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"The strength of the breeding programme in Ireland has delivered great progress for dairy farmers." - Mike Magan, Dairy farmer, Killashee, Co Longford.
Recently, the joint CCAC/IFAC report A Colossal Missed Opportunity pointed out that Ireland could be exposed to fines of up to €26bn for non-achievement of EU/Irish 2030 emissions targets; they have suggested major investments in the hope of ameliorating these fines.
But there is a much simpler solution. That lies in properly accounting for Irish agricultural emissions.
These are currently grossly overstated through using an inappropriate laboratory-derived equivalence factor for the greenhouse warming effect of methane compared to CO2 — a factor that simply does not apply in the real world atmosphere.
The latest climate science by the world-renowned physicist Professors Will Happer and William van Wijngaarden (among others) has definitively proven that this real world impact of Irish ruminant methane emissions is actually infinitesimal.
Therefore, the 40% of Ireland’s emissions supposedly relating to agriculture should be correctly reduced to almost zero, thus enabling achievement of Ireland’s 2030 emissions target at the stroke of a pen.
Why is no one in the CCAC, IFAC, EPA or DECC proposing that glaringly-obvious cost-free solution?
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Title: The breeding independence of the national herd
"The strength of the breeding programme in Ireland has delivered great progress for dairy farmers." - Mike Magan, Dairy farmer, Killashee, Co Longford.
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Recently, the joint CCAC/IFAC report A Colossal Missed Opportunity pointed out that Ireland could be exposed to fines of up to €26bn for non-achievement of EU/Irish 2030 emissions targets; they have suggested major investments in the hope of ameliorating these fines.
But there is a much simpler solution. That lies in properly accounting for Irish agricultural emissions.
These are currently grossly overstated through using an inappropriate laboratory-derived equivalence factor for the greenhouse warming effect of methane compared to CO2 — a factor that simply does not apply in the real world atmosphere.
The latest climate science by the world-renowned physicist Professors Will Happer and William van Wijngaarden (among others) has definitively proven that this real world impact of Irish ruminant methane emissions is actually infinitesimal.
Therefore, the 40% of Ireland’s emissions supposedly relating to agriculture should be correctly reduced to almost zero, thus enabling achievement of Ireland’s 2030 emissions target at the stroke of a pen.
Why is no one in the CCAC, IFAC, EPA or DECC proposing that glaringly-obvious cost-free solution?
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