Article Tags: World Temperatures
Doubts are being raised about the significance of new figures showing the past decade has been New Zealand’s warmest on record.
Average national temperatures over the past decade were just a few hundredths of a degree Celsius higher than in the 1980s, the previous warmest.
A National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) statement yesterday reaffirmed its statements that the decade was likely to be the hottest recorded.
However, the new statement failed to include figures.
Blue Skies Weather forecaster Tony Trewinnard said it was doubtful a few hundredths of a degree was such a statistically significant amount on which to base such statements.
Source: stuff.co.nz