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2017 set to be another scorcher – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 07 November 201711 April 2018

2017 is set to be in the top three hottest years on record, with record-breaking extreme weather, according to the […]

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2016 another scorcher year – Expert Reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 09 January 201709 January 2020

2016 was the hottest year in New Zealand in over a century, surpassing the previous warmest year on record, 1998. […]

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Wet and dry extremes in climate models questioned – Expert reaction

Uncategorized  |  Published: 07 April 2016

International scientists have pooled together data from the last 1,200 years on the relationship between water and the climate in […]

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Hottest year on record – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 21 January 201621 January 2016

Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest on record, according to independent analyses by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

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2015 Hottest year on record – NASA, NOAA

In the News  |  Published: 21 January 201628 March 2016

Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA […]

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NIWA Annual Climate Summary – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 12 January 201609 January 2020

2015 was a dry, sunny year for New Zealand, but no hotter than average overall, according to NIWA’s annual climate […]

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UPDATED: Claims of a ‘mini ice-age’ ahead – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 14 July 201511 December 2024

An unpublished study examining solar cycles has created a flare-up of headlines claiming we are headed for a ‘mini-ice age’, […]

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El Niño forecast debated

In the News  |  Published: 13 May 201514 May 2015

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has declared the Pacific is in an El Niño climate pattern – but some New […]

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El Niño and its impacts – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 13 May 201513 May 2015

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed the Pacific is in an El Niño climate pattern – what does this […]

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Climate science clear – NZ researchers

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 10 March 201510 March 2015

In the pages of the Dominion Post, New Zealand climate scientists David Wratt, James Renwick and Andy Reisinger  respond to […]

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