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Coalition Finds Parker Royal Com Statement Strange

Thursday, 27 July 2006, 8:55 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition finds it strange that the Minister of Energy, David Parker, has replied to and rejected the formal request addressed personally to the Prime Minister for a Royal Commission to inquire into the science and economics ... More >>

Call for Royal Commission on Climate Change

Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 1:20 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

A call for a Royal Commission into the science and economics of climate change has been made by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition in an open letter to members of Parliament. The coalition describes itself as “concerned citizens who believe ... More >>

Lessons for NZ in reports of climate change

Sunday, 16 July 2006, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

There are urgent and important lessons for New Zealand in a report released in Washington yesterday discrediting the Mann “hockey stick” graph which has under-pinned most of the claims of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW), according to Rear ... More >>

Carbon tax will hit consumers without reducing CO2

Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 3:12 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The Government's evident desire to placate the green lobby with talk of a carbon tax will increase power costs to consumers, without reducing either the amount of power generated or the volume of carbon dioxide emitted. This is the opinion of power ... More >>

Call for Royal Commission on Global Warming

Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 5:04 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

A Royal Commission to examine the validity of claims about global warming and its effect on New Zealand is to be proposed by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. The newly appointed chairman of the coalition, Rear Admiral Jack Welch, said today ... More >>

Govt using Carbon Tax as Diversion

Friday, 23 June 2006, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The Government has been accused of using carbon tax to divert attention from the perilous state of the country's electricity resources. "I cannot understand why the Government is still contemplating a carbon tax" says Bryan Leyland, the chairman ... More >>

Green Party Climate Fantasies Rebutted

Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 10:12 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Before new Green Party co-leader Russel Norman starts calling another political party leader a "climate change denier", he should explain his own "scaremongering" in the face of NIWA evidence that temperatures in New Zealand have been cooling since 1998. More >>

Children "Brainwashed" on Climate Change

Monday, 5 June 2006, 1:47 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) is misleading New Zealand children about human-caused climate change and its effects, according to New Zealand Climate Change Coalition. More >>

Greenhouse Gas Claims Called Into Question

Monday, 5 June 2006, 1:42 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Claims by Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today about “greenhouse” gases and “global warming” are contradicted by the national climate summary just released by the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) showing that ... More >>

'Brainwashing' over climate change

Thursday, 25 May 2006, 5:37 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The Ministry of Education has been accused of attempting to 'brainwash' primary school students about climate change. The accusation has been made by Roger Dewhurst, of Auckland, in a letter to MPs. Mr Dewhurst, a consultant geologist and hydrogeologist ... More >>

Greenpeace accused of "passing off"

Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 9:58 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Greenpeace has now been accused of "passing off" the recently established website of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. More >>

Greenpeace slammed for "underhanded " tactics

Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 11:40 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Greenpeace has been accused of "underhanded tactics" in attempting to divert internet users away from a new website established recently to challenge current assumptions about climate change. More >>

Kyoto, Carbon Tax Will Not Noticeably Change CO2

Friday, 12 May 2006, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The International Energy Agency seem to be convinced that man-made global warming is real, that adopting Kyoto would make a difference and that we should get into carbon trading or a carbon tax. More >>

NZ Climate Science Coalition Reply To Greenpeace

Thursday, 4 May 2006, 12:20 am | New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

On May 1, Greenpeace released a press statement in which they discussed the formation of a new climate science organization in New Zealand, the New Zealand Climate Science Consortium. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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