Wellington - Jim Salinger, New Zealand's most prominent climate scientist, has been sacked by the state-owned National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) for talking to the media without permission, he said on Friday.
Salinger, who is internationally known as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he was summarily dismissed this week after working for NIWA for 25 years.
The IPCC, which was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former US vice-president Al Gore for their work on informing the world about man-made climate change.
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