{"id":1631,"date":"2012-09-17T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2012-09-17T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:41:19","slug":"new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The High Court of New Zealand has dismissed an application for judicial review of climate data published by a government-owned research institute. \u00a0The challenge was brought by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust,\u00a0which is affiliated with the NZ\u00a0Climate Science Coalition, a group\u00a0whose website states that they are &#8220;concerned at the misleading information being disseminated about climate change and so-called anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.&#8221; \u00a0The Trust alleged that each set of data which had been published departed from \u201crecognized scientific opinion\u201d or contained \u201cobvious deficiencies.&#8221; \u00a0 While he accepted that, in principle, decisions of the research institute could be subject to judicial review, Justice Geoffrey Venning dismissed the application. \u00a0He held that courts should give considerable deference to specialist agencies in relation to their areas of expertise, and that on the facts of the case the research institute had used credible scientific methods to carry out its work and there was no basis for judicial review.<\/p>\n<p>CCCL\u00a0has prepared a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2012\/09\/Summary-New-Zealand-Climate-Science-Education-Trust-v-NIWA-2012.pdf\">summary<\/a> of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of the decision can be accesssed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzlii.org\/cgi-bin\/download.cgi\/cgi-bin\/download.cgi\/download\/nz\/cases\/NZHC\/2012\/2297.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of New Zealand has dismissed an application for judicial review of climate data published by a government-owned research institute. \u00a0The challenge was brought by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust,\u00a0which is affiliated with the NZ\u00a0Climate Science Coalition, a group\u00a0whose website states that they are &#8220;concerned at the misleading information being disseminated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5671,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data - Climate Law Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data - Climate Law Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The High Court of New Zealand has dismissed an application for judicial review of climate data published by a government-owned research institute. \u00a0The challenge was brought by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust,\u00a0which is affiliated with the NZ\u00a0Climate Science Coalition, a group\u00a0whose website states that they are &#8220;concerned at the misleading information being disseminated [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Climate Law Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-17T14:56:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-09-17T15:41:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elizabeth Sheargold\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sabincenter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sabincenter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elizabeth Sheargold\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Elizabeth Sheargold\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0d2be6891d17d08092dc52d0b32fce07\"},\"headline\":\"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-09-17T14:56:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-09-17T15:41:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"International\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/\",\"name\":\"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data - Climate Law Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-09-17T14:56:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-09-17T15:41:19+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/17\\\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/\",\"name\":\"Climate Law Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Sabin Center for Climate Change Law\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/02\\\/21-SabinBlog_Banner-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/02\\\/21-SabinBlog_Banner-1.png\",\"width\":2752,\"height\":260,\"caption\":\"Sabin Center for Climate Change Law\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/sabincenter\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0d2be6891d17d08092dc52d0b32fce07\",\"name\":\"Elizabeth Sheargold\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\\\/climatechange\\\/author\\\/eshear1\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data - Climate Law Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data - Climate Law Blog","og_description":"The High Court of New Zealand has dismissed an application for judicial review of climate data published by a government-owned research institute. \u00a0The challenge was brought by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust,\u00a0which is affiliated with the NZ\u00a0Climate Science Coalition, a group\u00a0whose website states that they are &#8220;concerned at the misleading information being disseminated [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/","og_site_name":"Climate Law Blog","article_published_time":"2012-09-17T14:56:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-09-17T15:41:19+00:00","author":"Elizabeth Sheargold","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sabincenter","twitter_site":"@sabincenter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Elizabeth Sheargold","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/"},"author":{"name":"Elizabeth Sheargold","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#\/schema\/person\/0d2be6891d17d08092dc52d0b32fce07"},"headline":"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data","datePublished":"2012-09-17T14:56:35+00:00","dateModified":"2012-09-17T15:41:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/"},"wordCount":188,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#organization"},"articleSection":["International"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/","name":"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data - Climate Law Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-09-17T14:56:35+00:00","dateModified":"2012-09-17T15:41:19+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2012\/09\/17\/new-zealand-court-dismisses-legal-attack-by-climate-skeptics-on-climate-data\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New Zealand Court Dismisses Legal Attack By Climate Skeptics on Climate Data"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/","name":"Climate Law Blog","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#organization","name":"Sabin Center for Climate Change Law","url":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/02\/21-SabinBlog_Banner-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/02\/21-SabinBlog_Banner-1.png","width":2752,"height":260,"caption":"Sabin Center for Climate Change Law"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/sabincenter"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/#\/schema\/person\/0d2be6891d17d08092dc52d0b32fce07","name":"Elizabeth Sheargold","url":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/author\/eshear1\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}