Professor (emeritus), DCU School of Electronic Engineering
(Last touched: 15 January 2026)
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
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Projected global temperature increase by 2100 (Nov 2025 update) via Climate Action Tracker
Hi - welcome to my virtual presence on the Web!
Yes folks, it's a cheesy old “personal home page”, but having been here since web pre-history (about 1995 — the oldest recorded fossil dates from 1998) I can't just abandon it now... Anyway, if I wait long enough somebody will provide an upgrade...
Note that I am officially retired from my academic position, but still recognised by/affiliated with emeritus status at Dublin City University .
You can see my publication list at ResearcherID, my ORCID profile or sample my Google Scholar aura. (Somebody did once even give me a wikipedia page; but it was fairly quickly deleted for the obvious reason that I am only a “... non-notable academic, fails WP:PROF”. Mind you, at least I still get an “honourable mention” in Vicipéid...)
And if you are that way inclined, you can even follow me on BlueSky, mastodon or LinkedIn.
For the sake of the historical record, right here you'll find:
My enduring academic focus is on climate change and, in particular, radical emissions reduction. From 2017-2020 I was co-PI on the Irish EPA Funded research project IE-NETs: investigating the potential for Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) in Ireland. From 2019-2020 I was co-PI for a complementary EPA funded funded project on Society-wide Scenarios for Effective Climate Change Mitigation in Ireland.
For whatever it is worth, I try to minimise the ecological footprint of my own acacemic work. In particular, I fly as little as possible, and am a signatory of the petition Flying Less: Reducing Academia's Carbon Footprint.
For context, here's my not-so-quick summary talk that I gave in March 2016, that reflects on the challenges of effective climate action, post the Paris Agreement (with due acknowledgement to Prof. Kevin Anderson):
See also, my submission, in August 2017, to the Irish Citizen's Assembly: TEQs: Empowering Citizens for Radical Climate Action
I occasionally dabble in (Popperian) Philosophy; you can check out some ruminations on this in a video panel with Dan Schneider and Prof. Malachi Hacohen from July, 2017: On Karl Popper
And if you find anything here that doesn't work, please let me know by e-mail to Barry.McMullin@dcu.ie!
