Since I have started updates here, I’ll keep this post as a “sticky” – new content will follow below it and linked within updates. – Anthony
UPDATE 71: 3:27PM In his latest post 18 U.S.C. 1343 Steve McIntyre demonstrates how Andrew Lacis of GISS, has no clue about law, and likely no clue about ethical behavior either. As Eli Rabbett would say Andrew, RTFM.
UPDATE70: 2:40PM 2/28 A very detailed Fakegate timeline has been prepared by WUWT reader A. Scott, which I have published complete with an Excel Spreadsheet. Notes made of the new Copner timeline also. Details here.
UPDATE69: 10:03AM 2/28 Mosher and Copner are following another trail over at Lucia’s in comments. It seems even Gleick’s associates were warning him against use of the phrase “anti-climate”. The response about “giving away the game” makes me wonder if there were others in on the phishing, but it could just be coincidental.
UPDATE68: 9:25AM 2/28 Walter Starck has a good comparison of Heartland/Fakegate -vs- Climategate at Quadrant Online
UPDATE67: 8:05AM 2/28 Ben Pile has an excellent summary of Fakegate
UPDATE66: 4:45PM 2/27 Yesterday it was “hordes” today it is “swarms”. The hilarity continues over at DeSmog Blog.
UPDATE65: 3:08PM 2/27 the AGU president issues a statement on Gleick and AGU’s involvement with Gleick’s AGU ethics committee. It is quite strong and condemns Gleick (though could be stronger).
UPDATE64: 1:00 and 1:18PM 2/27 In a press release, the Heartland Institute President Debunks Fakegate Memo Meanwhile, days later, the Pacific Institute Board of Directors catches up with a new statement citing what we all knew last Friday.
UPDATE63: 10:15AM 2/27 Lying and deception can be justified, says climate change ethics expert James Garvey, a philosopher and the author of The Ethics of Climate Change has written a defence of Peter Gleick at the Guardian.
UPDATE62: 10:10AM 2/27 Fakegate: DeSmogBlog’s epic fail – You almost have to feel sorry for the folks at DeSmogBlog.
UPDATE61: 2/26 Mr. Worthing on “Funding Imbalance” says: Note that the latest grant of $100 million was made on the day after the hippies got all hot under the collar about Heartland’s ‘huge’ annual budget of $4.4 million
UPDATE60: While “Fakegate” rages, which is a huge distraction from the science, this essay by Dr. David Evans The Skeptics Case is useful to consider and to cite in the thousands of online arguments now occurring. A PDF is provided for emailing also.
UPDATE59: I no more than post QOTW (bonus edition), and Steve McIntyre provides yet another quote for serious consideration. Uncharacteristically, he has disabled comments. But when you see his quote, you’ll understand why.
UPDATE58: 5:15AM 2/26 Dr. Judith Curry has a relevant QOTW (bonus edition). My earlier QOTW choice has apparently terrorized the twits with WUWT “hordes”.
UPDATE57: 8:00PM Christopher Booker in the Telegraph says: The Gleick affair is further proof of the warmists’ endless credulity – Dr Peter Gleick provides more evidence that the supporters of the Cause will stop at nothing.
UPDATE56: 3:02PM 2/25 Peter Gleick lecturing the U.S. Senate on “deceitful tactics”
UPDATE55: 1:50PM 2/25 The Weekly Standard has a great story up – Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning – Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs.
Loved this part:
Finally, “coordinated”? Few public policy efforts have ever had the massive institutional and financial coordination that the climate change cause enjoys. That tiny Heartland, with but a single annual conference and a few phone-book-sized reports summarizing the skeptical case, can derange the climate campaign so thoroughly is an indicator of the weakness and thorough politicization of climate alarmism.
UPDATE54: 12:20PM some interesting essays by Donna Laframboise here entitled: Peter Gleick – Then and Now and another by Hilary Ostrov entitled: From the ashes of Gleickgate: a new mantra is born h/t to Dr. Judith Curry from her Week in Review
UPDATE53: 10:45AM 2/25 Steve McIntyre has a humorous piece entitled Gleick and America’s Dumbest Criminals
UPDATE52: 10:20 AM 2/25 Nicola Scaffeta has contributed a guest essay – What triggered Dr. Peter Gleick to do identity fraud on Jan 27th?
