The NZTR
New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has denied any responsibility for the “official” New Zealand temperature record (NZTR). This staggering admission comes as part of NIWA’s defence to a legal action for judicial review brought by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust. The action sought orders:
- to set aside NIWA’s decisions to rely upon its Seven Station Series (7SS) and Eleven Station Series (11SS), and to find the current NZTR to be invalid;
- to prevent NIWA from using the current NZTR (or information originally derived from it) for the purpose of advice to any governmental authority or to the public; and
- to require NIWA to produce a full and accurate NZTR.
Richard Treadgold explains [caveat: I cannot find the NIWA statement of defence online, so haven’t been able to verify the conclusions in the following report. I am trying to obtain a copy]:
Three weeks ago NIWA released their Statement of Defence in response to the NZ Climate Science Coalition’s Statement of Claim regarding an Application for a Judicial Review. You have to be a lawyer (which I’m not) to see the ramifications and it’s taking a while to work through it, but these are my first reactions and I can’t hold them back any longer.
Most of this will upset NIWA’s supporters. If you’re a NIWA supporter, go find a buddy to hug before reading on. This will rock your world.
Because NIWA formally denies all responsibility for the national temperature record (NZTR).
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They’re not defending the temperature record or the mistakes in it, they’re virtually saying: “You’re right, the dataset could be shonky, so we’re washing our hands of it.” Which gives us no confidence in the “science” they might have applied to it. What the hell’s going on? I actually hope their lawyers know a cunning trick to get them out of this, and it’s not what it seems. Because it’s my NIWA too!
But it gets worse.
NIWA has formally stated that, in their opinion, they are not required to use the best available information nor to apply the best scientific practices and techniques available at any given time. They don’t think that forms any part of their statutory obligation to pursue “excellence”.
And that little bombshell just does my head in. For how can they pursue excellence without using the best techniques?
NIWA denies there is any such thing as an “official” NZ Temperature Record, although they’re happy to create an acronym for it (NZTR). The famous “Seven-station series” (7SS) is completely unofficial and strictly for internal research purposes. Nobody else should rely on it.
Read the rest here.
Australian Climate Madness 
More lies exposed. More non-reporting by the MSM.
This not important enough for them?
Or are they just too scared (gutless) to report the truth?
Once again, the truth is only found if people get off their intellectual arses and look for it themselves.
Yep, Seems to be a pattern developing here! More bullshit
NZCSET Statement of Claim: download pdf here
Click to access statement_of_claim.pdf
NIWA Statement of Defence: download pdf here
Click to access statement_of_defence.pdf
Morry thanks for the links.
Big congratulations to the NZCSET for backing these frauds into a corner and forcing them to back down. As Monckton said, “sniveling to their noisome lairs”.
I assume that that group is portrayed by infotainment media journos in the same way that the worthy HR Nicholls Society is in Oz, with a mixture of contempt and feigned amusement.
But the good guys will have the last laugh.
So if no one wants to take responsibility for the data set, where did it come from ?
Did it spring out of the ground ?
Spontaneous evolution ? What ?
And what abort various researchers who have used this data. Don’t they have a responsibility to ascertain and confirm the integrity of the data they use and rely upon ?
There has to be a tort of misrepresentation (at least) coming out of this pantomime.
How did this action in NZ get started, and can the same be accomplished in Australia, with CSIR0 and/or the Climate Institute ?
& it’s also costing us our top scientists no less!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/08/hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society/
@ Keith says – “How did this action in NZ get started, and can the same be accomplished in Australia, with CSIR0 and/or the Climate Institute ?”
I’ll second that motion Keith.
Given that the CEO of the CSIRO Simon McKeon is an ex merchant banker could it be possible that his interest in this “science” may be consistent with the concerns raised by Hal Lewis in the link below?
(Hal Lewis, for those who don’t know is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and has just resigned from American Physical Society in disgust at it’s corruption in the field of AGW).
Anthony Watts describes it well as – “an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science.”
Link here:-
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/08/hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society/