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Both points are in the paper and they reinforce each other. On flooding - the analysis shows UK flooding is primarily an investment failure, not a climate signal. Hebden Bridge has flooded repeatedly because of chronic underfunding of natural flood management, river dredging and upland peat restoration not because of measurable rainfall increases. The paper calculates that redirecting 5% of net zero subsidies (£1.5bn/year) would protect 6 million homes within a decade. On the blanket bog specifically this is the precise contradiction at the heart of current policy. Upland peat bogs are the most carbon-dense terrestrial ecosystem in the UK. Each hectare stores approximately 2,300 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent. Destroying them to install wind turbines releases that carbon, eliminates their flood attenuation function (intact peat absorbs and slowly releases water, reducing peak flows by 15-25%), and removes the very landscape that would be the cheapest and most effective flood defence for communities like Hebden Bridge. So you have a policy that simultaneously: destroys flood protection, releases carbon, and charges the communities below for energy they could protect themselves more cheaply by restoring the upland they're replacing. The paper argues for no mandates and no subsidies which means wind turbines would have to compete on true full-system cost including the environmental externalities of peat destruction. They wouldn't be built there on that basis. Full paper in my earlier post Section 8 covers flooding in detail

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Can you talk about the increased risk of flooding and the impact of carbon release from destruction of blanket bog due to proposed supersized turbines above Hebden Bridge? #WalshawMoor.

1/ Hebden Bridge has flooded 5 times in 10 years. The government spent £30bn on net zero subsidies last year. Redirecting 5% would protect 6 million homes from flooding within a decade. But that's just the start prepare to be shocked. @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys. Thread

@AlexTaylorNews It's arm waving posts like this that are destroying people's belief in climate change. Well done

If you don't think we're burning up our planet, you're an idiot ... and that goes for US Presidents and other populists telling people to "drill baby, drill"

@GraemeDawson @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Relevance??

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys "If we leave the EU we will have £350million A WEEK going to the NHS"!!

@AlanWakefield13 @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Ooohh. Not nice

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Hebden could do with a few drowning.

@Mwmoliver @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Exactly. Spend money.

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys It makes me laugh when some use a flood as their agenda. Fact is it would rain the same amount without the town being there. Flood is just a natural accumulation of water which will go whichever is the easiest route. Don't want a flood, have substantial drainage.

@bscoot123 @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys And can it be stopped?

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys No, HB did not flood. There was flooding in HB there always has been, the same as in York

@commonsense7574 @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Yes and its not all our money on no. 7 roulette

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys It’s a financial scam! Diverting money to bs schemes rather than doing the basics. Dredge & maintain both the rivers & canals. Maintain the drains & stop building everywhere. But all that is too easy & stops a lot of people making a lot of money off the back of the scam

@BenJoRS2017 @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys The engineering response spreads money across society. Net Zero makes a few elite people very rich

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Net zero is another great big corrupt money spinner scam for the so-called elite scumbags

@hudnaxela @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys That one picture speaks the truth. The Gov't in seeking Net Zero have consigned to the unnecessary horrors of flooding. Ideology first citizens second

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys *ai picture used in place of evidence

@PerrinsR @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Yep if you're the one getting flooded it's total sh**e. The money is there.

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Net zero is BS. The rivers flood due to lack of maintenance and there’s no amount of windmills or electric cars going to change that. We’re trying to cut 1% of the world’s global carbon emissions thinking it’s going to make a difference. It will make fuck all difference…

@martin_clark1 @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys The point is if you drop net zero and pursue a strategy of adaption you save money and lives. Lots

@thisisyoudotco @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Pretty sure you won’t find anyone pushing for net zero who doesn’t also want climate change mitigation and adaptation measures including flood defense. So not sure what point you think you’re making

@Michaelc2481 @JuliaHB1 @PatrickChristys Yep.could have been so different. Needs strong leadership now

What complete and utter twaddle. 32.8°C (91.0°F) Recorded at Camden Square On 22 May 1922. The same temperature of 32.8°C was later equalled on 29 May 1944 at Horsham, Tunbridge Wells, and Regent's Park. SOURCE? YOU GUESSED IT. THE MET OFFICE You have to ask why the Met Office is engaging in a political agenda

@metoffice This is not weather forecasting. It's propaganda. You should all be sacked. Coal, oil and gas still provide 81% of global primary energy - wind-solar sits at 6%.

Temperatures have peaked today at 30.5°C in Frittenden, Kent 🌡️ This marks the first time in 2026 that the UK has passed the 30°C threshold It is very rare for the UK to record 30°C in May, with the last time being over a decade ago on 25 May 2012

11/ This is not climate denial. Warming is real. BUT so is the physics real. The question is whether the most expensive intervention in human history is justified when a solution 10–30× cheaper produces better outcomes for more people. Full paper + executive summary to follow Challenge the numbers. Release people from energy poverty. Get full transparency. Test the options

10/ SEA LEVEL Derived from first principles, calibrated against 150 years of tide gauge data: Additional rise 2025–2125: ~32cm Peak rate: ~5mm/year around 2045 Rate by 2100: ~2.5mm/year (decelerating) Manageable. The Netherlands has handled comparable change for centuries.