Commentary

• Estimating Climate Sensitivity Using Two-Zone Energy Balance Models
  (15-minute interview on the Faculti Platform  https://faculti.net/about/, 5 April 2022)     
  https://faculti.net/estimating-climate-sensitivity-using-two-zone-energy-balance-models/
  
  
• Polar sea ice and the climate catastrophe narrative (14 December 2021).
  https://www.thegwpf.org/publications/polar-sea-ice-climate-catastrophe-narrative/ and 
  https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/12/Bates-Sea-Ice-Trends.pdf
  
  
• Interview with Gript Media, 16 September 2021. The Science is not Settled
  https://gript.ie/the-science-is-not-settled-irish-climate-scientist-speaks-out/


• Response to DCC’s Reply to Our Comments on Dublin City Council’s Climate Change Action Plan 2019-2014 (by Ray Bates, Peter O’Neill and Fintan Ryan, 21 June 2021)
  https://oneillp.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/response-to-dccs-reply-to-our-comments-on-dublin-city-councils-climate-change-action-plan-2019-2014/#more-4545
  
  
• Sea Level Rise and Dublin City Council’s Climate Change Action Plan 2019-2024  (by Ray Bates and Peter O’Neill, 12 April 2021)
  https://oneillp.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/dublin-sea-level/
  
  
• Submission to the EU (5 August 2020): “Response to the EU Commission’s call for Submissions on Anthropogenic Methane Emissions”
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12504-EU-Methane-Strategy/F541115
  
  
• What caused Hurricane Lorenzo? (28 October 2019)
  https://www.thegwpf.org/hurricane-lorenzo-not-caused-by-climate-change/
  
  
• Deficiencies in the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5 Degrees (Revised, 21 January 2019)
  http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2019/01/Bates-2018b.pdf
  
  
• What Caused Storm Ophelia? (by Ray Bates and Ray McGrath, 25 October 2017)
  https://www.ria.ie/news/climate-change-and-environmental-sciences-committee-climate-change-blog/what-caused-storm

Newspaper Articles - most recent

• The Munster Express, 2 November 2021
  "Can Ireland afford to be a global leader in tackling climate change" (page 27)
  
  
• Irish Farmers’ Journal, 20 December 2018
  "Climate change policy must be backed up by solid science"
  https://www.farmersjournal.ie/climate-change-policy-must-be-backed-up-by-solid-science-427758
  
  
• Sunday Business Post, 22 July 2018
  "Prudence is needed on climate change"
  www.businesspost.ie/opinion/prudence-needed-climate-change-421606
  
  
• Irish Farmers Journal, 18 May 2017
  "Not climate fiction but real debate at the Farmers Journal"
  http://www.farmersjournal.ie/not-climate-fiction-but-real-debate-at-the-farmers-journal-ray-bates-277898
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• Irish Times, 1 July 2015
  "Climate action: Preoccupation with level of farm emissions is misguided"
  http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/climate-action-preoccupation-with-level-of-farm-emissions-is-misguided-1.2268409
  
  

• Irish Farmers Journal, 21 May 2015
  "Climate Action, Low Carbon and Irish Agriculture"
  http://www.farmersjournal.ie/climate-action-low-carbon-and-irish-agriculture-181260/
  
  

• Irish Times, Tuesday,  May 13, 2014
  “Warning of over-alarmist stance on climate risk” 
  http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/warning-of-over-alarmist-stance-on-climate-risk-1.1792370
  
  

• Sunday Business Post, September 29, 2013
  "Climate change action has winners and losers"
  
  

• Irish Times, Saturday, January 15, 2011 
  “Take cold comfort . . . humans not solely to blame for bad winters” 
  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0115/1224287575441.html
  
  

• Sunday Business Post, August 23, 2009 
  “How real is the climate threat?” 
  http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=GUEST+WRITER-qqqm=nav-qqqid=43865-qqqx=1.asp
  
  

• Irish Times, Mon 02 Feb 2009 
  “Global warming not over despite bad weather” 
  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0209/1233867927206.html
  
  
• Irish Times, Fri 26 Sept, 2008. 
  “Blame summer on our bad weather cycle” 
  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0926/1222357357433.html

Book Reviews

• Irish Times, 29 December 2012
  “How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to  Humankind” by Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker.
  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/1229/1224328243336.html
  
  
• Irish Times, 31 March, 2012
   “Climate Wars: What People Will be Killed for in the 21st Century” by Harald Welzer.    
  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0331/1224314130094.html