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    #2612
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If all the protesters got the snip we would have solved the problem in a generation, kinda..

    A snip for the planet
    https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/10/22/3874251.htm


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    #2613
    mgn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    Micky 32 wrote: »
    Speaking of that, where is the electricity going to come from to meet supply and demand to the midlands?

    It doesn't matter where, but closing these looks good for these idiots.
    China opening hundreds of new coal powered stations every year, but thats okay.


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    #2614
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    mgn wrote: »
    It doesn't matter where, but closing these looks good for these idiots.
    China opening hundreds of new coal powered stations every year, but thats okay.

    They had always planned to close them anyway, it’s nothing to do with climate change the closures. They are now using it as an excuse.


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    #2615
    mgn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    Micky 32 wrote: »
    They had always planned to close them anyway, it’s nothing to do with climate change the closures. They are now using it as an excuse.

    https://www.esb.ie/our-businesses/generation-energy-trading-new/midland-stations

    That was not the plan,


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    #2616
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    mgn wrote: »
    https://www.esb.ie/our-businesses/generation-energy-trading-new/midland-stations

    That was not the plan,


    Like everything else minds were changed a lot over the years, these were recent plans, go back further years. They actually had Lanesboro closed for a while some years back.


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    #2617
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    mgn wrote: »
    It doesn't matter where, but closing these looks good for these idiots.
    China opening hundreds of new coal powered stations every year, but thats okay.

    China are actually using more renewable sources, coal consumption has been in decline since 2009, it's still very high but it's coming down


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    #2618
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,934 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Remember when we stopped using video tapes and onto DVDs. Dd all the video tape makers starve to death or just find something else to do?

    That will happen again.


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    #2619
    SeanW
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭SeanW


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    China are actually using more renewable sources, coal consumption has been in decline since 2009, it's still very high but it's coming down
    One should take anything to do with the PRC with ... forget a pinch of salt ... more like an entire salt mine.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYY1TjRigl8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYY1TjRigl8 (In case you can't see the video).
    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    So far off their trolleys that they want us to emulate North Korea. I can imagine that it wouldn't take much for them to start killing people, the more demented ones anyway. A mixture of religious Puritanism and Communism.
    Exactly. This problem has been known for hundreds of years, back in the 1700s William Pitt the Younger described XR and Greta Thunberg types explicitly. He said:
    Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
    The Junior Pitt could well be describing some in this thread!

    Socialists always create divisions of some sort and always use "Necessity" as justification for evil. National Socialists promoted the necessity to build a leviathan state divided around ethnicity. Marxist Socialists promoted the necessity to build a leviathan state divided around class and a "proletarian revolution" In both cases as history records, everything quickly went South, Marxist Socialists slaughtered 100,000,000 people in the last century, National Socialists 20 million more.

    Yet today, right here, we have those claiming "necessity" again, to build a leviathan state around "green ideals" ... the sole purpose seeming to be to reduce the Irish people to little more than Soviet era serfs ... The more things change, the more things say the same.


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    #2620
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Well said. Our current pace of life is not one that can continue. We need to cut back in every aspect of life

    Stop being a begrudger, thanks.


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    #2621
    blueshade
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    I loved that photo of Moan of Arc with her new friend Leonardo Di Caprio. NO mention of his private jets or his superyachts though. Guess she's selective about who she criticises or maybe she was just looking for a free boat ride to Spain.


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    #2622
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Hypocrisy of the highest level


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    #2623
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,934 ✭✭✭20Cent


    blueshade wrote: »
    I loved that photo of Moan of Arc with her new friend Leonardo Di Caprio. NO mention of his private jets or his superyachts though. Guess she's selective about who she criticises or maybe she was just looking for a free boat ride to Spain.

    How do you know she hasn't mentioned those things?


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    #2624
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    20Cent wrote: »
    How do you know she hasn't mentioned those things?

    Got a link to where st Greta has criticised her obscenely wealthy mates? All her angry bile is directed at ordinary people. The circles she hangs around in are exempt from the sacrifice that she demands. Governments, media, Ngos and theirs globalist string pullers, the entire established system, approve her, obviously. They wouldn't give a platform to someone, or some idea that threatens them, would they?


