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2 December 2009
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Environment

18891 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues (02 Dec 2009): What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate of the world's temperature change over the past one hundred years, and how does this change compare to NIWA's estimate of the change in temperature in New Zealand over the past one hundred years?
Hon Dr Nick Smith (Minister for Climate Change Issues) replied: I refer the Member to the publicly available reports from the IPCC and NIWA on temperature change at http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm and http://www.niwa.co.nz/news-and-publications/news/all/nz-temperature-rise-clear