"Green" policies are destroying this country

We had snow in May 40 years ago, when I was a kid. We also had some horrendous summers and July days like today. The weather in Ireland hasn't changed much in my lifetime. Not saying the global climate hasn't evolved, just that Ireland's weather hasn't really changed.

Well yes irregular weather events used to happen. I remember the 1987 storm for example. Then we had Ophelia in 2017, and I think most years since then we get a few orange or red wind warnings in the Autumn or winter.

The point isn't that the weather is irregular or dangerous, it's that it's happening more frequently and more vigorously because of the warming planet.

What nonesence are you on about. How long is it since we had a real storm? years.

So the real reason is the new colour coded weather warnings and the increased reporting? Did the scientists get it wrong so? Fascinating

Storm Eustice was the last big big one in 2022, plenty of powerful ones in 2023 as well

The point isn't that the weather is irregular or dangerous, it's that it's happening more frequently and more vigorously because of the warming planet.

What metrics are you looking at that support your assertion? Back in 1839, the original village near where I grew up was washed away during an event that is known as Night of the Big Wind, a few people died. Todays village was built on higher ground. The population of the area at the time was ~7,000 people. Within a few years a fungal infestation wiped out successive years of potato crop and combined with the fall off in demand for labour in the the aftermath of the corn laws repeal, saw the population reduce through a combination or malnutrition, disease and emigration. Even in 2024 the population of the parish has never reached that density. A century prior, in 1740-41 saw the year of slaughter when frosts killed a greater portion of the Irish population.

We don't live long enough to experience the range of weather events that impact this country, so events like the 1947 freeze and the long cold winter of 1962-63 are wiped from memory as are the hurricanes that hit the country in the 1960s. There was no consistent recording of weather metrics or events prior to the 19th century, we do know that there has been variance in weather patterns on this island, the detection of the Ceide fields attest to that. Some of Eamon de Buitlear's recordings from the 80s cover how Irish landscape topology was shaped by ice ages, this was before "climate crisis" hype became the dominant media and political narrative. Back in the 80s, the scares were nuclear war, acid rain and ozone holes.

You will be hard pressed to find data to support trends in different weather patterns and you will not be able to tie them to the release of CO2 molecules at a concentration of 400 parts per million or 0.04% of the atmosphere. There is limited data available from the 19th century and it's confined to the Anglosphere (British empire and United States). Consistent recording of weather metrics only begins with the construction of airports mid-twentieth century, and satellite data only starts in the late 1960s and more specifically since 1979. Most of the advances in meteorology have come in the post world war II period, since the IPCC was founded in 1989 study has atrophied because funding is tied to maintaining the climate catastrophe narrative.

Another major change has been the communications revolution, when a cyclone happens in the bay of Bengal, it can be live-streamed, the click bait media are all over it like flies to sh!te, the eNGOs are spinning it into their climate catastrophe narrative to keep their funding going. All that is happening is cheap sensationalism, within 24 hours the media has moved on to something else, and the more impressionable among the general public are left with the impression that the world is ending.

Tony Heller gives a good overview of how such metrics are manipulated to support the climate catastrophe narrative. Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer on the thumbnail used to sit on the Irish climate quango.

I asked a specific poster, I am sure they are capable of answering on their own as they made the comment, not sure why you felt the need to butt in with another google search

Cannot believe ya don't remember the one named after yourself. It was the first big storm I remember, namely cos the bastard ripped the covers off the silage pits which was a major blow to me as a child having to roll truck tires back onto it for the second time in a few weeks. Character building. It was an August storm, with 13 deaths attributed to it. Of course that event was a result of the hole in the ozone layer as climate change hadn't started

Alarmism.

Nope, it's just highlighted more now, if you read peoples posts correctly. The weather/climate in Ireland has not changed to any noticeable degree in my lifetime, IMHO.

I believe another factor in the rise of Green Zealots is the decline in organised religion. There's still the same proportion of people who like to preach to everyone, but they are not entering religious orders now. The smug, preachy tone of the zealots compared to the considered, factual posts of other excellent posters debating with them is evident.

For example: "Did the scientists get it wrong? Fascinating." Smug and patronising without contributing anything to the debate.

Surely Met Eireann have the records for storms, wind speeds, monthly temps, rainfall, blah, blah in their hands and have it published somewhere. All the anecdotal "feelings" are fine but the real stats are there somewhere.

I'm comparing religious preachers to you and your ilk with your smug and condescending remarks, not scientists. Please read peoples posts correctly.

Winters have become colder?? 🤣

That's a very typical response from a Green Zealot 😉

Yes, I've seem similar reporting.

Fancy that!

Here's a list from Met Eireann going back to 1798

https://www.met.ie/climate/major-weather-events

It's more than Greens, every mainstream political party rinses their policies at the same EU laundry and have been thoroughly green washed. Their answer will be "even if the science is wrong we must do it anyway because reasons". The usual excuse trotted out is international obligations i.e. we as your elected representatives signed you up to something you did not vote for. Only resistance through protest mass demonstration ("yellow vests") or imminent loss of political power will change policies.

Replace lecture with preach from the pulpit and I get it. Empty vessels