New Zealand answers Al Gore

NIWA, the New Zealand weather service, is notoriously corrupt and dishonest in the global warming cause and not at all averse to a good ol' NZ "orchestrated litany of lies".  But Al Gore recently hung his hat on their claim that NZ has just had a record warm winter.  Attaching much weight to what was happening on the tiny percentage of the earth's surface that is NZ  is amusing enough but more amusing is some much less ambiguous data -- "freak" late winter snowfalls in NZ.  We read:

"HUNDREDS of skiers are stuck on New Zealand's Mt Hutt after freak weather forced its closure.

A combination of drifting snow and poor visibility has been blamed. While ski area management were aware of an approaching front and poor forecast, the situation deteriorated quickly, Mt Hutt ski area manager James McKenzie said.

There are 316 people trapped on the mountain.

"We made a decision to close the mountain at 11.30 this morning and a number of people made it safely down the road," he said.
"However at midday a combination of new snow blowing around everywhere and wind gusts of up to 45km/h, especially around the Saddles, meant visibility along the upper section of the access road deteriorated to the extent we closed the road completely."

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That must pull the NZ winter average temperature down a bit.  Poor old Al Gore.  Cold weather just seems to follow him about

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).