That's interesting, so do quite a few of these lakes not really have an outflow anywhere?
I think so, Rotorua is a crater lake that apparently drains to Rotoiti, but Rotoiti doesn’t seem to drain to anywhere.
I guess you could dig canals to connect all these bodies of water, and then connect that out to sea, but it would be a massive job.
Yup, the one that feeds into Tararua, lake Rotomahana, where the pink and white terraces are buried, doesn't have an outfall. I think an artifical tunnel may have been built, but it doesn't normally have one.
Expect much worse for the next few decades.
Yeah, I kinda feel sorry for these folks
I think they should have known better than to get lakeside property so close to the waterline.
I would agree with you but I think in this instance it's pretty unpredictable, one of the guys in the story has been living there his whole life and never experienced any thing like this at all
I don't think global warming and rising sea levels and more disruptive climate events were unpredictable.
It's only the last decade or so that it's really been a mainstream issue, before that it was something that was kinda ignored by our politicians, and most people.
All of this infrastructure would predate it being a mainstream issue.
"An inconvenient truth" came out it 2006. That's more than a decade ago. The kyoto protocol to curb emissions was passed in 1997. The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.
Do you think normal people listened to Al Gore?
Many did, but then on the flip side there were screeds of media voices lying (willfully or ignorantly) and telling everybody to ignore Al Gore & all the other people warning of the same thing.s
This is exactly my point, it's only been in the last decade or so that global warming being a reality has been generally accepted. It's easy to say in retrospect that they should have known, not so easy to know at the time.
Most of these properties would predate the nineties though.
I agree that they were built before then. I don't agree that they were all bought before then.
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