While there is much furore of late about global warming, the reality in Ireland is that during the first 5 months of the year there was actually much colder weather than average as can be seen in the temperature records from Met Eireann below. LTA here refers to the long term average for 1981 to 2010. It shows significant cooling in January and May, enough to cause a concern nationally but so far I haven't seen any. It shows the mistakes that can be made by solely relying on ipcc reports. In this case, the mistakes could be very costly for people's lives and impact on hospital admissions (a topical subject at the moment) .
If Ireland's climate is becoming cooler then that means we will need more reliable heating sources and more reliable energy generators than other countries. However, our leaders are moving in the opposite direction with bans on fossil fuels.
