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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 27 November 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 27 November 2009
1: NIWA
“adjusts” records to show warming
Climate ConversationNew 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00282.htm
2:
While
you were sleeping: Dubai rattles euro
stocks
BusinesswireNov. 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00824.htm
3:
UK:
Judicial Inquiry On Complicity In
Torture
Asian Human Rights CommissionThe 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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00803.htm
Akanimo SampsonKINSMEN 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00805.htm
5:
NIWA
data: NZ sceptics lie about temp
records
Scoop LinkThe 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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00314.htm
6:
India:
Democracy 'Encountered'
Asian Human Rights CommissionManipur, 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00804.htm
7:
Week
from hell for climate science
Science Media CentreIt 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00058.htm
8:
Goff:
Grey Power Palmerston North
New Zealand Labour PartyWe 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00407.htm
9:
Coalition
welcomes NIWA commitment to robust
work
New Zealand Climate Science CoalitionThe 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, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00057.htm
10:
Countdown
to the Honduran Electoral Farce
Julie Webb-PullmanNo 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00312.htm
11:
Keith
Rankin: Tax Reform - What Not To Do
Keith RankinThe 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00313.htm
12:
Warming
over NZ through past century
unequivocal
NIWANIWA’s analysis of measured temperatures uses internationally accepted techniques, including making adjustments for changes such as movement of measurement sites.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00055.htm
13:
Questions
and Answers - 26 Nov 2009
Office of the ClerkEmissions 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
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00449.htm
14:
NIWA:
Combining Multiple Sites' Temperature
Data
NIWAIn 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00060.htm
15:
Lane
Walker Rudkin Amended Statement
National Distribution UnionAn 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00850.htm
16:
Transforming
the Legal Aid System - Final Report
Ministry of JusticeThe 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00307.htm
New Zealand GovernmentJustice 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00429.htm
18:
Brochures
Embarrass British Health Service
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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00303.htm
19:
Dalziel:
Legal aid report exceeds expectations
New Zealand Labour PartyLabour 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00454.htm
20:
Maori
Party criticism misguided
New Zealand Labour PartySenior 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00447.htm
21:
Windflow
welcomes mixed report on its turbines
Businesswireby 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00851.htm
22:
Welly
award for world-leading IRL scientist
Industrial ResearchWorld 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00849.htm
23:
Jones:
This ain’t puppy love, Maori Party
New Zealand Labour PartyThe 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00453.htm
24:
India:
Liberhan Commission Of Enquiry Report
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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00802.htm
25:
National’s
Biodiesel grants scheme a total flop
New Zealand Labour PartyEnergy 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00434.htm
26:
Tom
Frewen: Today In Parliament 26.11.09
Tom FrewenWith 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00304.htm
27:
Contact
sends 60 Wellington jobs to India
BusinesswireNov 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00852.htm
28:
Divisive
ETS legislation passed
Science Media CentreThere 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00059.htm
29:
Gordon
Campbell on Phil Goff and the race
card
Gordon CampbellPlaying 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00305.htm
30:
Legal
aid review – NZ Law Society
response
New Zealand Law SocietyThe New Zealand Law Society comments on the legal aid review report follow. 27 November 2009
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00318.htm
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