Lunchtime Author Talk: James Renwick - Under the Weather: A Future Forecast for NZ

Join author, weather/climate researcher and professor of Physical Geography James Renwick as he discusses his book, Under the Weather: A Future Forecast for NZ, and the work around his latest projects within the field of meteorology and climate science - most recently the publication of Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere.

About James -
Professor James Renwick has a background in atmospheric physics, mathematics and statistics, with broad interest in most aspects of climate, from the distant past to the near future. This includes paleoclimate reconstruction, synoptic climatology, the climate of New Zealand, climate modelling, climate change, and the use of statistical and matrix techniques to analyse large data sets.

James is a NZ Climate Change Commissioner process for several years. He speaks regularly to the media on climate change issues.

About the book -
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.