Chris Medland

[Chris Medland @PlaceResilence]

Most climate resilience work focuses on systems (energy, water, transport) but failure is experienced at the scale of place.
Homes overheat. Streets flood. Services stop.
I’m exploring how infrastructure shapes place resilience holistically
#PlaceResilience #ClimateResilience

[Chris Medland @PlaceResilence]

@pritipatel I wonder if that is statistically true? There will be metrics out there about which nations are responsible for the deaths of people from other nations and I suspect that at least 3 countries are well ahead in that category and all 3 already have nuclear weapons

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@pirate1100 @lembitopik It’s a direct counter point to your use of oil in the wind turbine mechanism. Yes we will need a small amount of oil, but it pails into insignificance to what is used today

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@pirate1100 @lembitopik including the full life-cycle assessment (mining, manufacturing, transport, installation, maintenance and recycling), wind & solar generate far more energy than they consume. Fossil fuels, by contrast, must keep extracting, transporting, burning new fuel every day

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@pirate1100 @lembitopik Before a litre of petrol reaches your car, energy is used to extract the oil, transport it, refine it, and deliver it to the pump. A typical estimate is that 10–25% of the fuel's energy content is consumed in getting it there. Oil is burned getting to your engine

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@lembitopik New wind and solar are now cheaper than new coal and gas across much of the world. The question is no longer whether renewables can compete economically—it’s whether grids, storage, and politics can keep up with the transition.

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@BBCBreaking Russia & Israel are two states currently accused of using military force to occupy or consolidate control over territory beyond internationally recognised borders. Russia in Ukraine; Israel in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Syria’s Golan Heights.

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@lembitopik A warm week doesn't prove climate change, and a cool week doesn't disprove it.
Climate is the long-term trend. Weather is the short-term variation around that trend.
The evidence comes from decades of observations, not whichever week happens to support our argument.

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@gazcon A warm week doesn't prove climate change, and a cool week doesn't disprove it.
Climate is the long-term trend. Weather is the short-term variation around that trend.
The evidence comes from decades of observations, not whichever week happens to support our argument.

[Chris Medland @PlaceResilence]

@robinmonotti @GeoffWrigh3712 Climate change doesn’t mean every day gets warmer. It means the old patterns become less reliable: heat, cold, drought, heavy rain and “weather whiplash” all become harder to predict. Sometimes it will still be colder than normal. That doesn’t mean the climate isn’t changing.

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@afneil Which part is a lie?

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@Hargreaves6752 @theresa_may We've fought wars over it, built economies around it, subsidised it through taxation. Yet dependence on fossil fuels threatens the stability of the our planet, our civilisation. The question isn't whether we can afford the transition. It's whether we can afford not to make it.

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A new Thames Barrier could take decades to plan and deliver.

The question isn't whether Parliament, and London, is worth protecting. It's whether we're investing early enough in the infrastructure that is needed to protect it.
#ClimateResilience #Infrastructure #PlaceResilience

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Without continued investment in Thames defences, a storm surge flooding parts of Westminster becomes an increasingly plausible risk after 2050.
Thwaites Glacier may not flood Parliament tomorrow, but it could shorten the time we have to prepare.
#ClimateAdaptation #Infrastructure

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@MrMatthewTodd @arusbridger Telling people they should be terrified isn't working.

People engage when risks affect their homes, health, jobs, travel and communities.

The challenge isn't just the science. It's making climate risk relevant before it becomes unavoidable.

#ClimateResilience #Adaptation

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@afneil It’s baffling how, in 2026, intelligent well educated worldly people can still get something that is so well understood & evidenced so wrong. It’s a sort of blindness, it would be interesting to understand the psychology behind it. Denial isn’t a cure, ignorance isn’t a solution.

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@superviuk @OllyParramore @JackDunc1 Whether you agree that climate change is being influenced by human activities or otherwise is irrelevant. The fact is that is changing and quickly and it will affect people, places, communities and whole countries detrimentally for a century to come and we need to prepare.

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@cityoflondon ‘Greener’ than what? Lower carbon than what?

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The rapid growth of rooftop solar in the UK is good news for energy #resilience.
Every home generating power locally reduces exposure to volatile global gas prices. More drilling won’t protect households from international markets. Reducing dependence on them will.
#Solar #PV

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@KemiBadenoch Energy bills rise because of global gas prices, not Net Zero. Ofgem says wholesale gas has driven increases. More North Sea drilling won’t significantly cut UK prices because oil and gas are traded internationally. Long-term energy security comes from reducing dependence on gas.