Climate Morons on The Late Late Show

Motivator wrote: »

Are these people actually serious with this climate carry on? Why do they all look and sound the same? Specky twats with terrible names and even worse fake accents.

When will this end?

They remind me of my experience at secondary school. There were a few students in my class that were ‘ loud mouths’ . They grasped at any opportunity to expound on anything. Would lead any protest /strike, had an opinion on everything, etc, etc. they ended up being solicitors, judges, barristers, advocates and suchlike. It was the same in the class behind and ahead of me. They sure knew what they were doing - using every opportunity honing their skills / developing a profile- irrespective of what the subject was.
Just wondering what they all will be doing 10 yrs from now re the environment..-
- no more overseas holidays?
-eat locally produced food only or at most has to be grown/ produced in Ireland?
-Buy and ware clothes manufactured in Ireland and from Irish woven fabric?
- become vegans or vegetarian?
- only live in an A rated house.
-above house re heating and hot water via solar panels
- own one EV if a car is a must and only to the size required.
- walk to services , work, shops, etc where distance is reasonable.
- use public transport at every opportunity.
- purchase good quality rain gear and that’s warm so that wet weather is not an excuse to avoid walking for exercise/ going to shop.
- etc
-etc
-etc
-etc
OR WILL THEY CHERRY PICK and say ‘ Look at what I am doing, what are you doing’

gozunda wrote: »

I'd disagree. The thing is that extensive animal farming uses few routine insecticides. The single biggest users of insecticide spraying in agriculture worldwide is in arable and horticultural type production - which we have a fairly low amount of due to the topography and climatic conditions in this country.

A significant decline in species diversity has been recognised for some time and predates much of the current hysteria and alarmism (and no that does not deny climate change btw).

According to research with regard to species loss and extinction



https://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/E6089

Again back to the root cause or elephant in the room that much of the current movement is ignoring - the burgeoning human population and the multitude of environmental impacts that entails.

Having houses built big enough to fit an elephant in a room is environmentally unfriendly and we should stop doing it. Also ban kicking cans down the street. Pick them up and put them in the bin

easypazz wrote: »

You are 36 and you sit in on a Friday night watching the Late Late?

Somebody has to be there to make Mammys cocoa while she keeps asking " when is Uncle Gaybo on?"

Re China

riffmongous wrote: »

They also have much much higher populations so there has to be more emissions

Not so.

China went past European per capita emissions in 2014

According to World Bank data China had the highest emissions of greenhouse gases in the world and climbing whilst their per capita emissions now above the EU average. 

China continues to commission hundreds of new coal fired power stations and provides expertise and resources to build coal power stations for other countries such as Pakistan etc. China remains the single biggest emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide. Funny how all that keeps getting swept under the carpet.

https://youtu.be/ywy5aSjP7J0

Dr. Bre wrote:

Over population a massive problem. Less population less demand to eat meat and to drive everywhere etc.. of course a cull can’t be mentioned without upsetting people so we will carry on polluting and pointing the finger at each other

A cull!

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Having less kids is the ultimate contribution you can make to help avert climate change. People don’t seem to want to do that though, so they get a bit moralistic and self-righteous to make up for it. Abortion is good for the environment.

The trend is for smaller families, but they still build one-off houses the size of a hotel to live in, with the obligatory SUV out front and pile of easily broken plastic toys.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

China has also far exceeded investments into alternatives than an other country

Ha ha. So they have. They are manufacturing massive amounts of 'green technology' consumables using hugely polluting coal powered industries and power stations and flogging them to the west and laughing all the way to the bank. You couldnt make it up tbh.

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/

Wanderer78 wrote: »

....because caring for the environment is kinna dumb

No, caring is good, but this nonsense has little to do with genuine care for the environment. If it did then there would be well-researched points made, not false hyperbole that is easily proven to be over-exaggerated.

What have you personally sacrificed in support of their quest?

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

To anyone calling these ppl “morons” please please please I would implore you to take some time out and do a bit of research about climate change and what is likely to happen unless we as a planet don’t get this under control.

