"Green" policies are destroying this country

You have to laugh. Big Wind is blaming European governments for being too focused on price. Because everyone knows that wind power is the cheapest form of energy no matter how much it costs, right? 🤣

From the Business Post ESG briefing...

Wind energy supply chain ‘cannot cope’ with drive for lower prices as inflation ramps up input costs

It is likely ev cars from the east are going to come to market; perhaps on discounted prices. China actually has a problem selling them in their own country. The main issue in the EU is stalled home connectors, remote shut off options (city/state) and the battery issue, the latter ongoing. I can see people's uncertainty resulting in buying 2nd hand ice cars for the moment until they feel the issues settled enough. That could be a while. A lot of ev sales are not 2nd hand but 2nd cars. Keeps the options open and people can pretend they are 'saving the planet'.

Hybrids are still the best bet..

Good they have scope here to reverse this if the need arises

Peat is dead.

Gas is the gap filler out to 2050, oil is the interim solution until gas infrastructure is up capacity. Coal is still possible.

And what is the backup plan when all this "green" electricity fails to be delivered.

The reason why many people are not prioritizing climate change is because they are to busy dealing with the consequences of climate change.

The people of Syria were facing years of drought and crop failures, forcing many country farmers to move to the city's destabalizing the already poor communities. This led to anti government protests and eventually civil war.

The Syrians were not thinking about the climate change that destabalized their communities when they were picking their dead children's out of the ruble caused by Wagner mercenaries bombing their communities.

Neither will most of the people of cork be thinking about climate change as they try to rebuild their lives after the devastating floods they have just faced.

Climate change is easy to ignore when your life is swamped by the crisis that it causes.

Would the rivers being cleaned have helped?

Before (1995):

After: (2013)

And plenty more building done since 2013. But it's nothing to do with building more across flood plains and lack of river dredging and clearing of storm drains, all C02 - no doubt. And all the carbon taxes paid by Midleton residents has done what for the town? Nada.

I expect as much from climate bed-wetters, shoehorning any weather event into their invalid apocryphal beliefs.. This is Clionadh Raleigh in a presentation from 2017 taking an axe to your claims.

This is what she said on Syria during the Q & A.

Whether you like it or not (and frankly I don't give a **** what you like), increasingly natural disasters, regional conflicts and mass migrations are been driven by climate change caused events. The floods in the South of Ireland are just another one to add to the list.

Dredging rivers does not worsen flooding at sea-level estuaries. The causes of flooding in 'estuine cities' is a lack of defence from high tides combining with strong contra-flow winds and also poor to non existent maintenance of local storm drains.

In Midleton the issues were multifaceted - firstly, the volume of water the rivers can carry has decreased owing to silt buildup on the river bed; secondly, the building upon of natural flood plains over the past half century - accelerated in recent decades; thirdly, the lack of flood defences which have been promised time and time again for the town.

The residents have been here before, several times. But nothing gets done. The longer this goes on - the worse it will be from even lesser heavy rain events. Continued silt buildup in the river beds means the carrying capacity of the rivers into the future will reduce further - a 65mm rain event will likely cause as much disruption as yesterday's 80mm did.

If all of Midleton went zero emissions, yesterday's event would still have happened, if all of Ireland went zero emissions, yesterday's event would still have happened, if all of Europe went zero emissions, yesterday's event would still have happened.

Has the penny dropped yet?

Adaptation, like humans have always done is the answer. Nature is not tame, it never was. A small bit of C02 eitherway is not making a damn lot of difference.

That's good news.

I was under the impression that a deposit would be charged for each can/bottle to be returned when you put it in the new facility.

Word for word what John gibbons was saying on the radio earlier.how dare we have common sense and clean up rivers and drains.