"Green" policies are destroying this country

Not sure if that's a dig or not. Or where yer getting the double standards? Care to elaborate?

We tax the renewables too don't we? I don't get what yer on about here now

Good on you, quite correct to analyse the data for yourself to make sure nobody is exaggerating the data - too much of that going on I'm sure you'd agree.

It still should be good news. Depends on the rates though and the Ts & Cs. If it encourages some people to take on the work then that's a positive for sure. There's plenty we can kick the greens, the government and posters on here for, but when good news, and a sensible thing comes along then that should be acknowledged as such.

Seems we have more trees, and are capturing more carbon than we thought

Looks like if trees were outside of forests, they weren't counted. Ya'd wonder how this stuff happens

Does this mean our carbon estimations are incorrect?

Feed models incorrect data, get incorrect outputs

Not surprised by this, the methodology used in alot of scenarios and also in predictions of Climate Change have been questionable to say the least. With a minor fudge here, a slight exaggeration there, a homogenisation of data everywhere - one wouldn't blame you for questioning the whole damn lot.

I suppose we seen something similar during covid - worst case scenario and doom merchants everywhere you turned. Alot of them got it wildly wrong and have now hitched their wagon to climate change too. Nomads looking for a home.

Any chance of an early election so we can once and for all get rid of the green gobshites

Are there any Green TDs elected in your constituency? If not, how are you going to get rid of them? Opposition to the Green agenda in the Dail mostly comes from independent TDs. Follow the money, If there happens to be a trough, there will be pigs. Why do American billionaires channel money into a bundling eNGO called the European Climate Foundation that dishes it out to other eNGOs? A local eNGO bundler is the Irish Environmental Network (IEN) and there is the Green party eNGO called An Taisce. Do you think these people are going to vote against their interests? That's quite a volunteer network the Greens have on the ground to knock on peoples doors. The people who vote for the Green are happy to continue doing so, remember, they actually think that mankind can control the climate, if they can only force everyone to consume the approved products. When Eamon Ryan wants to let wolves lose on rural Ireland, he is appealing to people in urban areas who think rural Ireland should be turned into a wildlife theme park like they saw on National Geographic or Discovery channel.

The people who absorb the cost of green policies don't vote for them, however, of the political parties they vote for, all subscribe to the green agenda. Why? There is money in it and it does not cost them votes. It was FF who signed us up to the Kyoto protocol, and FG who signed us up to the Paris agreement. It does not matter who we elect, Irish laws are set by the EU and those politicians are pushing European federation by means of the green new deal. As you can see from the Dutch example it will take another political party that draws votes again from FF/FG and Sinn Fein before they will stop, alternatively the lack of affordable energy will continue to drive down productivity contributing to a financial crisis.

There was a post yesterday about the Oil industry making massive profits, and the response was ' but oil companies always make enormous profits'

And yet you think the greens are the ones with snouts in the trough

(or climate scientists)

That is all true and depressing. What happensvib The Netherlands remains to be seen. The green transition aspect is still there in the new parties ( BBB and NSC) but they wont be blindly following EU rules. I sense a general growing doubt about 'renewables' and these parties actually have some clear thinking people in them and are likely to support awareness of transition conciousness and the cost involved.

In my eyes the current green route is bound to grind to a halt at some point no matter how much virtual money will be thrown at it. Reality will eventually trump idiocy. It just takes time. The real tragedy is that with increasing demand of hydro carbons those recources will become finite earlier and that a real long term form of sensible energy policy will be hampered by violence of powerful actors to retain resources, old style with war.

In a way the world has been spoiled by easy oil. 'Just stop oil' or green tech are not going to fix the underlying issues. They are too narrow concepts proposed by people who have clearly not thought things through. The lack of understanding by the general public and politicians is staggering but id say the main thing is that doubt has crept in about the green transitition and that other, more pressing matters will be increasingly become important. That's why the greens need a type of fascism currently in action in EU/UN institutions.

We all need the products derived from hydrocarbons to support our standard of living, the productivity the end products enable is the reason Western governments can tax us so heavily, that taxation does have it's breaking point. So yeah, there will always be demand for oil and oil companies in a good year will make profits. Since you are concerned all of a sudden with balance sheets, why are you not panicking at the losses being incurred and the dependency on industrial production from one country that does not subscribe to EU rules.

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Over 95% of Irish citizens live in urban dwellings. The abandonment of the country already happened.

As was said if you choose to live in the countryside you forgo the comforts of the urban amenities.

This is why this Green is moving back to the town after 25years of rural living.

Incorrect with 'over 95%' because 64% is the percentage of the population living in urban settlements. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/455844/urbanization-in-ireland/

However, the numbers of people living in rural locations are increasing:

Source: Ireland Rural Population 1960-2023 | MacroTrends

Rural Ireland is far from being abandoned of people.

In parallel, I came across this today, an interview between a German 30 something year old academic who remains anonymous and Irina Slav. Considering the topics he took on during the lockdown, it is not surprising he remains largely unknown. I agree with much of his observations in this interview., you can listen or read it..