This is where you might begin to see our government take climate change seriously. When leafy Clontarf and Dublin bay south start getting flooded and their voters SUVs etc are getting damaged, they’ll demand action. From Dublin Fire Brigades account.

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1. They’ll demand better drain maintenance

2. Looking at the MET Eireann website which maps the rainfall from 1850-2017 the trend is no different.

   Absolute scaremongering that does not stand up to scrutiny.

   https://www.met.ie/climate/what-we-measure/rainfall

   Tab : The Island of Ireland Precipitation Series 1850-2016

3. I am not sold on our ability to stop climate change. Throughout history the planet has gone though extreme climate change without humans doing anything so it would seem to be inevitable.

   I also think EV cars are a waste of time considering how much carbon is emitted during the production of their batteries, approx 10 years worth of driving a regular combustion car. Also in a few years time there is going to be a huge amount of waste EV batteries that are not financially viable to recycle and toxic to humans. Yet our government is funding the use of EVs.

4. In your opinion, where is the government not taking climate change seriously and what initiatives could they take to better tackle it?

5. They will just put a tax on something.

6. The petty schadenfreude some people are indulging in because the houses that flooded are in Clontarf is cringe af.

7. Hasn’t that stretch in Clontarf been flooding on and off for years?

8. More frequent flooding would actually justify SUV ownership

9. This is the only thing protecting Dublin City from being underwater in a generation. Most of the richest and most well-connected people live close to Dublin Bay.

   But I won’t be surprised if the sea wall budget runs out of money when it hits East Wall.

10. How about fixing drainage problems in a rainy rock in ocean??

11. Sure. They’ll address global warming to save Clontarf. What other half-baked takes do you have knocking around in your head?

12. Drain care/better drainage and fair wages for the fire brigade would be the sensible takeaway from this.

13. OP is the Reddit chicken little for Climate spoofery

14. Clontarf, Fairview and the North Strand have been getting flooded like this for a long, long time

15. I’d doubt it. 1 street flooded because the river nearby was buried. It flooded in 2011 too, the houses had flood barriers.

16. Meanwhile, farmers who own land on the river Shannon flood plains are protesting that it’s too wet, led ably by the number one opponents to climate action in this country – the IFA