Something interesting is happening in the right-leaning UK media. After a summer of relentless heatwaves and droughts, the normally climate-sceptic Daily Telegraph newspaper published a series of articles recently acknowledging that high temperatures were a threat to “homes, nature and food security”, without blaming this on rewilding. Columnist Tim Stanley warned in July that “climate change is real and [that] the Right needs to get serious about it”, triggering a lively debate among readers and eliciting more than 9,000 comments online.

For years, the Telegraph railed against net zero policies and platformed climate-sceptic commentators. But reality is catching up. This summer, you could see the effects of climate change in the UK just by looking out your window. Denying climate breakdown looks increasingly silly.

In Ireland, the media landscape is less pointedly polarised than in the UK. However, we suffer from an epidemic of indifference across much of the print and broadcast media instead, with just a handful of dedicated environment correspondents across the entire industry.

We lost one of those last week when former Irish Times environment editor Frank McDonald died recently after a short illness.

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