No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Ah now, don't be insinuating that sorta thing 🙄

Remember it's who you know not what you know.

Did he appoint a lot of those while in office? It's payback time, call in the favours. It might galvanise silent Biden supporters to come out and vote, after all that old codger won't do too much harm.

A couple of lads are looking a few acres to rent for a festival if any of ye interested!

https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1807795462415466779

Checking cattle today, when the tails suddenly shot up in the air and they went for a gallop. Amazing how the knowledge is imprinted in their brain.

Tell us more - how much did you have to hand over.

Can't see how he has a hope of winning that case....

It's a regional thing - in Longford/Cavan they are called clags/clegs, in NCD they are horseflies. Whatever name you call them - they are hateful yokes.

Antihistamine cream in the fridge, it's very effective easing the pain & itch of horsefly sting. .

Nice explanation

IIt's the only thing the year is fit for

They'd be better off investigating the opposite, as in the prediction the gulf stream collapse and its freeze to death in baltic weather we will. The wind has been from the North for the past number of years, the prevailing SW wind is history.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/extreme-temperatures-becoming-more-common-in-ireland-study-shows-1644947.html

With the hurricanes just starting this season the South westerlies will be back.

That said in the ice ages. Glaciers and an ice sheet covered Ireland, the north of England, Scotland and towards Scandinavia while the rest of Europe was free of Glaciers and ice and having summer temperatures into the 20's. The weather conditions and ocean currents at the time kept Ireland to Scandinavia cool and cold whilst the rest of europe to the urals was warm. Ice ages were well over by Roman times yet they still called Ireland, Hibernia - land of winter.

It was always the case, though it's easier peddle the tune of the world burning when we set new temp records monthly for over a year. Now though, June was colder than usual so we're heading for an ice age. The truth lies somewhere in between. We should most definitely be doing more to help things along (namely reduce fossil fuel use). I see some academic in the IFJ saying we need to cut beef and dairy by 30% and plant half a billion hectares of trees to get near "carbon neutral". If we wanted to keep milk levels as they are, bye bye sucklers and 32% of the country covered in trees. It's all bollox from the EPA. The headline yesterday was half a million people are at risk from public water supplies. That was the headline. Yet when you read the report, 99.7% of tested water complies with the standards laid out. When you hear the headline, you automatically think agriculture is the problem again as it's being beat into us daily. Yet the report doesn't lay the blame there at all, and says that our drinking water quality is very good or indeed excellent quality. But the headline implies something different.

By right we should be able to ignore these "reports" as just some head banger trying to make a name for themselves. However, these head bangers are running the asylum and are hell bent on screwing us all over

I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that one thing you say about science is it’s not afraid to change its position when additional data becomes available, that’s what sets it apart from religion.
initially yes the thinking was as simple as global warming, but in fairness in recent times they have altered that to climate change. It will warm for some, cool for some and become desperately unsettled for others, I think we’re seeing more and more unsettled weather breaking our traditional seasons into a sort of mish mash of continuous dampness interspersed with isolated short extremes of sun, rain and wind

the climate is changing ive no doubt about that and I’d be shocked if human activity hasn’t a part to play in that change.

Now, I think the proportion of human contribution is being hyjacked by people who use it as a mechanism to exert control. Control on what we eat, where our food comes from , what taxes we pay and in time where we can travel to. My bet is these people know we can’t slow/srop/reverse changing climate but it’s a useful tool to them to have a reason to scare people into conceding control.

So when you criticise science for saying “global warming” I think you’re only hearing this term from media and pretend science outlets. Actual climate science talks about “climate change” which from all evidence I see is a definite real issue facing us.

Like it or not areas of the earth are becoming uninhabitable, with the potential to displace billions of souls, where will these people go ?