Another fascinating example of the baleful influence of climate change dogmas and useless Govt forecasting on normal media reporting standards. By all accounts the rain was useful in many areas to freshen up grass and give feed growth a summer boost. A subtext is that the NIWA three month Outlooks predict dryer than normal conditions … Continue reading Worthwhile New Zealand rain reported as “a drop in bucket”→
The headline in The NZ Herald says – New Zealand hit by record cold temperatures overnight – Yet a reading of the article gives no examples of actual records. But some bone chilling -20°C overnight lows in the South Island. Hopefully some Kiwis might have better information. The Met Office over there and NIWA have … Continue reading Confused reporting of cold in New Zealand→
We have all seen the news that The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a newly registered arm of the Coalition, has filed a claim in the High Court seeking a declaration to invalidate the NZ Temperature Record, currently promoted by NIWA, and featured on its website. It is fascinating the the Jones et al … Continue reading Interesting nuances in IPCC groups treatment of New Zealand temperature data→
From: Terry Dunleavy [terry.dunleavy@nzclimatescience.org.nz] The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition Media release (immediate) 7 June 2007 World climate predictors right only half the time “The open admission by a climate scientist of the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Dr Jim Renwick, that his organisation achieves only 50 per cent accuracy … Continue reading Climate predictions “right only half the time”→
I have two graphics here comparing the “old” CRUTem2 data of Jones, with the new Hadley Centre CRUT3. Looking at 140 years of New Zealand land based data and we now see huge extra warming in the Hadley Centre CRUT3 gridded data.
Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations