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Dr Jim Salinger (1961-65) is the recipient of an extremely rare if not unique honour for alumni of Otago Boys’.
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Jim, principal scientist on climate at NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) and a world-renowned authority in climate change and variability in New Zealand and the southwest Pacific, was one of a handful of New Zealanders on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
The IPCC, which works closely with the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environment Programme, combined the expertise of 500 weather and climate specialists from around the globe with the work completed forming a blueprint for the ways needed to slash gas emissions in the years ahead to prevent disastrous consequences.
Jim notes the signs are that, without change, temperatures will increase up to 4 degrees during the 21st century.
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That warming, he says, will result in dire and potentially irreversible changes for the planet.
His certificate, which denotes Jim’s contribution to the IPCC receiving the peace prize and which is signed by the IPCC chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri and secretary Renate Christ will soon be framed and hung proudly in his NIWA office in Auckland.
