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@Garreth Mc Mahon: Yep, sailing across the Atlantic on a boat skippered by a member of the Monaco Royal family who recently had a ridiculously lavish wedding and is in full attendance at all the Formula 1 racing events – you know, the ones with the cars that burn all the petrol and fly their crews and machines around the world …
@Garreth Mc Mahon: She’s chose to go in a zero emissions sailing boat, not an F1 car or in an aircraft transporting them. You can always point to someone next to you who isn’t making good choices, that’s not the same as you doing the same thing. We can all make better choices with respect to our planet. It’s a positive message.
@Simon O Flaherty: and why is pointing out the hypocrisy of a climate change activist being skippered across the Atlantic by a patron of Formula 1 ‘tinfoil hat’ territory Simon?
@Garreth Mc Mahon: …not a chance am I listening to 99.9% of the worlds scientific community either. Even if knowledge sharing is a uniquely human trait and is what actually separated us from earlier human species and ensured our survival till now. Good on ya Garreth. Stick it to the man!! Or the little girl or whoever.
@Paraic: Her entire approach is based on making principled stands. She should have politely refused and looked for a boat and skipper that is at least moderately aligned with her principles and messages.
If the boat was sponsored by Exxon Mobil or Monsanto would it be acceptable – I mean it’s still a boat right …?
@Dara O’Brien:Yeah its hypocritical in some sense, but do you think its also someone trying to make amends for taking part in the pollution of our planet?
@Dara O’Brien: “Her entire approach is based on making principled stands”. You just made that up to suit your retoric. I would say that her entire approach is based on raising awareness. The boat isn’t sponsored by Exxon Mobil or Monsanto Dara. My guess is that she would find another if that were the case.
@Dara O’Brien: a note on Formula 1’s carbon footprint (this is in addition to getting into bed with the likes of Azerbaijan and Bahrain)
They each lug between 50 and 100 tons of cars, spare parts, and equipment to each of the 21 races on the calendar, covering more than 110,000 air miles every year. That teams don’t just travel with cars and mechanics. They bring ostentatious mobile headquarters and hospitality centers with them everywhere they go to impress local dignitaries and their high roller sponsors.
110,000 miles times 10 teams equals 1,100,000 miles. A 747 burns 5 gallons of jet fuel for every mile it flies. That’s 5.5 million gallons of jet fuel just to fly back and forth to races. Add in another 25% to get to testing venues, promotional events, and other special activities and you’re up to almost 7 million gallons. And that still doesn’t account for emissions from the factories, wind tunnels, and the 300 to 600 employees each team employs.
A gallon of jet fuel creates 21 pounds of carbon dioxide when it is burned, according to the Energy Information Agency. 21 pounds times 7 million gallons equals — wait, I have to get out my Radio Shack calculator for this one — a staggering 147 million pounds of carbon dioxide just so Formula One can bring “the show” to fans all over the world. The cars could be powered by pixie dust and Formula One would still be one of the biggest polluters on Earth.
@Dara O’Brien: I see what you mean. If I’m a vegetarian and I go to a restaurant with a friend who orders steak, then I’m guilty by association. Is that the way your logic works Dara?
@Dave O’Keeffe: 95% of what number of scientist’s. Because Dr Patrick Moore founding member of Greenpeace does not agree. He left Greenpeace because its lost its way and gone of track. Its all about money now with them.
@Jamie Mul: there no solid proof for the theory of evolution either but you have creationist types that pretend that it didn’t happen and well everyone else does believe it. Don’t you?
@Simon O Flaherty: or maybe do some research on how they reached that magical 97% figure, or else as I assume you’ll do just keep your head firmly buried in the sand and lap up everything you are told without question.
@brendan H: congrats, is he a climate scientist? If so he’s in the 5%. All scientists have names, just because you know one of their names doesn’t make them any more right or wrong
@brendan H: Patrick Moorehall is not a climatologists in fact he is not even a scientist, he doesn’t do anything by way of research or publish academic work. He holds a PhD but that is really meaningless because all he misuses it for is to dazzle and hypnotise the unwary. He is a publicist for companies that pollute. He spouts pseudo science, the complete opposite of a scientist. So he is not qualified or a scientist so your point is moot.
@Dara O’Brien: Dara you are coming across as bucolic and ignorant. She is a 16 year old girl doing the best she knows how to bring attention to an issue that she’s passionate about (that also happens to affect all of us).
