We Have Always Been at War With New Zealand

He who controls the present, controls the past:  New Zealand temperature records fudged to cool the past

But talking of unhinged, here in New Zealand (we actually refer to it as Godzone), a quiet revolution is taking place involving our National Institute of Weather and Atmosphere (NIWA) and a volunteer group of sceptics The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust (NZCSET) via the Courts. NIWA are (you would think), tasked with maintaining amongst many things, a temperature record called the 7 station series or 7SS.

The start of these events was originally reported way back in 2010 in WUWT here. To save reiterating past WUWT threads, the statement of claim by NZCSET can be found here, and NIWA’s statement of defence here.

Concern has been growing in Godzone for some time, since it transpired that at least according to official temperature records, Godzone is warming twice as fast as the Global Average. Since these records feed into the Australasian records, then into the SH records and finally into the IPCC. Prime territory for cooking the books perchance?

 There are many previous examples of the temperature records of the past being adjusted downwards, making the past look cooler, and allowing calculations to show higher rates of warming.  I'll be charitable, and ascribe this to confirmation bias rather than dishonesty; the people adjusting the data are looking for excuses to lower past temperatures, and overlooking reasons to raise them.