Croke Park under water in 100 years!!!

Font22

Did anyone see this in one of the Sunday papers at the weekend? I think it was the Sunday Tribune but I could be wrong. Anyone know what it was about? I dont want to see my beloved Croke Park under water!

therecklessone

Font22 wrote:

Did anyone see this in one of the Sunday papers at the weekend? I think it was the Sunday Tribune but I could be wrong. Anyone know what it was about? I dont want to see my beloved Croke Park under water!

Planning on living another 100 years then?

CoolGuy2006

ha ha, probably the best respone ive seen on here. Fair play chappy

Font22

haha I didnt actually think about that when I typed the message!
but u know what I mean!

joejoem

Water Gaelic Polo? I can see it... Especially when all our childrens childrens are mutants from selafield

Kojak

Has this something to do with global warming and the rising sea levles?

joejoem

Kojak wrote:

Has this something to do with global warming and the rising sea levles?

No no no, its as a soution to our lack of an olympic sized swimming pool

connundrum

I think some scientific study has been done where they have suggested that if players keep spitting during games at the same level to which they are doing it now, then Crokers is doomed*





*May not be true

m4cker

It is due to an industrial dispute amongst the janitarial staff, somone left a tap in one of the changing rooms running and there is a raging dispute beraking out between siptu and the GAA as to whos job it is to turn it off.*


*may also be untrue. But the most likely response yet imho

Siogfinsceal

well I will either be dead or very very very old by then so Im not very concerned!

MrJoeSoap

Amazing how we can all laugh off global warming. But this is After Hours I suppose. I've started to become quite conscious of this and have made a few simple changes to my life that won't go far to changing things but have helped my conscience.

Hopefully more people will do the same before its too late (if it isn't too late already).

Siogfinsceal

but wont we all be dead before global warming ever happens or am I mising something?

wb

Just the usual hype about global warming. It won't happen.

Don't get me wrong, I know global warming is a very serious issue, but I hate these type of stories.

When I was a kid (in the mid 80's) this 'green' bloke came to our primary school to give a talk, and he said that Ireland will be as hot as spain in the year 2000!

All of us kids cheered!

ciaran76

joejoem wrote:

Water Gaelic Polo? I can see it... Especially when all our childrens childrens are mutants from selafield

Would that not be classed as a "foriegn sport" and then we would have the same old carry on as we had last year about letting soccer and rugby in ?

Pigman II

Has anyone got the article in question before we start lobbying to make bog-snorkeling an official GAA sport?

MrJoeSoap

Siogfinsceal wrote:

but wont we all be dead before global warming ever happens or am I mising something?

Okay, we'll be dead, so we have no responsibility to future generations? Thats a nice attitude.

Plus, global warming isn't something that will just "happen" in the future, its happening already.

MrJoeSoap

Pigman II wrote:

Has anyone got the article in question before we start lobbying to make bog-snorkeling an official GAA sport?

Don't have a link but read it myself. It was very sensationalist and had a map of Dublin showing which parts would be under water in 100 years. Still, regardless of whether Croke Park will be under water, its still quite a serious issue.

super_furry

Good, let the land-grabbing bogballers drown. *

* This opinion may or not be influenced by the Gah's attempts to hijack Tallaght stadium

cournioni

super_furry wrote:

Tallaght stadium

*snickers*

Siogfinsceal

well when im dead im dead so I hardly going to care about future generations?! Cant care when your dead ;-) They might have global warming but at least they will be alive

connundrum

Siogfinsceal wrote:

well when im dead im dead so I hardly going to care about future generations?! Cant care when your dead ;-) They might have global warming but at least they will be alive

Capitalist attitude, I like it (honest).

I really don't think there is much that I or you can do about global warming. If America and India are telling the rest of the world to feck off ie. 'We have to much money at stake to even consider being all environmentalistic at the moment' then what chance to we have?

I do and will take a strong interest in whats going on, but again, I see very little changing - so why not just care about yourself?? Beside, the kids from the future might enjoy an aul game of underwater hurling.. the hotdogs might be a bit of a problem though :rolleyes:

Siogfinsceal

i like how you think connundrum! Im here for a good time not a long time.

Kingp35

connundrum wrote:

I do and will take a strong interest in whats going on, but again, I see very little changing - so why not just care about yourself??

In fairness if everybody had the same attitude as you then nobody would do anything to tackle the problem. It is pretty serious you know and it may not end up affecting your life but it certainly could your kids lives.

meldrew

Dont worry the GAA will find some way to make money out of it , maybe a giant aquarium with only Irish fish allowed in

hullaballoo

According to Bill Bryson, global warming may be a non-issue really. Climate change is inherent in the atmosphere, and humans are resilient enough to resist a little bit of hot weather. In fact, we have already survived a number* of ice ages, and that was before technology was up to much. I really don’t see it as a problem in the long run, so arguments as to what view you take as to whether it’s a bad thing or not are moot.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is self-regulating anyway. A far bigger worry is CFC’s, they last for thousands of years, and they destroy the ozone perpetually. Even still, scientists have managed to find something that they can spray into the ozone that will drag CFC’s back down to earth, the problem is getting it up there.

Dilly1

Dublin under water in 100 years .. dam it ! .. I wish I would have been around to witness that. all those overweight lazy spoiled kids will have to deal with it, so the country is pretty much screwed !

