• David Palmer@lemmy.nzOP
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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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

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            1 year ago

            I don’t think global warming and rising sea levels and more disruptive climate events were unpredictable.

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              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.

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                1 year ago

                “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.