Posts by Phil Lyth
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ACT MP John Boscawen on social media site says conclusion is solely due to NIWA making adjustments:
ACT supports the Climate Science Coalition's actions as the increase in temperature that Niwa claims comes about solely because of adjustments; adjustments they made to the raw data that has been collected over many decades
whereas Dr Glenn McGregor, Head of School of Environment at University of Auckland comments at Science Media Centre (thanks RB) in part:
The CSC has drawn attention to the fact that temperature records that make up the composite NZ temperature series have been adjusted. No one in the climate science community denies this.
There are very good scientific reasons, related to consistency of record, why climatologists make adjustments to “raw” temperature observations taken over long periods. Papers published based on the “adjusted” NZ record have been subject to stringent international peer review and there are insufficient grounds to contest the genuineness of this record.
Well that sums it up.
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George, that link to Jay Rosen Ph.D. of New York University is brilliant. This quote resonated for me:
One of the big advantages of deploying a citizens agenda in campaign coverage is that it substitutes for that default agenda we’re all familiar with: horse race journalism, and the inside baseball style of coverage.
I suspect though that Fairfax and APN would see their current online "comments" as sufficient.
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@recordari, I spluttered into my cornflakes. The cheek. The hypocrisy. The sheer gall of National and Nick Smith.
Fortunately Kevin Hague, Lynne Pillay and David Parker, and I/S all have their bullshit detectors set to 'High'.
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Radio NZ is reporting that
Labour leader Phil Goff says the party will make Maori and Pacific unemployment a focus of the Mana by-election.
Bring it on - in terms of framing the debate, and everything in the last 150 comments.
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in discussions on the CFS thread
My ignorance is showing: what is CFS? Copyright perhaps?
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we should probably do this off thread.
Please don't do that, because this fascinating twist makes me too say I
like it when threads jump about randomly
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leaping aboard with a ritualistic disregard of gangways.
Memories of long ago and far away. A week-long family holiday in hte vicinity of Little Oneroa would start with the ferry to Waiheke. Baroona, Kestrel, and the others. One memorable night there was a harvest moon that was simply huge.
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The event's half done, but still three lectures to go in University of Auckland's 2010 Winter Lectures: The End(s) of Journalism
Audio files and text available at the site, and credit to NZHerald for putting up this afternoon Colin Peacock's notes for the second lecture.
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What's so special about Bennett that she gets vetted?
It is the HoS that said she had been vetted, apparently sourced from thin air. Their question might have been better posed as:
"Did she disclose to the Prime Minister her relationship with Halaholo?" (her daughter's ex-partner)
If Bennett handled everything as per the conflict of interest section of the Cabinet Manual, all's good. But we don't know because she and Key refused to answer.
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In New Zealand, there is one degree of separation.