New Zealand climate authority relied on climate data claims they couldn't reproduce

2/7/2010, "NIWA loses, opts for fresh start," Climate Conversation Group

12/20/10, "Kiwi-gate, the final chapter," The Daily Bayonet

"New Zealand’s Climate Science Coalition has issued a press release detailing the end of the Kiwi-gate affair.

The outcome is that data published in 2009 by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) entitled ‘Are we feeling warmer yet’ has been abandoned and replaced with real, unadjusted data that shows a picture that warmists don’t want you to see:

NIWA makes the huge admission that New Zealand has experienced hardly any warming during the last half-century. For all their talk about warming, for all their rushed invention of the “Eleven-Station Series” to prove warming, this new series shows that no warming has occurred here since about 1960. Almost all the warming took place from 1940-60, when the IPCC says that the effect of CO2 concentrations was trivial. Indeed, global temperatures were falling during that period.

The dishonesty behind the original data was in the adjustments, of course:

Almost all of the 34 adjustments made by Dr Jim Salinger to the 7SS have been abandoned, along with his version of the comparative station methodology.

When the Climate Science Coalition announced its intention to sue, the green establishment rushed to NIWA’s defence:

University of Otago pro-vice chancellor of sciences Keith Hunter has also backed Niwa, saying taking court action against it was “stupid,” while the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) said it may join court action in support of Niwa. “On the face of it, it’s hard to see how the issue can properly be brought before the court,” said EDS chairman Gary Taylor. “We have no doubts that the science behind global warming predictions is robust and reliable and would wish to support the institute in any way that we can.”

How do you prefer your crow Mr. Taylor?

That NIWA was forced to correct their temperature records to reveal no warming when the initial report was crafted to support the warmist narrative is significant. The Climategate affair was damning in its revelations of peer-review process corruption and bullying

• but the establishment whitewashed the truth with ‘investigations’ to give Phil Jones et al cover.
  

Not so with Kiwigate, where NIWA admitted it

• could not support its own data in a statement of defence.

The correction of the record is a good win for the Climate Science Coalition and for science in general."

via Tom Nelson