"Green" policies are destroying this country

Certainly.

You're welcome.

Don't you agree it's absolutely amazing that 120 metres of sea level rise since the last glaciation just magically happened to stop a few centimetres short of inundating all these islands? I mean, imagine it had been 121 metres instead of 120. They'd all have disappeared! Unless, of course, there's something that automatically adjusts to sea level rise, including rates that were much faster in the past than they are today. Now what could that be, I wonder?

Somewhere like the Maldives might want to make sure they are not wrecking this natural adaptation with their industrial levels of tourism, at 1.7 million passengers (for a population of 0.5 million) and growing at 15% per year pre-pandemic. Apart from that, what about the CO2 footprint of all those plane journeys?

Well, the poor threatened Maldivians have obviously factored that in -- they have a new 78,000 square metre passenger terminal opening at their main airport next year, which can cater for 7.5 million passengers per year! (A quick check on calculator.carbonfootprint.com tells me that if they hit those levels it would equal about half of Ireland's total emissions reductions target, just from the additional plane journeys. If it was counted against the Maldivians it would give them the highest per capita emissions on planet Earth).

Oh yeah, did I mention that it's being paid for by the climate-friendly development funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait? It'll help funnel passengers to the new Madivaru Airport opened on Lhaviyani Atoll a few months ago, adding to the existing four international and eight domestic airports on the islands.

Yeah, terrified that Antonio Guterres will stop hanging out the begging bowl for them at the UN.

Says the guy advocating for people to get into massive debt to pay for useless heat pumps. You and the greenies couldn't give a hoot about others less fortunate in your pursuit of your idealogy of "zero carbon".

Massive environmental damage around the world for battery technology mining is perfectly fine in the greenie world view. It seems to me you and other greenies are extremely "pro-pollution" in pursuit of your idealogy.

Ireland already uses nuclear power

Nuclear is only 1% of electrical power consumed in Ireland per annum, this is through the inter-connector to the UK. Ireland also use a much higher % of energy sourced via LG and fracked gas imported to the UK and piped via Moffat into this country.

They were supposed to be underwater decades ago. NZ research shows Pacific islands not shrinking

Those islands have another problem, they can't go green, they don't have the land area to devote to solar panels and wind turbines.

In addition, islands in the Caribbean are also subject to hurricanes, the infrastructure gets destroyed. In a world where the Greens impose their targets with scarce fossil fuels, their standard of living reduces quickly to subsistence level being the end of the supply chain and not able to pay the price. Any mass migration will be driven by lack of access to reliable energy bought about by climate change policies not by climate change.

For reference the poster child for random energy is El Hierro, despite millions of Euros invested it still depends on diesel generators. There is no proof of concept anywhere where wind and solar deliver constant and reliable power. When they can't get it to work on a small scale, what do you thing the chances to get it running in a large scale industrialised economy are? Yet that is the lab experiment we are being subjected to.

The problems is we have changes the climate, we have unintentionally changed it.

These were all addressed in the independent reviews

The whole 'Climate Gate' thing was a bunch of stolen emails, being trawled for snippets that can be taken out of context by climate change deniers and conspiracy theorists

There was a study in Nature in 2020 that investigated how wind speeds will change due to climate change and they concluded that the changes will be small, but that in the North Atlantic, the amount of wind energy available for electricity generation may slightly increase

"Global climate non-stationarity is likely to change the resources wind turbine harness and/or the conditions in which they operate, at least in some regions of the world. Research to date has largely focused on potential changes in regions with high WT penetration. Generally, any change in regional wind resources over the course of the current century is smaller than contemporary interannual variability (Table 2 and 3). The uncertainty envelope encompassing projections made using different model tools includes zero (Table 3). In Europe there is some evidence for emerging consensus that the mean annual energy density will increase in the north (for example over Denmark and the United Kingdom) and slightly decrease over the south (including the Mediterranean). In North America there is some evidence of regional declines in the wind resource over much of the western USA, but increases in the region of highest penetration (the southern Great Plains). "

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0101-7

(full text from pre-print below)

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1678722

Whats your point? We do use Nuclear, it is part of our grid. We use it via the 2 interconnectors with the UK, and we will use it as part of our Interconnector with France. We'll have the capacity to use 1.7gw worth of Nuclear power by the time the Celtic interconnector is completed if we need it.

Only if they have 1.7GW to give us when we need it.

Looks like China is forging ahead with as much fossil fuel burning as they are capable of doing.

China doubles down on coal burning in bid to battle energy crunch (thejournal.ie)

Does this negate the efforts of small countries like us to reduce carbon emissions? Should we put up carbon taxes to compensate? :)

I guess they did agree to "peak" their carbon emissions by 2030.

Are you pro-household fuel poverty?

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