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New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we need to see is China and the US, Australia, Canada, Brazil and the big emitters starting to pull their emissions down as well, and I hope we can provide a bit of inspiration, a bit of an example in this country to help other countries do the same, we really want to stop warming the climate more because these extreme events will become overwhelming.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I suspect the main response is going to be protection works rather than moving people away. So building sea walls, building levees, stop banks, putting houses up on higher piles.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s no question that as a country we need to look at the resilience of our infrastructure. And we need to do that with a much greater sense of urgency, I think, than we have ever seen before.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ocean surface doesn't vary that wildly, one degree( Celsius) is big. So, five degrees is huge.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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