"Green" policies are destroying this country

It gets much worse. The economics don't work either - 12 years for the offshore turbines. Not only do us electricity consumers have to subsidise random energy, we have to subsidise the backup for the random energy, electricity prices will continue to rise for the foreseeable future.

One of the members of the Irish climate quango is Ottmar Edenhofer who gave an interview to a Swiss media outfit years ago that "Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection . . .". That wealth redistribution is going to wealthy urban dwellers see Measuring the equity impacts of government subsidies for electric vehicles.

Unless you have meaningful suggestions how to overcome any of the real world problems we are facing, I'm not really interested in reading a blanket condemnation of any of the groups which are attempting to make the world safer/prosperous/sustainable for all who do or will occupy it.

It's easy to castigate and condemn, who do you suggest we turn to?

There is another thread on present matters, I won't go too far into this, the proper start is to concentrate all available resources on the organisations number one purpose to maintain international peace and security not mission creep into the green crusades. A lot of people are dying because of the collective actions of state leaders refusing to do diplomacy and abide by existing agreements, compounding the problems are the restrictions of energy supply and food due to an ACTUAL man made crisis: WAR.

What planet am I on when the head of the UN comes out 4 days after the start of a major conflagration backed by a major public relations campaign and calls the UN report that is based on nothing more that fictional computer modelling an “atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” We now have critical problems to solve, and weather is not one of them, staying alive in the present and near future is and always has been.

• The Russia-Ukraine War has Turned Egypt's Food Crisis into an Existential Threat to the Economy
• Government warned to consult farmers before any compulsory crop growth orders

I think that we can agree that the war itself has nothing to do with climate change, however, the increased demand for Russian gas is driven by necessity due to the policies pursued by states running an electrical grid on random energy while at the same time shutting down nuclear generation.

The point I am making, it is absurd for the Secretary General of the United Nations to make claims based on computer model fiction, when a real conflict has broken out with deadly serious global consequences (refugees, loss of lives and property, starvation). The incident really illustrates how the people pushing the green agenda are operating in their own bubble divorced from reality. The United Nations has been making "its worse that we thought" claims since at least the early 70s, over that 50 years ALL of which have failed to pass. Remind me what was UN's primary purpose . . .

30% I believe still shocking

It’s actually hilarious that a country that cannot defend itself intends leaving gas and oil reserves in the ground , the resources will be taken by someone by force one day

Levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) is not the cost to electricity consumers from turbines or solar panels and takes no account of the minimum backup requirements (MBR) which is how much generating capacity a system must have to reliably produce power when random generation sources like wind turbines and solar panels don’t. Consumers are subsidising (Eirgrid speak = supports) producers via constraint payments (wind turbines) and capacity payments (CCGT plants). There is a management cost overhead to putting non-synchronous generation sources on the grid, it is not a simple matter of putting solar panels on the roof and hooking up to the grid, the cost of managing that works its way into consumers electricity bills.

To be honest (and I know this will be unpopular), I'm concerned about the numbers being talked about on the radio in the last few days - at least 100,000 being suggested to arrive here.

Where are we going to put them? We have a massive housing and particularly rental crisis at the moment. This idea of people giving them a room is noble but not a long term solution. Then there's the huge costs of living in this country. How are they going to manage those? Who will pay to support them and for how long?

There's talk about waiving all entry requirements for them and the narrative seems to be that they'll be settled long term. Again, how are we going to sustain that?

I'm all for trying to help, but it has to be realistic. Just as with Green policies, the authorities are all caught up with "doing the right thing" (and being seen to do so), but very little thought about how practical or sustainable it is.

Enough with the soapboxing - I already said that we should try to help, but it needs to be sustainable and practical too, for both their benefit as well as ours

We can't just open the floodgates either. That wouldn't help anyone and those additional costs you so easily dismiss are all well and good if you have a buffer to absorb it, but for many people they're already struggling badly as it is. That's reality too.