"Jim Salinger"@en . "Salinger, Jim"@en . . "Michael Jim Salinger is an Auckland-based climate change scientist who formerly worked for the Crown Research Institute National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).He was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 \"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change\".From 2006 to 2010, Salinger was President of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology at the World Meteorological Organization.On 23 April 2009, Salinger was dismissed by NIWA, ostensibly for breaching NIWA's media policy. "@en . "New Zealand climatologist" .