Australia are without doubt one of the biggest global polluters, but they recently signed up to the second phase of Kyoto and introduced a carbon tax this year.

I know I’m in the minority on this issue, but i would like to see the planet destroyed.

The protocol is so important and it’s getting little media coverage, just looking at our climate the couple of years we had freaky flooding and freezing temps away worse than the averages. America, Canada ,Australian and most importantly china are terrible polluters and have large fossil fuel resources are fecking it all up for EU states who are by far leading the battle against climate change.

This is not going to be a popular comment… But here goes…
Environmentalists are dead set against the 2 technologies that could really make a difference to global warming.

1. Fracking: the US CO2 emissions are down to 1990 levels, partly due to the recession, but mostly due to replacing coal power plants with electricity generated due to natural gas produced from fracking. Fracking is noy perfect, but its far far better than coal, there is a lot of propaganda flying around, such as the extremely biased documentary, Gasland,

2. Nuclear power: the german decision to abandon nuclear power is not based on logic or even science, its based on emotional fear of nuclear energy and politics. germany are already gearing up burn lots more coal to replace their low carbon nuclear reactors, ironically coal releases far more radiation due to Uranium and thorium deposits in coal going up the chimney.

Im sick of people telling me that wind/renewable energy is free, it is in fact very expensive and has a questionable impact on climate change since it must be backed up 100% with coal/gas power plants.

We need to be pragmatic, pick the lesser of two evils, fracking and nuclear in the medium term, thorium and fusion in the long term.

I d like to know if the targets set by the Kyoto protocol been reached in the first place by the signatories countries ? If china , USA , Canada , Australia , India aren’t on board I think it’s a bit pointless has they’re some of the biggest polluters on the planet !

The terrible truth is that the most powerful nations who have and are causing man made climate change are at the beck and call of the global fossil fuel and nuclear industries. Look at recent developments in the UK as they move back to coal mining shale gas nuclear. Same in USA, climate change was a toxic phrase. The European Environment Agency report on climate change had this to say about Ireland.

Key findings include -

While rainfall is decreasing in southern regions, it is increasing in Ireland and the rest of northern Europe.
The last decade was the warmest on record in Ireland, with land temperature 1.3°C warmer than the pre-industrial average.
We could be 2.5-4°C warmer in the later part of the 21st Century, compared to the 1961-1990 average.
Climate change is projected to increase river flooding as temperatures rises intensify the water cycle.
Sea levels are rising, raising the risk of coastal flooding during storms.
Global average sea levels have risen by 1.7mm a year in the 20th Century and by 3mm a year in recent decades. It is likely that 21st Century sea-level rise will be greater than during the 20th Century.