As a farmer, I know only too well that there’s nothing we can do about the weather. We can only adapt to what we’re given. That’s why I was so surprised during the week to see Danny Healy-Rae TD hitting front-page news by stating that very fact.
“I believe that God above is in charge of the weather, and that we here can’t do anything about it,” he said in the Dáil. He went on several radio stations using more secularly inclusive language saying that nature has always been evolving long before Henry Ford mass-produced “combustible engines”.
As long as the science continues to be seen as the preserve of academics and activists, it will be difficult to convince the sceptics
The changes in the climate are real and verified by 97% of scientists as being caused by human influence. However, as long as the science continues to be seen as the preserve of academics and activists, it will be difficult to convince the sceptics.
Danny Healy-Rae’s viewpoint is one I have often come across privately regarding climate change.
I was sceptical of the global warming/climate change story myself at first. The same people and groups that I had encountered on the opposite side of nitrates, designations and basically all regulations that affect farmers were out in force again. Climate was just another stick to beat us with.
Danny’s brother, Michael Healy-Rae TD, made reference to the “smart people above in Dublin”. That is the way a sizable chunk of the population views environmental activists. The scare tactics employed where climate change is blamed for everything from Lahinch being devastated by the sea, to the recent Shannon floods, the 2012-13 fodder crisis and just about any significant weather event is counter-productive.
I have just seen an article from a Canadian activist blaming the dreadful Fort McMurray fire completely on climate change. It is akin to the guy with a sandwich board shouting the end is nigh. He could be right, but most avoid him instead of taking him seriously.
Danny Healy-Rae TD is someone that does need to be taken seriously
Danny Healy-Rae TD is someone that does need to be taken seriously. He rightly points out how current carbon tax is basically just another tax. He rightly points out how an industry seems to have developed around the climate change agenda. An industry that in most cases in the last few days has worked to try and dismiss an elected politician as representing no-one.
I, too, have been dismissed and ridiculed in the past for suggesting straight cuts in Irish agricultural production would be a bad idea.
Danny Healy-Rae’s now infamous Dáil speech seems to have encouraged more to speak publically.
Any developments to combat emissions in sectors such as energy production is already causing “anti” groupings to question climate science.
I wish the incoming government well in their endeavours. Danny Healy-Rae is someone you ignore at your peril.
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As a farmer, I know only too well that there’s nothing we can do about the weather. We can only adapt to what we’re given. That’s why I was so surprised during the week to see Danny Healy-Rae TD hitting front-page news by stating that very fact.
“I believe that God above is in charge of the weather, and that we here can’t do anything about it,” he said in the Dáil. He went on several radio stations using more secularly inclusive language saying that nature has always been evolving long before Henry Ford mass-produced “combustible engines”.
As long as the science continues to be seen as the preserve of academics and activists, it will be difficult to convince the sceptics
The changes in the climate are real and verified by 97% of scientists as being caused by human influence. However, as long as the science continues to be seen as the preserve of academics and activists, it will be difficult to convince the sceptics.
Danny Healy-Rae’s viewpoint is one I have often come across privately regarding climate change.
I was sceptical of the global warming/climate change story myself at first. The same people and groups that I had encountered on the opposite side of nitrates, designations and basically all regulations that affect farmers were out in force again. Climate was just another stick to beat us with.
Danny’s brother, Michael Healy-Rae TD, made reference to the “smart people above in Dublin”. That is the way a sizable chunk of the population views environmental activists. The scare tactics employed where climate change is blamed for everything from Lahinch being devastated by the sea, to the recent Shannon floods, the 2012-13 fodder crisis and just about any significant weather event is counter-productive.
I have just seen an article from a Canadian activist blaming the dreadful Fort McMurray fire completely on climate change. It is akin to the guy with a sandwich board shouting the end is nigh. He could be right, but most avoid him instead of taking him seriously.
Danny Healy-Rae TD is someone that does need to be taken seriously
Danny Healy-Rae TD is someone that does need to be taken seriously. He rightly points out how current carbon tax is basically just another tax. He rightly points out how an industry seems to have developed around the climate change agenda. An industry that in most cases in the last few days has worked to try and dismiss an elected politician as representing no-one.
I, too, have been dismissed and ridiculed in the past for suggesting straight cuts in Irish agricultural production would be a bad idea.
Danny Healy-Rae’s now infamous Dáil speech seems to have encouraged more to speak publically.
Any developments to combat emissions in sectors such as energy production is already causing “anti” groupings to question climate science.
I wish the incoming government well in their endeavours. Danny Healy-Rae is someone you ignore at your peril.
Read more
Full coverage: agriculture and climate change/a>
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