You’re not a scientist, we all get that, but god almighty you certainly are a begrudger. As someone who knows a lot of “climate scientists” (or rather scientists whose research contributes towards knowledge on the environment), I can safely say that not one of them thinks that the impact of humans on our atmosphere and weather systems is a hoax.
In any case, your arguments are laughable for loads of reasons, but the most succinct way I can think to put it is that you have a holier than thou attitude even though you do and know fck all on the issue. So annoying.
@Veronica: Give it a rest Veronica – do you not have anything positive to contribute to this argument or are you just so angry at your lot in life that all you have left is to complain and moan?
It’s interesting that you are happy to have a go at my posts but not to engage in the logic? The fact is, if you can wipe the red mist out of your eyes for a second, I have made no comments on climate change, science or otherwise.
I have merely pointed out that there is a lot of hypocrisy surrounding Greta Thunberg and her supporters. This tends to happen when you get fanaticism and reverence mixed together.
It’s similar to the Gemma O’Doherty situation where someone campaigns for free speech and tries to silence those who criticize – her acolytes don’t see the hypocrisy.
I’m simply taking an objective view. Deal with it.
@Dara O’Brien: hey man, there’s no red mist here, I just read your ludicrous comments about a 16 year old and decided to reply to you.
If it’s a rational conversation you want, then let’s have one. What do you disagree with most about this whole issue, is it that you disagree with the message, or the messenger?I get the feeling that it’s a bit of both, but mostly it’s the messenger. What about the way she has raised awareness on the issue gets your goat? You and I both know full well that we all live in the same world, and that in order to move about in it we all have to make compromises, otherwise nothing would ever get achieved.That comment about guilt by association was what really annoyed me, because not a single person on this planet can live a truly “pure” lifestyle by your measure.
@Dara O’Brien: Climate change denialists fall into one of 2 camps. 1. So poorly educated that they can’t interpret this basic graph: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Temperature-and-CO2-trends-1900-2004-green-and-blue-lines-CO2-derived-from-Law-Dome-and_fig7_258606359
Or 2. Conspiracy theorists who believe that global temperature records and CO2 measurements are being faked (despite temperature records clearly being smashed year on year this decade including this year). Either way, if you fall into either camp or a mixture of both, then your views are built on a foundation of ignorance of the facts, the scientific method and the anthropic climate change consensus. You can argue against the science all you want but it comes across like a fool denying gravity because “it’s just a theory”.
@Veronica: it’s not about pure lifestyle and I am not making any comment on climate change whatsoever – in fact I’ve gone to the effort of highlighting the huge carbon footprint of F1 – so no point in anyone trying to state that I am in some way in delnial.
In relation to the messenger/message I am simply pointing out that, of all the yachts and all the slippers in the world she could have picked to travel with, she chose a patron of an organisation which pumps massive amounts on CO2 into the atmosphere. This is a really poor choice and, in my opinion should be called out.
She can still travel by yacht anywhere – maybe just not with the skipper in question.
@Dara O’Brien: I read all your comments thoroughly. I was just making an observation. So you’re not a denialist. You’re just someone who dislikes a young woman who opted to sail across the Atlantic instead of taking a 747 to raise awareness of her strongly held personal beliefs on the climate crisis. I get it.
@SteoG: Do a bit of research and don’t be a sheep. Its pure sensationalist and political gobbledygook, the scientists blow it up to get funding and a lot of funding at that and the governments can invent a new tax called a carbon tax , they completely ignore the medieval warming period, the planet has been warming up and cooling down for millions of years and will continue to do so. And anyway carbon is plant food. Carbon is at 415 ppm thats 0.04% of the atmosphere, it used to be 800ppm and up to 1000ppm, when carbon was below 200ppm we had a cooling and mini ice age and full ice age. WE CAN’T CONTROL NATURE.
@Simon O Flaherty: Scientific consensus is not synonymous with fact. In the middle ages for instance, the scientific consensus was that the earth was flat.
@Dave O’Keeffe: Nothing against her, don’t know her. I have an issue with all the blindly swooning adults afraid to question questionable decisions though.
It is possible to agree with some parts of what a person does/says whilst questioning other parts.
@John O’Leary: Wow….. You’ve just upped the figure from 97% of respondents to a ridiculousy worded survey to 99.9% ? Go you. You’re surely up their amongst the leaders for the Fake News/Exaggerated Nonsense Award of the day.
@Mike Conway: Yep and we are all laughing at them now. Same will happen in generations to come, People will look back and laugh at the “climate Fairies”…………….”they thought the earth was going to end” the G0b5hites
Wow your F1 calculations are amazingly bad. They don’t bring motor homes to all races, only European, and they drive them. The equipment for the teams, when flown, is flown on the same planes, not a plane each. So already you can divide your pollution guesstimations by 10.
