"Green" policies are destroying this country

I presume from that statement you have some other "facts" to back that up.

At the end of the day money talks, car manufacturers must make a profit on EVs, if not, both they and the unions will change politicians minds. There are also costs and technical problems maintaining reliable electrical grid operation with unreliable power generation coupled with huge demand for power that cannot be satisfied along combined with unaffordable cars and electricity bills will prove too much.

In theory having much less parts should make EVs cheaper, materials costs combined with all the software development costs and project overruns and product recalls are quite expensive.

• Ford Loses Nearly $60,000 for Every Electric Vehicle Sold
• Volkswagen and BMW Really Need to Save Money on EVs
• Making electric vehicles profitable

There are also the coats and logistics of getting rid of some many ICE vehicles to consider. Everyone is caught in the mania, but at the end of the day the double entry ledger tells it's own story.

I think it is beyond dispute at this stage from the culling cows stance alone of the Irish Green Party and many, if not all, of their supporters that when it comes to agriculture they really are clueless.

George Lee as RTE agriculture correspondent being a typical example. Lee was born and grew up in Templeogue in Dublin and qualifications are as an economist. As a staff member of RTE he took a leave of absence from RTE to become a T.D. When that didn`t work out he was quickly back in RTE to be subsequently appointed agriculture correspondent. Sean O Rourke, (born in Portlaoise and who grew up in and worked in the West of Ireland, and who actually knows something about farming), summed up that appointment on his radio programme when his first question to Lee was, "Well George, other than their being the vacancy, what are your qualifications for the job"

The green driven E.U. agenda is no better and is now being recognised as such with pushbacks on this proposed Naure Restoration Law and the Green Deal. I`m no fan of Monsanto`s Roundup which as far as I can see does nothing much other than kill off everything except their genetically modified plants for their growing season, but the E.U. lumping all herbicides together as being one and the same is simple minded. Bracken is not what could be termed a biodiverse plant species. It`s highly invasive, kills off everything else and is a carcinogenic into the bargain. Asulux is a herbicide developed specifically to kill off bracken but has been banned by the E.U. for a number of years now with nothing to replace it and looking around the country you can see how that is working out. It is allso a hue problem in the U.K. but at least they have recognised that and have reintroduced Asulux over the past few years.

Green have an unerring ability of throwing the babyout with the bathwater when it comes to agriculture. They are hell bent on banning all pesticides and herbicides yet have no answers as to the cause and effect of doing so without alternatives. Environmental Science Europe, an open peer reviewed publication, has pointed out that such a ban will result in a lose of 24 million tons of wheat production in the E.U. 24 million tons is the tonnage that according to the U.N. and others will cause starvation in third world countries if the Russian prevent Ukraine from exporting that tonnage annually.

Gorse when in flower does look attractive but is another very invasive species and very prone, similar to other such plants species worldwide, that when not managed properly results in major wildfires. But then greens appear to believe such wildfires are the result of spontaneous self combustion due to climate change.

Well, that is easy to explain. Observational data does not agree with your model? Change to way the data was gathered to fit with your model. Problem solved..

It is about as unscientific as you can get. To call it pseudo science is being euphemistic..

Confiscating farmers' healthy livestock could be a breach of property rights and thus unconstitutional.

I’m sure the ABP process will delay this for years.

No doubt there'll be a report along soon telling us the shïtë weather so far in July is due to climate change as well.

And if you look at the history of many U.S Cities and towns they had narrow walkable streets, horse drawn and electric trolley cars, trams, all dug up and removed, streets widened to accommodate more cars and parking... that's why no one drives in the U.S as it's all designed around the private car.. Anyway, what are you even arguing about here? The bottom line is we have to move away from unsustainable modes of transport and it's going to happen no matter what...

Well, 'predict' is too strong a word. It is an estimate with widening error margins over time.. i do wish the climatologists would do the same thing. But no, they completely trust the models and their certainty. Really odd given the normal stance of meteorologists about the weather even in the models w % of certainty included. But maybe NOT so strange given the fact that if the alarmists do admit the high levels of uncertainty ( which IS certain by default) the whole thing falls apart hence their constant alarmist attitude egged on by the media. It seems there is a constant 98% certainty about their models even IF their own ( IPCC) reports say otherwise. Compare that w meteorologists about weather patterns, estimates etc. High error margins usually beyond 3 days. We are getting slightly better at 'predicting' the weather. Sometimes it stretches even beyond 5 days! Irish weather is really hard to predict. You want certainty? Get a job as a weather presenter in the tropics..

Whatever happens, it's climate change, caused by us, from Co2 emissions. Any weather event. That is the dogma, the catechism, the article of faith. Thou shalt not doubt the Green God ( or the priests). Infidels will be destroyed. The Green inquisition will take care of you.