Climate change is really exaggerated by these morons

Climate change is getting worse in some places and better in others.

We can change it but it will take more than individual effort. It will take a synchronized effort to more away from carbon based energy by the entire planet. That’s the scale of the task here folks.

Fixed your post for you to make it more accurate.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

At least they're making a major effort compared to the rest of us, maybe the pollution caused by their rapid increase in fossil fuels has them thinking, this isn't good

Are they? This from the link above

The target is for the country’s coal-fired capacity to continue to grow until peaking in 2030.

(This) would enable China to build 2 large coal power stations a month for the next 12 years, and grow the country’s capacity by an amount nearly twice the size of Europe’s total coal capacity.

If this happens it could single-handedly end any chance of keeping global warming below 1.5C, and also conflicts with the 2C target, with even a conservative analysis of the goal requiring that China cut its coal capacity by roughly 200GW by 2030.

The Chinese government has not adopted the industry proposal, but it is under consideration.

Its called greenwash and China flogging us these green consumables means that we are contributing to supporting Chinas predominately coal powered industries and its position as the biggest emitter of ghgs worldwide.

Gaoth Laidir wrote:

What have you personally sacrificed in support of their quest?

I consume little, as the activities of the creation and life cycle of most of our consumables are anti-environmental, a large proportion of the wealth created also doesn't trickle down, it actually trickles up. of course I could also do more, but it would make life extremely difficult to exist, impossible at times. Not only do things need to change at the individual level, but most critically, at a much higher systematic and institutional level, this won't be easy

Motivator wrote: »

Ireland represents 0.06% of the worlds population. What we do in this country has absolutely no impact on the world’s climate. At 36 years of age, I really don’t need to be lectured by some jumped up privately schooled toadface on a Friday evening telling me to buy second hand jeans in order to save the planet.

If you're response to a debate is arrogant dismissal without open minded research, then I'd argue you du need to be lectured.

Alsi, n Irishman taking a short hop flight doesn't suddenly has less impact on the environment then an American does.

Climates don't react to political borders.

vriesmays wrote: »

A generation brainwashed by women teachers. Less than ½ a % of the atmosphere is carbon and a small amout of that is produced by industry. Yet these fools think putting glass screens over fridges in supermarkets will make a difference.

It the "women teachers" that are to blame.

The amount of hysterical ****e been posted here is unbelievable.

smurgen wrote:

Running a car is so expensive in Ireland I would gladly switch to public transport if it was reliable and clean.it is literally a third world level service in Ireland however.last night in cork I waited 1 hour twenty in the cold to get a bus in town.on the bus eireann live tracker there was meant to be three busses with me in that time.the government in nothing but a pr effort at this stage.

I personally think multiples of billions of investment is required immediately into public infrastructure here, in order for carbon tax initiatives to be affective, which I suspect may never happen, which in turn, makes me believe, it ll largely fail here, and have very little effect in decarbonising our economy, I could be wrong of course

CalamariFritti wrote: »

So your conclusion is that nobody is going to do anything out of fear that all the others won't do anything either and so doing something would put you at a serious disadvantage. And what difference is anyone on their own going to make anyway - unless China...and socialism

And then we hope that it all goes away or turns out to be nothing to begin with.

Is that the plan then?

That's exactly what will happen. Do you honestly think that Non European countries are not going to try and take economic advantage of Europe plunging itself into Green Socialism?

It's a game of thrones out there. Leaders will do whatever they can do to consolidate their power. "Climate Action" ain't going to go down well to Indians and Pakistanis. European style Carbon Taxes in Nigeria or Bangladesh will have a leader dragged through the streets.

Uber Liberal Globalist Leaders will be laughed out of the 3rd World. Us doing something and the others doing nothing, will only hand over our political and economic power. And they won't be as nice to us, as we are to them.

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

This climate frenzy is satisfying the age-old fantasy of many young people; to get on the telly and be famous. Doesn't matter if they come across as ridiculous. Where do these American accents come from? I worry about the future, not due to climate but due to the breed of idiots we're bringing up.

Good thing those 'morons' are the ones actually thinking about valid future problems that youre ignoring