They only test out of season twice, in spain, so only 2 trips there, not just a blanket 25% extra. And 1 or 2 in season tests the day after a race so no extra trip there.
F1 is where hybrid technology, ideas and performance improvements are coming from, without it, we’d be 15 years behind where we are now.
But look, if it makes your argument look good, don’t worry about it
@Muddy: You’re much more like the laughing yokels that condemned Copernicus and Kepler as heretics, for pointing out that the Earth was not the center of the Universe and that it was indeed round. You know, actual scientists who made discoveries from observational data. Just like modern day climatologists are making observations based on data, rather than laughing looking to out of date beliefs like idiots.
@Dara O’Brien: you can but at each step she’s choosing a better alternative, maybe not the best but better, and you can’t stand it. It’s really funny to see you get all bent out of shape over it.
@brendan H: Waffle away there. It is you that cannot discern the difference between a consultant conspiracy theorist and a scientist. I know the difference. Hint. The scientists deal with facts and publish findings. Whereas.
The consultant conspiracy theorist makes stuff up doesn’t produce any evidence and numptys like you swallow their seed because you don’t like the idea of a tax. By the way its Carbon dioxide CO2, not carbon. You see you don’t know what you are saying then say that I need to do a bit of research.
@Paraic: What about before 1900, you start at the end of a downward trajectory of temperature to suit your argument, when you see the bigger picture the temperatures go up and Down, nature correcting itself, carbon was up to 1000ppm it came down to 200ppm thats the ice age and little ice age, there was also the medieval warming when there was no ice on the north and south poles carbon was at 800ppm there was inland seas all over every continent. Seriously sheeple wake up and open the mind do some research. This is like the financial crisis when the ones saying there was going to be a hard crash were laughed at.
@SteoG: Oh my god sorry, I didn’t think I needed to write the full thing, but for the slow ones ill say carbon dioxide CO2 thanks for that bright spark.
@Garreth Mc Mahon: so you’d ignore the facts agreed upon by 99% of the world’s scientists just because a teenager made a stand for it?. So then, who has the lack of life experience?
If you can’t be bothered, here’s the closing line of the paper:
“The level of scientific agreement on AGW is overwhelmingly high because the supporting evidence is overwhelmingly strong.”
@brendan H: Admit that you don’t know the difference. Carbon C is an element. Oxygen O is also an element. Carbon dioxide CO2 is a compound of two elements with one carbon atom and two atoms of oxygen. Two different classes. Proves my point that you don’t know what you are talking about. It does help when you actually research something instead of parroting pseudo conspiracy consultants who are clueless on the subject.
@SteoG: I know exactly what I’m talking about not like you blindly following the climate alarmists con job, climate change is natural always was always will be.
@brendan H: Oh dear god, where do I start. PhD Geologist here, did paleoclimate climate research into the Miocene Climatic Optimum and its effects Ireland’s palaeosoil development. Also worked as a scientist on a project that aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Irish agriculture.
Think I’m qualified to pick apart your firehose of falsehood.
“carbon was up to 1000ppm it came down to 200ppm thats the ice age”
The last time CO2 was above 1000 ppm was over 40 million years ago.
“there was also the medieval warming when there was no ice on the north and south poles ”
Wow. The last time the South and North pole was free of ice was over 30 million years ago (Wilson et al, 2013).
Wilson, D.S., Pollard, D., DeConto, R.M., Jamieson, S.S. and Luyendyk, B.P., 2013. Initiation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and estimates of total Antarctic ice volume in the earliest Oligocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (16), pp.4305-4309.
In fact, the planet’s temperatures peaked ~8000 BC during the Holocene Climatic Optimum, afterwards the Earth gradually cooled. Eventually the Little Ice Age began around 1300 AD and ended around 1870 AD.
This natural gradual cooling was caused by variation in the Earths tilt and distance from the Sun, that cooling stopped about 1880. Since then the Earth began to warm, counter to the expected trend. This warming is due to humans putting greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, causing Global Warming.
Svante Arrhenius published the first paper on Global Warming way back in 1896, this is not new science.
Arrhenius, S., 1896. XXXI. On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 41(251), pp.237-276.
Seriously, your knowledge of Climate Change is so poor and your confidence so unreasonably high, you’re like someone walking into the offices of SpaceX with a model rocket and telling Elon Musk that your creation is better than his Falcon 9! How embarrassing.
