Posted 1 September 2010

NIWA has recently provided a web page on how it combined the temperature records from weather stations at Albert Park and Mangere, to produce the ʻAuckland' component of the Institute's Seven-station Series (7SS). This page displays a simple but fundamental flaw in NIWA's methodology. Barry Brill explains why in a pdf file downloadable here

Posted 31 August 2010

The powerful international panel set up to advise governments on the effects of global warming needs a major overhaul, an independent investigation has concluded.  - The Independent     More 

Official media release by Inter Academy Council   here 

"One of the most shocking things for those who champion science, as I do, has been the sight of the science Establishment reacting to each scandal in climate science with indifference or contempt ."  Matt Ridley, in The Times, UK.

Posted 20 August 2010

NIWA has based its justification of adjustments to the New Zealand Temperature Record on the doctoral thesis of Dr James Salinger written long before the heyday of 'global warming'. This paper by Barry Brill lists anomalies exposed by the Salinger thesis. 

Download pdf file here 

Posted 19 August 2010

"The IPCC is a disgrace to science...Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain belief....The IPCC was established on the basis of alarmist claims that were given a political dimension..."  A searching review by Australian climate analyst, John McLean.

Download pdf file here 

Posted 16 August

The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a newly registered arm of the Coalition, has filed a claim in the High Court seeking a declaration to invalidate the NZ Temperature Record, currently promoted by NIWA, and featured on its website.  To download media release, bacgrounder and summary of claim, link here

To download explanatory graph, link here 

Posted 30 July 2010

Dr Tim Ball demonstrates the extent to which global temperartures continue to be misrepresented. 

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