The cranks in the NZ Climate “Science” Coalition have sunk to new lows in a desperate attempt to cash in on the
far-right driven furore about the Hadley CRU data theft. Here’s an extract from a press release which was doing the rounds of NZ’s newsrooms this morning:
New Zealand may have its own “Climategate”, including manipulation of temperature readings, according to a combined
research project undertaken by members of the Climate Conversation Group and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
The researchers claim that temperature readings from seven weather stations throughout New Zealand have been adjusted to
show a higher degree of warming than is justified by a study of the original raw data.
The author of the press release and the “research project” into NZ’s long term temperature record is blogger Richard Treadgold, not unknown to readers of Hot Topic. Unfortunately for him, and for the credibility of any of the members of the NZ Climate “Science” Coalition,
Treadgold’s approach to the issue is ignorant, his results meaningless, and he can have no excuse for not knowing he was
wrong. Worse, Treadgold, Dunleavy and the rest of the NZ CSC seem determined to smear NZ’s best-known and most respected
climatologist, Jim Salinger (who did much of the early work on NZ’s temperature record), based on little more than
straightforward lies.
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The big lie? There are no reasons for any large corrections. That’s it, there. And it’s a lie because the NZ CSC has known for at least three years why adjustments have been made
to certain stations.