Outrageous Response

Where would the media be without a good disaster?

It is hard to keep up with the continuing coverage of the latest weather event but one item in particular had me shaking my head.

A report on Radio NZ covered comments from 'experts' (what is an expert) and the fearmongering was extreme and beyond belief.

A Professor Bronwyn Hayward from Canterbury University was quoted as saying the following.

"children that have been born in 2020 and since will face over four times the number of extreme events in their lifetimes than any of us who were 55 in 2020 will ever experience in our remaining lives"

That is an outrageous claim and has no factual base. There is no way a prediction can be made about future events because there are too many factors to consider and it is likely this claim is based on the climate change scam that has infected our institutions. It is also irresponsible to make such a claim knowing that such claims could scare people unnecessarily .  

In the future the weather patterns could change completely and NZ could experience continuing droughts or cold periods or warm periods. Nature has a mind of its own and will do what it has done for thousands of years.  

Coulds and mights. Even modelling will not predict the precise future or regularity of  weather events.

Councils around the country are familiar with their geographical features , the rivers and the infrastructure that has been created to protect ratepayers and there is a familiarity with flooding going back years.

The reactions appearing now revolve around the myth of climate change and we are heading down the wrong path if this is what dictates responses.