Climate Change.

Tax.

Massive infrastructure costs.

The EU had set a goal for all member states to have 22% SER by 2022. Who's going to pay for this? The tax payer.

None, if your a gob****e building a house too near the sea, a floodplain or a river bank you get exactly what you deserve, the lads in the caves knew this thousands of years ago, no need for some highly paid subsidised scientist to come to any vested conclusion to tell them the basics of nature.

Yep, nothing at all. Tell that to the people of Kiribati.

I'll be long dead before the deadly effects of my flatulence will be felt.

darkpagandeath wrote: »

No it's not, The world will still be here after its uninhabitable to humans. Unless you are talking about when the earth is eaten by the sun turning into a red giant ?

No, the flooding will destroy huge swathes of animal habitats. The ocean temperatures and PH will rise and kill off the majority of marine life. Acid Rain is already killing off massive amounts of forests and we are currently destroying huge parts of jungles that arent going to just regrow out of the sand when we disappear. Its a domino effect. We will bring the world down with us you know

I thought you had your own thread for this nonsense.

I think it's very sad peoples attitude to climate change and how they think they play no role in it or that it doesn't affect them. Wait until we don't meet our emission targets and taxes go through the roof, only ourselves to blame and it's right. Saint Enda Kenny comes out after the Paris agreements and says that climate change is not a priority for the country now, yet a couple of weeks later he's paying how many millions in compensation for flooding...

edbrez wrote: »

Most flooding in Ireland is now blamed on climate change instead of bad planning decisions.

Bad planning and the dredging and redirection of rivers away from their natural courses into cattle grazing fields, large-scale draining of turloughs and bogs for the same reason (both of which are, apart from being unique in their flora and fauna and often legally protected in Ireland, are also major carbon sinks).
What do you think the combined effect of additional methane from loads of new farmers scrambling to take advantage of the lax new dairy quota, and the rapid loss of sinks to store atmospheric carbon?
Ireland's predicted future climate will be wetter and colder - more frequent flooding is absolutely a sign of that.
Also the massive and rapid increase in intensity and frequency of winter storms in the West is another clear sign.
Bad planning has something to do with flooding, of course, but people tend to not see the bigger picture and the cumulative effects of bad planning / global climate warming.

Not sure i agree with the global warming brigade....or at least not to the indisputable extent they make it out to be.

I do agree though that we shouldnt be polluting the planet the way we do.



Theres not enough evidential long term (thousands/millions of years) of data available to see about temperature changes (uptrends downtrends etc)

_Brian wrote: »

Very noticeable in farming. We're in a marginal area but see land remaining wetter each year with increased rainfall and less drying.
Wetter weather leads to leeching of minerals and increased weed growth which costs money.
More winter feeding needed as land is less traffickable. In last 10 years the winter for cattle indoors here has increased by 4 weeks and in parts of the country it's close to 6 month indoors.

All adding to the cost of food production which costs everybody in the long run.

10 years is only a blip with climate, hardly long enough to come to conclusions about climate change. We had colder winters during the 70's milder winters during the 90's nothing startling about having wetter winters now.

It didn't do the neanderthals any favours.