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TODAY, PROTESTERS ARE set to take to the streets in Glasgow, London and other cities in the UK and around the world to demand action on climate change.
In Glasgow, where the crucial UN summit is taking place, about 50,000 people are expected to march through the city centre as part of the Cop26 Coalition’s global day of action for climate justice.
This morning, we want to know: Have you been following the proceedings at Cop26?
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G20 rich club and their angry children on the the other side . The rest of us will pay as much carbon tax as they tell us and we will just have to like it.
@Alan Kelly: Well got to agree with you the kiddies outside are belonging to those inside, otherwise there would be riot police present at the event so it just more Main Stream Media tom foolery which they expect us all to believe, I better stop the Journal is getting upset.
@Alan Kelly: Nicely summed up, unfortunately this is all us peasants need to know.
Climate change is a serious issue. I’m pretty sure we can all agree on that.
But the way the Irish government and RTÉ especially is acting as if we are the biggest cause of it is completely wrong.
Sure, we can do our bit as global citizens but absolutely nothing will change in the world until USA, China, Russia, India and the oil rich Middle East sign up to it and implement it too.
Reducing our National cattle herd here will do nothing only increase the value of beef and dairy products, due to decreased supply.
Meanwhile smoke stacks billow and coal is burning with huge populations throughout the countries I listed above.
The sooner the media and general consensus here sees that, the better. Coming down heavy on the ordinary people yet again, is not a tactic that will sell well. Claire Byrne can have all the drama filled polls she wants.
@Darren Anthony Corr: Couldn’t agree more,the best comment so far.
@Darren Anthony Corr: Well put. Absolutely correct.
What’s the point the big players causing most of the issues will do sweet f all .
I have in me hoop
@Gerry from the Block: Strange place to have a tv. What’s the picture like?
@Thomas O’ Donnell: flat widescreen, a bit grainy
@Thomas O’ Donnell: Shite I’d imagine…
@Thomas O’ Donnell: Mrs Brown’s Boys is his favourite
@Tony Donoghue: Brilliant!
Would they ever COP on and stop sending ice breaking ships to the arctic, how does ice break again oh yeah you take core samples to find out by driving a fricken big ship through it and then drill the fricken ice. Leave it alone and feck off. Invest more in wave technology and use the plastic waste to make some decent wave energy equipment seen as it lasts in the sea. Also hopefully ITER will help. Consume less and hopefully get manufacturers to make products that fricken last more than 10 years.
The entire “climate change” topic is a scam. In a rare moment of honesty, an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) official said that climate change policy is an illusion. Ottmar Edenhofer, a former IPCC official, was quoted as saying, “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”
Now you know why your taxes and going up and where your money is going. Welcome to the new world order. For those who really want to know what the historic temperature record looks like, and the fraud associated with climate policies, just Google “Tony Heller” who has excellent videos on weather and climate.
@Nathan Notusingfackebook: I cannot say your wrong but is short the Old World Order, renewing their position of wealth calling it the New World Order, in other words more of the same the world had known about waste and recycling, since the the late 60s, but they took no action until they found ways of making money from it, so anything mentioned today will take at least 30 years to be done.
The best way to save the planet is couples have only one child from here on ,it’s not going to happen so the the whole shanagans is flawed from the start ,sucking diesel this morning
@Gerard Heery: way over populated and way too greedy so only solution is to reduce greed won’t happen or cull the population in the world .
Slaughtering people seems just a little harsh I feel, please reconsider the cull
China & Russia the 2 biggest polluters on the planet not present & will avoid sanctions at all cost
Public exercise to extort more tax which they think will be the solution
@Mark Walsh:
USA also didn’t sign up to eliminating coal burn.
The west is just as bad, actually worse because it’s hypocritical. The west knows China and Russia (but especially China) is reliant on coal and fossil fuels just now. (Funny how they’re tipped to overtake USA as the global hegemon sometime this decade)
Hmm makes you wonder if it’s really about climate change….
