Climate change Archives - Geohazard Assessment Services

Predicting Auckland’s exposure to coastal instability & erosion – an important step forward …

by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Mar 3, 2021 | Auckland coastline, Climate change, Coastal Flooding, Erosion, Property insurability, Property value, Sea-level rise

Auckland City has high exposure to coastal hazards including coastal instability and erosion since the region has over 3,200 km of coastline including three major harbours and a range of sandy beaches and dunes, rocky shores and cliffs, estuaries and offshore islands....

Climate Change is weakening major ocean currents that shape weather – here’s why you should begin to care …

by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Feb 27, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding, Ocean currents, Property insurability, Property value, Severe weather events

Modified Source Extracts: Inside Climate News and The Guardian news article (dated 25 & 26th Feb. 2021) – The oceans have thousands of currents, gyres and eddies that carry water around the planet. Their movements regulate the Earth’s climate and transport...

Is your house located in a high-risk natural disaster area?

by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Feb 14, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding, Property insurability, Property value

Thousands of Tasman homes at risk of storm inundation and sea level rise Our latest blog comes from Stuff and looks at the risk to homes, businesses, national parks, water treatment plants, roading and environmental sites in Motueka-Riwaka and other Nelson / Tasman...

Latest sea level rise forecast alarms scientists

by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Feb 2, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding

Source: The Guardian news article (Feb. 2nd, 2021) – Rising sea levels seem one of the more distant threats of the climate emergency, unless you live in a house close to the high tide mark or on an eroding cliff. The annual rise of 3-mm (0.12 in) does not seem...

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Jan 26, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding

Source: Reuters news article (25th Jan. 2021) – Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures and sea-level’s ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice...

On ‘borrowed time’ – coastal property values at Port Waikato affected by continuing erosion

by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Jan 21, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding

Source: NZ Stuff news article (21st Jan. 2021) – Living by the beach isn’t particularly relaxing when the sea could wipe out your home in less than two decades. When Jo Poland bought a coastal property at Port Waikato in 1994, she looked at the ocean through...