Ian Wishart: Major NIWA climate change study gets shredded in OpenAI’s ChatGPT peer-review

Media runs with bad data, again

On 2 July, the NZ Herald republished an opinion piece by Auckland University’s Dr Tim Welch, which, among other things, stated:

“It’s getting hotter. Niwa data shows New Zealand is already experiencing extreme temperatures five times more frequently than historical baselines. Wellington hit 30.3°C and Hamilton 32.9°C in January, both all-time records. Marine heatwaves are persisting around South Island coasts months longer than usual.”

Ian Wishart: RNZ caught publishing misinformation

State broadcaster RNZ News has been caught publishing blatant climate change misinformation, after their top climate reporter and RNZ’s CEO chose to hide key data from listeners that would have shown her work was faulty.

Eloise Gibson last month published a story, originally headlined “Hamilton’s run of hot days shatters previous record”, which claimed that Hamilton in the previous 11 days had likely just experienced its longest stretch of hot days since temperature records began.