Icebergs unlikely to be global warming
NIWA says iceberg floe off South Island probably just a freak event and unlikely to be due to climate change
17 November 2006
An oceanographer says the sight of icebergs floating off the coast of Dunedin is unlikely to be a sign of global warming.
The icebergs are now visible with the naked eye from some Dunedin hill suburbs, although they are best viewed through binoculars.
Mike Williams from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, says it is certainly a rare occurrence and the only other recorded sighting was in 1930. He says if such an occurrence starts to happen every decade, it probably would have something to do with global warming, but at this stage it appears to be just a freak event.
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