Climate pollution was found to make weather events more severe, and the land use models make individuals more prone to climatic impacts.

Protecting Yourself from Superheated Storms
These health impacts particularly affect communities who already face disadvantage such as Maori, Pacific, disabled people, low-income households and those living in poor quality housing, the authors said.‘The damages triggered by storms are a "pale version of what's to come" if the earth continues global warming.’

Floodwaters from Cyclone Gabrielle are causing an increase in cases of 




Seafood can be poisoned by silt and wastewater runoff into the sea; flooded housing can become contaminated and moldy; and the mental health impacts of storms are often hidden and underestimated, it said.
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