"There have been strident claims that New Zealand is warming. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), among other organizations and scientists, allege that, along with the rest of the world, we have been heating up for over 100 years. But now, a simple check of publicly-available information proves these claims wrong. In fact, New Zealand's temperature has been remarkably stable for a century and a half... Dr. Jim Salinger started this graph [first below] in the 1980s when he was at CRU (Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK)..." Hoven's Index for November 28, 2009
Year of record highest temperature in a state (most recent, if a tie), through 2003:
Colorado: 1888.
Oregon: 1898.
Maine: 1911.
California: 1913.
New York: 1926.
Florida: 1931.
Indiana: 1936.