Tagged: coastal flooding

With seas rising and storms surging, who will pay for New Zealand’s most vulnerable coastal properties? - News

Guest Author • Jul 13, 2021 •

• climate change,
• coastal flooding,
• New Zealand stories,
• storms

Tom Logan, University of Canterbury   The major storm surge and coastal flooding in Wellington earlier this month was another reminder that the sea is now lapping close to a lot of New Zealand’s front doors. The ominous question is: who will pay when it crosses the threshold? But that’s not a question worrying insurance companies. They’ve made their … Read More

Why coastal floods are becoming more frequent as seas rise - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Nov 20, 2019 •

• climate change,
• coastal flooding,
• sea level rise,
• tides

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I saw an article claiming that “king tides” will increase in frequency as sea level … Read More

Sea level rise is real: why we need to retreat from unrealistic advice - Unsorted

Guest Author • Dec 04, 2015 •

• climate change,
• coastal defences,
• coastal flooding,
• COP21,
• paris 2015,
• paris climate summit,
• Sea level,
• sea level rise,
• sea levels

Mark Gibbs, Queensland University of Technology Coastal communities around the world are being increasingly exposed to the hazards of rising sea levels, with global sea levels found to be rising faster over the past two decades than for the bulk of the 20th century. But managing the impacts of rising seas for some communities is being … Read More