"Studies of European windstorms indicate that climate change will increase the frequency of strong jets. [But] it’s not intuitively obvious to me why climate change would make sting jets stronger," he says. Climate Change Minister Simon Watts at the UN Climate Change Conference in 2023. "Broad generalisations of the effect of climate change on human activities are often not valid at the regional and local scales. Every region has its own environmental, social, cultural and economic characteristics which determine vulnerability to climate change.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 20, 2025 13:34 UTC