Just found the above chart backing up what I have been saying for years.
Global warming is a wholly natural event, if humanity disappeared tonight, global warming would still happen.
Your paradim is unproven wooo.
A major crisis coming down the tracks is the loss of skilled agricultural labour in the agri sector. This will lock us into land abandonment and monoculture where labour is eliminated. A disaster.
Once labour leaves the land it never comes back and all the essential skills are lost.
Lets say in Ireland we take every single herbivore off the land. What do you think will happen?
i suspect you're going to tell us we're wrong, but the place would probably revert generally to woodland.
are you conflating the terms 'herbivore' and 'livestock' though?
Pseudoscience is never a new "paradigm". You've used the existence of a documentary as proof of the theory. You can't provide any research that demonstrates it. The thread atm amounts to you link dumping over and over.
Exactly, so grazing animals are essential to avoid that happening.
Herbivore & livestock, ruminants. Same thing.
Iv backed up everything i said. It’s just you & the others here chose not to see it. It’s all there, everything.
you’re confusing science with Academia.
We definitely need agriculture and farming. Giving that up would be suicide. But there is plenty of space for nature too in this country.
This is interesting... causes by natural causes and human factors.
But there is plenty of space for nature too in this country.
Where exactly?
Our gardens often are dominated by non-native plants. We obsess over neat lawns meaning that much of the early flowering plants that are so needed by insects and birds don't get the opportunity to flower (do you have a dandelion garden?)
We trim the crap out of our hedgerows. Much of our arable farmland has become monoculture and is still sprayed with chemicals. Our uplands have been grazed to the point that the natural vegetation (bushes, etc) are gone. Out waterways still are being polluted with half being less than good quality and a fifth being either poor or bad...
The water quality at half (50%) of the monitored river water bodies in Ireland is categorised as being at ‘good’ and ‘high’ ecological status. The remaining half are at less than good (50%). Almost one fifth (18.5%) of monitored river water bodies are in poor or bad status and are severely polluted. There has been a 1% decline in the ecological health of monitored river water bodies since the 2013-2018 period,
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Many of the traditional urban habitats have been removed. Take swifts for example - much of their traditional nesting sites are gone now that people use plastic (sealed) eaves.
We like to tell ourselves that there is plenty of space but the reality is that this space has been getting less and less over the years.
Well, the space is there, but the mindset needs to change.
We've a wild old hedge that is currently housing a flock of sparrows. The noise they make in the morning and evening is wonderful.
I feel guilty that I've let it go wild, but that is the mindset we have indoctrinated ourselves with.
Same, for not mowing the lawn in May. You would swear you were committing a great sin by not mowing the bloody lawn in May.
The real problem is that people are rewarded for destroying nature but not preserving or encouraging it. The world economy is based on this.
Nope, not confusing anything. The scientific method includes the ability to produce(and reproduce) evidence of the hypothesis. Savory and you cannot. In fact, Savory claims it's not even possible to measure the impact.
Who ever suggested such a thing apart from you.
It has been reproduced. There’s 30 million hectares around the world under holistic management. And growing year on year.
In all different environments on several continent’s.
Then we have the studies that actually indicate the effects were wildly exaggerated. Just because the method is used does not mean it's having the effect you claimed. Millions of people use homeopathy that's not illustrating that homeopathy is beneficial for one's health.
rabbits are hebivores, as are hares, etc;. not the 'same thing' as livestock.
might sound nitpicky, but it's a basic mistake to make.
Can say the same thing about modern medicine, Millions of people are on medication yet healthcare problems seem to be skyrocketing across the globe.
What are you actually trying to say!? are yee trying to say regenerative agri is a bad thing?
And your point?
Absolutely brilliant, it’s the mindset. Our decision making.
It’s the simple & little things like what you suggest that would make a huge difference.
They wouldn't since agribusiness is one of the primary culprits. Citizens changing their personal attitude can have marginal impact. Citizens have access and control over a tiny fraction of Irish land.
