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The big warm: NZ heading for warmest-ever winter 26 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
If you think it’s been a warm winter in New Zealand, you’re right. NZ is rapidly approaching the end of a record-breaking winter — the warmest for at least 150 years1. Calculations by Auckland climate...
Beatin’ the heat: cut carbon or we’re cooked 23 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
The area of land affected by extreme heatwaves is expected to double by 2020 and quadruple by 2040, and there’s no way we can stop it happening according to a new paper by Dim Coumou and Alexander Rob...
TDB Today: overshoot and the end of life as we know it 22 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
On Tuesday, the world whizzed past Earth Overshoot Day — the day in the year when we go beyond what the planet can produce or absorb in a year, and start consuming our natural capital. Like fishermen ...
100% useless: NZ government announces pathetic 5% emissions target 16 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
Climate change minister Tim Groser has finally got around to announcing that New Zealand’s emissions reduction target for 2020 will be a 5 percent reduction on 1990 levels — a significant step back fr...
Gluckman gets it wrong: being alarmed is not alarmist 13 Aug 2013 | 01:50 pm
On Sunday morning, Radio NZ National’s Chris Laidlaw interviewed the PM’s science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman regarding his recent report on the likely future impacts of climate change on New Zealand. ...
Not telling it like it is – media reluctant to face up to climate crisis 9 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
The news media, with some outstanding exceptions, has monumentally failed to communicate to the public the magnitude of the threat of climate change to human society. Depressed, I tried recently submi...
TDB Today: Missing the point by miles 7 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
Following the release of a new report on climate change impacts in and around New Zealand by the prime minister’s chief science advisor last week, in my Daily Blog post today I take a look at the gove...
HARDtalk on thin ice in Alaska 6 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
Stephen Sackur took the BBC’s HARDtalk programme on the road in Alaska in a climate change episode screened a few days ago. It was the kind of aware and intelligent journalism one hopes to see on the ...
A physicist speaks: Dessler on climate sensitivity – very unlikely to be less than 2ºC 5 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
There’s been much ado about climate sensitivity — the amount of warming we expect for a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere — in the last month or two. A couple of recent papers, and an expected slight ...
New Zealand’s changing climate and oceans: new Gluckman report out today 1 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
The Prime Minister’s science advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, today released a new report looking at the probable impacts of climate change in New Zealand over the next 40 years. The report, New Zealand’s...
