'We must all play our part to reduce emissions'

“confused67 i'm sorry that your so fed up with all this man made climate change. I bet u wish it would all just go away. poor old U, never mind go and have a good lie down things will seem better after.”

“maxmin u will be glad to hear that i will nor be calling u maxmin BNP anymore, i've had my litle fun with U. I don't mind u continuing to call me silly little names, although some will see it as being rather childish on your behalf. I wouldn't see it like that myself as i would not expect anything less for u lol”

“The climate changes in roughly 500 year cycles. If you go back 2000 years when the Romans were tramping round Britain we were in a warm wet period, the climate in Britain was roughly equivelent to that of the Mediterranean, which is why the Romans built villas in Britain which were the same as they built in their own country. They also planted vines as far North as Lincoln ( I believe the Lincoln vines are still producing wine today)

500 years later in the Dark ages the climate shifted to cold and dry, causing famines and poor harvests.

500 years later with the Normans we were once again in warm and wet and 500 years after that in the cold and dry, frost fairs on the Thames and freezing conditions that lasted for several months, check out the paintings by Pieter Bruegel Winter Landscape with Bird Trap, The Hunters in the Snow etc.

And then 500 years later we are again once more into warm and wet. Of course it doesn't happen with absolute accuracy, for example in 1816 Britain was facing blizzard conditions right up to June, but as a general indicator it's not far off.”

“Where did my post go?
Don't worry CO2 doesn't matter we now have Global Dimming countering it according to Neathboy234
Wind energy is three times the price of conventionally generated energy, that's spin saying it's cheaper than offshore used to obfuscate the fact.
Will Ireland, like Denmark does to Norway, sell it to us at the conventional price & it's taxpayers swallow the loss.”

“PS. Give every home solar panels through a givernment grant. If they are so willing to spend upwards of £50bn by 2020 on renewables, then that money is better spent on installing these panels on the roof of every home in the UK. That make a massive cut in emissions and the power can be stored during the day ready for use at night, we do have the technology to store the power for over 16 hours... it has existed since Tesla was on the scene.”

“Confused, go back to school and learn about the previous climatic changes that took place. You are way out of your depth in this conversation at this moment, you failed to learn that previous climate changes took place over millennia, not decades.

Don't comment on a subject you know nothing about.”

“Don't worry CO2 doesn't matter we now have Global Dimming countering it according to Neathboy234
Wind energy is three times the price of conventionally generated energy, that's spin saying it's cheaper than offshore & used to obfuscate the fact.
Will Ireland, like Denmark does to Norway, sell it to us at the conventional price & it's taxpayers swallow the loss.
CO2 emissions savings aren't measured in the UK, just guessed at & with a way overestimating these compared with means used in the rest of the EU.”

“Yes, I've read about the Bog of Allen scheme and Greenwire. Many in the Irish Parliament have complained about the annual £400 million Irish Government subsidy, given to the wind farms in Ireland.
Greenwire want to build oodles of wind turbines onshore, because that's cheaper for them than building them offshore. If it's agreed, the UK would then pay through the nose for the electricity.
If Greenwire get the go ahead, it could cost the UK consumer £14 billion ( yes, £billion) over a period of 15 years. At prices like this, only the rich would be able to switch a lightbulb on. And as for melting steel, forget it.
Meanwhile, Germany is planning to build 23 new coal fired power stations.
Have we missed something ?”

“I am fed up of goverment departments trying to frighten us with their rantings on climate change. We have had numerous climate changes over millions of years, no steelworks, no cars, no electric, no gas. So then why did climate change happen in those times? simple, nature making it's way through time and co-incidently there was a rise in temperature, followed by an ice age. So why was there climate change if there was a lot less pollution.”

“Just a little bit from the bbc website, a fantastic boost for the UK and Ireland as well

The UK government is considering plans to import wind power from Ireland to the National Grid via cables under the Irish Sea to north and west Wales.

Element Power said the Irish-based giant wind farms in its Greenwire plan could power three million UK homes.

It said the £6bn scheme could save consumers billions of pounds as it is cheaper than off shore wind generation.

The UK government is committed to to achieving 15% of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020.

Element Power has told BBC Wales that its plan could provide up to 10% of that target.

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This £6bn infrastructure project is going be (an) economic benefit for the UK, for Wales and for Ireland"

Mike O'Neill
Element Power
In Wales, as in other parts of the UK, there have been large demonstrations and protests against the building of wind farms.

Greenwire is seen as a way of avoiding such confrontation in future.

Under the plan 40 wind farms, with a total of 700 wind turbines, would be based in the Bog of Allen in the midlands of Ireland. The electricity would then be sent under the Irish Sea.”