Climate Bolloxolgy.

I think a lot of what we see today is large businesses have gotten to a point where they are too big to really innovate or drive new change.

So instead they are spending large sums of money to force red tape that makes it too difficult for new competitors to arise.

All under the guise of making the world a better place when in reality it is about securing corporate profits at the expense of the common person.

India at less than half of its usual nitrogen fertilizer levels.

World grain levels at high levels but the hidden statistic there is that China has been building a reserve for years now while the rest of the world is now at very low levels.

It doesn't take much to "upset that Apple tart."

Food will be a news item globally yet.

Their is a train of thought that a rapid increase in world temp could actually lead to cooling due to changes in the gulf stream etc.

I actually think it's happening on a much bigger scale than my post says. Renewables and the green economy are the only potential growth sector open to the elite to substantially increase their wealth further.

Otherwise it's watch their wealth come under ever increasing pressure for the foreseeable future.

What’s the actual specifics of “reducing the national herd” it’s sounds like they’re going to need some sort of cow holocaust to achieve the reduction laid out- don’t think the veggies will be too happy?

I wouldn't think they'd be that industrious, they're insulated from the heaves of the economy, they're probably not even aware of the damage they're going to cause.

When is the last time you were hungry in a war torn country?

Having just read this whole thread there seems to be a lack of moderate views. It’s either of two extremes. The green agenda seems to have a superiority complex when the address farmers concerns and a lot of the farming side. Want no compromise and seem terrified that some changes might be needed.

Greens, we need food. Dreamy notions won’t feed populations. Food production, no matter how well refined, is still a basic business. We were born with canine teeth to eat flesh.

farmers, we use too much fertiliser and sprays. We see the neighbours shaking a bit out and we panic and think we’re behind. We spray every wed n briar just because.

we need middle ground. Every negotiation has to have compromises

accurate enough, it's showing natural swings of plus or minus about 1 degree over the course of hundreds of years, what we're dealing with now could be a rise of more than 2 degrees over maybe 50 years, driven by the amount of CO2 (and methane) we're pumping into the atmosphere

https://xkcd.com/1732/

My tuppence worth. 

Methane and livestock didn’t cause this mess..burning fossil fuels did. It’s accepted that the quickest and most profound fix is to cut methane emissions. That’s fair enough. However if Apple, Amazon, Google etc had the same quick solution, you’d pay well for it..in fact you’d have to pay through the nose for it! Therefore if they want to cut the herd, then compensation in the order of CPO should be in line. 

There’s an element of bullying about the way Gov, NGOs etc expect farmers to shoulder the brunt of the solution, without any recourse to mahoooosive compensation. That needs to change fast before any climate bill gets written into law. Time is now for the IFA to get going and earn their €€€.

Edit.

I posted this on another forum lately.

People in this country have no connection to the famine. Sure aren't they wasting food goodo left right and centre. You can walk into any shop and be bamboozled with food and processed garbage from all corners of the world for a pittance. Until there is a value placed on food the way there is value placed on your broadband subscription, or your phone, or your €300 jeans with holes in it everywhere then getting people to change their ways regarding food is not going to happen.

https://youtu.be/tJWZJ1Lb04A

Not much mention of methane emissions in live stock , but briefly mentions nitrous oxides which isn't really being talked about much yet