points to a further
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