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.