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Open letter to Jeanette Fitzsimons

Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 3:17 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Open letter to Jeanette Fitzsimons MP and co-leaders of the Green Party from a Christchurch Coalition member (Joe Fone has been corresponding with Ms Fitzsimons about Greens claims of man-made global warming). More >>

Govt urged to extend emissions trading review

Saturday, 20 June 2009, 4:44 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The New Zealand Climate Change Coalition has called for the Government to extend the time frame for the Select Committee reviewing emissions trading, and to clarify its real intentions on this issue. More >>

Climate change is about science – not celebrity

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 12:48 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

“Celebrities without scientific qualifications are the latest technique employed by Greenpeace in its campaign to support the unproven notion of man-made warming," says the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. "With the exception of Jim Salinger, ... More >>

Don't Go Off At Half Cock On Sea Levels, Minister

Friday, 22 May 2009, 9:41 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Environment Minister Nick Smith has been warned not “to go off at half-cock” with his proposal announced this week of a possible national environment standard on sea-level rise. The warning comes from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition ... More >>

Skeptic’s discordant note at Morgan book launch

Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 9:13 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

A discordant note was sounded at the launch in Parliament Tuesday evening of Gareth Morgan’s book on climate change, Poles Apart, by Bryan Leyland, energy consultant and chairman of the economics panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. ... More >>

Complaint to TVNZ about climate change programme

Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 9:06 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

A formal complaint has been lodged with TNVZ about the “Sunday” programme screened by TV One on 3 May about the launch of Gareth Morgan’s book, “Poles Apart” on climate change. The complaint by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition says ... More >>

Cost-effective preparation for climate change

Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 9:16 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

New Zealand should commit to a policy of adaptation to climate change rather than saddling its people with the high direct and indirect costs of an emissions trading scheme that will have no discernible effect on future temperatures. This was the ... More >>

Carbon footprint study climate hysteria

Friday, 1 May 2009, 3:19 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The announcement yesterday by Zespri of the results of a carbon footprint study have been described as “the ultimate example of the idiocy of climate hysteria.” The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition said that study completely ignores the volume ... More >>

Greenpeace Demonstrates Limited Understanding

Saturday, 18 April 2009, 12:06 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Greenpeace reveals its lack of understanding of electricity generation The attack by Greenpeace's climate change campaigner Simon Boxer on Contact Energy's proposals for new hydropower schemes shows that he - and Greenpeace - have little understanding ... More >>

Greenpeace claims about ice shelf "ignore reality"

Monday, 13 April 2009, 10:16 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

“Greenpeace has yet again ignored scientific reality in the recent misleading claims by its political advisor Geoff Keey about the threatened collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula,” says Terry Dunleavy of the New Zealand Climate ... More >>

Greenpeace ad hominem attack rejected

Monday, 9 March 2009, 9:39 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The personal criticism of Prime Minister John Key for his stance on climate change issues are typical of the ad hominem attack tactics that Greenpeace and similar zealots like Labour MP Charles Chauvel resort to when they lack scientific basis for argument, ... More >>

What were the carbon dioxide levels in 1872?

Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 10:52 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Following her reference to Aucklanders being been hit last week by a record 32.4 degrees centigrade heat wave which she said were equalled only by one day in 1872, Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has been asked to reveal the level of carbon ... More >>

NZ cooler in 2008 than 141 years ago

Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

New Zealand’s national average temperature of 12.9 degrees C during 2008, described by NIWA as ‘milder than normal” was in fact cooler than it was 141 years ago, this, and worldwide drop in temperatures since 1998, demonstrate that claims of man-made ... More >>

Demand for removal of Env't Commissioner

Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

A demand for Dr Jan Wright, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, to be removed from office is to be conveyed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dr Lockwood Smith, by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. More >>

How Barycentric Orbits Influence Climate

Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 9:21 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The newly appointed Minister for Climate Change, who strongly espouses the conventional IPCC view and also emissions trading, will be placed in a very invidious position long before the conclusion of this new Parliamentary term, says Dr Jim Sprott, OBE, ... More >>

National-Act Agreement On Climate Change Welcomed

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 5:54 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition has welcomed the agreement between the National and Act parties to appoint a special Select Committee of Parliament to review the current emissions trading scheme legislation and any amendments or alternatives ... More >>

Something that Kiwis should know

Friday, 3 October 2008, 2:31 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Canadians are deeply frustrated by the quality of politicians' discussions of climate change and global warming according to a nationally representative poll carried out for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy by COMPAS Research and completed September ... More >>

Climate Report “An Orchestrated Litany of Lies

Thursday, 17 July 2008, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

"For the second time in 27 years, New Zealanders have been subjected to an orchestrated litany of lies, but this time with much wider consequences," according to Wellington climate science consultant, Dr Vincent Gray. "When Justice Peter Mahon used ... More >>

Response To Royal Society's Climate Report

Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 9:14 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) has been accused of forsaking its tradition of scientific integrity, in the field of climate science at least, to follow a political agenda, and of misleading its members by giving them an unbalanced view of public ... More >>

Reaction in Australia: Garnaut Report

Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 9:46 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

"Will the world follow our brave example or will Australia and New Zealand be left hanging like dead dingos on a barbed wire fence?" An Australian group of global warming skeptics has claimed that the Garnaut Report had totally ignored the three key questions ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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