The rapidly warming ocean around NZ

Dr Kevin E Trenberth, a Distinguished Scholar at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in the USA and honorary academic at the Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, latest article on Newsroom summarises recent research that has found that the warming of the world’s oceans is proceeding at different paces in different latitude bands and New Zealand is in a region where some of the biggest changes are occurring in the global ocean. What does that mean for New Zealand?