{"id":526661,"date":"2010-04-13T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5532"},"modified":"2010-04-13T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:34:17","slug":"you-could-not-make-it-up-salinger-doesnt-feel-critics-heat-by-jeff-neems-waikato-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526661","title":{"rendered":"You Could Not Make It Up: Salinger doesn’t feel critics’ heat by Jeff Neems – Waikato Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: You could not make it up<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Jim Salinger has been in the thick of it.<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, the veteran climate scientist \u2013 one of the most recognised men in New Zealand science \u2013 has staved off repeated criticism of his climate change work by sceptics, including Rodney Hide and the ACT Party. <\/p>\n

His work, and that of other climate scientists, is repeatedly questioned in the debate about whether the planet is heating up, and if humanity’s carbon-burning activities are responsible. Critics have even had a crack at his decades-old Victoria University PhD, which contributed statistics to Niwa’s Seven Stations temperature series \u2013 research which showed an increase in temperatures around New Zealand. <\/p>\n

“No, I’m not worried, because my research is based on facts, and I reach conclusions,” the 62-year-old says confidently. <\/p>\n

“When my PhD thesis was done in 1981, I wanted to work out what was happening with New Zealand climate, particularly temperatures. In those times, we weren’t considering `the greenhouse effect’, and I thought `this is an interesting topic, see if New Zealand’s climate has changed’,” Salinger says. <\/em><\/span>
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