"Green" policies are destroying this country

@cagefactor

Unfortunately they have. Although it only covers new-builds rather than new boilers themselves.

I've been offline for a couple of days so I missed the whole thing with gas and oil boilers.

Am I right in thinking the GP are trying to ban all new sales of fossil fuel boilers from 2025?

So if my highly efficient condensing gas boiler that I put in 2011 breaks down in dec 2024 then I will have to spend 60k plus to retrofit my 1966 home to the standards to allow a heat pump to work?

Surely not?

Yes, that is plan from the insane asylum. I wonder how ER plans to block people from importing replacements from elsewhere. Even the EU which typically do SFA about Ireland's multiple transgressions of the spirit of various EU policies might take an interest.

I know, it will be a BRT - boiler registration tax, where 70% of the current market value of a heat pump will be added to the cost of any boiler you try and import. Works for cars and the EU have been happy to sit on their hands over VRT so BRT should get a pass.

My god.

This most certainly is a new low.

Is there anyway maybe he was misunderstood in this interview or press release or something?

Surely some of the sane politicians will start pointing out that this is completely unworkable?

I think I’ll write an email to him and his party just to clarify what I do in the scenario I outlined above- cause I sure as hell won’t be taking on a loan to retrofit the house- I’ll have to get parts on the black market or something!

Lol! A black market for boiler parts- we are turning into a communist state!

I presume a retrofit means losing your fireplace or stove? You’d be mad to give that up in the current climate, it could end up being the only heating method left.

"Boilers in around half a million homes built during the construction boom from 2000-2010 are also approaching end of life and are due for replacement soon.

Energy and Climate Minister Eamon Ryan said the replacement of fossil fuels with fossil fuels could not continue.

“What we need to do now is make it absolutely clear for people that we are switching away from fossil fuels and switching to better alternatives,” he said." https://m.independent.ie/news/environment/details-of-ban-on-gas-and-oil-home-heating-systems-to-be-known-within-weeks-41954294.html

I see little scope for misinterpretation there.

With "intense" rain forecast for tomorrow on top of today's rain, this is shaping up to be the wettest September recorded.

It seems we are not going to get comfort of a grey area in between draughts and floods.

People still don't believe the climate is in crisis!?

Yeah I actually had to check the date and make sure it wasn’t April 1st.

ffs the GP are coming up with these ideas and completely ignoring the real world effects. How are they getting away with it is beyond me.

I don't know why you're posting links from 16 years ago, the warmest September on record in Ireland was last September.

This is how climate change works, the previous 'extremes' become normal weather.

And the 'Ice age' didn't end, we are still technically in an ice age, but we're in an 'interglacial period'

The most likely way the ice age will actually end, will be because Humans screw up the atmosphere enough to push us into a new equilibrium sometimes called 'hothouse earth'

This can happen if enough GHGs are released that warm the planet enough to trigger positive feedbacks that mean human emission reductions will no longer be enough to halt climate change (this is referred to as 'runaway climate change')