The NIWA vs NZCET court result will be picked apart on more notable blogs than this – however I am curious about a few things in the 49 page “Judgement of Venning J”. My interest is mainly on the Clauses on the subject of the station data. To start though I want to look at … Continue reading NIWA has big win in the New Zealand Supreme Court→
Amazing stuff – IPCC compliant organization admits fault. Niwa concedes summer outlook off the mark By Matthew Backhouse – NZ Herald Punarnavoside is diuretic, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial in free viagra uk action. How does viagra ordination learningworksca.org lift their potency? viagra sildenafil citrate as its active ingredient. Admitting cheap viagra they can affect your admiration … Continue reading NIWA admits prediction of average summer was wrong→
Readers have pointed out to me the huge rain totals for various parts of Aotearoa for December 2011. So I checked the NIWA 3 month Outlook for December-February issued on 1st Dec 2011. Not the slightest hint of the heavy rains – so if they could miss that huge event coming down the pipeline hardly … Continue reading Are the New Zealand NIWA Outlooks as useless as those of the Australian BoM ?→
Last May I reported on my February FOI request to the BoM to release to me all documents and data connected with their peer review of the seven station series for NIWA. See my article – “Australian FOI law keeps secret the construction of New Zealand seven station temperature series”. Note that the BoM Schedule … Continue reading FOI update – The BoM has no record of contacts by NIWA before 16 August 2010→
Dr Jim Salinger, a long time prominent NZ climate researcher was suddenly sacked by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) on 23 April 09 because of repeatedly giving interviews to the media – a self appointed task he was warned to stop- Nature records the event. A minute or so in Google … Continue reading Top New Zealand climate scientist sacked by NIWA→
We have probably all seen TV or www news of the Auckland floods of a week ago tomorrow. I have assembled the links below and also listed points A to F to provide some perspective. No news items mention basic facts that – [A] – Rain gauges were very sparse in the 1800’s and pre-WWII … Continue reading Auckland floods spark climate change claims→
Year of the flood in Christchurch -And Aotearoa main centres have all had over their average annual rain by 11 October. Are there any other news items I have missed? And of course NIWA never saw this coming. Data from MetService Towns & Cities pages.