Kiwis let some more hot air out of climate catastrophist bubble

The lead story on the Global Warming Policy Foundation site is that New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has withdrawn its endorsement of the country’s “official” climate record.

According to NZCSC, climate scientists cooked the books by using the same alleged ‘trick’ employed by British and American doomsaying scientists. This involves subtly imposing a warming bias during what is known as the ‘homogenisation’ process that occurs when climate data needs to be adjusted. The specific charge brought against the Kiwi government was that its climate scientists had taken the raw temperature records of the country and then adjusted them artificially with the result that a steeper warming trend was created than would otherwise exist by examination of the raw data alone. 

The similarity with the 'trick' perpetrated by the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is not remarkable, given that:

It was shown that the scientist who made the controversial “bold adjustments” is none other than Jim Salinger who is also a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Salinger was dismissed by NIWA earlier this year for speaking without authorization to the media. The discredited researcher originally worked at Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), the institution at the center of the Climategate scandal. Salinger was also among the inner circle of climate scientists whose leaked emails precipitated the original climate controversy in November 2009.