Is it too late for Europe and the World. There is fires everywhere.

I believe that this is happening far more quickly than the boffins thought it was going to.

It was always 50-100 years that we had to worry about. Now it all seems to be accelerating, with various positive feedback loops.

They are not even that sure they are monitoring it correctly it’s a very new science although observations go back centuries…exactly the same can be said about climate change.

link if you wish to know more:

https://www.sciencealert.com/something-is-up-with-the-sun-and-it-could-mean-our-models-are-wrong

Yeah cause mercury changed it’s chemical composition magically over 100 years.

You should announce this to the scientific community.

I guess it varies depending on the data, thermometers by 1880 we’re very accurate so were other weather instruments, rainfall, humidity, air pressure. Climate change is new and is based on a hypothesis, I do believe we have an effect on the climate, Global Dimming is a good example of that whereby we are cooling the earth by using air travel, how much effect CO2 has…well I’m not convinced that alone is doing it, we are coming out of a cold age and have been for some time but I don’t think there is any need for all this hysteria at all.

If the powers that be believed what they are saying we would be building on Mountains not on the beach like Al Gore 😂 If we get several summers where we experience several days of 30°+ but we don’t buy snow ploughs to use every 20 years.

From an Irish person's perspective it is someone else's problem. Almost one third of global greenhouse gas emissions are from one country, China.

Take a look at the graph on this page. Ireland doesn't even feature.

If you scroll down there is a list of all countries and we are pretty low on it.

Does that mean we can't contribute and make a difference? Of course not, but we are not the major problem. We all need to do what we can but coming on here and pretending that the reason "we are screwed as a species" is that we all think it's someone else's problem is nonsense. We know what the problem is. We have the data. It can be narrowed down to five countries who need to change their emissions output radically. China, the USA, India, Russia and Japan. If they don't do that, everything everyone else does is as good as meaningless.

Like I said before we can make an effort to not buy goods produced in China, but in todays world that is almost impossible. It would take a global effort involving all major manufacturers and would lead to increased cost of production and cost of goods. It would likely also lead to world war as I'm sure China would not be pleased about it's economy going to ruins due to the green efforts of the rest of the globe.

In the late 90's I think it was, I lived in London when it reached 100 Fahrenheit, on one day only. For weeks we had wall to wall sunshine. It was very hot and especially humid as you usually get in cities. One night I had to chill out in the bathtub for a wile to cool off. It was an old shop building with an apartment above I was living in so not constructed for ventilation.

I recall vividly the grass in the parks were yellow for a couple of weeks as if it were burnt. So we're talking temps of 36 to 38 Celsius for a good two weeks.

What I don't understand is how is it that temps just a couple of degrees higher than that recorded in London today have sparked a number of fires when there was no fires when temps reached 100f in my past experience as I've recounted.

Also, the max temp in the UK was recorded in Heathrow London today at 40.3c. Where did they put the thermometer? On the tarmacadamed airport runway? Heathrow is on the outskirks of London city, you'd expect temps to be higher in the city than in the borough of Heathrow.

My point is, I'm deeply suspicious of the reported recorded record high temps. And as for the fires, and because this is a city where climate activists glue themselves to roads, I'm even more suspicious of what caused them, when they never occurred in similarly hot London weather in the past. It's hardly because 40 degrees is a round figure that sparked the fires.

This is the thing, we are a tiny percentage of the global population. I think we, as a nation, are pretty clued in on climate change and what we can all do to help mitigate it. We are pretty good at recycling, we don't have a massive pollution problem and we are reducing our reliance on fossil fuels year on year. We don't have a huge amount of industry pumping out Co2 either. Public transport could be better, we rely too much on our cars. But that is something we all know and are constantly asking our government to improve. It's up to them to improve the infrastructure.

We have a good collective awareness of our own responsibilities and we talk about the issue a lot. The big polluters globally do not. Their governments don't seem to care nor do many of their population. China needs power, it generally builds a coal fired plant. They built 33GW of coal power plants in 2021. Can you imagine us building a new coal powered plant in Ireland? I absolutely can't see that happening. There would be pushback from the general population.

Welll Germany I hear is starting to burn coal again due to cutting off Russian gas.

Which kinda makes all these net zero policies look ridiculous.

I find this kinda view a bit absurd.

If one could invent a new energy source, even if it was equally as pollutant as what we have, they'd be mega rich.

It's not as if those that invented energy production historically benefit from it's pollutant side effects.

Of course it's in their interest as much as everyone else's for energy production to have no negative side effects. If they could do it, they would.

It's the scientist's that can only fix this one. I believe they are working on an alternative to nuclear fission, think it's called nuclear fusion. Can't elaborate more than that as I'm not a particle physicist. The person that cracks that one will make Elon Musk look like a pauper.