UPDATE51: 7:15PM 2/24 According to the San Jose Mercury News, Dr. Gleick has requested a leave of absence from the Pacific Institute – details here
UPDATE50: 5:00PM 2/24 Quote of the week – from Scientific American, a comment on “The Cause” as we saw in CG2 emails
UPDATE49: 3:23PM 2/24 Dr. Judith Curry posts a “bombshell” on her website saying: With virtually no effort on my part (beyond reading an email, cutting and pasting into the blog post), I have uncovered “juicier stuff” about Heartland than anything Gleick uncovered.
Oh, the ironing.
UPDATE48: 3:00PM 2/24 Rep Ed Markey, probably still upset that Waxman-Markey cap and trade didn’t go anywhere, is sticking his nose into the Fakgate affair.
UPDATE47: 10:10AM 2/24 Fraudulent emails to Heartland from Gleick have been released. See details here.
UPDATE46: 10:00AM 2/24 The EPA was shown yesterday to “disappear” $468,000 in Federal grants to Gleick’s Pacific Institute. Now even more grants to Gleick have been scrubbed from EPA Grants Database. Steve Milloy at Junkscience.com reports:
EPA, do you know where your grants are?
Additional grants (possibly as much $647,000) to Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute seem to have disappeared from the EPA Grants Database.
The purpose of the grants on the screencap he has is a hoot.
UPDATE45: 8:00 AM 2/24 I’ve known this for several days, but now it is in the press. The gloves are off and The FBI has been called in.
UPDATE44: 11:00PM 2/23 Here is a special news report from KUSI-TV in San Diego on Fakegate – John Coleman reports.
UPDATE 43: 10:45PM 2/23 Here is a video “self-interview” from Dec 2011 by Peter Gleick from his PI office where he talks about people having a “fundamental trust in scientists”.
UPDATE42: 8:20PM 2/23 It appears that Gleick’s cyber impersonation to Heartland may have run afoul of a new law in California.
UPDATE41: 4:32 PM 2/23 The story on yours truly in the local alternate weekly “Leaked Documents Hit Home”
UPDATE40: 10:55AM 2/23 Heartland publishes the email thread with Dr. Gleick where he was invited to Heartland’s annual dinner as a speaker (with a speaking fee), and then declined after consideration.
UPDATE39: 10:09AM 2/23 Junkscience reports: Breaking: EPA scrubs web site of Gleick grants?
UPDATE38: 9:45AM 2/23 What do you do when you are a climate skeptic and have access to sensitive private documents? The answer is here.
UPDATE37: 7:30AM 2/23 Monckton writes an opinion on why the perpetrators(s) should be prosecuted.
UPDATE36: 12AM 2/23 You can participate in a crowdsourcing experiment using free open source stylometry/textometry software to determine the true authorship of the “faked” Heartland Climate Strategy memo. Details here.
UPDATE 35: 11:45 PM 2/22 Steve McIntyre has some interesting posts on the Gleick affair. Gleick and the NCSE and also Gleick’s AGU Resignation.
UPDATE34: 10:20PM 2/22 AP/WaPo: Ethicists blast chair of science ethics panel for taking global warming skeptic group’s papers
UPDATE 33: 10:00PM 2/22 The Guardian reports: Scientist who lied to obtain Heartland documents faces fight to save job. It seems the Pacific Institute Board of directors isn’t very happy. Their recent statement contrasts with Update 19 below. And he’s been dropped as a columnist by the SFO Chronicle.
UPDATE32: 9:45PM 2/22 Megan McArdle of The Atlantic has her third article in a series on this affair. She writes:
And ethics aside, what Gleick did is insane for someone in his position–so crazy that I confess to wondering whether he doesn’t have some sort of underlying medical condition that requires urgent treatment. The reason he did it was even crazier.
