Tagged: NZCSET

Danger Dedekind! Heartbreak Ahead (still wrong, still digging, NZ still warming fast) - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Nov 05, 2014 •

Over last weekend, my post criticising the new paper by Chris de Freitas, Manfred “Bob” Dedekind and Barry Brill that claims warming in New Zealand’s temperature records is only one third of that calculated by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) attracted a flurry of attempted ripostes at Richard Treadgold’s Climate Conversation […] … Read More

NZ cranks finally publish an NZ temperature series – but their paper’s stuffed with errors - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Oct 31, 2014 •

You can’t teach old dogs new tricks, it seems — certainly not if they’re gnawing a much loved old bone at the time. The lads from the NZ Climate Science Coalition — yes, the same boys who tried to sue NIWA over the New Zealand temperature record and lost, and who then folded a trust […] … Read More

Brill’s bills still unpaid, but Barry’s off to Vegas - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 19, 2014 •

The attempt by a small group of climate cranks to bring a legal case against the New Zealand temperature record will leave the taxpayer to pick up a bill likely to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Radio NZ News yesterday. Efforts by the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) […] … Read More

Stuff’s stuff-up: climate liars on the loose - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Feb 23, 2014 •

Stuff Nation was introduced a couple of years ago as the reader-led section of Fairfax Digital’s NZ news site Stuff.co.nz1, home to quiz groups and news submitted by readers. Sadly for them, one or two of their readers have been taking them for a ride, to judge by one of this weekend’s lead stories — […] … Read More

Memo to Brill and his NZ climate cranks: pay up or shut up - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Feb 04, 2014 •

I suppose it had to happen. Jim Salinger’s excellent summary of the strange case of the climate cranks and their attempt to sue the New Zealand temperature record has attracted a response from deep inside La La Land. Barry Brill, chairman of the NZ Climate “Science” Coalition and litigant in chief, has posted a piece […] … Read More

Salinger upsets cranks: Treadgold’s toys exit cot - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jan 27, 2014 •

Jim Salinger’s analysis of the climate crank campaign to cast doubt on New Zealand’s long term temperature record, published last week at The Conversation, has drawn an astonishing response1 from Richard Treadgold (left), the man who kicked off the whole sorry process over four years ago. In an intemperate and libellous comment at his web […] … Read More

When climate cranks lose at law: Salinger on the failed attempt to sue the NZ temperature record - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jan 23, 2014 •

If you do nothing else today, take the time to read Jim Salinger’s account at The Conversation of the attempt by New Zealand’s little coterie of climate deniers to cast doubt on the country’s temperature record. It’s a useful summary of the cranks’ ludicrous effort, but Jim points out that it is just a small […] … Read More

NZ climate cranks’ trust folded, Brill et al try to escape justice - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jan 12, 2014 •

The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust (NZCSET), the body established three years ago to bring a legal case against the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), has been put into liquidation without paying the costs awarded against it after its case failed — confirming my suspicion when the trust was formed that […] … Read More

Crusaders of the lost wallet: NZ’s climate cranks lose costs case - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Nov 12, 2013 •

News reaches HT (hat tip to Rob Taylor) that the Appeal Court has rejected the NZ Climate “Science Education” Trust’s appeal for a reduction in the costs awarded against them when they lost their original case against the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research over the New Zealand temperature record. This latest judgement finds […] … Read More

The last refuge of scoundrels - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Oct 14, 2013 •

Tomorrow, in the Appeal Court in Wellington (pdf), Justices Harrison, French and Miller will hear argument in the case of the NZ Climate Science “Education” Trust (NZCSET) versus the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), in the continuing effort of the cranks to litigate away warming in New Zealand over the last 150 […] … Read More