Scoop: Greenpeace ad hominem attack rejected

The personal criticism of Prime Minister John Key for his stance on climate change issues are typical of the ad hominem attack tactics that Greenpeace and similar zealots like Labour MP Charles Chauvel resort to when they lack scientific basis for argument, according to Terry Dunleavy, secretary of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
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He was speaking from New York where, as executive vice-chairman of the International Climate Science Coalition, he is attending the 2nd International Conference on Climate Change, at which he will present a paper entitled ‘Consensus’ in climate science – an unsubstantiated urban myth, rebutting claims that assessment reports by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are the work of thousands of scientists.