Expect to hear a lot more about climate change in the news in the weeks ahead – and a lot about NIWA’s work underpinning the science that is signalling a warmer world right now and its effects in the future.
More than 240 media outlets from around the world have committed to a week of climate change coverage starting on September 16 in a project called Covering Climate Now, founded by the Colombian Journalism Review and weekly US magazine The Nation.
In New Zealand that includes Stuff, the NZ Herald, TVNZ, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Around the globe huge media organisations have signed up including Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, CBS, The Times of India, The Guardian, Vice and national public TV broadcasters in a Sweden, Italy and the US.
Climate Lessons
Columns written by our scientists
- Climate Lessons: Deciphering the messages of melted ice Dr Natalie Robinson, marine physicist
- Climate Lessons: How clouds complicate climate models Dr Olaf Morgenstern, Principal Scientist - Atmosphere and Climate
- Climate Lessons: Dry rivers offer a preview of climate change Dr Scott Larned, Chief Scientist - Freshwater and Estuaries
- Climate Lessons: Forecasting changing ice and oceans Dr Craig Stevens, marine physicist
- Climate Lessons: How global warming affects New Zealand's wind and rain Dr Sam Dean, Principal Scientist - Climate
NIWA in the news
- Ups and downs of rising seas in a shaky nation
- New Zealand's climate change power list
- NIWA calls for national flood map as thousands at risk in extreme weather
- Global warming researchers say more support required despite $55 million government investment
- The scenario for New Zealand if temperatures keep rising
- Forecasting in a warming world
- Drilling into the Past to Predict the Future
- New Zealand in 2050: The scenario if emissions are curbed
- Extremely rare stratospheric warming shows no sign of ending
- Concerns over effect warming seas will have on paua industry