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Niwa man fired for media talk
Leading Government scientist Jim Salinger, an international pioneer in climate change research, has been sacked for what he says is talking out of turn to news organisations.
Dr Salinger, 62, says he was summarily dismissed from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) at 4pm on Thursday, and given three and a half hours to clear out his Auckland office.
He told the Weekend Herald he received no formal written warnings leading to his dismissal, which followed a 27-year career as a Government scientist, and no criticism of his work.
Dr Salinger claims the information he provided included calling television weatherman Jim Hickey from Greymouth last week to let him know the rivers were in flood.
His work helped an international group of scientists to which he belongs, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, share the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former United States Vice-President Al Gore.
Dr Salinger, whose postgraduate studies in 1975 produced what later came to be regarded as a watershed paper on climate change at a time when the concept was resisted by most scientists, is also a Companion of the Royal Society and heads the World Commission for Agricultural Meteorology.
read the article at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10568596
FYI - Niwa has 50% share in CRL Energy, the other 50% shareholding is retained by the Coal Associates of New Zealand.
http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:dhiXxuVgsXMJ:www.niwa.cri.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/28760/csu-2006-13.pdf+NIWA+CRI+Coal+Association&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
And could it be that the new Govt with Act in tow don't like the noise that climate change scientist is making?
Leading Government scientist Jim Salinger, an international pioneer in climate change research, has been sacked for what he says is talking out of turn to news organisations.
Dr Salinger, 62, says he was summarily dismissed from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) at 4pm on Thursday, and given three and a half hours to clear out his Auckland office.
He told the Weekend Herald he received no formal written warnings leading to his dismissal, which followed a 27-year career as a Government scientist, and no criticism of his work.
Dr Salinger claims the information he provided included calling television weatherman Jim Hickey from Greymouth last week to let him know the rivers were in flood.
His work helped an international group of scientists to which he belongs, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, share the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former United States Vice-President Al Gore.
Dr Salinger, whose postgraduate studies in 1975 produced what later came to be regarded as a watershed paper on climate change at a time when the concept was resisted by most scientists, is also a Companion of the Royal Society and heads the World Commission for Agricultural Meteorology.
read the article at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10568596
FYI - Niwa has 50% share in CRL Energy, the other 50% shareholding is retained by the Coal Associates of New Zealand.
http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:dhiXxuVgsXMJ:www.niwa.cri.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/28760/csu-2006-13.pdf+NIWA+CRI+Coal+Association&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
And could it be that the new Govt with Act in tow don't like the noise that climate change scientist is making?
