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"In the aftermath of the latest bout of extreme rainfall across New Zealand’s
upper North Island, there were some familar scenes.
Submerged pastures. Silt carried by swollen rivers and piled against bridges.
Floodwaters surrounding homes whose owners were forced to flee.
As we count the toll of these events, which have wrought billions of dollars in
damage over the past few years alone, there are inevitably questions about the
hidden hand of climate change.
But just as pressing is another question: just how much worse might they become
in a potentially much warmer world, decades from now?
Our newly published research, exploring a range of warming scenarios and
drawing on the Ministry for the Environment’s latest climate projections,
provides some useful answers.
The results point to a future where extreme rainfall is both more intense and
more frequent across much of the country – with some simulated storms bearing
the hallmarks of weather disasters from Aotearoa’s past."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
