Rod­ney Hide is apply­ing the blow torch to Nick Smiths nuts, such as they are.

18894 (2009). Hon Rod­ney Hide to the Min­is­ter for Cli­mate Change Issues

Will he ask NIWA to release the full data on which NIWAs offi­cial time series of the mean annual tem­per­a­ture over New Zealand from 1853 to 2008 is based, together with full doc­u­men­ta­tion of any adjust­ments that have been made to the data to pro­duce the result; if not, why not?

Has he received my open let­ter dated 27 Novem­ber 2009 and will he be reply­ing; if so, when?

18892 (2009). Hon Rod­ney Hide to the Min­is­ter for Cli­mate Change Issues

Has he read the New Zealand Cli­mate Sci­ence Coali­tion paper of 25 Novem­ber 2009 “Are we feel­ing warmer yet” tabled in Par­lia­ment on 26 Novem­ber 2009; if so, what are his con­clu­sions; if not, why not?

18891 (2009). Hon Rod­ney Hide to the Min­is­ter for Cli­mate Change Issues

What is the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change esti­mate of the world’s tem­per­a­ture change over the past one hun­dred years, and how does this change com­pare to NIWA’s esti­mate of the change in tem­per­a­ture in New Zealand over the past one hun­dred years?

18890 (2009). Hon Rod­ney Hide to the Min­is­ter for Cli­mate Change Issues

Has he read the New Zealand Cli­mate Sci­ence Coali­tion paper of 25 Novem­ber 2009 “Are we feel­ing warmer yet” tabled in Par­lia­ment on 26 Novem­ber 2009; if so, what are his con­clu­sions; if not, why not?

18889 (2009). Hon Rod­ney Hide to the Min­is­ter for Cli­mate Change Issues

Does he accept as true the graph in Fig­ure 7 on NIWA’s web­site that shows mean annual tem­per­a­ture over New Zealand from 1853 to 2008 inclu­sive with a plot­ted lin­ear trend of 0.92°C/100 years; if so, why?

These are valid ques­tions that need real answers as the rest of the world retreats rather fast from the now dis­cred­ited Global Warm­ing the­o­ries. Nick Smith needs to front these ques­tions or he needs to resign.

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