Dumping on this scale was not just predictable, but predicted. It's the direct result of:
a. 15 years of austerity
b. Reining in and defunding the regulators at the behest of lobbyists.
But it makes you wonder: were the Tories lobbied by professional crime syndicates? Otherwise, why the hell ...?

The sheer scale of it shows that these people know they can get away with anything. The Environment Agency has been reduced to a chihuahua, sent out to do battle with rottweilers. It can yap, but can't land a bite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For example cut fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks and use the money to build decarbonisation.

The IPCC is the longest, largest, and most thorough scientific investigation in history and does not agree. See power to X.
Also, climate breakdown has to be avoided which means fossil fuel burning is over unless the resulting CO2 is removed. So in effect we have no choice but to decarbonise.

The paper makes some good points re Ireland, but ignores Power to X methods of storing windpower reducing the need for fossil back up. AI says the IPCC views wind energy as a key component of a sustainable energy future and a critical technology for mitigating climate change.

Please provide a peer-reviewed paper that makes this argument, which doesn’t seem credible.

It says “Wind power is a renewable electricity generation source that does not emit CO2 in operation. It has very low life cycle CO2 emissions when compared with fossil fuelled generation. When wind power is generated, it will displace generation from power plants,
reducing their … emissions”

The link I sent you shows wind power DOES reduce emissions. It would be extraordinary if it didn’t. Especially as the infrastructure changes are there for a very long time

Well it’s clear wind power reduces GHG emissions compared to fossil fuel use. The harms of wind are tiny compared to the harms of fossil fuel use.

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