Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Yeah but if you're going to rubbish everything any scientist who doesn't align with your world view says then you should probably have something to work from.
 
I am not a climate change denier, but i do have a few very big issues with the current climate change "science".
There has always been CO2 emissions, the problem is massive increase, mainly caused by our industrial revolution and our burning of 3.5 Billion yrs worth of Carbon trapping in 350 yrs or less.
Farming emissions in Ireland have not increased much over the last few hundred years.
A lot of climate science is bought and paid for by big business and hijacked by interest groups.
The following are examples of bullshite "Climate science".
The idea that an electric car has zero emissions.
The idea that a sunny holiday is as important as food.
The idea that buying new is better than repairing.
The idea that you can export your CO2 emissions.
There are many more examples.
 
Tipp_Man said:
That jackass is the single biggest threat to Irish farming coming from Ireland. Worse than the Green Party

He is continuously spouting shite as scientific fact. He will break every farmer In the country if he got his way
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And he will still have his job and pension.
 
Seedsower said:
You must not know much about the green party aspirations for farming so.
They live in cloud cuckoo land
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how can anyone take them seriously? They don't even have an agricultural policy within their party. Urban greens canvassed with the proposal to increase carbon tax, reduce farmed animal numbers, and increase forestry cover to 30%, while their few rural candidates knocked on rural dwellers and farmers doors and told them that they were against carbon tax increases, against reducing the national herd and against increasing forestry. If FF go into government with them and give them a free hand to shape agri policy, then it will be a disaster.
 
Once again a really useless representation of facts. Seeing as our largest industry is agriculture it's amazing our emissions aren't more than 34% of the country's total. It doesn't necessarily mean that its catastrophic in terms of global totals. And that's assuming that somehow the nitrogen we use to fertilize and eventually becomes ammonia, which degrades to nitrogen eventually, apparently we just pulled it out of thin air. Actually that's exactly what we did and that's where it goes back to. Just like the carbon which becomes methane becomes carbon dioxide and becomes carbon again.
Whatever argument there is to oil gas and coal fuels being bad there is nothing comparable for anything to do with livestock farming.
 
It's a tricky one on that. It's worth considering how many people outside of ireland are fed with Irish produce, given we're the 5th largest exporter of beef in the world. That being said, for 5% of the workforce and 1.2% of GDP, it is quite high.

The easiest to make reductions in is the energy sector. We have massive resources for offshore wind on the Atlantic coast. Would be a great investment for the west of Ireland. The cost is coming down all the time, in another few years it will be competitive with onshore.
 
Agri has been given much lower % reduction targets compared to Energy production and construction.

Approx 15% reduction target for Ag vs. 50-55% reduction target for the other two sectors.
 
From '05 to '11 we dropped 1.9 m tons and from '11 to '17 we increased by 2.3 m tons, reality is we only increased by .4 m tons between '05 and '17, what percentage of total tons is .4 relative to the percentage increase in output in the period '05 to '17.
 
Does it even matter. These figures assume that methane is a by product, but it's also an input, eventually we consume every bit as much methane as we made. Same with nitrogen. It's a closed loop except the fuel used to make the fert.
 
Currently reading a paper on it. And I'll probably need to read a dozen more that contradict each other to see what's what.
 
Sheebadog said:
Any scientific evidence for that claim?
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The nitrogen cycle (the atmosphere is 80% nitrogen) and carbon cycle are basic school science.
Digging up and burning fossilised carbon is the only thing that is increasing atmospheric carbon. Plants absorb carbon dioxide, animals consume those plants (directly or indirectly) and emit carbon dioxide which is again absorbed by plants. Repeat the cycle.
 
The only issue with nitrogen cycle is if we are overloading one part of the system that can't break down enough nitrogen in one form or another. I'd doubt it though. I'll get back to the research after milking.
 
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