It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
If it was raining soup the Irish would go out with forks.
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received....
If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.