More extreme weather events in NZ you say? What is causing that then?

By
Martyn Bradbury
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Another extreme weather event that has followed multiple other extreme weather events hitting NZ right now causing scaring upon the land, flood damage beyond capacity to repair from and a mainstream media who refuse to ask why any of this is happening.

It’s almost like something is impacting the weather?

In totally unrelated news, Environment Canterbury has approved dairy conversions for over 15,000 additional cows in six months because no matter what the question is in NZ, the answer is always, ‘More cows’.

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11 COMMENTS

  1. Clearly mother nature is pissed off with the kids and is claiming back all that land that was drained and is now threatened by rising sea levels and massive rain events on land that has been stripped of trees that were there for a reason .All those drained swamps are now being reclaimed and buried by the silt washing down from the hills .That silt is what is left of the top soil that was built up over the centuries and is now being washed out to sea .Soon those hills wont be growing any grass for stock and will just be naked subsoil .Next time you travel over the Parapara hill road stop at the top and have a look at the erosion on land that should never have been stripped of trees .Even if they were destocked now it would be difficult even for weeds to grow there in the next 100 years .

    • Yep, we’ve become hypersensitive to weather events. Not helped by the media who get a story out of it.
      Hypersenstive to lots of stuff really.

      Its a tricky one. On the one hand the science tells us global warming is real and makes a good case for causality. Expect more frequent and more intense storms. On the other hand the media narrative would have us believe that every passing front is a potential disaster.

      Time will be our witness, one way or the other.

  3. Totally gordan. In the upper reaches of the Whanganui River, where streams flow out of the hills, discoloured water (read, silt-fulled water) is clearly visible by the different colours of brown. I noticed this forty years ago when working in Taumarunui. A highly-experienced long-time river guide told me it was silt draining off the hills which had been cleared of native forest. Putting two and two together, our mountains are becoming river flats closer to the coast… ask the people of Tasman/Nelson districts about rivers rising out of the previously natural river bed levels. Even with a massive motivation, it would take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to plant and grow up sufficient deep-rooted trees. For what it’s worth, pines are a waste of time in this respect…. shallow rooting.

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