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I
did a Google search for articles linking 'drought', 'climate change'
and 'New Zealand'. I found this one article – it dates back to
2005!!
Frequent
droughts for farmers as climate change hits
17
June, 2005
The
risk of severe droughts capable of crippling farmers and
horticulturists could increase fourfold in eastern New Zealand over
the next 75 years.
Some
regions which are already drought-prone - such as Marlborough - could
see what is today considered a one-in-20-year drought occurring every
three to five years by the 2080s, says a National Institute of Water
and Atmospheric Research report released by Cabinet minister Pete
Hodgson, who chairs the Cabinet's climate change committee.
"Climate
change poses a direct threat to New Zealand's environment, way of
life and economy," he said yesterday.
The
report said that drought usually had the largest impacts of any
national or international calamity on New Zealand's economy......
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