Climate change ‘room for the river’

Webinar

Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/regist...

Climate change will continue to super-charge the atmosphere with water vapour and energy, ensuring stronger storms and heavier rainfall as things continue to warm. But, when it isn’t raining, the weather looks drier, with faster evaporation and greater chance of drought. One signal that comes through clearly in future projections of river flows is an increase in variability. Even if the overall flows are not expected to change, variability in the flows is likely to increase. I’ll discuss the overall picture of how the climate is changing, and I’ll relate it to New Zealand river flows, water availability and extreme events.

Presenter - James Renwick

James is a climate researcher who studies Southern Hemisphere climate variability, and the impacts of climate change on the Pacific, New Zealand and the Antarctic. He has been a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the last 20 years, contributing to three Assessment Reports. James was awarded the Prime Minister’s 2018 prize for Science Communication and was part of the team that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2019. He was appointed to the New Zealand Climate Change Commission in 2019.


External Event