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

No lots and lots of taxes solve climate change. Dont be daft.

I used to care and now I really don't. I can't change peoples' minds to do the right thing and many are willfully ignorant. I cycle mostly and the hatred (and it is hatred) towards cyclists is just completely unreasonable and selfish. People actively try to inconvenience and injure cyclist all the time.

You have the anti-science people arguing about anything to say climate change is not real.

I have no kids so it won't affect me much but it is your kids and grand kids that will suffer.

I live very lightly not that will make any difference.

The real thorn that no one wants to grasp is that to make a real difference we would have to lower our standard of living to make a real change.

I love how the argument fall in to the same categories all major human crisis have.

The God argument : atone for your wicket ways and return to a pre oil society.

The no God argument : there is no god technology will save us man is in charge.

Each person on this earth is like a mini-radiator, and due to media etc nowadays everyone wants the jet set lifestyle with cars etc. Our world population was 1 billion in 1800 and now is over 8 billion and increasing, and many people in African and middle eastern countries and 5 -8 in a family and each of those have 5 to 8. It is unsustainable for our climate and planet.

If you google it, you will see " The world's population is more than three times larger than it was in the mid-twentieth century. The global human population reached 

8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998"

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Suggestions???

What are the benefits of having the second highest charges for electricity in Europe, which under the presently proposed 37GW offshore wind/hydrogen 2050 plan would go even higher and have the consumer footing the bill for a strike price of 2.5X that of the U.K. ?

A proposed plan that would after costing over €200 Bn. still not deliver anything close to our estimated 2050 demand. Clean air is great, but nobody every lived off fresh air.

I have never said we should just continue to use fossil fuels. What I have said is that we need to get off fossil fuels for generation, but in a way that will not devastate our economy. I have posted data here numerous times showing that is what would happen with this current proposed plan that I do not recall you contesting.

So rather than attempting to misrepesent what I said, lets see your figures of how that is possible from what you propose that would not turn our economy into a basket case, rather than being a continuous sanctimonious hurler on the ditch.

I have no doubts you would like to forget about that €200 Bn as it is the capital costs for 37GW of offhore turbines that will only generate 7.4 GW for demestic consumption where our needs are projected to be double that, plus the capital costs for hydrogen production. In 2019 U.K. capital cost for offshore were £2.37 Bn. per GW.(€2.81). In the last two years those costs have have risen by 60% according to the wind industry so that now becomes €4.5 Bn per GW. For that 37 GW that will only supply 7.4 GW 50% of our 2050 requirements that is a total for just the capital costs of of offshore of €166.5 Bn. €22.5 Bn per GW. Poland recently signed contracts with Westing house for nuclear (that has over double the capacity factor and over double the lifespan of offshore wind), for €13.5 Bn per GW. And South Korea would have done it for even less.

The present Contract for Difference in the U.K. is €100 per MWh. and we have another auction for offshore coming up where I very much we will get the same rate or less, but lets say we do. That €100 per MWh for the consummer becomes €200 per MWh as 50% of the generation is for hydrogen production which nobody other than the consumer is going to be paying for, plus the strike price for hydrogen on top (currently according to a poster that favours this plan €21.6 Bn per GW), plus the cost of converting this hydrogen back to electricity, plus that the consummer will be paying for all these offshore companies can generate even if we neither need or want it as guaranteed by Eamon Ryan.

So tell me from that where you see this hairbrained wind/hydrogen providing electricity at a price that will not sink our economy ?

The companies creaming it due to the increase in gas prices (the blame for which much of that can be laid at Germany`s door with Putin`s gas, the country Irish greens were falling over themselves praising and following), if the really can generate electricity at the prices they claim are the renewables. Under the marginal pricing policy, another policy that green fingerprints are all over, renewables get paid the same rate as the most expensive source in the generation mix. Regardless of how low that percentage is. Renewables have not made our prices lower. If we were using 100% gas our prices would be the same. We have the second highest in Europe, topped only by Germany that other great advocator of wind whose economy is having serious problems due to their elecectricity prices.If there is anything we should learn from Germany when it comes to generation it is that.

This idea that we are going to make a fortune selling electricity via interconnectors is absolute nonsemse. For one, we will not have enough for our own needs. And two, when there is a demand when wind drops of the scale for extended periods for Europe it does the same here. For 2023 four of the five net exporters of electricity in Europe were countries that use nuclear in their generation mix. For 2024 French electricity net exports grew by 80% compared to 2023. And that wasn`t just during Dunkelflaute. It was throughout the year. Sweden and Norway are seriously cheesed of with these interconnectors where Germany has been bleeding them dry resulting in massive increases in prices for their own consumers. Norway are threatening not to renew the agreement on the "Denmark Cables"

All that will be flowing through our interconnectors, same as now with the U.K., is nuclear generated electricity to keep our lights on. Something the U.K. who are themselves net importers of electricity, are making rumblings on. Energy security, meet reality!