"Green" policies are destroying this country

The things opposed by a random youtube channel that sells data to the oil and gas industry

"Unless you repent, you too will all perish", more prophecy from John of the apocalypse. The track record of the catastrophists over the past 50 years has been wrong over very short time spans. Now they claim to see for 10,000 years in the future, with no demonstrated skill in prediction all they do is project their invalid apocryphal beliefs.

Here is what has been reconstructed from proxy records over the past 20,000 years. What happened ~13,000 years ago? There is nothing out of range with todays climate compared to the last 8000 years, if anything the linear temperature trend has been downward in that time.

What has the sea level been doing in that time? Not a lot in the last 8,000 years.

It’s been a summer of record breaking media hype, if little else.

It has been an excellent Summer for fruit. I have loads of apples if I can keep the birds off, and the soft fruit, figs & blackberries have never been so abundant or delicious (loads of jam). All the farmers got silage cut with no problems and we had enough rain to keep the grass growing. If this is "climate change", we need more of it.

It was an excellant summer down here in Kerry only drawback was if you tuned into the daily news .The few fine weeks we still had to listen to the loonies harping on about wild fires and drought and we have these since the day 1 .

Why do you have to wait?

Do you agree or not with banning replacement gas boilers in existing homes or not?

Ryan's plan to ban replacement gas boilers in existing homes is utter lunacy. The guy is not thinking straight. He needs to be removed asap.

But we're not talking about new boilers in new builds, now are we.

I for one don't care what he thinks, it would just be more dishonesty or distraction.

The Greens down 2% to just 2% in the latest opinion poll. The inevitable has already started for them and people haven't even got their first heart attack bills yet.

All is going to change utterly this Winter.

You actually ignored the Industrial Revolution in those charts.

Industrial revolution is about ~1750 to ~1850 give or take. There are no widespread temperature records prior to the late nineteenth century, in fact wide-scale temperature records and today's meteorology only take off with the development of air travel (Met Eireanns biggest customer is Dublin Airport), there is an urbanisation bias in the much of the modern record. Outside of Europe annd the United States, temperature recordings are sparse. The oldest record is central England temperature (CET) dataset, that does not cover the globe. I pointed out the data used in the graphs are based on proxies.

I'm not the person fudging temperature data to construct computer models. Valentia observatory started recording temperature data in 1869 at the end of the industrial revolution. It's one of nine rural sites that has long running data sets that have not been encroached by urbanisation. But how do you interpret that data? Take a look for yourself.

Take a look at what NASA has done to Valentia observatory data for their GISS V4 dataset. (making the past cooler) This is one of the datasets used in computer models. Even then the modellers like to depict scenarios, in particular RCP 8.5 or business as usual is used for press releases and widely sensationalised across the media. It's a fantasy modelling scenario, yet Irish media, and the talking heads they have on, will constantly use this as the basis to scare people showing Dublin and other places around the country underwater in future. These projections have no demonstrated skill at prediction, they must be called out at every opportunity for their ignorance.

Not really. Voters also associate idealised nature, bicycle paths and cute furry animals with the Greens. NGOs like An Taisce, are an arm of the Green party. They have been indoctrinating the public for the past 30 years and will continue. Most political parties have uncritically embraced "green policy". Quite a few people have tied the identity to "the cause" of global warming, they won't give up their faith easily. The challenge the Greens have to overcome is the energy crisis. The politicians at the top across the EU have dug themselves a massive hole in pursuit of the "energiewende", and walked into a trap with their eyes open. As much as those politicians like to use the Greens as the whipping boys, they have also willingly embraced this and since the greens have no representation in many constituencies, the voters will take out their anger on the sitting TDs. This is why we may see Eamon Ryan get hounded from the energy brief, if any one else wants to take it up.