Results 2,421-2,440 of 7,788 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did Mr. Foley say 2026?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the scheme still putting in 95% oil and gas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There was one question that I forgot. Is there any capacity here in the agricultural sector whereby we can put up panels and help in a large-scale way? Has this been looked at to help the agricultural communities to get involved in this to help in a time of a crisis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Mr. Hourigan said that basically a cow eats ten or 11 tonnes of grass and that a certain amount of that has carbon in it and a certain amount goes out through the milk. He talked about the methane and stabilising numbers. Does Professor Allen agree with Mr. Hourigan’s analysis? I saw something in the media yesterday and I note Professor Allen...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Climate change. Could he explain that? Ireland is basically a grass-based country. As was outlined by the professor, this could move to other places that might not be as good at doing it. What would his solutions for Ireland be? In the line of this word that is going around at the moment in relation to a "cull" of the national herd - it is causing major problems in Holland at the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I also asked about the use of seaweed in one of the states.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The cattle all drink water.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the two scientists to give me one indication. Let us say Ireland has 7 or 8 million cattle. If we in Ireland were to reduce methane by 20% what would it do to world temperatures? Would it do anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, both of ye.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Temperature-wise I am talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Professor Allen agree that it can be done the way it is being done in America by new technologies, as Dr. Mitloehner referred to? Is that possible?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I rest my case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I rest my case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have some brief questions. From listening to previous speakers, if there were 100 million cattle in the world in 1930 and if there are also 100 million cattle in the world today, have the same number of cattle today contributed more than they did in 1930? Will the witnesses explain that? Is there more methane in the air or are the cattle different?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is 3% per decade.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When I asked a previous speaker what would happen if the world decided to reduce by 20% all the methane emitted from all the cattle on the planet, he said it would bring world temperatures down by only hundredths of 1°C. Do the witnesses agree with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry for interrupting Professor Thorne but what is the length of time involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking one simple question. The witnesses do not agree with the academics who were here previously who stated that if we reduced methane by 20% worldwide, the outcome would only amount to hundredths of 1°C. Are the witnesses saying that is incorrect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It would be 0.1°C.