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Call on NIWA to admit latest temperature review not valid
Monday, 20 December 2010, 11:36 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
A call has been made on the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to admit that that there is no valid statistical justification for its claims of a 0.91 degree C rise in New Zealand’s average temperature last century. The ... More >>
Climate Science Coalition: NIWA drops science for propaganda
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
NIWA has great difficulty distinguishing science from propaganda, according to Hon Barry Brill, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. “NIWA principal Scientist, Dr James Renwick, has issued a media release as follows: More >>
CSC: NZ must not volunteer for another Kyoto
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 11:23 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
There are implications for New Zealand arising from United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will get down to business for the 16th time in Cancun, Mexico next week. While packing their bags for their departure on Monday, the New ... More >>
UK media highlight IPCC’s lack of solid science
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 4:52 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The report of the Inter-Academy Council (IAC) raises serious questions as to whether the IPCC model of ‘doing science’ has a worthwhile future. And it has almost certainly curtailed the future of the Panel’s chairman, Mr Rajendra Pachauri, according ... More >>
Chair challenges Science Media Centre
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 10:16 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, Hon Barry Brill, has taken issue with comments gathered by the Science Media Centre relating to the case being taken to the High Court seeking invalidation of NIWA temperature records. More >>
Court asked to invalidate NIWA temperature record
Monday, 16 August 2010, 11:12 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The High Court has been asked to invalidate the New Zealand official temperature record (NZTR) as promoted by the Crown Research Institute, NIWA. These records are the historical base of NIWA's scientific advice to central and local government on ... More >>
Julia Shows John Key How to Handle ETS
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 4:45 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Prime Minister John Key should look across the Tasman to his newly installed Australian counterpart for a lesson in how to handle the controversial emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. More >>
John Key Faces Risk of Rudd-Slinging
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 12:52 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Unless he intervenes to defer implementation of the forthcoming emissions trading scheme (ETS), Prime Minister John Key runs the risk of the same level of sudden electoral backlash that now threatens the re-election prospects of Kevin Rudd’s Labor government ... More >>
Minister Misleading the Public on ETS
Friday, 18 June 2010, 10:10 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
“The Minister for Climate Change, Dr Nick Smith is misleading the New Zealand public in an attempt to convince them that the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is good for them,” says Dr Doug Edmeades, the agricultural spokesman for the New Zealand Climate ... More >>
PM’s Chief Science Adviser Must Change – Or Go
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 10:46 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
John Key has been asked by a former National Party activist either to rein in his Chief Science Adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, or to change his title to more accurately reflect the professor’s global warming propaganda advocacy activities. More >>
Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Fails Test
Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 12:27 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman has been accused by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC) of forsaking science for advocacy in supporting the Key Government’s fight back against opposition to ... More >>
NIWA scientists’ misconduct ‘absolutely clear’
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
NIWA has denied allegations that its scientists misled Ministers regarding the warming trend shown in New Zealand’s official historical temperature record. The accusations of misleading were made by Hon Rodney Hide in an address to Federated Farmers last ... More >>
Barry Brill's Open Letter to Professor Gluckman
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 12:07 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
In your address at NIWA on 22 April, you worried that controversies in the field of climate change may be changing the way the public perceives science and scientists. More >>
NZ must defer ETS as Australia has just done
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 1:28 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The reported decision by the Rudd Government to shelve Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation until 2013 at the earliest is final confirmation that Prime Minister John Key will be justified in deferring implementation of New Zealand’s ... More >>
Open Letter to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 10:04 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
I have been reading your letter to Dr. Doug Edmeades commenting on his presentation regarding climate science and I wonder whether you would be prepared to read my comments on your comments. More >>
Royal Society All At Sea On climate Change
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 12:28 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The Royal Society of New Zealand is all at sea with its theories on climate change, according to Hon Barry Brill, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. More >>
Royal Society all at sea in statement on climate
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 11:09 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The Royal Society of New Zealand is all at sea with its theories on climate change, according to Hon Barry Brill, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. Mr Brill, a former Minister of Science, said that a statement issued on behalf of ... More >>
Critiquing the PM's Chief Science Advisor
Friday, 9 April 2010, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
In creating the position of Chief Science Adviser (CSA) in May 2009, the Prime Minister commented that “this role is one of vital importance that demands not only a high level of science expertise, but also the utmost integrity to fairly represent the ... More >>
Open Letter to Royal Society
Friday, 9 April 2010, 11:22 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Faced with growing world-wide disbelief in the hypothesis of known as ‘anthropogenic (ie, man-made) climate change’ (AGW), the Royal Society of New Zealand, throwing caution to the winds, has staked its case on a blockbuster paper by your Vice President, ... More >>
ETS charges will slash NZ farmers’ profitability
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 11:13 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
8 April 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ETS charges will slash NZ farmers’ profitability New Zealand farmers, already reeling from a drop in profitability, will be among the hardest hit when the emissions trading scheme (ETS) laws come into force on 1 ... More >>