Global Warming Debate

[osarusan]

If we grew more trees in Ireland could build more timber frame hosues which are more environmentally sound as well as reducing timber imports. More supply means timber prices would drop too so cheaper houses.

The problem is that it will take a few years for that investment to pay off, if it ever does. I know my parents planted about 3,000 trees on our land about 20 years ago, under some government scheme which promised healthy profits, only to be told recently that there would be no profit at all, however the govt. would be willing to "take the trees off their hands".

And I think that, sadly, but understandably, people will need financial incentives to take the necessary steps to protect the environment.

[Macy]

The problem is that it will take a few years for that investment to pay off, if it ever does.

Sure you'd have a load of people campaigning to "save the trees" when it comes down to harvest them, as witnessed on the news last night. Coiltte starting to cut down the trees in the Dublin Mountains to sell on, and people giving out about the lose of amenity and scar on the landscape. I'm not sure they grasped why they were planted in the first place

[pete]

Coiltte starting to cut down the trees in the Dublin Mountains to sell on, and people giving out about the lose of amenity and scar on the landscape. I'm not sure they grasped why they were planted in the first place

I presume they were of spruce variety or similar?

Reason not to listen to protestors....

[BohsPartisan]

Reason not to listen to protestors....

Jesus Pete, you find one case of unjustified protest and deduce that all protests are unjustified?
You truely are the master of straw clutching.

[NY Hoop]

http://www.irish-forestry.ie

KOH

[pete]

Jesus Pete, you find one case of unjustified protest and deduce that all protests are unjustified?
You truely are the master of straw clutching.

It really is...

[dahamsta]

It is pete. Should I start ignoring your complaints about other WUMs on the site now?

Same rules apply to you as to everyone else. Knock it on the head or don't post in CA any more please.

adam

[NY Hoop]

Government departments dont exactly play their part in all this. Lights left on, heat left on, cleaners spraying that air "freshener" crap around.

How can the government expect its citizens to behave responsibly to the environment when they waste so much?

KOH

[BohsPartisan]

Government departments dont exactly play their part in all this. Lights left on, heat left on, cleaners spraying that air "freshener" crap around.

How can the government expect its citizens to behave responsibly to the environment when they waste so much?

KOH

Good point.
If I'm last out of my section I always switch the lights off but you do see loads left on.

[pete]

Its it more efficient to leave the lights on? Those bulbs have shorter shelf lift if they switched one and off...

[Schumi]

Its it more efficient to leave the lights on? Those bulbs have shorter shelf lift if they switched one and off...

Turning them off for the night, once a day, would hardly have much of an impact.

[Lim till i die]

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/en...022934,00.html

Well, well, well, Al Gore and the $30,000 utilities bill

An Inconvenient Truth indeed

[BohsPartisan]

Saw that yesterday. Thats what the Green movement gets for making people like that spokespersons.
Next up, how Bono flew a hat around the world.

[dahamsta]

He drives an SUV too, has to because of who he is. I drive a 525i BMW, it doesn't stop me caring about the environment; it just means I feel the need to enjoy myself in a way that's considered harmful, like smoking (I quit) or going to the pub (it feels like I've quit!). It's all about balance. I'd be willing to bet that my carbon footprint is still well below average. I'd be willing to bet that Gore's is too, for a man in his position. I wonder how much Bush consumes in his day-to-day life...

adam

[BohsPartisan]

Bet Bono's isn't though.

[dahamsta]

Yeah, but then Hewson is a muppet.

[jebus]

Now now lads, Bono has single handedly saved Africa from itself, brought the Darfur genocide leaders to justice and made George Bush a pot of tea in the last few days alone, so I think he's entitled to destroy the enviroment as much as likes

[strangeirish]

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/en...022934,00.html

Well, well, well, Al Gore and the $30,000 utilities bill

An Inconvenient Truth indeed

He drives an SUV too, has to because of who he is. I drive a 525i BMW, it doesn't stop me caring about the environment; it just means I feel the need to enjoy myself in a way that's considered harmful, like smoking (I quit) or going to the pub (it feels like I've quit!). It's all about balance. I'd be willing to bet that my carbon footprint is still well below average. I'd be willing to bet that Gore's is too, for a man in his position. I wonder how much Bush consumes in his day-to-day life...

adam

A little clarification on the source of this story and a few facts that were conveniently omitted. Keith Olbermann setting the record straight.

[Lim till i die]

http://www.channel4.com/science/micr...dle/index.html

Could be worth a look

[jebus]

http://www.channel4.com/science/micr...dle/index.html

Could be worth a look

Don't know, I was reading the preview for this docu yesterday and basically it was,

'Don't believe everything you see in a documentary, statistics can be used to prove/disprove anything........watch our documentary and get the truth, we use statistics to prove that global warming is a natural occurance'

sounds dodgy