A spot audit of NIWA’s 2023 flagship Annual Climate Summary report and some of its predecessors over the past five years has uncovered multiple major errors that cumulatively exaggerate the impact of climate change and drive public fear.
A year ago, the original Climate of Fear study on New Zealand historic storms found huge gaps in NIWA’s knowledge of our pre-industrial climate.
Now, nearly 11 months later, a new study finds NIWA continuing to ignore the past at a time when the rest of the world are rapidly expanding their climate change research to include weather data from digitised old newspapers.