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Posted 30 December 2012
High Court judge, Mr Justice Venning handed down his decision on costs in the case New Zealand Climnate Science Education Trust v NIWA
just before Christmas (when media interest is non-existent). A copy
is attached. In response to a memorandum suggesting that he recise himnself, Venning J does not agree that his carbon farming interests caused him to have unconscious bias. He argues
[30-31] that the ETS is driven by global (not local) warming and our
international commitments – ignoring the fact that a major ETS amendment
was pending, that a new UNFCCC commitment is to be made in 2013 and a
new 2020 target is in the pipeline.
Download pdf file of judgement here
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 December 2012 )
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Posted 10 November 2012
The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust whose High Court action v NIWA over the accuracy of its Seven Station Series temperature was dismissed by Mr Justice Venning, has filed a Memorandum asking Judge Venning to disclose whether or not he has interests in a forestry operation registered to receive New Zealand Units under the Emissions Trading Scheme established by the Climate Change Response Act 2002. Download pdf of Memorandum here
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 November 2012 )
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Posted 25 October 2012
A UK blogger who is a qualified engineer and a graduate of the History and Philosophy of
Science, and interested in finding out how the solar system works and
how Earth is affected by changes in it has analysed the judgement in the case taken in the New Zealand High Court by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust against NIWA. He begins by writing:
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark New Zealand. A
judge has disregarded as inadmissible expert evidence from a
statistician who showed that the adjustment method NIWA claimed they
used only give a 0.3C/Century rise in temperature and ruled that NIWA
(now a limited company) can adjust the temperature record as they see
fit without having to demonstrate the use of a method based on any
accepted science."
Read it in full here
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 December 2012 )
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Posted 23 October 2012
NIWA seeks to make New Zealand legal history by claiming costs not from the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust which took the case against it in the High Court, but from two private citizen members of that Trust. The issue has been summarised in this article from NZ Farmers Weekly which may be downloaded here
The Trrust has filed a Memorandum in relation to costs, which may be read in its entirety here
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 October 2012 )
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Posted 25 February 2012
This posting contains principal affidavits relating to the appllcation to the High Court of New Zealand by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust for a Declaratory Judgement in respect of temperatutre records published by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), due for consideration by the Court later in 2012.
Index of Trust's exhibits is here
Affidavit of Professor Robert M. Carter is here
Affidavit of Bob Dedekind is here
Affidavits of Terry Dunleavy are here (original) and here (in response)
For results of Court case, link here
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 11 September 2012 )
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