NIWA’s Annual Climate Summary w/ Principal Scientist at GNS Science, Dr Nick Cradock-Henry: 13 January, 2025

NIWA has recently released their annual climate summary for 2024, which shows that last year was New Zealand’s tenth warmest year on record.

Of the top ten warmest years on record, eight of these have occurred in the past twelve years.

The report shows that these rising temperatures, which are in line with global trends, are largely due to climate change caused by humans.

As well as this, this comes as Copernicus, ECMWF, and NASA are expected to release their annual climate summary, which is expected to show that 2024 was the Earth’s warmest year on record.

News and Editorial Director, and Monday Wire Host, Joel, spoke to Principal Scientist at GNS Science, Dr Nick Cradock-Henry, about this report, and what this report means for 2025.

They started off by asking him about the rapidness in temperatures seen in the report in prior years.