Climate emergency - why is Dublin Airport expanding???

Dublin airport are only reacting to the demand placed upon it.

the population is skyrocketing in no small part due to the permanent arrival of people from other countries , therefore there is going to be greater demand for people to travel...leisure travel, business and indeed part of that is people returning home, basically supply and demand.

if governments had a problem with climate change why are they facilitating the importing of thousands of people every year, one of the catalysts for climate change here ? Our ability to restrict is in turn restricted by the EU.. but the EU is in turn failing and has failed its member states.... on climate change as well as other aspects of our lives.

You might want to organise to so something before its too late about the sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) problem its 39,800 times as harmful as CO2 and it's presence in our local atmosphere has increased by ~250% as measured in Mace head since 1997. The Irish government target is 70% random energy by 2030, this is something that demands your attention as the power companies are trying to keep a low profile on SF6 as are the double glazing window makers.

• Climate change: Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming
• SF6 Worries – The Most Potent and Persistent Greenhouse Gas

In the sane vein you might look into nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) which is 17,200 times as harmful as CO2.

• A Potent Greenhouse Gas Used to Make Solar Panels Is on the Rise

Thomas Sowell once said "There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." Blind pursuit of feel good policies may actually be doing us more harm than good. All we have to show for all that money and sacrifice are higher energy bills in the places which spent the most money on green energy, and soaring global reliance on cheap fossil fuel.

There is much more expense and taxation lined up in Irelands climate action plans:

• 936,000 Electric Vehicles by 2030
• 500,000 Deep Energy Efficiency Renovations
• 400,000 Heat Pumps Installed in Existing Dwellings

Warm clothes will be the future at home due to energy bills, we will need that second runway to get off the island once a year to find warm temperatures.

That act was passed by just 6 TDs, which shows the cowardice of the body politic in Ireland, not willing to put their name to not offend their constituencies and not willing to disobey the EU (and cut off the "free" money). It gets much worse, in the era of the Soviet Union they have 5 year plans (gosplan) as part of central economic planning, if you have been paying attention under the Climate action and low carbon development (amendment) act 2021 the climate change advisory council will submit five year carbon budgets which must be ratified by the oireachteas.

It is entirely foreseeable we will face shortages of both energy and food over the course of this decade as a result of pursuing these policies. The plans will incentivise collecting subsidies over production, 70% random energy means massive grid balancing costs and the requirement to subsidise coal and natural gas as standby. None of these targets can be met at any reasonable economic cost which means there will be fraud to make up the numbers.

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If you are looking for register of members interests you will be disappointed the climate legislation is coming from abroad via non-government organisations (NGOs).

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created in 1988. It was set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Outside this the umbrella organisation for the NGOs is the Climate Action Network (CAN) formed in 1989, headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon and registered in Bonn, Germany. This is how the likes of World Wildlife Fund, Oxfam, Greenpeace and Friends of the earth (FOE) and others coordinate and why see the same push for protests, policies and climate emergencies and similar legislation worldwide.

The local NGOs who are CAN members:

• Trócaire  (Stop Climate Chaos provides their information)
• Stop Climate Chaos
• Friends of the Earth Ireland
• An Taisce

The main spokes people behind these organisations you will find Oisín Coghlan, Director of Friends of the Earth, Jerry Mac Evilly, Head of Policy at Friends of the Earth Ireland, From Stop Climate Chaos - Sadhbh O Neill a researcher of climate ethics and carbon markets at the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD, funded by the Irish Research Council. These are some of the people doing the lobbying.

If you are looking for the commercial interests then look for Wind Energy Ireland, they put out the press releases when the wind is blowing, they are silent when it does not.

Climate change projections are quite unreliable to begin with and the unreliability of the measurement magnifies as you move forward in time, obviously because the errors accumulate as you get out to 50 years the error bars around the projections are already so wide, that we won't be able to measure the positive or negative effects of anything we do right now. So how in the world are you going to solve a problem when you can't even measure the consequence of your actions? How is that even possible? and besides that what is the solution? What are we going to do?

Here is one of our most pressing environmental problems that affects the population from September 2021 alone, water quality is the issue, in any one month there are several boil notices issued somewhere in the country. What makes you think we can control "the climate" when we have problems with comparatively simple issues like water quality?

• Boil water notice issued for Barna area
• Boil notice lifted on Clare Island water supply
• Boil water notice issued to over 1,650 Lismore residents
• 2020 boil water notice in Laois finally lifted
• Irish Water to work with EPA to prevent further outbreaks
• Entire family fell ill due to contaminated Gorey water
• Killineer water is safe – eight months after boil notice warning
• At least 52 residents fall ill after ‘abject failures’ at two drinking water treatment plants
• Irish Water to review three water treatment plants in Cork
• Bridge over troubled water for local sources
• 'Do Not Consume' water notice issued in Batterstown
• Boil Water Notice still in place on the Drumconrath Public Water Scheme, Irish Water warn
• Do Not Consume Notice for Whiddy Water

Per George Carlin "We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna' save the . . . planet?!"

As we were talking about demand, if MrBoeings projects are real, then China will have more air traffic than Europe beginning in 2030.

[i]Boeing keeps faith in China market, forecasts 8,700 new aircraft by 2040

By Alfred Chua 22 September 2021

Boeing forecasts that Chinese carriers will need 8,700 new aircraft — valued at nearly $1.5 trillion — over the next two decades, with more than two-thirds supporting market growth, rather than fleet replacement. 

The figure makes up nearly half the total amount of aircraft deliveries forecasted for the wider Asia-Pacific region, and underpins the importance of the market to the North American airframer. 

Releasing its forecast as part of its commercial market outlook for 2021 through 2040, Boeing remains optimistic of “healthy air traffic increases” in the Chinese air travel market, with an expected average annual passenger traffic growth of 5.4%. 

According to Boeing projections, the Chinese domestic passenger market is expected to overtake intra-European traffic by 2030, and exceed air travel within North America by 2040. 

Of the 8,700 aircraft, around 75%, or more than 6,000 aircraft, are forecast to be narrowbodies, with widebody aircraft making up 19%. 

It notes that two-thirds of the forecasted aircraft deliveries will be for growth purposes, with the remaining one-third of deliveries for fleet replacement.[\i]

Because it's all just horse sh* We have a large nuclear reactor a couple of million miles away from us that isn't constant!

Our spin around the above isn't perfect either so there will be fluctuations in temperatures over the millenia!

Focus should be on reducing plastics but no one will do anything about that due to the companies that produce

more & more of it. Coca Cola for example but you can't be upsetting their share holders or profits!

unfortunately investing in and delivering public transport infrastructure has never been a strength of our political lot...

look at the time it took to get the Luas going... light rail / tramways spoken about in 1981, first passengers ? 2004 !