FORESTRY SLASH RISKS PERSIST POST-GABRIELLE AMID REGULATORY SHIFTS
New forestry rules after Cyclone Gabrielle are questioned for not stopping slash risks on steep land. Who is affected and what happens next?
#ForestrySlash, #CycloneGabrielle, #EnvironmentalRisk, #NewZealand, #LandUse
https://newsletter.tf/forestry-slash-risks-after-gabrielle-new-rules/
New forestry regulations are being questioned for their effectiveness in managing debris after Cyclone Gabrielle, with concerns that large-scale clear-felling on vulnerable slopes may continue.
#ForestrySlash, #CycloneGabrielle, #EnvironmentalRisk, #NewZealand, #LandUse
https://newsletter.tf/forestry-slash-risks-after-gabrielle-new-rules/
#NewstalkZB, NZ’s leading RW news broadcasters told its listeners not to take meteorological warnings about the approaching Cyclone Gabrielle too seriously.
#CycloneGabrielle in Feb 23 was the costliest tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere, with total damage estimated to be NZ$14.5 billion, in which NZ$3.18 billion are insurance loss.
Hilarious to hear Nicola Willis trying to take #NZPol credit for the seasonal price drop of kumara, potato and onions. Kumara, potato and onion costs had gone through the roof as a result of crops being written off in the previous 2 years due to recent weather events such as Auckland and Northland flooding plus #CycloneGabrielle
Meanwhile, New Zealanders will also feel the effects of warming seas, with the ocean dictating much of the island nation’s weather, said Dr Georgia Grant, a climate scientist at GNS Science.
“Increasing ocean temperatures are one of the factors as to why storms like #CycloneGabrielle are expected to increase in severity under climate warming.”
"This increased the burden on remaining staff. In the event, the urgent need for specialist skills in the first hours of the response perhaps outweighed infection risk."
#BushInternationalConsulting, independent review of Hawke's Bay Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group response to Cyclone Gabrielle
https://www.hbemergency.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/HBCDEM-Response-to-Cyclone-Gabrielle-Final-Report.pdf
Intriguing, some people still maintain that *nothing* outweighs the risk of COVID infection.
Great article by Cindy Baxter:
Climate change is relentless: without action it’s only going to get worse, and the bills will continue to mount. Piha resident Cindy Baxter wants to know when we’re going to face our long-term problems head on.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/14/a-year-on-from-gabrielle-and-our-thinkings-no-bigger/ #CycloneGabrielle #climatecrisis
Reading the stories and being reminded of what it was like on the day and days afterwards, and what it felt like learning about those who had lost so much kinda brings it all back.
We had it good, others had and still have it terrible. I feel for them a bunch, and I bet other folks whose personal experience was as relatively easy as mine probably do too.
It's been a cruddy time for folks, and my fear is that we'll see more of this in future.
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I tell youse what.
We had it easy when Gabrielle hit, no power or comms for a day and water only came under 1/4 of our house. We had food, clean water, couldn't flush the dunny but because we live near the storm/sewage pumping pit there was a generator there towards the end of the day tidying all that up.
At the time we kinda felt ok, mostly because we had no communications so had no idea how bad things were. That didn't start hitting until days afterwards.
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The climate change-charged Cyclone Gabrielle was devastating, but one year on, Luxon's Government seems intent on increasing the risk of more storms like this by rolling back efforts to limit climate change.
One year on there is hope and despair
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/cyclone-gabrielle-one-year-on-there-is-both-despair-and-hope/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-62375&utm_campaign=&utm_source=mastodon
#nzpol #climatechange #cyclonegabrielle #storm #flooding #newzealand
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