Climate Bolloxolgy.

There's a balance - and some land going back to semi wild isn't all bad - but a lot of our traditional wildlife has adapted to certain types of agriculture -

A friend of mine years ago was studying in north Wales , there was a project to get more traditional cattle up the mountains - because they'd bruise the bracken - allowing the sheep to keep the ground open - allowing other types of wildlife to thrive - but too many sheep resulted in erosion and no cover for ground nesting birds -

And where that happens there should be consequences - I'm in favour of less fertilizer and there are already new regs about slurry spreading ..

Are we playing a what aboutery game ?

Because we can play that with every economic sector in the country !! Should we just abandon the country ?

Many of the farming subsidies were designed to keep people in rural areas ,-that can change - where we just have huge commercial farms -abandon rural Ireland , and everyone living in urban areas -

Do we stop subsidising mult-nationals ?

Do we subsidise all job creation ,

The difficulty is that what you would like to see has been happening for years . High quality food , good biodiversity, extensive farming are all there already but yet we have to cut the national herd !!!

It is a part of this debate that I don’t understand .I would be of the opinion that 90 per cent of the farms in the county that I live in have less livestock on them now than they had thirty years ago . Declining farm incomes and the availability of off farm employment has seen to that . Those proposing climate change mitigation to these farmers will be told to f...k off.

We are determined to stay in the EU, particularly while watching the cock up going on in the UK. There is zero appetite here for Irexit.

Just as well that you can say something with certainty, because the trash you've been throwing out so far is like someone suffering from mythomania and pseudologia fantastica.

Indeed 😊 the mask slips at last

Dairy cow numbers are falling here by about 2% per year. Production is staying the same however.

France produces around 80% of its electricity from nuclear. Some is exported to Germany, Belgium, UK and Ireland. Maybe the nuclear is greatly reducing overall emissions?

As you probably know the lads at home are trialing seaweed extracts etc. Huge funding available also…the quest for the holy grail?

I find it a bit amusing that ye put so much hope into finding magic bullets..protected urea, methane reducing seaweed, snakeoil etc.

How about stop pushing back against emission reductions and being part of the solution…for a price!!??

God its going to be a painful two weeks listening to the shyte (no pun intended) coming out of COP26, even Boris Johnson in on the act, that buffoon wouldn't know what climate change was if it slapped in him the face.

Shrieking Greta arrived yesterday to much fanfare yesterday, apparently she's Annoyed (something new 🙄) about not being officially invited 😒

Interesting news feature on Channel 4 news last night about the hypocrisy around who's actually sponsoring this event, from Banks (Natwest with over €500 million in fossil fuel industry), Pension funds, oil companies, even of all people Glasgow City councils pension fund who have 100's of millions invested in big energy. Indeed some saintly sponsors have spent millions fighting legislation tackling climate change.

Two weeks of hot air ahead and its not methane from cows backsides that's the cause 😏

That was the general thought around here also. Make it the farmers idea to reduce

The idea that people need to eat is the one thing in this that isn't entertained.

Could you not come up with a better name for us, at least be a bit more inventive like this chap https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111stalin.html