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Records mentioning scientists Dr Ronan Connolly and/or Michael Connolly and/or Christopher Monckton

Chris Johnston made this Official Information request to Ministry for the Environment

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From: Chris Johnston

Dear Ministry for the Environment,

Please provide any records (including but not limited to internal/external: documents, emails, notes, minutes, text messages, or social media messages) mentioning scientists Dr Ronan Connolly and/or Michael Connolly and/or Christopher Monckton.

For context - so that you can correctly identify the individuals - some links relevant to their work are mentioned in the links below.
1) This is the presentation of their findings that Earth's atmosphere is in thermo-dynamic equilibrium (directly opposite to a key IPCC assumption), and therefore CO2 cannot have any significant effect on the temperature of Earth's atmosphere.
https://youtu.be/XfRBr7PEawY
or
https://t.co/FolJ8vWmGL?amp=1

2) This is the Connolly's blog site where they publish their results:
https://globalwarmingsolved.com/

3) This is where their empirical discovery is talked about by Christopher Monckton as a potential Nobel Prize winning paper (once published).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...
or
https://t.co/gPBhw9GolD?amp=1

Yours faithfully,

Chris Johnston

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From: Ministerials
Ministry for the Environment

Kia ora and thank you for contacting our team.

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension to that timeframe.

Please note the Ministry for the Environment will release responses to selected OIA requests on our OIA responses page shortly after the response has been sent.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us.

Ngâ mihi nui

Executive Relations team
Ministry for the Environment – Manatû Mô Te Taiao
Email: [MFE request email] Website: www.mfe.govt.nz
23 Kate Sheppard Place, Thorndon, Wellington 6143

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Kia ora Chris,

Please find attached the signed letter and material in response to your Official information Act requests dated 29 and 30 September 2019 found below. Please note that the Ministry for the Environment has combined three of these requests into one response and has answered the last (19-D-02218) as a standalone request.

This response is being sent to all four of the FYI links you have used in making this request.

Kind regards,
Curtis Hammond
Advisor
Ministry for the Environment

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From: Chris Johnston <[email address]>
Sent: Monday, 30 September 2019 1:03 AM
To: Ministerials <[MFE request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Records mentioning climate activist Greta Thunberg or either of her parents, (Malena Ernman, Svante Thunberg)

Dear Ministry for the Environment,

Please provide any records (including but not limited to internal/external: documents, emails, notes, minutes, text messages, or social media messages) mentioning climate activist Greta Thunberg or either of her parents, (Malena Ernman, Svante Thunberg). I do not need copies of public news articles held.

For context - so that you can correctly identify the individual - some links relevant to her work are listed below:
This is the Wikipedia page outlining her activities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thun...

Yours faithfully,

Chris Johnston

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Kia ora Chris,

 

Please find attached a response to your 30 September 2019 request for
official information. This was sent to you on 2 December 2019 but due to
the file size the response did not send.

 

This is part one of our response, due to the file size these documents
have been split into three parts. Part one contains documents 1 –  11.
Documents 12 can be found in part two which will be sent to you in an
email directly following this email. Documents 13 – 16 will be included in
the final email following document 12.

 

Please note the Ministry for the Environment will release responses to
selected OIA requests on our OIA responses page shortly after the response
has been sent.

 

Apologies for the delay in our response.

 

If you have any questions please contact [1][MFE request email]

 

Ngâ mihi nui

Curtis

Advisor

Ministry for the Environment

 

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Kia ora Chris,

 

Please find attached a response to your 30 September 2019 request for
official information. This was sent to you on 2 December 2019 but due to
the file size the response did not send.

 

This is part one of our response, due to the file size these documents
have been split into three parts. Part one contains documents 1 –  11.
Documents 12 can be found in part two which will be sent to you in an
email directly following this email. Documents 13 – 16 will be included in
the final email following document 12.

 

Please note the Ministry for the Environment will release responses to
selected OIA requests on our OIA responses page shortly after the response
has been sent.

 

Apologies for the delay in our response.

 

If you have any questions please contact [1][MFE request email]

 

Ngâ mihi nui

Curtis

Advisor

Ministry for the Environment

 

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Ministerials would like to recall the message, "19-D-02216 Chris Johnston (any records mentioning scientists Dr Ronan Connolly and/or Michael Connolly and/or Christopher Monckton) part 2".

