There was a guy just on Matt Cooper show (missed 1st name but surname Kerry) talking about climate change, and he was the first to really tell it like it was.
Apparently the Gov is going to spend €15 million on educating us about how bad global warming is. Now unless you have been under a rock for the last 5 or 6 years you could not have missed the amazing hype about this.
I have always said we are wasting our time (added to the fact that I think a lot of it is overhyped just to get money out of us) as long as other countries make no effort.
Think how small Ireland is. And we have the likes of the US, India and China who couldn't care less about climate change. I read that China finish a new COAL powered power station EVERY DAY. How will anything small countries do change if the BIG countries continue to do whatever they want?
If the stories of our imminent doom are true (which I believe they aren't) then we are all hammered as long as these 3 nations continue their ways.
Are you saying that India & China has no right to an industrial revolution like the west had ?
The per-capita car ownership ratio in China is currently 30 cars to every 1000 people.
by the time the big countries get around to doing anything about it, we'll be having nice hot summers in Ireland, so make the most of it and worry about your own back yard!
The simple fact of the matter is that there isn't enough (easily recovered) oil left in the world to satisfy the global warming doomsters predictions for 50 years from now.
The global warming movement is about Marxism rather than environmentalism. Hence the dismissal of carbon sequestration as a solution.
Not at all.
Let them lash away, but I was saying that there is little point in the massive drive in tiny countries like Ireland when huge countries don't care about emissions and pollution.
It's not a "movement" it's science, and hence any reference to Marxims, Islamism, Capitalism or any other -ism is ridiculous.The global warming movement is about Marxism rather than environmentalism.
Yes, you are right, maybe we should get some people who could study the science of these climate changes, "scientists" if you will, and ask them to form some committe and discussion groups and come to some conclusion as to the cause of these climate changes.Significant climate change has happened in every century in the past millennium. Oil and carbon emissions were hardly the cause of climate change in the 14th/15th/17th/19th centuries - why is it being attributed as such this time around?
Thats a terrible viewpoint. Shouldn't we lead by example ? We have huge largely untapped renewable energy potential in Ireland (wind, water, solar) - if we can show that these clean energy sources can work, then perhaps the larger countries will follow suit.
The likes of Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Germany have already shown the way. Why cant we ?
Ireland is on a latitude with Newfoundland. Our climate is temperate, thanks to the gulf stream. The likelihood is that the gulf stream will radically change as the Arctic icecap melts, to the extent that Ireland would be in real danger of losing its temperate status.
Skiing the Sugar Loaf, anyone?
Think how small Ireland is. And we have the likes of the US, India and China who couldn't care less about climate change. I read that China finish a new COAL powered power station EVERY DAY. How will anything small countries do change if the BIG countries continue to do whatever they want?
Oddly enough the link you quote says "The IPCC does not carry out research, nor does it monitor climate or related phenomena."It's not a "movement" it's science, and hence any reference to Marxims, Islamism, Capitalism or any other -ism is ridiculous.
Yes, you are right, maybe we should get some people who could study the science of these climate changes, "scientists" if you will, and ask them to form some committe and discussion groups and come to some conclusion as to the cause of these climate changes.
science
sci·ence (sns)
n.
1.
a. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
b. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
c. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
3. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
In a world where a substantial minority still dispute its existence, we clearly have a long way to go.
Ditto. Apparently Mars is warming too, without help from us. I find the ice-core data interesting - it apparently shows that there is a definite correlation between carbon levels and temperature, but that fluctuations in carbon levels lag about 400 years behind fluctuations in temperature.I don't think it is true that a substantial minority dispute the existence of climate change. I certainly don't, even though I am strongly sceptical of what I see as the climate change industry.
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