UPDATE31 9:15PM 2/22 The Daily Mail gives WUWT props in this affair, here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2104908/Fakegate–new-nadir-climate-change-swindle.html
UPDATE30: 6:30PM 2/22 “So, Peter Gleick: if I am wrong, sue me.” says Maggie’s Farm on the fake document. Meanwhile, in a desperate attempt at self vindication, the paid propagandists at DeSmog blog have become their own “verification bureau” for a document they have no way to properly verify. The source says it isn’t verified but that’s not good enough for them so they spin it. They didn’t even bother to get an independent opinion. Get this: Evaluation shows “Faked” Heartland Climate Strategy Memo is Authentic. It seems to be just climate news porn for the weak minded Susuki followers upon which their blog is founded. As one WUWT commenter (Copner) put it – “triple face palm”.
UPDATE29: 5:00 PM 2/22 Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. weighs in saying:
On September 4 2011 I posted
Hatchet Job On John Christy and Roy Spencer By Kevin Trenberth, John Abraham and Peter Gleick
I have reposted below since the recent behavior (e.g. see) of Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California, involving the Heartland Institute is just another example of the often vitriolic and unseemly behavior by some to discredit what are appropriate alternative viewpoints on the climate issue. Unfortunately, the action towards the Heartland Institute displayed by Peter Gleick is just another example of an attitude of a significant number of individuals in the leadership of the climate science community.
UPDATE28: 11:40AM James Evans in comments reports that “the BBC has finally weighed in, and it’s lame”. It only took Richard Black 36 hours to be convinced by an onslaught of emails. Whatta guy! The article makeup leaves no question now that Black is biased beyond all hope.
UPDATE27: 11:25 AM 2/22 Marlo Lewis at Globalwarming.org summarizes in From Climategate to Fakegate
UPDATE26: 8:25AM 2/22 Time Magazine has a feature story by Bryan Walsh: The Heartland Affair: A Climate Champion Cheats — and We All Lose
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2107364,00.html#ixzz1n825Q9Gm
UPDATE25: 8:18PM 2/21 Willis Eschenbach writes An Open Letter to Dr. Linda Gundersen asking et tu AGU?
UPDATE24: 8:10 PM 2/21 Joe Bast of the Heartland Institute gives a video interview with the Wall Street Journal. He accuses Gleick directly, saying:
Gleick “impersonated a board member of the Heartland Institute, stole his identity by creating a fake email address, and proceeded to use that fake email address to steal documents that were prepared for a board meeting. He read those documents, concluded that there was no smoking gun in them, and then forged a two-page memo”
h/t to THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Another Climate Scandal
See also this additional update: http://heartland.org/press-releases/statement-heartland-institute-president-joseph-bast-regarding-wall-street-journal-onl
UPDATE23: 7:30PM 2/21 Megan McArdle of The Atlantic gives Mosher and the blogosphere props for the takedown, and some jeers for others.
UPDATE22: 3:30PM 2/21 The AGU weighs in on Gleick with “disappointment” Gleick resigned on Feb 16th, but apparently didn’t tell them the full story of why.
UPDATE21: 2:55PM 2/21 Fakegate – It’s What They Do by Chris Horner
UPDATE20: 2:30PM 2/21 Warning Signs: “Fakegate” Blows Up in Warmist Faces
UPDATE19: 2:12PM 2/21 For now, Dr. Gleick still has an office, though I’m not sure that will true in the future. The Pacific Institute made an announcement on their web page that Dr. Gleick has been and continues to be an integral part of our team.
UPDATE18: 1:55 PM 2/21 Josh designs the new spring line of Climate Churnalism’s New Clothes
UPDATE17: 1:30 PM 2/21 With resignations happening already, and AGU removing him from his webpage, (Update11) The question out there is now about the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Gleick signed an “integrity” document “Climate Change and the Integrity of Science,” was published in the journal Science on May 7th, 2010 as the “Lead Letter”, plus a supporting editorial. Will the co-signers defend the tarnished integrity of climate science now? Will Dr. Gleick continue on the NAS as a member?
UPDATE16: 1:05PM 2/21 The Union of Credit Card Holding Concerned Scientists weighs in with a “devil made me do it” excuse.
