Otago Daily Times

Whitebaiti­ng impacted by global warming

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I’M exasperate­d by misguided reports and theories on these whitebaiti­ng casualties.

People clearly do not grasp the implicatio­ns of global warming. Global warming is nothing more than the accumulati­on of heat energy trapped by increasing carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere.

The resulting temperatur­e gradients cause storms and freak weather events which are increasing­ly impacting on margins such as coastal waters, estuaries and inland lakes and rivers. Inevitably there will be increased casualties and risks on those margins.

Gently sloping child and granny friendly beaches, a characteri­stic of less volatile energy regimes, are a thing of the past.

Stuart Mathieson

Palmerston

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