"Green" policies are destroying this country

Very deep pockets needed for any of those, and their reliability is questionable at best.

I didn't say that the Medieval Warm Period was confined to Europe. I said that hot periods were balanced by cooling in other areas resulting in no increase in the global average temperature. Here's from Seidenkrantz et. al. (2007)

"Whereas the `Mediaeval Warm Period' was characterized by relatively cool climate as suggested by low meltwater production, the preceding `Dark Ages' display higher meltwater runoff and consequently warmer climate. When compared with European climate, these regional climate anomalies indicate persisting patterns of advection of colder, respectively warmer air masses in the study region during these periods and thus a long-term seesaw climate pattern between West Greenland and Europe."

There was also considerable variation in temperature during the MWP. It was not a contiguous block of warm years. From Crowley & Lowery (2000)

"Despite clear evidence for Medieval warmth greater than present in some individual records, the new hemispheric composite supports the principal conclusion of earlier hemispheric reconstructions and, furthermore, indicates that maximum Medieval warmth was restricted to two-three 20–30 year intervals, with composite values during these times being only comparable to the mid-20th century warm time interval."

Your graph shows a maximum CO2 of 300ppm over the last 425,000 years. According to NOAA (https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide), the CO2 levels in 2020 were 412.5ppm, an increase of 12% in 20 years. I didn't suggest that past CO2 levels have never been as high. I said that in the time period you were referencing they haven't, and that the rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 is unprecedented. Historically, there have been CO2 levels higher than the present levels, but the time frame for them is in the region of 10s to 100s of millions of years ago. Looking back at those time periods (Inglis, et.al., 2020) gives a Global Mean Surface Temperature in the range of 9 to 16 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures.

Thomas J. Crowley and  Thomas S. Lowery, 2000:  How Warm Was the Medieval Warm Period?, AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 29(1), 51-54.

Inglis, G. N., Bragg, F., Burls, N. J., Cramwinckel, M. J., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Huber, M., Lunt, D. J., Siler, N., Steinig, S., Tierney, J. E., Wilkinson, R., Anagnostou, E., de Boer, A. M., Dunkley Jones, T., Edgar, K. M., Hollis, C. J., Hutchinson, D. K., and Pancost, R. D.: Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene, Clim. Past, 16, 1953–1968, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1953-2020, 2020.

Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Aagaard-Sørensen, S., Sulsbrück, H., Kuijpers, A., Jensen, K.G. and Kunzendorf, H., 2007: Hydrography and climate of the last 4400 years in a SW Greenland fjord: implications for Labrador Sea palaeoceanography, The Holocene, 17(3): 387- 401.

The 500million people you mention are the worlds wealthiest people and the biggest consumers. Europe is by far the world's largest trading block and the customer is always right. If we had a mind to, we could effectively dictate climate policy for most of the rest of the world, but we like cheap stuff.

For example let's say Europe decided tomorrow, not to buy any more products produced on cleared amazon rain forest, those countries would be forced to leave those forests alone. Granted North America are also big buyers but the fact is those 500million you mention have a lot more influence than the average earthling

The UK left, so it's roughly 432 million.

Thanks. Do you feel better having said that?

I heard some clown on the radio recently saying pedestrianisation of Dublin is an attack on rural Ireland. This is what you're up against.

Think we need to ask the Donald has he any of that fencing left, build it inside the M50 , let all the cars and people who want to leave out and then just close it up and let the Greens have it, we won't bother them and they stay inside their reservation ,the rest of the country can continue as normal

You may want to check out what the term straw man arguement means. My point was not the hypocrisy of some who preach green policy. It was of Irish green policy promoting the purchase of products from countries that do not give a toss about Irish greens concepts on clean energy, nor about the coercive policy of carbon taxes to force the population to spend fortunes to use such products which were supposedly going to be powered by cheap clean electric energy from wind generation. What we have is domestic fuel prices as much as 50% more expensive than such countries and electricity prices 4th highest in Europe with us being the 2nd highest percentage of our electricity wind generated. Interestingly the one country in Europe that has a higher percentage, Denmark, has the 2nd highest electricity charges.

A circular economy is another of those vague ideas. There is not, nor will there ever be a circular economy. It is nothing much more than the North Korean Juche Idea policy of economic self sufficiency, and we can see how that has worked for them.

I did not "rail against people mischaracterising rural dwellers". I railed against one self claimed Green supporter who knew so little about rural dwellers he believed they were all living in McMansions. Anything else in relation to rural communities was pointing out the hypocrisy of believing that moving rural dwellers into villages would lead to greater economic activity and sustainability when it is nothing more than attempted rolling urbanisation.

Sorry that the facts don't suit you, public spaces are administered by local authorities because they are local anenities. They are not national infrastructure. Sorry if that fact upsets you.

Well I didn't say the EU, I said Europe, as in if we made a collective effort, but as you point out in the Brazil example we're not actually fussed and are happy to purchase products at low cost and questionable production.