Global warming

We have the quality of land to grow wheat and veg to feed the population, what we lack is the weather, Irish milling wheat is a scarce commodity even during a good summer and never has the baking quality of that grown in mainland and eastern Europe

Mankind is in a situation rather like a 40year old grossly obese person who has been warned that unless he changes his lifestyle he will be dead in 5 years. He has a choice to make - change his lifestyle and live past 70 years or refuse to change and die at 45.

It's entirely up to us whether we choose to die out as a young civilization or make the necessary changes to live a long happy time. Saying it is hard won't stop you ending up a fat bloated corpse.

environmental damage is occurring for various different reasons, impoverishment is one of the most common in countries such as brazil, we urgently need to address these issues, in order to try prevent environmental damage…..

Would you care to come back to the points I raised on your previous post?

But at the same time you said you knew nothing, or little about tillage.

In another post you asserted that there was science before peer review. Prove it.

I agree things need to change but it’s great having aspirations- it’s figuring out how to get buy in from everyone that is the hard part.

Life has to be made easier for people by choosing environmentally friendly ways not harder.

For example water- all new social housing should be built to a standard where rain water is captured and used at the location, ran through filters and then used for showering, washing, cleaning, sewage etc. This would take the pressure off sewage treatment plants during periods of heavy rain.

There should be retrofit schemes in existing housing- schemes that don’t involve contractors getting rich either, homeowners getting subsidised with tax credits would be preferable.

Water will, and in some places is, an extremely valuable resource so we should do something about it now.

"I agree things need to change but it’s great having aspirations- it’s
figuring out how to get buy in from everyone that is the hard part.

Life has to be made easier for people by choosing environmentally friendly ways not harder.

For
example water- all new social housing should be built to a standard
where rain water is captured and used at the location, ran through
filters and then used for showering, washing, cleaning, sewage etc. This
would take the pressure off sewage treatment plants during periods of
heavy rain.

There should be retrofit schemes in existing
housing- schemes that don’t involve contractors getting rich either,
homeowners getting subsidised with tax credits would be preferable.

Water will, and in some places is, an extremely valuable resource so we should do something about it now. "

I entirely agree.

We lived off rainwater for twenty years, its perfectly viable for every household.

Water pumping takes a stupid amount of electricity to pump to every house and most of it goes straight down the drain. Wasted energy wasted money and wasted carbon emissions.

Beyond a certain point it falls to governments to make the meaningful changes that make these things happen. Its not up to individuals to solve global warming.

Rainwater is a currently wasted resource in homes. It certainly should be captured and reused, especially for toilets and the like. Someone previously said we should be making homes capture it. That will add more costs, which over the past decade or more, "green" tech being mandated on new homes has pushed prices to stupid levels.

There's a plan afoot now to pump water across the country instead of fixing the leaks. Utter madness.

@thinkabouit, I agree with the min till and cover cropping. And CTF is also very positive for soil health. It would also reduce the nitrate leaching that is primarily a tillage problem from soil disturbance.

I know that, but we don't just "create" it and think that's all grand. If that was the case, sure none of us would work and we'd be printing money as a state to just hand out. We should be investing in offshore, but we shouldn't just because it's the topic of the day unless there's some sort of costings done to show what the bill at the end will look like. That costing is currently missing and all we've to go by is Eamon Ryans estimate of €100bn for the 37GW offshore turbines but there's nothing on the infrastructure needed to get the power ashore, the Hydrogen plans, etc

Is it just me or where oh where are all the so called climate change associated wild fires this year ?

Could the communist focussed greens be having an arsonist recruiting problem this year ?

They’ll have to go into usual brainwashing hysterical reporting mode now with no blazing razzmatazz in the background this year.

We have a drinking game in my house. Every time a bot reporter like G.Lee (RTE) says the words “highest record” or “drought” we take a drink. Not one sober head by the end of the newscasts.

Easy to stay sober if you go on the Google plan:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/11/california-wildfires-burn-damage

https://globalnews.ca/news/10574072/bc-wildfire-map-2024-live-today/

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/15/canadian-wildfires-2024-map-us-air-quality/73688440007/

Not just North America, either:

https://wmo.int/media/news/wildfires-cause-huge-loss-of-life-chile-amid-heatwaves-south-america

I love the irony of the “Deny All” pop-up when you first open the Climate Change page on the CAMS website