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Paul Gorman of The Press reports on the outcome of the enquiry into whether climate scientist Jim Salinger’s sacking by NIWA was acceptable. The Employment Relations Authority has ruled that the sacking was justifiable, and that Salinger has no sase for a personal grievance against NIWA – Salinger has said he still has to decide [...]

From the editorial pages of the Weekend Herald (May 9) An excerpt: (read in full here) “…The Association of Scientists has said “scientific research and corporate models operating under commercial imperatives have been unhappy bedfellows since the science reforms in the early 1990s”. Comparisons have also been drawn with universities, whose staff are not only [...]

**Correction: This blog post has been edited due to factual inaccuracies** A few weeks ago I was sitting on the couch watching weather man Jim Hickey rip through his weather bulletin when he made a quick comment that NIWA’s Jim Salinger had been in touch with a weather update. “That’s great,” I said to myself. Here’s [...]