"Green" policies are destroying this country

Alot of air pollution, energy wasting and environmental waste also comes down to big business part they play. Some of them may opt for cheaper packaging (i believe for PR reasons and to make it look like they care but really its just because it costs less) but with this electric example, and other things like manufacturing, do they really care?

Aslong as they pay their "green tax" they can continue polluting. Essentially its profiting off of their pollution, by taxing it. Some intentionally choose to pay this tax instead of refusing to pollute, because more money (what they really care about).

Cool, its nice to know they don't consume much at all. its a relief, but still every little helps and they should be doing their part to help.

Why should big business get away with wasting electric, while domestic consumers are forced to consider not wasting it. Seems imbalenced and unfair. it's bribery in a way, aslong as they pay green tax moneys they can continue to get away with destroyed the earth and environment in other ways. (and with wasting electric too)

Keeping 2 large machine turned on powered up for 2 whole weeks prior to feb 1st is still a waste, look at the grand scheme of things and add up all that power than all these places doing the same thing. Its little to no power consumption, but add all that little bits up for a days worth and multiply it by x14, and then multiple that result for each place that has an rvm at the moment. Assuming they're all powered up, i think someone said there was 1400 RVMs in ireland at the moment, i'm hoping i am wrong on that, because otherwise, assuming they're all powered up, or even half of them, thats like 14x1400, or 14x700, = alot of electric overall in total wasted, maybe?

Who knows.

RTE mindful of who the Minister controlling their purse strings is may have noticed they had fallen below their usual weekly mention of climate change during the news broadcasts. Or they believe the amount of time George spends on air regurgitating press releases from greenies and their friendly NGOs justifies his large salary.

I didn`t see it myself, but either way it sounds like a waste of money and airtime.

It seems that Entso-E aren't afraid to put the costs in their reports (at least for the transmission infrastructure). The new ONDP is out now. You'll have to read a couple of the reports to evaluate the Irish proposition and of course remember that the capital costs of the wind farms themselves aren't included, nor are the costs of guaranteed prices for every 1 MW they can produce.

https://www.entsoe.eu/outlooks/offshore-hub/tyndp-ondp/#reports

There was discussions here around GWP variants. I wasn't aware that even if the existing GWP in use was found to be complete bull, we couldn't change to a better metric due to being legally obliged to use the incumbent until 2030. Mad stuff.

A nice peer reviewed paper on livestock emissions here - https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.15212/ijafr-2023-0107

Ag being screwed. Hopes to cull 200k cattle to reduce emissions that haven't risen in over 60 years!

Seems we're legally stuck with the accounting balls up for another 6 years. Whether by then there's a change or not is too early to tell. Ya'd hope over the next few years much more accurate data will be collected across the board, and better more accurate models in use to try predict the impossible.

The thing that amazes me is that we can't predict weather with any accuracy beyond 120hrs, yet we're to believe predictions for 10,20,50,100 years time

Probably **** a brick myself. Surely there's some major negatives to that craic

You are focused on big businesses but while that may contribute to waste it pale in comparison with a waste which is going on in public service sector. I did a short stint as a security and few times I was sent to a government offices. I wont say which department as it does not matter they are all the same anyway.

So I am walking all night in this big building and huge tele-sales type of offices and not only that there was light on all night everywhere, I noticed about hundred computers on. I was thinking why on earth personal workstations needs to be turned on 24 hours when they are in use just for like 8 hours a day. These were not servers just simple workstation computers.

Next morning I mentioned that to some boss over there and asked if they can not be turned off for the night as that may save some power. She looked at me as if I came from another planet and she said that under no circumstances can they be turned off because staff needs to log in in the morning when they come as that is their clock in system. Oh and by the way she did not like me talking about wasting power so she asked my manager to send someone else instead.

These are the people who then go around and preach environmental stuff and tell you about what you should do to save the planet.

Exactly, well said! i been preaching the same kind of stuff in the new recycling scheme thread and been called delusional and a liar for it.

Things like "Green Tax" give companies the green light to keep polluting the earth and wasting electric as long as the government get their cut of the money.

Fines in general are like "ah thats fine aslong as you have the money to pay for it you can do it and get away with it, aslong as you can afford it" and doesnt actually stop the behavior. All this stuff can be summed up as "you can continue doing this aslong as you pay us, aslong as we make money from you doing it, its all good". they don't work and people are only profitting from the problem via the tax/fine instead of actually doing anything about it.

the green stuff being paraded around by businesses is usually a PR stunt, pandering for profit, or virtue signalling.

he does know how to spend a lot of our money !

I note involvement of people from the Irish Center for High End Computing (ICHEC) in compiling that report. Output from the usual RCP/SSP model parameters are peppered thoughout. As I've said before, these "scenarios" are devoid of any predictive skill, they are the digital equivalent of Mystic Megs crystal ball.

I saw that on my feed and reported it for "sensationalism and misinformation"

It's official - we are living in the Twilight Zone. Honest to God, no dystopian 80s/90s prediction or conspiracy could have predicted the madness we are experiencing right now.

Almost a seasonal basis now we see floods in some part of the country and of course the usuals come and and point saying "here we are, more evidence of irreversable, human-induced climate change".

No. Here we are with more evidence that climate change policy and intimidation by green zealots is really what is destroying people's lives.

The dogs in the streets know that it is environmentalist nutters preventing the dredging of rivers that is causing the floods in areas upstream. Here is more evidence that the biggest threat to humanity is the "green movement":

"Friends of the Irish Environment"

People complain about the stranglehold the catholic church had on us for decades. At least the catholic church built schools and hospitals and campaigned for other insfrastructure to people's benefit. The new overlords, the environmentalists, clearly want to fill this void. They have a lust for power and control over people. And we are just serving it up to them! Time to put the foot down.