@Paraic:
1970′s Prepare for another Ice Age = Lies
1980′s Ozone Layer = Lies
1990′s Sea levels will rise and swamp islands and coastlines = Lies
2000′s No more snow or Ice at the poles = Lies
@Jamie Mul: Science does work very much by consensus. For your scientific proof to be valid your methodology and conclusions have to able to be replicated independently by other scientists. If that can’t be done, as in you can’t gain evidence based consensus, than it’s not science but spoof.
@Muddy:
Ice age coming – claimed by a tiny minority and picked up by a headline-hungry media, totally dismissed by the vast majority of climate scientists.
Ozone layer – hole reducing in size since we banned CFCs.
Rising sea levels – currently rising at record levels according to the World Meteorological Organisation.
Polar ice melt – currently melting at unprecedented levels in both the arctic and antarctic. Look at what’s been happening in Greenland this summer.
@SteoG: No it does not prove your point. You barely corrected him on difference between carbon and carbon dioxide wheres his point still stands as carbon dioxide is plant food. Another fact is that there were much more of carbon in atmosphere by a magnitude compared to current level quite a lot of times in history. Current levels are in fact quite small and plants are starving. More CO2 means more green earth and more food for all of us.
Your agruments are quite funny considering you claim people are uneducated on a matter when talking about carbon yet you do not have problem when we are told we need to reduce carbon production or pay carbon tax to save planet by politicians or “climate scientists”.
Why not carbon dioxide tax? Perhaps you can make it your little crusade to let them all know how wrong or uneducated they are in your mighty eyes.
How else does she suggest we cross the atlantic ‘emission-free’?
How was it possible to build and support this yacht without producing huge emissions?
How is she getting home again?
Much as I recognise that action on climate change is badly needed, sadly this appears to be nothing more than a publicity stunt.
Many years ago I used to give money to Greenpeace until I realised that they were more interested in spending it on publicity stunts than on actually tackling the issues.
@The Great Unwashed: There have been round the world flights of solar aircraft. That could be an option had the technology been pushed far enough to become viable commercially. Publicity stunts raise awareness. Judging by some of the comments here, more awareness is definitely needed.
@Paraic:
It took 505 days to bring two people round the world in a solar aircraft who’s construction and support left a massive carbon footprint. Hardle a viable option for mass transportation.
@The Great Unwashed: It took 4 days for the Solar Impulse 2 to cross the Atlantic. That’s way faster than a sailing vessel. Amazing how everyone points to the carbon footprint of construction of a zero emissions aircraft or yacht without reference to total carbon over its entire lifetime or comparing it to a Boeing 747 which is the standard method for transatlantic travel. “Take a 747 because solar aircraft have to be constructed” is the takeaway message?
@Paraic:
When we develop a solar-powered aircraft that can take 400 passengers we’ll be onto a winner.
Don’t get me wrong, technology moves in steps and early research and development in new technologies is an essential part of the process, but carbon-neutral mass transportation is still a long long way off.
@The Great Unwashed: We had carbon neutral mass transportation for hundreds of years in the form of wooden sailing ships.
Obviously they aren’t practical when it’ll take two weeks to cross the Atlantic in them.
Hyperloop will probably be one of the technical advances to seriously cut carbon emissions.
@Paraic:
Greta says it’s absurd that she has to sail to get across the atlantic emission-free. I’m saying it’s absurd (or at the very least incredibly naive) for her to think we have the technology for her to do it any other way.
@The Great Unwashed: she did say “to sail like this” not just to sail was absurd. Perhaps she, like many others, believes that the technology used to transport a handful of people emission free should have been scaled up by now. Maybe giant pedal boats
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Kites and sails have already been fitted to cargo vessels to reduce fuel consumption (which is certainly a step in the right direction), but short of nuclear power, a massive increase in electricity generation and battery power, or a return to the age of sail, we’re pretty much stuck with creating emissions to move large numbers of people over great distances.
Greta, for all her precociousness, is still a naive teenager.
@Mark Mccormack: ah, begrudgery, the fallback for the individual who is angry that someone is doing something but they are doing nothing. Get off your backside and start looking into it rather than complaining about a sixteen year old girl.
@Muddy: Good man, try drinking sea water. And that’s just the problem. It DOESN’T fall from the sky over, ever expanding tracts of land. Just because it falls from the sky over your head when you’re in Kiltimagh, doesn’t mean it will if you’re in subsaharan Africa. Engage your brain a bit more would you. Global doesn’t mean inside your safe bubble.
