Title: Is New Zealand globally warming?

Authors: Alberto Boretti; Thomas T.S. Watson

Addresses: School of Science and Engineering, University of Ballarat, P.O. Box 663, Ballarat, VIC 3353, Australia. ' 32 Kinlock Street, Bell Post Hill, Geelong, VIC 3215, Australia

Abstract: NIWA proposes a seven-station temperature series to assess a globally warming trend. The warming trend predicted by NIWA is a result of their arbitrary corrections of measured temperatures to account for change of site. These changes are always increasing the temperatures and they magnify the effect of the heat island build-up around urban areas. The individual analysis of the raw temperature data from different measuring stations clearly shows that there is no warming globally occurring, with warming being conversely very well localised in time and space.

Keywords: temperature records; global warming; carbon dioxide; CO2 emissions; heat island effect; Australia; New Zealand.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2011.043420

International Journal of Global Warming, 2011 Vol.3 No.3, pp.219 - 231

Received: 22 Jan 2011
Accepted: 10 Mar 2011
Published online: 29 Jan 2015 *

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