Gleick’s Actions Don’t Excuse Heartland’s Anti-Science Campaign
Lame-o-meter pegged, Kenji is displeased.
UPDATE15: 11:08AM 2/21 Unbelievable. Daily Kos elevates Gleick to hero status (via Tom Nelson):
Daily Kos: Hero Scientist responsible for Heartland Expose
Hero scientist, Peter Gleick, a water and climate analyst is the one responsible for exposing the Heartland agenda to spread misinformation and lies and subvert any real action for the climate change crisis. He did so at considerable risk to his career and personal reputation.
UPDATE14: 9:40AM Daily Climate article cites “criminal act” and “steel cage death match” here
UPDATE13: 9:30AM 2/21 NCSE posts a story about Gleick on their news page, they mention his resignation from NCSE’s board.
On the same day as he posted his statement, however, he apologized to NCSE for his behavior with regard to the Heartland Institute documents and offered to withdraw from the board, on which he was scheduled to begin serving as of February 25, 2012. His offer was accepted.
UPDATE12: 8:10AM 2/21 Delingpole on integrity here
UPDATE11: 8AM 2/21 Gleick removed from AGU Task Force on Scientific Ethics page
UPDATE10: 7:45AM 2/21 Dr. Judith Curry tries to reconcile Gleick’s essays on “integrity” with his actions. It is a fascinating read.
UPDATE9: 7:20AM 2/21 Josh has a cartoon out on it, I don’t agree with it. Time magazine calls out Gleick.
UPDATE8: 11:20PM Over at DeSmog Blog they are praising Gleick and spinning his confession so fast that it has created its own localized climate distortion. They are labeling him as a whistleblower: Whistleblower Authenticates Heartland Documents
For his courage, his honor, and for performing a selfless act of public service, he deserves our gratitude and applause.
These paid propagandists are shameless, they are labeling him as a martyr for the cause. The Noble Cause Corruption is thick there.
UPDATE7: 9:32 PM Politico writes:
Two sources in California — longtime Democratic operative Chris Lehane and Corey Goodman, a member of the Pacific Institute board of directors — confirmed to POLITICO that Gleick authored the Huffington Post blog confessing to be the source of the leak.
Lehane, Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign press secretary, is helping Gleick pro bono with communications issues. Gleick is represented by John Keker, a prominent San Francisco-based white collar criminal defense attorney.
UPDATE6: 9:25 PM Steve McIntyre writes:
No one should feel any satisfaction in these events, which have been highly damaging to everyone touched by them, including both Heartland and Gleick.
I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, the damage will continue until such time legal redress is made, which appears to be the next step. Steve also has a good timeline analysis here.
UPDATE5: 8:40PM commenter “Skiphill” writes:
Many will also be heartened to know that Gleick’s Pacific Institute has a special initiative in “Integrity in Science” (I know that his apologists will claim that this episode is not about integrity “in” scientific research etc. but still…..):
http://www.pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/index.html
Integrity of Science
The Pacific Institute’s Integrity of Science Initiative responds to and counters the assault on science and scientific integrity in the public policy arena, especially on issues related to water, climate change, and security.
UPDATE4: 8:35PM Dr. Judith Curry notes the irony about Dr. Gleick lecturing her on integrity here
UPDATE3: 8:15PM I have received the Heartland statement, it will be posted under a separate post here. 8:23 PM It is posted here
UPDATE2: 725PM PST This post will likely go through many revisions as we learn more, I’ll timestamp each.- Anthony
UPDATE: 715PM PST Heartland advises me they will issue a statement soon. Stay tuned.
As many of us had surmised, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute is the Heartland document leaker. He has issued this statement:
Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science, there has been extensive speculation about the origin of the documents and intense discussion about what they reveal. Given the need for reliance on facts in the public climate debate, I am issuing the following statement.
At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute’s climate program strategy. It contained information about their funders and the Institute’s apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy. I do not know the source of that original document but assumed it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it.