Until the agriculture moves away from pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilizers the country will always have systemic environment issues. As is typical we fall for the trap of blaming individuals for systemic issues which are totally out of their control. Meanwhile it's business as usual with the agri and petro industries
You'll be disappointed to hear about "business as usual with the agri" having already met and exceeded targets for 2030
I think the fertiliser one will see a creep back up this year as skimping on it will have left land hungry, soil testing schemes will have highlighted land that needs extra and the prices have come down again.
What this user has said is quite true. Evry 10,000 years the Earth warms up. The warming lasts about 150 years and then it starts to cool down again. The reason for this is that as the Earth orbits around the Sun it gets closer and closer every years. At the 10,000 year mark it is closert to the Sun and starts to warm up. In the next 150 years it starts to speed up it's orbit around the Sun. This causes it to go out further from the Sun. The average distance from the Sun is about 93,000,000 miles. At times it is closer and at times it is farther. When it is the farthest away it is the coolest. Hence the Earths temperature raises and lowers as the cycle goes on.
It is said that Human Beings are causing the global warming to occur. This is not quite true. While some of it is our fault, not all of it is. Even if there were not any Human Beings on Earth the Planet will warm up and cool down. It may just not do it as much. Human Beings only cause about 5% of the global warming. The Earth would still warm up. Instead of get to a maximum of about 150° F. on the deserts, it would get to a maximum of about 170° F. on the deserts. As for the poles they will not completely melt away. There will still be plenty of ice on them to keep the Earth from getting so hot that all life would be destroyed by the temperature. We humans would adapt to the hotter temperatures and then re-adapt to the cooler temperatures.
What killed off the Dinosaurs was not global warming or global cooling. What killed off the Dinosaurs is a huge asteroid that hit the Earth and made it unlivable for 90% of the life that existed. There were no Human Beings on Earth at that time. If there were, we would also not have survived it.
What will kill us all of just as fast as the Dinosaurs were kiled off is if we have a nuclear war. The radiation would destroy all life. And the pressure on Earth would rise the point where the Earth would break apart into another asteroid belt like the on between Mars and Jupitor. It is thought that what caused that asteroid belt is when Jupitor was captured by the Sun and pulled into our Solar System, the gravity if Jupitor destroyed a planet that was just out beyond Mars. If Jupitor did not destroy that planet we would now have 10 instead of only 9 planets.
Albert Enemasub
Every little bit help’s.
If even 20% of people on this island followed bits & pieces of the All Ireland polinator plan that’s still better than nothing.
There’s so much low hanging fruit that would make all the difference.
Your estimates are absolutely wrong even if the principles you describe are right. Your talking about the milankovich cycles and at the moment they indicate we should be in a cooling period not a warming period. That means that nearly all warming that is currently happening is man made and the underlying cooling caused by the milankovich cycles is masking even more human induced warming.
a little knowledge...
Ho hum, another month, another record. Hottest February on record, CO2 emissions up YoY, 1.5C 'limit' to be breached... Just another year on this overheated and overheating planet.
do we even have any kind of plan for food security going forward? i would imagine climate change will affect food supply drastically and we already eat mostly imported food.
Very difficult for Ireland to even consider some sort of food self reliance given the increased volitility of our weather. If we were food independent we would be lurching from famine to famine.
The Aphelion (furthest) is in July, and the Perihelion (closest) is in January. The tilt of the Earth has more effect that the distance.
Isn't Ireland an exporter of food? Seems like, reduce exports means closer to food security. This doesn't make 'economic sense' today as it's cheaper to import some food than grow it, and some things (citrus, warm-weather fruit & vegetables) won't grow here, but diets can adjust, even during the great famine there was plenty of food.
As for a plan, well, this is Ireland. Plan? We don' need no steenkin' plans!
We produce mostly beef and dairy and export 90% of it or something. Most of the food we actually eat is from abroad, look at where all our fruit and veg and grains come from in supermarkets.
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