Sheffield City Council Blame Climate Change For Tree Damage

[rangerrebew]

Sheffield City Council Blame Climate Change For Tree Damage
January 29, 2025
 
By Paul Homewood
 
Sheffield City Council are blaming climate change for a £5m tree maintenance bill, saying the increased regularity of storms has caused costs to balloon.

The Telegraph has the full story here.


Interestingly the Telegraph quotes two scientists who say observations do not back up Sheffield’s claim, but another, Hayley Fowler, who says her modelling showed that climate change is making storms like Eowyn “more frequent, with more intense wind speeds and much higher rainfall amounts”.

Maybe Hayley should start looking at real world data and ignore her fictitious models, because the Met Office maintain she is talking out of her backside!

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/sheffield-city-council-blame-climate-change-for-tree-damage/

[rangerrebew]

Strange how, in the long history of Great Britain, how I've never seen anything written about climate change damaging trees before.  This must be a very virulent variety of climate change.

[The_Reader_David]

The Sheffield City Council have a lot of gall blaming anyone or anything for tree damage.  When I lived in Sheffield for 5 months during a sabbatical in 2016, the Sheffield Council was marring the city by cutting down dozens if not hundreds of old trees over the objections of the land owners whose land they stood on (albeit in the easement for a sidewalk or pavement as the Brits would call it) and in the face of general public outcry against the program.