"Green" policies are destroying this country

not even alarmism at this stage.just utter bollix

What are we lecturing people for? Maybe we should lecture people to stop buying our agri products or stop flying to this cold wet Rock in the middle of the Atlantic for tourism purposes?

Obvious answer, yes it will

Your summation speaks to the relationship between climate activism and weather extremism. All natural events unless you can prove otherwise or can discount the impact of improved monitoring and reporting by Met Eireann in the post WWII era (~80 years). Speaking of monitoring in that timeframe we have developed a wide array of tools we use to mitigate the consequences of the most dangerous kinds of weather events, building standards have improved, search and rescue is better, alerting is better and life expectancy of the general population has increased, we are not powerless (unless you count the electricity disconnections during storms - sic) in the face of these events.

You never asked about the size of the difference Ireland would make, you only asked if we would make a difference

You are getting confused relying on nothing more than media sensationalism driven by people who work for organizations specifically funded to promote that narrative. Go examine what is being presented to you, you will eventually learn it is not based on fact and hard data but on models and prejudice. Step outside the bubble and read Steve Koonins Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters for a more nuanced perspective on the topic.

I didn`t ask you anything.

I was replying to your belief that Ireland reducing emissions, in that it would not make one iota of difference.

No more than culling 200,000 cows here would make a blind bit of difference to global emissions

It is costly but useless climate change™ mitigation policies, applied unilaterally by the West (EU in particular) against itself and ignored in practice by just about all other nations, that are arguably the major cause of the continuing and now terminal decline in the economic and social well being of EU member states citizens should we continue on this path. It may not seem obvious now, but to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, how do you go bankrupt?, two ways, gradually and then all at once. That is how net-zero ends.

It's amazing that there were no weather events before 1798! 🤣

A quick google says Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions are in the region of about 6 metric tonnes and the total planetary emissions are in the region of 37 billion metric tons so Ireland going carbon zero would be worth about 6/37bn or 0.000000016216216%

All found from a quick google search

Are you aware, that the US doesn't report CO2 emissions from it's Defense/Military? They are estimated to be around 180 countries combined emissions. I suspect that some of the US CO2 decreases are the result of just moving certain emissions into the Defense/Military column and therefore off balance sheet.

If countries like the US, China and India are such huge emitters, why should the people of Ireland bother since we can't make any actual effect on global temperatures?

Chasing carbon zero will decimate our economy. High ideals are all fine and good until it`s too late when the rubber of reality hits the road. Where do you see this Utopia of China, Asia, India the Americas etc. even Japan combining to fulfill this fantasy ?

China are adding ever more coal burning plants and along with Japan and India at the COP beanfest in Scotland said they had no intention of harming their economies by shifting away from coal. Even the U.S. didn`t sign up.

They are not looking for "exemption". They are going to do whatever they wish, while we are tied into green E.U. driven ideology, much of it having nothing to do with emissions just dodgy bookkeeping, where it suits the large E.U. boys and girls. You have only to look at wood burning and other biomass burning power plants to see that with it classed as being carbon neutral.

Germany, along with Putin and his gas, have been the main drivers behind this new religion until their own wheels fell off due to Putin`s gas, but even then showed that it was nothing to do with emissions and all to do with the green religion. They choose to shut down nuclear plants that were providing 14% of their electricity carbon free while keeping and even adding coal burning plants.

Consume, dispose, replace, consume, dispose, replace repeat ad infinitum. What could possibly go wrong?

The short sightedness of the majority of people in the developed world makes me sad.

Chasing carbon zero will decimate our economy. High ideals are all fine and good until it`s too late when the rubber of reality hits the road.

We cut our emissions last year by 5%, did our economy get decimated by 5%?

It's like the smoking ban all over again. Hearing soundbites like "Pubs everywhere will be closed down" and "we are such a small nation it won't make a difference" back in 2004. Smoking bans are now in place throughout most of the world and our pubs have never been busier.

Not because of the smoking ban though… The drink driving ban and the crazy booze price increases would be more to blame there, which are separate issues.