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Arctic ice scare seems to be history
Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 11:09 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
There’s great news from the frozen North, reports Barry Brill, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. “The size of the Arctic ice cap has increased sharply, to comfortably reverse the ‘great melt’ of 2007, and extending coverage ... More >>
NIWA Unable To Justify Official Temperature Record
Monday, 1 February 2010, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has been urged by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC) to abandon all of its in-house adjustments to temperature records. More >>
NIWA guilty of propaganda posing as science
Friday, 8 January 2010, 11:45 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) has been accused of “propaganda posing as science” in its claim that the 2000s has been the warmest decade on record. The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition says the claim that the “noughties” ... More >>
Calls for curbs on NIWA “scaremongering”
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 4:53 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The Minister of Research Science & Technology, Hon Wayne Mapp, has been asked by a former science minister to direct NIWA (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) that its remit does not extend to “scaremongering about climate ... More >>
Climate scandal escalates: NIWA deceives us
Friday, 18 December 2009, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
NIWA have published misleading material on their web site and seems to have advised the Hon Dr Nick Smith, the Minister for Climate Change Issues, to misinform Parliament, according to the Climate Conversation Group and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. ... More >>
NZ scientists among 141 who challenge UN
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 10:14 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Six New Zealanders are among 141 of the world’s leading climate scientists from 17 countries who have signed an open letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon challenging the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce ... More >>
NZ Should Not Pay Climate Change 'Reparations'
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 10:24 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The draft treaty (AWGLCA/2009/INF.2) prepared by the UNFCC secretariat for the Copenhagen conference calls for some emissions reduction by all countries, and larger reductions by developed countries. There is a general consensus around this principle. The dissension ... More >>
Coalition welcomes NIWA commitment to robust work
Friday, 27 November 2009, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition welcomes the commitment yesterday from Dr David Wratt, Chief Scientist (Climate) at NIWA, to, in his words, provide "robust information to help all New Zealanders make good decisions," said Coalition secretary, ... More >>
National Party member - "Why rush Climate bill?"
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Now that Prime Minister John Key has joined US President Obama in realising that there is little chance a binding treaty will be signed at the forthcoming UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, the question arises why the Government ... More >>
Wind farm on environmental, economic and "climate
Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:46 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Wind farm canned on environmental, economic grounds More >>
ETS Supplementary Submission
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 5:39 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Attached is the Supplementary submission I will be making to the Finance & Expendure Select Committee this afternoon, scheduled for 5.10 p.m. Select Committee Room 3, in the Buildings, together with appendices to the supp. More >>
Call To PM To Sack Nick Smith
Saturday, 10 October 2009, 1:10 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Call to PM to sack Nick Smith from climate change portfolio A call to Prime Minister to relieve Nick Smith of the climate change issues portfolio has been made today by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition’s secretary, Terry Dunleavy. “It’s ... More >>
Authority upholds complaint against TVNZ
Wednesday, 7 October 2009, 11:33 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
A complaint against Television New Zealand Ltd by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition about the inaccuracy an item broadcast by TV One’s “Sunday” programme on 3 May 2009 has been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority in a recent ... More >>
Treasury call signals time to cool off on ETS
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 2:18 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The time has surely come for a cooling off period for proposals to start greenhouse gas emission reductions in New Zealand, according to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. The Coalition statement says that rejection by Treasury of the government’s ... More >>
ETS – Bias or blindness in the Beehive?
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 9:11 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
A charge that there is not one government scientist in New Zealand associated with climate issues who is willing to speak out on global warming alarmism with some sense of balance or with an appearance of an open mind has been made by Associate Professor ... More >>
Carbon dioxide: “world’s best friend”
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 9:25 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
“Within days of the distinguished British environmentalist, Dr David Bellamy reminding New Zealanders that carbon dioxide is the world’s best friend, a desperate local politician has described it as a pollutant and proposes to cripple our economy with ... More >>
Global warming legislation would fail
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 12:06 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
There are no scientific forecasts to support the belief that emissions trading will benefit New Zealanders, says Wellington-based Monash University forecasting researcher, Dr Kesten Green. “As I understand it, the espoused purpose of the legislation is ... More >>
NIWA needs new climate models before new computer
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 9:06 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
“It is a national scandal that NIWA are squandering $12.7 million of taxpayers’ hard earned money on yet another supercomputer.” This comment today from Bryan Leyland, chair of the economics panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. More >>
Agriculture does not belong in Emissions Scheme
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:11 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition urges Prime Minister John Key to reconsider the Government’s position on the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS), especially as it relates to agriculture. “New Zealand is the only signatory to the Kyoto Agreement ... More >>
Futile attempt to solve non-existent problem
Friday, 7 August 2009, 11:15 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
New Zealanders would face huge extra costs in a futile attempt to solve a non-existent problem if the Green Party’s energy policy ever gets a chance to be implemented. This is the view of energy consultant Bryan Leyland, chair of the economic panel ... More >>
