Twice a year (and a corresponding increase in the frequency of formerly 1-in-500-year events) sounds completely uninsurable.
I'm on my soap-box again. Reiterating I have absolutely nothing against most farmers, and respect their right to an income and what they do. However, can we cut the backbone of the economy bullshit, please? Not even in the top 10.
Dredging back through old climate change impacts reports, and while I recall them warning of that happening for droughts and floods, I don't think they did it for storm surges. The closest is this, from 2001.
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Various surveys say that 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 NZ children live in conditions of food insecurity. And this isn't even framed as a major problem or serious issue a lot of the time.
The thing that pisses me off when people talk about methane having a short term effect in the atmosphere is that it breaks down into CO2 which has a very long term effect in the atmosphere. It's a double whammy.
State government admits police officer battered Hannah Thomas during pro-Palestinian protest