Students' climate [hoax] assignment throws open debate - Health - NZ Herald News

The students found the reading material puzzling, too. "I was actually surprised by these papers because there were well-documented arguments, including the presentation of scientific evidence in the forms of graphs and tables. I became convinced - temporarily - that there was strong evidence against climate change," said the student who spent a week researching and talking to other experts before concluding the papers were problematic.
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The students who visited de Freitas were perplexed too. " He suggested global warming is not necessarily due to humans, that it was just a natural phenomenon. He showed graphs and a few bits and pieces of data - and to be honest it did seem quite compelling."

In the end the students discarded de Freitas' information. As one pointed out: "If we had bought his view then we wouldn't really see any reason for doing the project." Which is hardly de Freitas' fault - he was asked for his views by School of Population Health and gave them freely and the meeting with the three med students was held at their request.

The climate dissenter holds his ground - National - NZ Herald News

"I use both new and old material in my slides. Some of the best science is quite old," said De Freitas. "He didn't use any hockey stick graphs that show the extreme change in our climate since human activity - he didn't show us anything like that," said the student.