Hide one, NIWA nothing
Question time in the House today was a revelation. You could see it, writ large and terrible, on Wayne Mapp’s face as he finally realised the depth of deception he’s been handed by his own department, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).
It has been obvious for a while that NIWA has not taken the good minister into its confidence, and I hope that the Hon Dr Mapp went back to that department today and rapped some naughty NIWA knuckles. It is past time it happened.
Deception is the wrong approach to use on a Minister of the Crown. You might try it, and for a time you might succeed, but it will catch up with you. I would not be in David Wratt’s shoes right now for any price.
Dreadful display of ignorance
Wayne Mapp did not appear to know
- that the schedule of adjustments was not, in fact, contained in the voluminous references NIWA gave the NZ Climate Science Coalition (CSC)
- that there are reasons other than location changes to adjust temperature readings
- that the schedule of adjustments is not on NIWA’s web site
- that Salinger’s thesis is not publicly available
- the difference between the methodology of the temperature adjustments and the adjustments themselves
- that the documents cited by NIWA do not in fact exist on NIWA’s web site but are elsewhere
- that the famed schedule of adjustments does not actually exist
It was a dreadful display of ignorance by a Minister facing questions in the Parliament. Continue Reading →
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