The Australian Science Media Centre rounded up questions on climate science from journalists and put them to leading scientists in […]
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NZ Herald: Tree-ring anomaly mystifies scientists
Eloise Gibson of the NZ Herald reports that scientists are trying to explain an anomaly in tree-ring temperature data. Tree-ring […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Aerosol particles may cool, not warm the Earth
Eloise Gibson of the NZ Herald reports, in the 3rd of a 4-part series, about the remaining gaps in scientists’ […]
Continue readingODT: Climate change may favour resort
Joanne Carroll of the Otago Daily Times reports that climate change could in fact benefit Queenstown’s tourism industry as many […]
Continue readingNewsletter digest: DNA forensic pioneer, LCT’s govt funding and climate science’s future
DNA Pioneer in SMC briefing As New Zealand forensic scientists prepare to mark 20 years of DNA testing in New […]
Continue readingExpert reaction to the launch of the Climate Change Emails inquiry
Last year saw the start of the ‘Climategate’ email controversy, in which it was claimed that top climate scientists from […]
Continue readingDom Post: Kiwi aids climate-change research overhaul
Kiran Chug of the Dominion Post reports that a local scientist, Professor Martin Manning, is part of an international team […]
Continue reading‘IPCC: Cherish it, tweak it, scrap it?’ – scientists respond
In response to intensifying calls for reform of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), five influential climatologists have stepped […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Rainfall data vital to fight fires and flooding
Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald writes, in the second of a four-part series on the subject, about the […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Wakefield chastised, the IPCC furore, and conventions galore
Lancet kills MMR paper 10 years on The move by London-based medical journal The Lancet to retract a ten year […]
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