@Paraic: how soon are we talking ?? as for all the other people who are taking part in the Conference,apart from those based in NYC,how are the others getting there?
@Cathal: The last male northern white rhino died last year leaving only 2 females (so extinct). There are only 40 red wolves left in the world. The spix macaw (as in the movie Rio) became extinct in the wild last year. There are only 8 Pinta Island giant tortoises left on the planet they were thought to be extinct. The scimitar oryx is extinct in the wild since 2000. The Western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011. The list goes on and on and on… It’s not survival but extinction?? What a dunce!
@Cathal: The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the expected natural background rate. It has been named the Holocene event because it is caused by an unprecedented superpredator (us). You are correct, the Holocene period didn’t begin yesterday, but the species you listed were all victims of the same superpredator. Sure keep telling yourself that it’s all natural and we’ll be grand.
She should learn how to enjoy life and be kid. She’ll grow up angry with everything and everyone and when she 80 or 90 she’ll be wondering what all the hysteria was all about.
@Centerro: That’s the point C, there’s won’t be much of a world left if we continue down this destructive commercial driven path. Would you prefer she was an idiot Kardasian Plastico?
@Nial D: When are we all going to die? Scroll back 30 years it was an Ozone crises…The planet survived Dinosaur farts, people cooking with fire for millennia.. your not dying tomorrow, relax, and it wont be fixed in your lifetime in anycase!
@Tara Connolly: I’ve news for her..that yacht had to be built and so there were ‘emissions’…it will also have a small diesel/petrol motor for entering and exiting harbours.
@SFNutters: so if she gave a sht about raising awareness she would actually just be sitting in a field somewhere in the nip because god forbid she does the best she can with what she has?
These kind of replies are so tiresome and irrelevant.
@SFNutters: 747 have to be constructed too. Compare the fuel used to push a yacht a mile to the consumption of the 747 crossing the Atlantic. It’s like calling someone an alcoholic after witnessing them eating wine gums.
@Dara O’Brien: At least she is trying to make a difference for our future, but sure everyone should keep there head in the sand and hope for the best, that should also work. Meanwhile have a look at a rescaled map of the 100 emissions locations. https://decolonialatlas.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/names-and-locations.png
@Simon O Flaherty: Agreed Simon. The majority of responses here are from people who refuse to face the ugly truth, rather than make positive changes in their every day Ostrich lives:(
Interesting to see the scepticism of all the men commenting so far here, apart from only one man. Just saying …
Greta is putting attention on climate change…and that’s good. Who would want to be sailing on that….why she could be there in 6 hours…so fair play to her.
I love the number of people criticizing her message because she’s a child, ultimately it’s her generation that is going to suffer so she’s the perfect spokesperson against climate change inaction. It’s sad that all the ‘adults’ are entirely threatened because they’re being told that their comfortable lifestyle is damaging to the future of the planet and everyone who lived on it (and who is yet to).
It’s taken a child with some pair of balls to stand up for what’s right, but then again half of the people commenting wouldn’t know what that means, because they’ve never stood up for anything in their lives.
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: she obviously has a greater understanding of the science that is climate change than you have. What IS propaganda is the notion we can continue to overuse the planet’s resources and it can replenish itself.
If she’s going to be in South America then maybe she could highlight the Mercosur trade deal with the EU and its blatantly unsustainable practises. It’s great she’s trying to represent a cause and what better way to showcase climate change than discussing rainforest destruction and the unnecessary shipping of livestock halfway across the world.
@Denise Keller: the rainforests are already being destroyed to grow feed for livestock. Ireland imports a greater proportion of its animal feed from these areas than any other European country.
“We depend two times more on imported animal feed than our neighbours… About two thirds of the animal feeds marketed here are imported, compared to 37% in the UK, 27% in France, and 26% in Germany.
“The main commodities imported are maize and maize byproducts, soyabean meal and soya hulls, and rapeseed meal. Up to 90% of the soyabean and maize products are imported from Argentina, Brazil, and the USA.”
@Valthebear: I love how they start off by calling individual people corporations and then make vague claims about anonymous companies being involved only to not substantiate the claims. Top drawer neutral stuff
@Valthebear: this may come as a shock to you but all things cost money. It’s usually best to balance it with what you get in return. I’ve already pointed out that there is no substance in the article.
All the climate change propaganda is directed mostly at the youth from what I observe. They’re terrified out of their minds with a constant bombardment of sensational apocalyptic news headlines and climate chaos emergencies which they’re being taught in schools as well as via personalised social media advertorials leading to mass hysteria and groups like Extinction Rebellion etc.
