The Development of our climate

The Climate Of Ireland: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow

Text of a talk delivered by Brendan McWilliams to the Climate Change Conference in the Botanic Gardens, Dublin, during Tree Week, 2005.
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Perennial plants - perennial pathogens

Kevin J Clancy, Dept of Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin.
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The sustainable establishment of woodland on landfill sites

Danielle Sinnett, Environmental and Human Sciences Division Forest Research.
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Climate Change Insects and Trees

Roy Anderson, Queen's University, Belfast.
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National Tree Week Seminar Tree Cover and Climate Change

How trees can help reduce global warming.
Eugene Hendrick COFORD
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Climate information from Meteireann

www.met.ie/climate/climate-of-ireland.asp

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Irish Tree Trivia

Eleven different types of woods are used for making classic grand pianos: spruce, hornbeam, beech, mahogany, larch, boxwood, maple, poplar, walnut, baya and ebony.

The violin is made of spruce and maple. Maple is also usually used in dance floors.

Wood is widely regarded as the most flexible of all building materials. Around 25% of all new Irish homes are of timber-framed construction, compared to 5% in the mid-1990s. However, Ireland is still well behind the Scandinavians and countries such as Canada, Japan and the US, where 80-90% of all new houses are timber-framed.