Given the potential impact however, I attempted to confirm the accuracy of the information in this document. In an effort to do so, and in a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics, I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name. The materials the Heartland Institute sent to me confirmed many of the facts in the original document, including especially their 2012 fundraising strategy and budget. I forwarded, anonymously, the documents I had received to a set of journalists and experts working on climate issues. I can explicitly confirm, as can the Heartland Institute, that the documents they emailed to me are identical to the documents that have been made public. I made no changes or alterations of any kind to any of the Heartland Institute documents or to the original anonymous communication.
I will not comment on the substance or implications of the materials; others have and are doing so. I only note that the scientific understanding of the reality and risks of climate change is strong, compelling, and increasingly disturbing, and a rational public debate is desperately needed. My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated — to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved. Nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case. I offer my personal apologies to all those affected.
Peter Gleick
See also Andy Revkin’s DotEarth here. Revkin writes:
Now, Gleick has admitted to an act that leaves his reputation in ruins and threatens to undercut the cause he spent so much time pursuing. His summary, just published on his blog at Huffington Post,
…
(Added 7:25PM PST) One way or the other, Gleick’s use of deception in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others. (Some of the released documents contain information about Heartland employees that has no bearing on the climate fight.) That is his personal tragedy and shame (and I’m sure devastating for his colleagues, friends and family).
Peter Gleick’s HuffPo blog here.
For the record Dr. Gleick, I am not “anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated” as you suggest. And you have damaged me and my business. I suspect I’ll be seeing you in court to protect my rights, along with many others, sir.
Interesting that a document which was obtained early in the year is supported by documents from January 17/18. How early is early?
I’ve one in the spam bucket……..
[REPLY: James, patience is a virtue. Your comment was back in the pending queu before this arrived. Give us a bit of….? -REP]
American Geophysical Union
Task Force on Scientific Ethics
Chair
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute, Oakland, California
http://www.agu.org/about/governance/committees_boards/scientific_ethics.shtml
Many will also be heartened to know that Gleick’s Pacific Institute has a special initiative in “Integrity in Science” (I know that his apologists will claim that this episode is not about integrity “in” scientific research etc. but still…..):
http://www.pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/index.html
Integrity of Science
The Pacific Institute’s Integrity of Science Initiative responds to and counters the assault on science and scientific integrity in the public policy arena, especially on issues related to water, climate change, and security.
Read Case Studies in Integrity of Science here.
I won’t hold my breath. Obama’s justice dept won’t press charges or criminal charges will be dismissed . The left will support him and they control the senate and the whitehouse and the msm etc. In their circles he will be even more elevated. As known by many on this site, it has never really been about science for the agw crowd, the only way to change this is to vote then out. Gleick will be portrayed as a hero that stops at nothing to save the day. Bottom line we have a long way to go before we can celebrate that science will win the day
Here a is a classic warmist defense and response to Gleickliargate confessions of Gleick the cereal fraudster and defender of the CAGW faith. None so blind as he who will not see, certainly apply’s to Steven Earl Salmony.
In Andrew Revkins New York Times Dot Earth blog
Steven Earl Salmony
Chapel Hill, NC
Trusted
Peter Gleick is standing up for the nobility of science. He deserves support for doing so. It is the abject failure of many too many scientists to stand up for what they believe to be real and true about the global predicament facing humankind that is unacceptable and pernicious. The silence of so many scientists has allowed the ideological idiocy Peter has exposed to triumph over science for way too long. At this moment, I want to salute Peter Gleick.
That scientists follow his example is long overdue. Peter, thanks for standing up and speaking out so loudly and clearly.
Sincerely,
Steve Salmony
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/peter-gleick-admits-to-deception-in-obtaining-heartland-climate-files/
LOL- That scientists follow his example is long overdue. Peter, thanks for standing up and speaking out so loudly and clearly.
The Climategate crowd have been doing this for years!
And where would I find the confession of the Hacker that released those private emails!!
Hey Hey Where!!!
Hypocrasy so thick you could cut it.
The Denialist Watts false smugness should be regulated at this point.
REPLY: Your handle is “wheresmyak47”
Shall I assume that to be a death threat sir? – Anthony
There’s a blatant contradiction in Gleick’s statement. In the confessional paragraph, he tries to excuse his actions and claim a measure of victory by saying the documents he fraudulently obtained backed up much of what was written in the fake document: “The materials the Heartland Institute sent to me confirmed many of the facts in the original document, including especially their 2012 fundraising strategy and budget.”
