Under the Weather: A Future Forecast for New Zealand | James Renwick

The must-read book on what New Zealand's changing climate means for our everyday lives. A warmer world will change more than just our weather patterns. It will change the look of the land around us, what grows and lives on it - including us. In this must-read book, Professor James Renwick untangles how we know what the future holds and why it matters to our everyday lives. He looks at New Zealand's increasingly frequent natural disasters, warming and acidifying waters, the creep of rising sea levels, and the ways that the changing weather will affect our agriculture, lifestyle, food security and economy. Under the Weather is a picture of a planet in danger, a reality-check on what that means for this country, and a reminder that the shape of our future is up to us.

James Renwick is a weather and climate researcher. He is Professor of Physical Geography at Victoria University and has many years of experience in weather and climate research, from statistical weather forecasting to climate change studies. His current interests include Southern Hemisphere climate variability and its impacts on New Zealand and the Antarctic. He was a Lead Author in the last three Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and has been involved for a number of years with the World Climate Research Programme and the Royal Society of New Zealand's Climate Expert group. In 2018 he won the Prime Minister's Science Communication prize; in 2019 he became a Climate Change Commissioner; and in 2021 he was made a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi. He lives by the sea.