The stated policy of New Zealand’s Fairfax newspaper group to discard all views and data that dissents with the chain’s own collectively-held opinion that climate change is an existential threat and is manmade is a challenge to science according to a local government figure, Rick Long. Even more serious believes Mr Long (pictured) remains the subsequent decision of the nation’s news-content arbitrator, the Media Council, to uphold the Australian-owned chain’s decision. Fairfax is now part of Australia’s Channel Nine Network. Mr Long’s contention is that the decision to outlaw dissenting information by Fairfax, with the support of the Media Council,…