Bay grape yield drops as summer chill bites | New Zealand

Cold weather over summer has led to an 11 per cent drop in New Zealand vineyard harvests.

Many had experienced low levels of fruit, and Hawke's Bay had followed the trend, Hawke's Bay Winegrowers' chairman Nicholas Buck said.

Confirming the pattern, Te Awa Winery general manager and chief winemaker Ant Mackenzie said the company's harvest was down about 40 per cent on normal levels, which had been low for three years.

Flashback: Faster than everyplace else… | Watts Up With That?

[comment] New Zealand is warming faster than any of these!

Earlier in 2007, NIWA produced a web page, followed by a printed brochure, with a graph showing that New Zealand had already warmed by an amount far in excess of global averages. The web page claimed a temperature increase of 1.1C during the 144 years of Met Service records, and a 0.92°C trend during the 20th century.

allAfrica.com: Tanzania: UDSM to Start Postgraduate Course on Climate Change

THE University of Dar es Salaam is developing a curriculum on Masters of Science degree in Climate Change and Sustainable Development to enable the varsity become a centre for excellence with respect to climate change studies.

Climate outlook for California is bleak - The Reporter

We're already seeing longer fire seasons -- on average, two months longer in many areas of the state

Forgive me IPCC, for I have sinned… | Rob Lyons | spiked

The rapturous welcome given to a high-profile ‘climate sceptic’ who has now recanted exposes the backwardness of green thinking...The conversion analogy is a good one. Here, instead of the unbeliever falling at the preacher’s feet and accepting Jesus into their lives, no longer able to resist the power of the Lord, we have the sceptic allowing the IPCC to drive out the devil of climate-change denial from within his soul.