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    #2625
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    The boat that they made such a big deal about her travelling to the US on is owned by a lad linked to Formula 1 car racing. Those cars run on fossil fuels to the best of my knowledge.


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    #2626
    high_king
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭high_king


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    The boat that they made such a big deal about her travelling to the US on is owned by a lad linked to Formula 1 car racing. Those cars run on fossil fuels to the best of my knowledge.

    I wonder did our new un-elected world leader Greta lecture him about F1's effect on the environment ?

    Sure travel by a multimillionaire's private yaught is viable for everyone.

    Any word yet on how she's proposing to travel back ?


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    #2627
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,239 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    biko wrote: »
    I think the climate change pill would be easier to swallow for many people if it didn't come wrapped in nutjobs.
    To be honest it seems like just another anti-capitalist "revolution" and doesn't seem serious at all.
    And Greta "I can see CO2" isn't helping.

    extinc_rebel-800x480.jpg

    Exactly.


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    #2628
    high_king
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭high_king


    biko wrote: »

    extinc_rebel-800x480.jpg

    This image is a pretty good analogy of some of the bull shyte they expect people to unquestionably swallow.


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    #2629
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,934 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Deniers won't listen to anybody.
    Disingenuous to suggest it's the protesters fault they are still ignorant.


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    #2630
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    20Cent wrote: »
    Deniers won't listen to anybody.
    Disingenuous to suggest it's the protesters fault they are still ignorant.

    cartoon_climatechangeprayer.jpg


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    #2631
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,934 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    cartoon_climatechangeprayer.jpg

    Climate change is rational and scientific, it's the deniers who act in a religious way.


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    #2632
    HorrorScope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭HorrorScope


    20Cent wrote: »
    Climate change is rational and scientific, it's the deniers who act in a religious way.


    Really? Would you mind reading the bollix spouted below and repeat that with a straight face?

    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Yeah, life isn't fair. We in the West will have to reduce what we're used to too.

    Foreign holidays, a heavy meat diet, private cars, a throwaway lunch etc etc will all be as alien to an Irish person in 2050 as they will to a Tanzanian of the time.
    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Ah I dunno, I tend to think that that the re-wilding should be fine but it's only part of it. Obviously we'll need government departments/projects looking after the rehousing of former rural dwellers, bringing transport etc and stuff up to scratch in the cities. Our EU partners can help out with this, we're not the first country to embark on this path.
    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    I have answered your question. Natural wastage (i.e. farmers packing it in) and expanding natural parks via CPOs.

    I dunno about you, but I wouldn't fancy living in my one off house if bears and wolves and deer and all other animals are being re-introduced and the roads gotten rid of in my area. But sure stick around if you want.


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    #2633
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    high_king wrote: »
    This image is a pretty good analogy of some of the bull shyte they expect people to unquestionably swallow.
    20Cent wrote: »
    Climate change is rational and scientific, it's the deniers who act in a religious way.
    Look at the Religious Iconography there !


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    #2634
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    20Cent wrote: »
    Climate change is rational and scientific, it's the deniers who act in a religious way.

    Ah would you ever cop on to yourself, climate change activitists are a recognised cult at this stage.


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    #2635
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,674 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    20Cent wrote: »
    Climate change is rational and scientific, it's the deniers who act in a religious way.

    Science died when so called scientists got behind the religion and stopped being open minded and questioning.

    I wonder if you even know what is the most potent greenhouse gas?


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    #2636
    [Deleted User]
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    So boards.ie is does not support climate change science? Am I reading this correctly?


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    #2637
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    So boards.ie is does not support climate change science? Am I reading this correctly?

    No your not reading it correctly, most Boardies don't accept the bull**** peddled by Greta and co but know there is a problem.


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    #2638
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,674 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So boards.ie is does not support climate change science? Am I reading this correctly?

    It's a religion, not a science. Real science is always open to question.


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    #2639
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    Can climate believers here please lead by example and put down their phone....

    Carbon neutral??


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    #2640
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    So boards.ie is does not support climate change science? Am I reading this correctly?

    Your carbon footprint by using a device hooked up to a broadband provider is off the scale.


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    #2641
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,934 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Ah would you ever cop on to yourself, climate change activitists are a recognised cult at this stage.

    Cults believe in things with no scientific proof.
    There is more proof of climate change than any religion.


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