While many would see a rise in temperatures for a city not exactly blessed with a fair weather record as rather a splendid thing others (with scientific symbols after their names) are calling it potentially disastrous.
The heat can be dialled up, it seems, but cannot be dialled down.
So Wellington is going to start recording steamier temperatures, as is Masterton apparently.
Given its geographical location, coupled with changing weather patterns and increasing amounts of CO2 going upwards, the rise in average temperatures there is set to go up about 3.5C by 2090.
Just how we'll get on over here on the eastern seaboard is anyone's guess.
This thing called "climate change" generates plenty of heat in conversation and I'm sort of five each way on the whole thing.
There have been ages of extreme cold and extreme heat through the centuries...at one stage it had become so strangely warm in England they were able to start growing fruit that would otherwise have perished in the severe winters.
And then the weather went back to normal and that was that.
Maybe solar flares?
Like anything that travels at a relatively slow pace, this thing called climate change does not really enter the minds of too many people as it does not affect them.
I'm sort of along those lines, although I do cast thoughts in the direction of generations to come.
It's just that when years like 2090 are talked about it's hard to grasp, because an awful lot of us wandering about today won't be here.
The next Rugby World Cup still seems so very far away so thoughts about a time like 2090 sort of just dissolve.
If we are indeed fuelling a rise then landscapes will change, and increasingly temperatures does not mean an increasing need to buy sun umbrellas.
For the science teams are predicting more "extreme" rainfalls.
The one thing many of our highway networks which run through hills and mountains don't need is huge belts of relentless rain.
Time to address our emissions, the boffins are saying.
At the top of the list are those CO2 fumes...which has led to increasing moves toward dismantling petrol and diesel vehicles and replacing them with electric-engine vehicles.
Fine...except it has been pointed out that if every vehicle in the world was electric the demand on the power systems to keep them running would quickly drain those systems.
It would also drain quite a few wallets by all accounts as the cost of power would likely accordingly rise.
So then, while the US and China and huge swathes of the former Soviet republic keep filling the air with whatever it is they use to fuel their industries and electricity requirements we down here on this little island nation will do our bit to prevent the planet boiling to death in a few hundred years time.
Trumpy doesn't want a bar of it because he needs more factories because he promised more jobs and more factories means more smoke stacks.
A simplistic summation I agree, but that seems to kind of be how it sits.
And he's likely thinking "I won't be here in 2090 so it ain't my issue".
I have a theory (uh oh).
Why do you reckon the space industry is still sending pods and satellites and probes and things to Mars?
Wonder if they've attached a "set up camp there" date yet?
I reckon they have...it'll be 2090.
