Global warming

agreed.
That why I said humans are “in bother”

The planet is fine.

Uhhhh. Pedantic much?

Icecaps are actually not the long term norm.

They've been there a very long time, left during bomb testing but it's recent that the dire predictions are scaring people there:

https://www.sprep.org/news/sea-level-rise-threatens-the-existence-of-the-marshall-islands

Have a look at the article I linked (there are dozens of others) showing 40% of the buildings on these 'atolls' going away due to accelerated sea-level rise, and get back to us.

Sea level rise denying. That's a new one. Must be the oceans are sinking.

Yeah sure if that keeps ya happy.

Point is humans are going to be under pressure, but the planet and its plants, plus the species that evolve to whatever conditions are at any given time- will be A- ok.

The planets grand.

To me the recycling service we had was perfectly good system that did what it was meant to.

For example, I would make a purchase, say a can of cola, and when the contents were used, I would rinse out the can, crush it and put it into my recycling bin.

Now, we make the same purchase under DRS, need to factor in the deposit per item, use the contents, rinse out the can, find someplace safe to store it so no damage happens to it, take it to the collection point where it needs to be pretty perfect going in or it will not register and then the machine crushes it.

And to top it all off, we cannot even cancel the recycling collections, because DRS does not take tetrapaks, the plastic bottles used for milk or the steel cans of the type used for canned fish, fruit, beans etc.

Another Green Party policy that back-fired on them, because I have yet to hear anyone in real life say anything good about the DRS.

We all know behaviours needs to change, but the people of this country are at the edge of what they can afford already, and the Green Party are just adding tax and levies one after the other. The result is what we saw in the local election and European election results. People have been turned away from the Green movement.

You are claiming we are missing targets and I do agree with that statement, but were the targets ever viable in the first place. Only today there is a report that emissions are up 7%, as people are actually switching back to ICE and away from EVs because theere is no proper infrastructure for EV. That is putting the cart before the horse.

The funny thing is this is not the first time it has occurred. A hundred years ago the same battle between ICE and EV occured and ICE won for the same reason it is winning now - convenience. You can fill ICE cars with fuel in 5 minutes and travel further than EV, where as the infrastructure is not there to charge EV cars and it takes lot more than 5 minutes to charge them for any appreciable range.

Well sorry, but that's not how I, along with many others, see it. CAP 2021 was introduced by the department of the enviroment, which at the time, was under Eamon Ryan's direction, and was only published 3 weeks before the planning decision was announced. The planning process for the road had been in the works for at least 6 years at that stage and did take into account the previous CAP. You could say that it was 6 years work flushed down the toilet due to a Green Policy. To tell the truth, I'm suprised, considering the sums of money involved that ABP did not appeal the decision.

So the government can use stuff like this an excuse for more taxes and ridiculous green initiatives.

This one yea? https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2024/0702/1457649-extreme-heat/

It seems ridiculous to report on this today as this is the coldest summer I can remember. I'm still wearing my winter hoody out on the 2nd July. That's a record.

What exactly is the issue with hitting 33C?
For how long?
When?
What are the consequences?

I'm confused 🤔

ICE won due to the electric starter,not just convenience. Look at any map of new york between 1900 and 1910, there were chargepoints everywhere.

its getting hard to type lol

I'm agree that EV was every where but it was still convenience caused ICE to win out, as it took forever to charge vehicles whereas ICE was a simple case of fill the tank and go. Only businesses held on as long as possible to electric vehicles, even here. My Mam used to work in the Mother's Pride bakery in Cork city in the late 60's /early 70's and was telling us the vans doing the bread rounds in the city were all EV and the diesel vans were used out the country but things slowly changed to full diesel as they wanted one type of vehicle for the fleet and diesel could do both runs. Again it came down to fill up and go.