Then, in the final paragraph he says: “I will not comment on the substance or implications of the materials . . .” Of course, he did exactly that in the preceding paragraph.
JohnM,
And its getting funnier again. The tools are scrambling for damage control. Varco says:
(February 20, 2012 at 7:58 pm) says, “Anthony, while I respect the rights of you and the others directly affected by Gleicks actions to seek redress, the continued public pursuit of someone who may be in a vulnerable state of mind does not appear to be in the spirit of this blog. Could I suggest an appeal to reason for the contributors of this blog to leave further judgement of Mr Gleick to the authorities and history.” BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Could I in turn suggest…oh, never mind, the mods will snip that one for sure.
And then, my favourite addled windbag on this blog, A physicist, breathlessly annouces that an anonymous donor to Heartland is not a wino living in a dumpster and/or an OWS activist, but may…get this…actually be rich! Shocking, I say. I now understand that Smokey’s, “physicist, it’s been said before but bears repeating: you’re a friggin’ idiot” is not an insult, but a peer reviewed and verified clinical assessment .
Thumbs up to the moderators, I presume they are busy as one armed paper hangers keeping up with breaking developments and all our posts!
Your efforts are much appreciated!!
Larry
By the way, Anthony, Scientific American has their original 2/15/2012 expose article on their site without even so much as an update to indicate that their story is based on a fraud. You may want to contact them and let them know that either the article will be coming down or their profits will.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=leaked-conservative-group
Anyone from the Gleick Clique who may be deleting relevant emails as we speak needs to be aware that such an act would be much more serious than breaching FOI rules.
James Sexton says:
February 20, 2012 at 8:38 pm
I’ve one in the spam bucket……..
[REPLY: James, patience is a virtue. Your comment was back in the pending queu before this arrived. Give us a bit of….? -REP]
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My bust…. it’s just that usually when I push post and my comment isn’t stating “awaiting moderation”, then it’s lost. Apologies.
Italics are on……..
Okay which of you ner’do well skeptics sent poor Dr Peter Gleick those documents along with the fake one. You knew he would fall for it and get toasted, roasted in a hell of his own making. 🙂
“What a gullaBULL” – Bugs Bunny
guys, guys! What was faked?
[Reply: If you still don’t know, you need to do a lot of reading to get up to speed. ~dbs, mod.]
Oh Poor You Anthony.
Where is the call for retribution and reparations for all the scientists implicated in climategate who had their reputations dragged through the mud, and still do years later, because of allegations that have been refuted and pardoned time and again by authoritative parties.
And yes, that would include suing YOU for your defamatory comments against those scientists and for allowing far worse in your public comment section here at WUWT.
At least Mr. Gleick has enough of a conscience to admit that he made a grave error.
You sir are still paid 10s of thousands of dollars by an Institute that is promoting pseudo-science in classrooms. You sir are still unable to reconcile the fact that the BEST study refuted your claims.
You sir, have far more to be ashamed of than Mr. Gleick and will have far more on your conscience if and when humanity suffers under runaway global warming due to your promotion of doubt and uncertainty when there is none.
REPLY: Sir, nothing has been published to classrooms, and a crime has been committed by Mr. Gleick. Get help for your your delusions – Anthony
Since I haven’t been reading about this outside of Anthony’s blog…how have the newspapers been handling the fraudulent memo? If they took it and ran with it without verification, aren’t they liable for certain charges? Can you libel an institution?
Tonight’s N.Y. Times’ Broder:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/earth/activist-says-heartland-climate-papers-obtained-by-deceit.html
I think we now have a new category – Anthropogenic Climate Fraud. It seems to be a plague across the world. Where doesn’t it rear it’s ugly head? Must be something in the air.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2012/2/20/the-entrepreneur.html
“jthomas2 says:
February 20, 2012 at 6:30 pm
What led you to suspect Gleick to begin with?”
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The fake document is what led people to suspect him. The one he claims he didn’t write.