Flogging a dead horse quite frankly.
@Robert Clifford: Sounds a rather exhausting pastime but yet you still have the energy to write about it in the comments section. Impressive! A lot of people on here probably wouldn’t understand so kudos to you for being brave enough to share. No one these days should have to feel ashamed of their particular and to some peculiar paraphilia. Live and let live I say so long as it’s legal and doesn’t frighten the horses eh? Hardly likely to in this case though I expect! It is legal isn’t it? The only time I’ve ever felt remotely inclined to do something similar was after losing big at Cheltenham even though it seemed the jockey had already beaten me to it…
@William Tallon: What?
@William Tallon: Ya wha?
@Robert Clifford: Essentially my point is who am I or anyone for that matter to judge you for what you do in private! Must be difficult getting rid of the horse afterwards though unless of course you’ve come to an arrangement with some of the major burger producers? Put that whip down now and make yourself a nice cup of tea…
@David Corrigan: Flogging a dead horse. S+m, necrophilia and beastiality all rolled into one.
@William Tallon: Oh I see William. You’re trying to be witty in suggesting I beat and/or get frisky with a horse. Or you don’t know the meaning of the aforementioned idiom.
@Robert Clifford: Gosh! It took you a while to capall on to that alright although judging by the snideness of your response it’s quite obvious you knew full well what I was getting at from the outset and that you simply didn’t appreciate being the butt of the joke…
@William Tallon: You ok hun?
@William Tallon: he never said that he was flogging a dead horse himself
@Robert Clifford: I’m feeling totally flogging fine! Why do you ask?
@Tony Donoghue: He wasn’t very specific regarding who was actually flogging the dead horse so it seemed reasonable to assume he was referring to something he was occupied with at the time of his commenting. Now if he’d given it some context as in saying ‘They’re flogging a dead horse quite frankly.’ that would be fairly unambiguous and thoughts of deviant equine exploits would never have entered my head…
Well I put no interest as this is all just about how many new ways, they can find ways of extorting more money fro ordinary people, while at the same time giving the real culprits who are damaging more excuses to make more money, free from any type of legal challenges to the harm they might be causing.
No point, just honey words for the little people and then they return to their individual countries and are told what to do by the permanent government.
I have in my bollix.
No because it’s an attention fest.
Blaaaa Blaaaa a Blaaaaa
@Dave Barrett: celebrity activists, hectoring the rest of us. in neo liberal societies business uses the govt to create optimum conditions for profiteering (we are a really good example of this). so, change wont come until there is a fundamental change in economic/social policy. the blah blah thing is simply virtue signalling, an entertaining distraction. i’d say people are now more familiar with her than with the details of climate change or of govt policy response to it (carbon tax excluded). a media spectacle, a circus, blah on all sides. and no change.
If people care and want to help,one of the best things we can do is boycott anything made in China.
Why do you want to know if I have been following the proceedings at COP26?
Another talking shop. We need these guys and gals to do more than make decisions. We need them to do something.
Beware of information overload. Un petit peu mieux.
“No interest” isn’t really the same as “No” for a poll like this
@Peter: Most of these polls have slanted questions and omit shades-of-grey answers.
You have to wonder in part, what’s the point?
The USA, Russia and China will still do whatever the hell they want. Each of their military/army sections alone, are creating more pollution in one week than most of their people are separately in the same period. They are laughing at us as we continue to pay for their polluting.
The only way to deal with it is a population cull there are simply too many humans. The rest it just window dressing.
@Jas: you start!
Delighted to see the no interest results lol. Welcome oh friends of mine
I’m sitting here watching TV adverts for Christmas conspicuous unnecessary consumption. We really are f3cked as a species. I have to say I’m as bad as the next person.
Russia and China didn’t attend. The Middle East aren’t signing up to the pledges. India says they will meet the targets in 50 years. That’s nearly half of the worlds emissions.
But people are protesting against the countries that are attending and are trying…. What’s the point in that? Total nonsense.
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