World's hottest day since records began

Dairy , sheep meat , chicken and pork receive very little subsidies. Beef is only subsidised because the end consumer won’t pay the true cost.

Not too many people eat or could stomach ten kgs of soya . World meat consumption is increasing and a larger fraction of that could be satisfied by producing it sustainably here in Ireland .We could benefit from our natural advantages like any sensible nation would.

In Ireland more pollution is caused by human waste than animal waste. The number of water pollution prosecutions initiated by the local authorities over say the last five years show a lot more cases against Irish Water than individual farmers. If farmers are responsible for massive pollution why aren’t they being prosecuted in massive numbers ?

Household water charges should have been implemented as originally proposed and the funds used to upgrade the waste water treatment plants .

Stocking rates are controlled by individual farmers not by the Government. Yes Teagasc made bad policy decisions but at the end of the day individual farmers can reduce stocking rates just as easily as they were increased.

That simply doesn’t make sense. You are implying that every Environment section in every Local Authority has taken the exact same decision not to prosecute individual farmers when they are found to cause water pollution ?

. I didn’t mention septic tanks . I was referring to the inadequate treatment of human waste water at what were local authority plants that have been taken over by UE . These are the cases that are ending up in the courts. It would be laughable if prosecutions could be initiated against a government body but not against an individual farmer.

If you picked up the bill in full for the food that you consume, your country cousins sure would be mighty thankful to you sir.

if we accept that there are no prosecutions for agricultural pollution , and you imply that there should be, can you actually identify who should be prosecuted . Yes or No

This whole debate about Farming causing pollution has me baffled. Either it is happening in certain areas of the country and not in others or else the whole Green argument is bogus. I have lived in a rural area for over 50 years . I have never seen a river or lake that was polluted by farming or by any other industry either.

While I live, over the last 30 years, Farming on 95 per cent of the farms has become LESS intensive not more. What you have now is farmers having a small number of livestock on huge areas of land and the land being cut for hay etc or let go wild. There are probably a number of reasons for why this has happened. Most relate to lack of profitability and the availability of good off farm jobs. There is no demolition of ditches. There is no huge amounts of fertiliser being spread . There cannot be a loss of biodiversity, at least none that can be attributed to increased intensity of farming . I would estimate that this applies to 95 per cent of the county I live in

So what the fcuk are the Greens on about ? And why are people who live and farm around here being demonised?

And I thought they were adding loads of solar to their grid

I don't get it, why is any report on Twitter followed by 99% of responses being people that don't believe in climate change and think it's all a scam? Like the vast majority of people listen to the scientists and think it's real. It's almost like it has been coordinated by Musk since he took over.

I really doubt they're bots though, not the ones on Irish Twitter anyway, they seem like real people, and they're all over every Irish Tweet that mentions the weather

Yip so my 2nd category - "And people employed to pollute timelines, derail timelines for other agendas I reckon" - and not just twitter but other soc media and FORUMS also

I do believe these people are employed by entities with alt views on all this + it wouldnt surprise me people employed by political parties. To an extent its all very anonymous to you and me, no way to verify who is who. Small few might be people who genuinely have an issue with "Climate Change" and also likes of Covid and and and and ..

You must ask how do these people have the time to spend all day tweeting these replies .. Just pick one of there profiles and see where and what else they are tweeting. Its an industry in my view

Yes .. as I said if you look at a few of there profiles on twitter and look at what else they tweet about and where. Gives you good idea. All the above and more you mention. Its is a fulltime job. I also have no doubt that these people are involved in industrial size tweet farms so to speak, in other places like Russia etc ( as is case with malware, ransomware outfits - St Petersburg ). Keep in mind they could be based here in Ireland and Irish but employed by elsewhere

You see, anyone can setup twitter ACCOUNTS for erroneous purposes. To be sure some of these tweeters have numerous accounts on the go, add a believable profile pic and some bio text and you are off. I also administer facebook groups, its a daily fight to keep out all these fake dodgy accounts trying to pass themselves off as "genuine"

So stop thinking of these "people" commenting on twitter as just odd individuals, yes a few might be but most are from above I reckon

There's the bots, theres the shills, and then there are the useful idiots and too far gones.

There's a small group of coordinated actors, sock puppetting and making it look like there's still a scientific debate. This then sucks in onlookers who think there must be fire because there's smoke, and some of them get dragged down the rabbit holes of wingnut conspiracy theories that all feed into one another cross fertilising each other and fueling paranoia and distrust of science and telling people to not believe the evidence in 'mainstream media'

. It really is that simple and it's why such a terrifyingly high number of people in America believe in some or all of the Qanon conspiracies for example

It's incredibly sad that you think the government has to pay the media to report on global extreme weather events

What happened to your brain?