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So many extreme weather events, but no mention of climate change
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Tuesday, July 1:
* Extreme floods hit the top of the South Island over the weekend, unleashing a wall of media coverage on the ‘unprecedented’ scale of the disaster, but there was no coverage of modelling showing each degree of climate warming increases the intensity of weather events in the region by 10-20%. See more in The Lead below the paywall fold and in the podcast above.
* Worker and employer expectations of real wage deflation are worsening as the economy slides back into a mid-year…
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