Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 27 November 2009
Climate Conversation
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 ...
Businesswire
Nov. 27 (BusinessWire) – European stocks tumbled after Dubai World, the state-owned investment company, sought to
reschedule its debt, sapping investors’ appetite for risk and helping boost bonds. The U.S. dollar sank to a 14-year low
against the ...
Asian Human Rights Commission
The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British
security services in the torture of terrorism suspects in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Akanimo Sampson
KINSMEN of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the late Ogoni leader and environmental rights activist, who was killed by the Nigerian state
on November 10, 19995 along with eight others, are currently uncomfortable with the moves by the authorities to relocate
the Port ...
Scoop Link
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.
Asian Human Rights Commission
Manipur, a state in the north-east of India is often in news for all the wrong reasons. The irony, unfortunately, is
that there is nothing new in this. Confined to the margins of the mainstream India not only by the state but also by the
civil society organisations ...
Science Media Centre
It broke last weekend and has run all week - the "climategate" saga that has seen the private emails of prominent
climate scientists leaked onto the web and picked over by climate change sceptics who accuse them of manipulating data
to show the ...
New Zealand Labour Party
We can celebrate the rich tapestry of our heritage and use it to move forwards as a nation; or re-open wounds and
divisions where there can be healing. I want to talk about some of these issues today, and the choices that the
Government is making this ...
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition welcomes the commitment yesterday from Dr David Wratt, Chief Scientist
(Climate) at NIWA, to, in his words, provide "robust information to help all New Zealanders make good decisions," said
Coalition secretary, ...
Julie Webb-Pullman
No doubt about it – Hondurans are still in the streets demanding the return of constitutional order. Outside the
Electoral Tribunal in Tegucigalpa many gathered on Tuesday to cheer on the deputies, mayors, and candidates lining up
with their ...
Keith Rankin
The global financial crisis was caused, in large part, by excessive income inequality. With very high levels of
inequality in an industrialised world (ie a world in which the rich make their profits by selling goods and services to
the non-rich), the rich ...
NIWA
NIWA’s analysis of measured temperatures uses internationally accepted techniques, including making adjustments for
changes such as movement of measurement sites.
Office of the Clerk
Emissions Trading Scheme—Emissions Compared with 2008 Scheme; Social Development and Employment, Minister—Statements;
Legal Aid—Graeme Burton; Recession—Rebuilding Economy; Oil and Gas Exploration—Initiatives
NIWA
In Wellington early temperature measurements were made at a site in Thorndon, but the site was relocated in 1928 to
Kelburn. The Kelburn site is colder because it is about 120m higher than the Thorndon site. The process of combining
data from various ...
National Distribution Union
An media release from the NDU this morning may have unintentionally misled some readers. The closure referred to is of
the Lane Walker Rudkin Christchurch manufacturing operation. All other LWR current operations including the Auckland
design and textile business ...
Ministry of Justice
The legal aid system is essential to the operation of the justice system: its effect extends beyond the individual who
is represented by a legal aid lawyer. The legal aid system’s operation can help the courts run smoothly, or it can bring
the court ...
New Zealand Government
Justice Minister Simon Power says he is deeply concerned by the findings of Dame Margaret Bazley's review of the legal
aid system and the Government will act very quickly on its recommendations. He announced the release of the final report
on the ...
Martha Rosenberg
"Your medicine is called Olanzapine. Pronounced 'o-lan-za-peen,'" says the lime green kids' brochure for the
antipsychotic Zyprexa, published by Britain's National Health Service (NHS). "Many children, teenagers and young people
need to take medicines ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Justice spokesperson Lianne Dalziel says she is impressed with the scope and quality of recommendations in Dame
Margaret Bazley’s Legal Aid Review report. Lianne Dalziel, who made a submission (attached) to the review, said that the
report, published ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Senior Labour MP Parekura Horomia today rejected criticism of Phil Goff’s speech. “Phil’s my mate. I’ve known him for
more than 20 years and he isn’t a racist,” Parekura Horomia said. “The comment by Pita Sharples that Phil didn’t have
the ...
Businesswire
by Pattrick Smellie Nov 27 (BusinessWire) - Early versions of Windflow Technology Ltd's (WTL) turbines could require up
to $966,200 of remedial work, the company said in a statement today on the outcome of the International Electrification
Certification's ...
Industrial Research
World leading physicist and IRL Group Manager, HTS Conductors and Devices, Dr Bob Buckley last night won the Welly
Awards Science & Technology category. The Wellys have recognised Wellington’s top achievers for the past twenty years with past ...
New Zealand Labour Party
The Maori Party leaders boast they will select the governments of the future, but if this is their mission they must
stop using the crutch of victimhood to sustain themselves, says Labour MP Shane Jones. “Their ETS complicity shows them
to be ...
Asian Human Rights Commission
"The theory or the claim made by the leaders of the movements or the icons, from political or social organisations, does
not carry conviction to conclude that the demolition that was carried out by the karsevaks spontaneously out of sheer
anger ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee must admit repealing the Biofuel Obligation introduced by the previous government was a
huge mistake, Associate Energy Spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. “Last year Gerry Brownlee took the backward step of
repealing the ...
Tom Frewen
With his emissions trading scheme now safely passed into law with the support of the Maori Party, climate change issues
minister, Nick Smith, still faces hostile questions about it from Green and Labour MPs. They also want to know why the
prime ...
Businesswire
Nov 27. (BusinessWire) - Contact Energy Ltd, the listed electricity and gas supplier, announced today it was outsourcing
up to 60 back office retail processing jobs from its Lower Hutt process centre to one of the fastest growing companies
in the Middle ...
Science Media Centre
There were barely 10 members of parliament in the house to witness the passing of the Climate Change Response (Moderated
Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill by 63 votes to 58 on Wednesday night. Here is how scientists approached by the SMC for
comment ...
Gordon Campbell
Playing the race card is one of those claims that is meant to shut down any further debate, and Phil Goff knew the risk
that he was running – since he referred to the likely criticism on that front quite explicitly in his speech to Grey
Power in ...
New Zealand Law Society
The New Zealand Law Society comments on the legal aid review report follow. 27 November 2009