Dear Victoria University of Wellington,

Please provide any records (including but not limited to internal/external: documents, emails, notes, minutes, text messages, or social media messages) mentioning scientists Dr Ned Nikolov and/or Dr Karl Zeller and/or Dr Roy Spencer as mentioned in the links below.

For context - so that you can correctly identify the individuals - some links relevant to their work are mentioned in the links below.
1) 2017 Peer Reviewed and Published Paper Describing How Earth's Long Term Average Temperature can be estimated from NASA data on other planets without referencing the composition of Earth's atmosphere. That is, the finding is that CO2 does not have an impact on the long term average temperature of Earth.
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/...

2) Blog reply by Ned Nikolov in response to a critique by Dr Roy Spencer
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/01/...

Yours faithfully,

Chris Johnston

Dear Victoria University of Wellington,

Note: There has been a corruption of the record for this OIA on the fyi.org.nz website - which I have reported as a complaint to the administrator.

Please confirm that the request for information preparing for a possible quantitative response is underway. As per the associated OIA requests - is the ETA 15 November 2019?

From my point of view I am assisting VUW to comply with the law in answering the original OIA.

Could you also please respond to my responses to the VUW logic in declining the OIA. If VUW have not changed their mind this will determine whether we head to the Ombudsman.

If there is no response by the close of business on Thursday 7 November then I will assume that you are not reconsidering. If you want to buy time to reconsider then please provide a date.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

It is perplexing that VUW believes that it has not received a request to this OIA logged on fyi.org.nz

https://fyi.org.nz/request/11355-vuw-rec...

Could you please regard this OIA as received as at the date of this message as described in the record dates 2 October 2019. The text of that letter (which is publicly available) is shown below:

Please provide any records (including but not limited to internal/external: documents, emails, notes, minutes, text messages, or social media messages) mentioning scientists Dr Ned Nikolov and/or Dr Karl Zeller and/or Dr Roy Spencer as mentioned in the links below.

For context - so that you can correctly identify the individuals - some links relevant to their work are mentioned in the links below.
1) 2017 Peer Reviewed and Published Paper Describing How Earth's Long Term Average Temperature can be estimated from NASA data on other planets without referencing the composition of Earth's atmosphere. That is, the finding is that CO2 does not have an impact on the long term average temperature of Earth.
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/...

2) Blog reply by Ned Nikolov in response to a critique by Dr Roy Spencer
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/01/...

Please provide an acknowledgement of receipt.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

I would like to confirm that this OIA has been received and is being actioned by VUW.

Can you also please confirm the date that you expect to reply?

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

I would like to confirm that this OIA has been received and is being actioned by VUW.

Can you also please confirm the date that you expect to reply?

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

Thank you for your reply of 19 December 2019.

It is perplexing that VUW believes that it has not received a request of the following OIA logged on fyi.org.nz Maybe a spam filter or similar? The OIA record and history of communication is listed at the link below:

https://fyi.org.nz/request/11355-vuw-rec...

I will send the original text again next, and then a follow up email to ask whether you have received these first two emails – so a total of 3 emails – all sent on 5 January 2020.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

This OIA has had trouble being emailed to you – we will see whether this is successful. This is the second of 3 emails sent on 5 January 2020.

Please provide any information/records (including but not limited to internal/external: documents, emails, notes, minutes, text messages, or social media messages) mentioning scientists Dr Ned Nikolov and/or Dr Karl Zeller and/or Dr Roy Spencer as mentioned in the links below.

For context - so that you can correctly identify the individuals - some links relevant to their work are mentioned in the links below.

1) 2017 Peer Reviewed and Published Paper Describing How Earth's Long Term Average Temperature can be estimated from NASA data on other planets without referencing the composition of Earth's atmosphere. That is, the finding is that CO2 does not have an impact on the long term average temperature of Earth.

Links to copies of the paper are provided below (multiple in case one link breaks):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ne...

https://www.scribd.com/document/41361684...

2) Blog reply by Ned Nikolov in response to a critique by Dr Roy Spencer

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/01/...

Since previous attempts at communicating through this channel have failed, I will send a subsequent email with minimal text and no links to:
a) Confirm that you have received the first two and
b) Provide a time stamp so that you can search in a spam filter or similar for emails sent about the same time.

Please provide an acknowledgement of receipt.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

This is the 3rd of 3 emails sent on 5 January 2020. It seeks confirmation that you have received the first 2 and this one – or some other variation.

I have just resubmitted the OIA and would appreciate it if you could confirm receipt.

If you have not received anything from me then please search your spam filters for an email date stamped around the same time as this email.

Please confirm either way – i.e. (i) received, (ii) lost and found, or (iii) lost and unfindable.

Sorry for the confusion that this must be causing you.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston

Dear OIA Requests,

Thanks for the reply.

Could you please confirm the following:
1) The search terms used in O365 for each search - this helps me to understand the completeness of the search. For example "Dr Ned Nikolov" would yield different results to Dr Ned Nikolov without quotes or Nikolov by itself.
2) What repositories O365 includes for Victoria University that are included in the search (e.g. SharePoint, Email etc).
3) Whether the whole of the university email system runs through O365 - or whether there are other email platforms used. This tells me whether the email search is likely to cover all email traffic for the University.

I am considering the request for charging - but need to know the completeness of the search (see 1 to 3 above) in order to assess whether it is likely to have found everything.

I will also forward this to the Ombudsman who is conversing with me about my other related OIAs.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston