The cost of King Canute
It’s a wonder that they took so long.
We have had nearly three months of lovely summer weather, but only now are the Gloom and Doom merchants starting to scream about Warble Gloaming or Climate Change or Extreme Weather or whatever the fuck the current fad is.
Ireland is completely off course when it comes to meeting its 2020 and 2030 climate change targets.
Now these are arbitrary “targets” set by faceless committees somewhere, but not in Ireland so it’s not our targets but someone else’s. I might also point out that if Ireland somehow produced zero carbon emissions it would make little or no difference to world levels as we are merely a small blip on the map. However, we are to be severely punished for not being good boys and toeing the line. What struck me about the report is the size of the figures involved. Not the “carbon emission” figures, but the financial ones. First of all, if we don’t meet our “targets” we could face fines of up to €600 million [yes – that’s €600,000,000] every year until we do reach them. Seeing as the targets are obviously unattainable then this is a nice little earner for the E fucking U. And remember – that €600 million comes out of taxes. Then they say that to reach the impossible we have to increase our “carbon taxes”, first by 50% and then by 400% and all of that has to be paid once again out of our incomes when we purchase any kind of fuel.“We need households to invest many billions by 2050,” [Prof FitzGerald] said. “There are 2 million houses in the country, probably three quarters of them need to spend a huge amount of money – €30,000, maybe €50,000.”Sweet lamb of divine! Are these cunts serious? Hands up anyone who has a spare €50,000 to spend on someone else’s idiotic dream! They are seeking the impossible to attain the impossible and it’s all a beautiful excuse to flay the skin off our backs. Where does this money go? Into the pockets of the EU, the gubmint, that’s where. This has fuck all to do with climate change. Its’ all about money.
Grandpa,I recently watched an interesting documentary on the natural history of Ireland and how certain plant and animal species came to be found on the beautiful island. The scientists who were doing the studies noted that approximately 10,000 years ago a great warming occurred in the area in the space of a decade that melted the glaciers that went on to form the island. This was a natural event and not due to man’s influence or carbon emissions. While I do agree that man has unduly defiled the environment and created many problems, I think that some governmental/political or whatever they want to call themselves, imposing taxes on the people for not reaching some arbitrary and unattainable goal is in the guise of the greater good whilst only lining their already deep pockets.
We are an extremely messy species and I don’t think there’s an argument there. But blaming us for climate change is like blaming a messy child for the roof caving in.
This is a winning argument for them. It’s akin to setting a minimum height for a grown man – anyone failing to reach seven feet tall will be taxed on the difference.
Cut the EU a little slack – they’ve got to replace the UK revenue that they’ll lose after Brexit and, as that was a vast amount of money, they’re going to be claiming it back from all the remaining member-states by whatever creative stealth taxes they can. Today they call it ‘carbon targets’, tomorrow something else, but you guys will continue obediently paying the Danegeld until more of you grow a pair and vote to get out too – if you still decide to stay in, then don’t whinge about it.
I think you know me better than that? I have been anti-EU since the days they ceased to be the EEC. If it were up to me Ireland would be out of it faster than a scalded cat. It would solve the UK’s border problem too!
A cows fart is a global warming problem and eating the cows which would stop it farting upsets the vegans/vegetarians who all seem to be man made global warming believers so what to do about cows is a real mind blocker for them.There are a lot of cows and a lot of vegans in Ireland. My money is on the farting cow coming out on top.
As for farting, vegans fart more than any other variety of human eater so are they going off themselves to save the planet?
Another mind blocker.
The outfit behind this is Client Earth. In due course I will scrutinise them in greater detail, however those who think the decision by France and the UK to do away with vehicles that only burn fossil fuels need look no further than James Thornton, who appears to have access to very generous funding and uses the law to force governments to comply to treaties they’ve signed up to.
https://www.clientearth.org/people/thornton-james/
And no, he doesn’t give a flying fart about the cost to individuals, nor their governments.
“they’ve got to replace the UK revenue that they’ll lose after Brexit” -Muddy
Ahh that’ll be why the EU is sooo desperate to do a deal. All is now clear.
Try to keep up – the EU is now so worried about a ‘no-deal’ that it’s finally having to explain to all its remaining member states just how bad that would be for them all, getting them to do their individual maths to realise the damage that they will all incur. That’s the necessary groundwork for either a ‘no-deal’ outcome or for the EU to have to compromise on its major demands without losing too much face.
The fact that the UK Government has handled the Brexit process so ineptly does not change the basic maths – the EU needs the UK twice as much as the UK needs the EU – the EU understands that better than the UK’s closet-Remainer Government and is suitably rattled that it is now taking the economic risk of ‘no-deal’ seriously.