Basically when forensically examined the textual evidence left him a very valid and viable suspect. There are a couple of good articles analyzing general things about the writer of the fake over on Forbes and then Steve Mosher on Lucia’s did a good job of matching up textual evidence that strongly suggests Gleick. Per Steve he initially suspected Gleick because he was actually named in the fake which really would be a strange thing to do if the document was real. Further indications where some fairly unique word choices from the fake along with some equally unique punctuation.
Now mind you none of this was proof but it does strongly suggest that Peter Gleick either wrote the fake or contributed to it.
The more telling thing here is that secondary suspicion was that Gleick and the thief where one and the same though smart money was that he was to smart to have done that and arrogant enough to have thought he could get away with sexing up the Heartland documents with the forgery.
So that is why he was suspected in the first place.
OK, so on the side his confession to being the thief while claiming to have received the fake is very interesting. Essentially he appears to be trying to save the fake document so it can continue to be referenced. After all if it was something he anonymously received and passed on then it clearly can still be referenced likely true by desmog and all the rest.
There is a problem with this. First he has already confessed to being a thief and a liar. Given that what proof do we have that anything else he says is true?
Second I just went back and reread his post and found it interesting. There is the whole story about receiving it anonymously in the mail and all and his claim of sending it as part of the packet unaltered from how he received it. Well aside from converting it from paper to PDF. The thing is in that whole story is that he never actually states that he didn’t author or help author the thing. And really without the fake there just isn’t anything worth stealing or talking about in the Heartland documents. They are all rather normal.
an AGW True Believer wrote, apparently in reference to the original Climategate:
“And where would I find the confession of the Hacker that released those private emails!!”
Have you guys on “The Team” STILL not figured out that there was NO “hacker”??? IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
Actually I’m sure that Jones et al have known this from almost the beginning. But it would be far too embarrassing to admit it, so they pretend to believe in some non-existent “hacker” even though that explanation doesn’t fit any of the electronic evidence. See, when there is a *Real* Fraudster it’s actually pretty easy for people with IT skills to track them down – as Gleick has just found out, to his great sorrow. The fact that all of the Queen’s Horses and all of the Queen’s men have turned up ZERO evidence of a Climategate “hacker” is pretty good evidence that there never was one.
So who really should be making a confession about lying? The Warmists again, huh? Funny how things keep working out that way.
R. Shearer says:
February 20, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Does his action really rise to the level of wire fraud?
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Yes it does. Pretending you are someone else on the phone to gain something that doesn’t belong to you is wire fraud.
I’m very surprised by Hans von Storch’s comments. I’d always thought him a credible critical thinker. Turns out he’s just another fish on.
http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2012/02/climate-gate-of-skeptical-site.html
Chris Alemany says:
“Where is the call for retribution and reparations for all the scientists implicated in climategate who had their reputations dragged through the mud, and still do years later, because of allegations that have been refuted and pardoned time and again by authoritative parties.”
You certainly are a know-nothing. The climategate charlatans deserved to have their reputations ruined. Obviously you haven’t read their scandalous emails. And “pardoned”?? Are you nuts? “Whitewashed” is the correct term. Not one hostile witness was ever called in any of the kissy-face whitewashes. Really, you’re totally naive.
And Gleick has no conscience. None. He was caught in his identity fraud game, he is a serial liar, and you are an apologist for his unethical behavior.
The BEST study has been effectively debunked. You probably didn’t know that, being hopelessly naive. And since there is absolutely no evidence of “runaway global warming”, you sound like a credulous fool who has been spoon-fed alarmist propaganda.
Have a nice day.
Will the LA Times have a new candidate for the 2012 “B.S. Award”, I wonder?
Did Peter Gleick act alone, or was there a Gleick Klub? 🙂
It is difficult for one person, no matter how obtuse, to reach this critical mass of carnal stupidity all by himself.
Truly outstanding acts of wanton vandalism, such as FakeGate, often require the pooled stupidity of several enthusiastic participants. Alcohol helps.
Is Peter “taking one for the Team”?
Perhaps so – It’s all for a bad Cause.