"Green" policies are destroying this country

Temporary blackouts?

So if the supply of gas is stopped for a week we will be short 70% of our gas supply.

This gas and other fossil fuels supplies approximately 60% of our electricity.

If the lack of gas coincides with a period of low wind in winter, the grid has to shed load.

The load stays off until either more generation comes on or the overall demand falls to match the supply.

The blackouts wouldn’t end until either the wind starts generating or the gas/coal/oil supply comes back on stream.

Unless Eirgrid initiates rolling blackouts which turn off certain areas of the grid for an hour or two and then alternates to another area after that.

Whatever way it’s managed it won’t be good for attracting new business to Ireland and keeping existing business here.

So wrong. It was Max Planck who said that "science advances one funeral at a time" as old orthodoxies are rarely overthrown but have to wait for their proponents to die. Nevertheless, it is indisputable that there is a strong consensus around the idea that humans are contributing to climate change. Unfortunately the public dogma around this consensus is that all peer-reviewed science should be treated as if divinely etched on stone tablets.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Important advances emerge falteringly from among a vast ocean of bullshit science. I've been reading original climate science literature for at least a decade and a half. That is easily long enough to have encountered scads of academic papers that were comically, laughably wrong. (I'm not a climate scientist, nor a scientist of any ilk, but I've got graduate and post-graduate qualifications in several hard science subjects -- I know how to read academic papers critically). Science is a bit like popular music -- we all know great music that has stood the test of time, but anyone who is past the first flush of youth realises that most of it ends up on the scrap heap of history, never to be heard of again.

More sinister is the fact that even "respectable" science is rarely reported accurately in the popular media. It varies between over-sensationalised and flat out wrong. The upshot is that the public perception of climate science often doesn't even accord with what the published work says, let alone grasp its complexities and uncertainties. How else can we explain the hysteria that has taken hold? I've seen mainstream media stories about human civilisation ending by 2050, twenty feet of sea level rise in the next several decades, a billion people displaced by climate change, the entire Earth becoming an unlivable wasteland, and so on. It's no wonder that we have catastrophists gluing themselves to trains, slashing the tyres of SUVs, and seeking treatment for climate-related depression.

All the green policies in relation to energy will end quick fast in the next few months as the consequences of two decades of stupidity bare down on all of us

the state things are in from the Sunday Business Post https://www.businesspost.ie/news/government-launches-review-of-power-supply-crisis-as-cabinet-anger-grows/

But there is talks of energy insecurity this winter.

You may not have heard due to having your head buried in the sand along with the energy minister.

Yes. the possibility of temporary blackouts compared with irreversible permanent (in human timeframes) damage to our climate.

Your grandparents put up with much worse sacrifices in the effort to stop fascism spreading in Europe.

You contradict yourself in your own post.

If there are blackouts they will be managed so that minimum economic disruption is caused. We should be requiring data centres to have on site energy storage so that they could be shut down from the grid at peak demand and they can run from their storage and recharge them off peak.

California had unexpected rolling blackouts last year and the year before and multiple times before that since 2000 and the sky did not fall.

There are thousands of BS papers in the scientific literature but the scientific consensus is evidence based, not a matter of counting the papers and averaging the conclusions. 1 paper with enough evidence can overturn a consensus built on 1000 papers with weak evidence or resting on poor foundations.

However climate science is one of the most heavily studied areas in recent decades and lots of scientists who were very strongly motivated to find weaknesses in the consensus have failed to produce anything to explain the observations.

Right so you reckon it’s just talk.

Let’s look at the facts.

Fossil fuels generate at least 60% of our electricity in fact gas is generating 54% of our electricity demand right now.

Theres a good chance has supply’s will be in short supply this winter due to Nordstrom 1 going offline and Norway maxed out at the moment.

As we have no gas storage and we get 70% of our gas via a non EU member, our grid is very exposed to blackouts due to a lack of gas.

These are all facts.