2024 will certainly be the hottest year on record. We're shooting past 1.5c ahead of schedule

We’re not going to solve the climate crisis with wind energy but we’re not going to solve the climate crisis without it.

the only other option outside of renewables is nuclear, but we may never accept this here in ireland, and its not just the greens rejecting this reality….

Let's be honest, the human race doesn't really care about climate change.

If it is the doomsday scenario we are being led to believe it's going to be, then how stupid are we as a species?

I think in general we're nowhere near as smart as we think we are. There are a lot of intelligent people but as a collective we are dumb as ****. Your right about caring. Not enough people care about climate change to help fix the issues.

i actually disagree with this, i do think most are concerned about it, but feel they simply cant do much about it, as their todays problems are more critical to them right now, issues such as climate change are almost abstract, we ve no real clue what is or isnt gonna happen, thats not much good to the average person whos struggling to meet their needs right now, so climate change issues get continually put on the back burner, i.e. we ll worry about it later….

The way I see it, humankind needed to introduce some very hard hitting changes over the last couple of decades to help hold back climate change, but politically the will wasn't there, as the powers that be only care about staying in power, and if you make tough decisions, you usually lose power.

Things like no passenger car ever being allowed to have 3, 4 or 5 litre engines. Absolutely no need. No SUVs allowed to be made, people being given one flight each per year, then taxed heavily for any other flights, total ban of burning of fossil fuels to heat a home. Etc etc. There are literally thousands of changes which could have been forced on the public, as well as corporations, to help the issue but the nettle wasn't grasped.

Oh I fully agree you are talking complete sense here. Which is actually the real shame in all this. bit of wall of text incoming and a few caveats before the response.

Ok going to use 10 for some explanations as it's a round number and people like that. As in these 10 vs 1.

The only way this is going to work is if we do what we did with issues we fixed in the past.

As a species we're really really good at tackling 1 issue at a time in an area.

Remember CFC's, Water Treatment. Smallpox. These were single issues in areas we sorted them and we had a goal we had no political interference. I'm going to focus on Energy here as it's the main thrust of the climate issue.

Now If we took nuclear as our only option this would focus the minds. As we are currently trying to attack 10 issues at a time. Now Nuclear may be the worst option for extractment at this time. But we have never focused on this one issue to make it more environmentally sound as we have not had to. As again we have another 10 in the mix of extraction running all at the same time that interact and actually dwarf the single Nuclear extraction issue. Being the worst in it's current form seems bad. But if you just focused on the one bad issue like we did with CFC's the outcome would be much better than trying to spin plates on the other 10 and their interactions in the wider environment as were not getting anywhere as we're really bad at multitasking.

The 2 subcategories in this are Government and the People.

Government is a simple issue of politics really I.e money at the end of the day and vested interests groups whether private entities with ties. Or just pure greed.

2nd is the people. This needs a way more nuanced approach. The fear and it is real rather than imagined. You need to bring people along with this and dispel 90% of what people fear about nuclear and why we started to. The fear did not just start with commercial reactors again it was nuclear weapons. Carrots work better than sticks. You will find If they said people living x amount from a reactor get free electricity local sentiment would change over night. Expand that to we're going to use taxes to supply free nuclear energy to the economy. Yes it will start expensive but once it filters to the wider economy where energy cost is not passed on to the consumer and things become a lot cheaper in the long run for short to mid range pain. I mean we did that in the crash we got through it. 

I'm not saying it's simple, it's just my 2c.

Wind power is intermitten and unreliable where it has fallen off the scale providing 6% and less for extended periods.

Our proposed plan for 2050 is a 37 GW offshore wind/hydrogen plan that would still leave us using the same, if not more, fossil fuels in 2050 as we are now to fulfill our 2050 requirements at a cost that those proposing it are so affraid to quantify as it would be so expensive it would wipe out economy due to the price of electricity.

But you know all this already do you not !

They have no idea. Humans have been saying it's the end of the world since time and memorial. I think its just the arrogance they assume were a permanent fixture. Were here till were not I will be long dead anyway. Please don't tell them 1 large comet/asteroid would stop all this climate change debate fairly fast. But this Figure is alway pulled out of someone's back side when it's too late or we can't adapt. What they actually mean is they can't fly around the place and buy cheap crap and live at home. People in the real world don't have that luxury.

And don't get me started on climatologists. When did they get a free pass to represent the entire field of science? I mean listening to people going on about this you would not think any other fields exist, all you need is an ologist not a physicist. chemist, biologist. You know the other fields that cant agree within themselves regardless of coming up with a unifying stace in their own field. But no need just get a climatologist. He will tell you why a physicist is wrong about water displacement

How much energy is used to produce/install a wind turbine?

What is the shelf life of a wind turbine?

What happens to wind turbines when they reach the end of their life??