The drive for ‘zero carbon’ is being used as a vehicle by the United Nations to advance its global socialist agenda. By embracing extreme environmentalism, they have tapped into a rich vein of activism and popular political support.
However, besides the criss-cross grid like patterns of aeroplane ‘contrails’ we can see dissipating into a full spectrum white blanket of cloud cover on random days, something we did not see as kids, it appears the only observable result of climate chaos will be the ramped up carbon taxes that are coming. Cloud seeding is real. Geo-engineering is real. It can be used to cause droughts and floods or whatever they want. This is what these ‘contrails’ are. Climate change is a worldwide man-made campaign designed for political ends and it is NOT due to putting the wrong waste containers in the wrong bins or whatever. But I’m a ‘conspiracy guy’, don’t listen to conspiracy guys, trust your governments instead kids.
A bit like the weather – everyone talks about but nobody, including Greta, does anything about it.
Our government says we must improve our homes BER and charges vat on all the necessary materials.
Our president & his wife dart about on self indulgent trips using matching His&Her BMW 740′s + an assortment of helicopters & private jets. And holier than thou Greta cosies up to some of the biggest polluting people in her quest to deliver the message
Isn’t that the very point Thomas; Young Greta is trying hard to do something constructive about the weather, and doing a stellar job in her activism drawing attention to causes of global warming.
Being from Sweden, she probably can witness first hand the polar ice caps melting fast. And aged only 16, one has got to admire the teen’s pluck.
Agree with you; Michael D should be going green and leading by example with an EV or a hybrid of some sort, at least. Not a gas guzzling Beamer 740 FFS!
Come on. Who wants to listen to a child who knows absolutely nothing about what she’s talking about. How about having someone that’s spent their life learning about the subject, like a scientist maybe.
@Dave O’Keeffe: Because she’s a kid! Famous for being famous! What revelations has she discovered? Did she invent anything? Its like the Life of Brian, “she is the Messiah, I should know, I’ve followed a few”.
If you’re an adult and you’re mocking a kid for trying to do something decent for the world and even you, it’s time to take a good long look at yourself and what’s reduced you to this.
She is a Soros funded shill. Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Crisis. etc ,etc. Is a fraud created by Goldman Sachs who created the new financial instrument called Carbon Credits after the property bubble burst in America. People really need to wake up to this vermin in pigtails. In our schools today children are being brainwashed with Climate Change, The Holocaust (fraud), LGBT, Immigration is good, etc, etc. Jews behind it all. In Drogheda last week a Garda was kicked to the head while on the ground, but the media ran away from the story because the attackers where black.
If you what to know who is behind to flood Europe with people from Polar opposite cultures then research Barbara Lerner Specter.
The average cruising yacht does a quarter of the speed of this race yacht in ideal conditions, and living conditions are basic and resources are limited, in fact most crews break the journey in either Cape Verde or the Azores to re-provision and recover for the second leg.
The crew on this stunt are wearing the same clothes, sleeping in shifts in the same bunks and crapping in a bucket, so basically travelling in steerage conditions like many irish immigrants of the last two centuries only faster and in less cramped conditions.
Sailing is a fantastic way to travel the world, on a 12 metre yacht with a small crew and no fixed deadlines, but is it a viable method of mass transport today? Absolutely not.
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Store and/or access information on a device 126 partners can use this purpose
Cookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development 165 partners can use this purpose
Use limited data to select advertising 129 partners can use this purpose
Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times an ad is presented to you).
Create profiles for personalised advertising 91 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service (such as forms you submit, content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (for example, information from your previous activity on this service and other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (that might include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present advertising that appears more relevant based on your possible interests by this and other entities.
Use profiles to select personalised advertising 92 partners can use this purpose
Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on your advertising profiles, which can reflect your activity on this service or other websites or apps (like the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects.
Create profiles to personalise content 44 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (which might for example include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests.
Use profiles to select personalised content 41 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests.
Measure advertising performance 150 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which advertising is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine how well an advert has worked for you or other users and whether the goals of the advertising were reached. For instance, whether you saw an ad, whether you clicked on it, whether it led you to buy a product or visit a website, etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of advertising campaigns.
Measure content performance 69 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you.
Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 88 partners can use this purpose
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Develop and improve services 95 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Use limited data to select content 40 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 56 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 29 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 107 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 111 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 79 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 60 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 100 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 83 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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