Global warming

I will support policies which have a demonstrable positive impact on emissions. Theres no faith based belief here - if it doesn't work then I won't support it.

However adaptation is not a solution to the magnitude of climate change we face. It's a trope of climate change deniers. If all we do is adapt them many people will simply die as climate change will continue a pace and outstrip our ability to adapt.

sorry chief but your failing to realise that commercialism and humanity striving to better itself is directly linked to requiring more and more energy which means more and more carbon being released.
To reduce carbon emissions we have to reduce consumption.
That’s not something humanity is willing to do.

And you think the Green Party are going to be our saviours…Just how naive are you? We are talking about the party that blocked the Galway city bypass, because it would allow cars to travel faster which to them meant more emissions, which is not quite how engines work. Now there are cars trying to get through Galway city stuck in traffic, with engines idling, putting plenty emissions into the athmosphere and going nowhere fast, instead of going around the city, at the vehicle's optimum speed, at it's engines optimum RPM for the gear they would be in, which on a bypass, is usually top gear, for the speed they would be allowed do!

It's godwinning is all it is. Is this a global warming thread, or a bash the green party thread? I think those are different topics, frankly. Maybe this should be the 'global warming denier thread?'

And once again, Green Party supporters show how much they know about internal combustion engines and how they work. Several thousand cars/truck/vans idling while stopped in a city centre emit more damaging emissions than those emitted by several thousand cars/trucks/vans moving along a bypass at their optimum speed, where the engine is working in the optimum gear for the optimum RPM at that speed, fulfilling the purpose of the car/truck/van, which is moving goods and people from A to B, preferably without long durations of being stopped in a city centre causing emissions fir no purpose!

As to those that blocked the bypass, as far as I know, it was the Green Party member, who was representing the Green Party, who led the group in the charge for blocking it.

Now do us all a favour and learn how engines actually work.

It's been shown that every road that's built generates more traffic overall. So building roads is not the magic bullet to reducing emissions no matter what their impact on per trip efficiency is. Then there is the not insubstantial issue that if you build a motorway average speeds increase with substantial increases in fuel consumption as a consequence.

A massive reduction in private road use is actually what is required - but that requires real radical solutions to societal issues that are hard to achieve - such as the 15min Cities concept which has got the right wing zeolots into a meltdown.

No, doesn't totally remove congestion, but it does remove the traffic that is only in a city or town in order to get through it, removing a lot of the congestion from the town or city that has been bypassed….if you want proof just look at Limerick, prior to the building of the tunnel when it often took an hour or more to get through the city on the way to Dublin or Cork or anywhere along those routes. Now the only traffic in Limerick since the opening of the tunnel, for the most part, is that which has business in the city itself, but manageable. Instead of an hour it took in the old days, regardless of time of day, it's a pleasure to drive through with the only congestion really being at the rush hour periods.

And concerning optimal speeds, learn how engines work…. MPG is less going 100 KPH in top gear along a bypass/ dual carriage way/motorway than 0 to 5 kph in first gear being stuck in traffic in the middle of a city or town. Less MPG means less emissions for the distance travelled. What is so hard to understand about that?

read my reply to Podge and again I will say look to Limerick

As to taking it to an appropriate thread.. Why? does the truth offend you? If you read my comment properly, you will see I was answering why Green Party bashing happens in a global warming thread.