GOOD !

they will still blame the Brits though,
I guy last weekend was blaming the Brits for that fact that there is no Railway to Donegal, even though we have had 80 years to build one, they still blame someone else PRICELESS. i couldnt stop laughing at him, I told him I thought they were also responsible for low rainfall in some areas of Ireland this year.

Archeron

Strangely my children were born with gills and flippers, so I spend most of my free time trying to free the CFC's in abandoned fridges that you find scattered in fields around Dublin and doing what I can to create lots of pollution. After all, I want to give them the best start in life I can. Also, one report I read (caution, it may have been the Sun) said that the whole of Dublin would become submerged. Seeing as I live in the east-midlands, that would mean my home town would beome a coastal resort. Result! A giant paddling pool for my fish children to play in AND extra value added to my house AND a nice coastal view!!!

I fail to see a downside to be honest....:D

Catch_22

hullaballoo wrote:

According to Bill Bryson, global warming may be a non-issue really. Climate change is inherent in the atmosphere, and humans are resilient enough to resist a little bit of hot weather. In fact, we have already survived a number* of ice ages, and that was before technology was up to much. I really don’t see it as a problem in the long run, so arguments as to what view you take as to whether it’s a bad thing or not are moot.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is self-regulating anyway. A far bigger worry is CFC’s, they last for thousands of years, and they destroy the ozone perpetually. Even still, scientists have managed to find something that they can spray into the ozone that will drag CFC’s back down to earth, the problem is getting it up there.

what a load of ****e - of couse bill bryson clearly has the qualifications to be an authority on this ?

Atmospheric carbon dioxide has in the past been self regulating when there werenet millions of tons of additional carbon dioxide been artificially pumped into the atmosphere, we are in no position to claim that it will continue to be in the future given this change and those who are are too busy cashing their cheques from the oil companys.

Anyway your main worry is the wars that will ensue once the environment starts to goto hell - thats what the human race might not survive.

joejoem

PORNAPSTER wrote:

*snickers*

Mars Bar

{insert pac man here}

MrJoeSoap

joejoem wrote:

Mars Bar

{insert pac man here}

Well he couldn't say "Sniggers" for obvious political correctness reasons. :rolleyes:

Pigman II

Dilly1 wrote:

Dublin under water in 100 years .. dam it !

Well that's one solution I suppose.

LegacyUser

MorningStar will be feckin ragin if your right, after all the 'advice' he has given us boardsters NOT to move out of Dublin, only yo have the whole feckin county submerged in water!

I am pretty sure that such an event may effect house prices in Dublin, and could possibly see house prices outside of Dublin increase in value.......

I knew a move to Offally would make sense eventually!

Sifo

global warming!!!


anyone outside lately??? were just about through 6 months of winter... i don't believe in global warming!! im more on the climate shifts side of things!!

thelordofcheese

sillysausage wrote:

I knew a move to Offally would make sense eventually!

Nah, you don't even want to know whats going to happen to Offally.

super_furry

thelordofcheese wrote:

Nah, you don't even want to know whats going to happen to Offally.

Well whatever it is, it can hardly make it worse.

netwhizkid

At least we might have a National Aquatic Centre that doesnt leak then I wonder what will also happen to the Port Tunnel, With the way that thing is leaking right now I guess it will be submerged. I wonder how will Joseph Goebbels...cough Michael McDowell & Co. react? Let me guess, Blame it on the IRA? Or perhaps the emissions of Methane & other hot-air from the Government since they came to power in 97, I heard emissions were up alright.:D That has to be it.

hullaballoo

Catch_22 wrote:

what a load of ****e - of couse bill bryson clearly has the qualifications to be an authority on this ?

Atmospheric carbon dioxide has in the past been self regulating when there werenet millions of tons of additional carbon dioxide been artificially pumped into the atmosphere, we are in no position to claim that it will continue to be in the future given this change and those who are are too busy cashing their cheques from the oil companys.

Anyway your main worry is the wars that will ensue once the environment starts to goto hell - thats what the human race might not survive.

Actually, you are wholly wrong there. The evidence from geologists is that there is substantially less CO2 being released into the atmosphere now than there was prehistorically. Remember that although science is no doubt a useful study, it is new, and by nature, it is incomplete. The worry about the changing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is an overreaction to a natural phenomenon. Historical levels of the same gases show that we really have little to worry about in this regard.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't believe for a second that we are not polluting our planet. Au contraire, I think that the damage we are doing to our environment is at a level that might make the planet retaliate in a manner that we will find extremely hostile. However, I don't think that global warming is an issue for the planet in the way that you, somewhat erringly do.

There is more chance of another Ice age than there is of a water-world.

cournioni

Dilly1 wrote:

Dublin under water in 100 years .. dam it ! .. I wish I would have been around to witness that. all those overweight lazy spoiled kids will have to deal with it, so the country is pretty much screwed !

LOL.

Lump

There's plans to build a sea wall across Dublin bay, with a motorway on top. I read it about a year ago in the INDO.

John

mdebets

sillysausage wrote:

I am pretty sure that such an event may effect house prices in Dublin, and could possibly see house prices outside of Dublin increase in value.......

No no, you have it all wrong, look what you are paying today for a house with a swimming pool. Now imagine ho high prices will be if you have a house in a swimming pool:)