In the middle of last year the Coalition wrote to the NZ Government asking that a Royal Commission be set up to investigate climate change, particularly in relation to how it affected New Zealand.
The group is concerned that the public is being given inaccurate, incomplete and often biased information about the effects of global warming and greenhouse gases.
They point out that the NZ National Institute of Water and Atmosphere Research (Niwa) have themselves produced data that showed little evidence of warming. They also say the figures show there is little evidence of humans affecting the country’s temperature.
For example, the recent spate of icebergs passing the Eastern coast of the South Island are not in fact a new phenomenon. The same thing happened back in the 1930s, when there was no concern about global warming.
According the NZCSC, temperature records over the last 50 years show there has not been any significant warming. Their statement noted, ‘There has been some warming and some cooling, but on average no change.”
The Coalition is concerned at the contradiction between records and government claims that there was sufficient warming to justify limiting carbon dioxide emissions.
The Coalition is not alone in criticising the ‘majority’ view, and a number of scientists around the world have expressed concern that data is being interpreted incorrectly, and governments acting on this data are producing the wrong information.
The Chairman of the Coalition is retired Rear Admiral Jack Welch. Some of the scientists in the Coalition former weather forecaster Augie Aauer, Professor Bob Carter and Associate Professor Chris de Freitas.
Since his retirement from his role as a television weatherman, Augie Auer has been a long-standing spokesperson against the ‘hysteria’ surrounding global warming, saying much of it is based ‘on bad science.’