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Kia ora Chris,

 

Please find attached a response to your 30 September 2019 request for
official information. This was sent to you on 2 December 2019 but due to
the file size the response did not send.

 

This is part two of our response, due to the file size these documents
have been split into three parts. Part one contains documents 1 –  11.
Documents 12 can be found in part two which will be sent to you in an
email directly following this email. Documents 13 – 16 will be included in
the final email following document 12.

 

Please note the Ministry for the Environment will release responses to
selected OIA requests on our OIA responses page shortly after the response
has been sent.

 

Apologies for the delay in our response.

 

If you have any questions please contact [1][MFE request email]

 

Ngâ mihi nui

Curtis

Advisor

Ministry for the Environment

 

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Kia ora Chris,

 

Please find attached a response to your 30 September 2019 request for
official information. This was sent to you on 2 December 2019 but due to
the file size the response did not send.

 

This is part three of our response, due to the file size these documents
have been split into three parts. Part one contains documents 1 –  11.
Documents 12 can be found in part two which will be sent to you in an
email directly following this email. Documents 13 – 16 will be included in
the final email following document 12.

 

Please note the Ministry for the Environment will release responses to
selected OIA requests on our OIA responses page shortly after the response
has been sent.

 

Apologies for the delay in our response.

 

If you have any questions please contact [1][MFE request email]

 

Ngâ mihi nui

Curtis

Advisor

Ministry for the Environment

 

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From: Chris Johnston

Dear Ministerials,

Thanks for the reply on 2 Dec and the split attachments on the 3rd of Dec.

I can successfully read the pdfs supplied in Part 1 and Part 3.

Unfortunately the "19 D 02216 Chris Johnston compiled information vFinal part 2.pdf" is not able to be opened or read successfully. Could this perhaps be re-pdf'd, or perhaps split into Part2a and Part2b?

Almost there.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

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Good morning Chris,

I will re PDF this now and get this to you today.

Kind regards,
Curtis

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Attachment 19 D 02216 Chris Johnston compiled information vFinal part 2 Part A.pdf
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Kia ora Chris

Further to my email this morning please find attached part 2 A of the information being provided to you, please note part 2 B will follow separately.

Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing this information.

Kind regards,
Curtis

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Attachment 19 D 02216 Chris Johnston compiled information vFinal part 2 Part B.pdf
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Kia ora Chris

Further to my email this morning please find attached part 2 B of the information being provided to you, please note part 2 A was sent prior to this email.

Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing this information.

Kind regards,
Curtis

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From: Chris Johnston

Dear Ministerials,

Thank you for the final attachment - yes they can all be read.

It has been a bit of a journey but thank you for completing it with me.

The purpose of this OIA is to bring to the MfE's awareness:
(a) the recent Connolly study - which directly challenges a core assumption of all the simulation models relied on by the IPCC.
(b) that the deliberations and Select Committee consultation for the Zero Carbon Bill did not consider this study - although the MfE and Min of Climate Change were aware of this OIA before the final stage.
(c) that other government departments were also unaware of this study.

It is easy to replicate and I have suggested to NIWA in their OIA that they replicate it and come to a conclusion as to its relevance to NZ's reliance on IPCC predictions. They would then need to advise their clients (the MfE presumably being one) about the reliability of their previous paid consulting work.

Given the substantive and deep economic impacts on the NZ economy of the Zero Carbon Act could I please request that this be one of the key elements of brand new scientific information that is brought to the attention of the new Chair of the Climate Commission - Dr Rod Carr? As an ex-Reserve Bank Governor he will be aware of the need for suitable scientific review of the claims in the Connolly work before making decisions or recommendations that have substantive effects on the NZ economy.

In future OIAs I hope to see a documentation trail that demonstrates the MfE's due diligence in relation to this new scientific information.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

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From: Ministerials
Ministry for the Environment

Kia ora Chris,

Thanks for your email. We have passed this onto the Climate team for future consideration.

Kind regards,

Charlotte Hoffman – Ministerial Coordinator
Ministry for the Environment – Manatû Mô Te Taiao
Email: [MFE request email] Website: www.mfe.govt.nz 
23 Kate Sheppard Place, Thorndon, Wellington 6143

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