This essay is from the National Center for Science Education at: http://ncse.com/news/2012/02/source-heartland-leak-steps-forward-007220
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Source of Heartland leak steps forward
Peter Gleick
The source of the documents revealing the strategy of the Heartland Institute’s campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of climate science — including by producing and distributing K-12 curriculum materials propounding climate change denial — revealed himself to be Dr. Peter Gleick, the hydroclimatologist who heads the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.
In a February 20, 2012, statement posted at the Huffington Post, Gleick explained that at the beginning of the year, he received a document “describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute’s climate program strategy.” Attempting to confirm the accuracy of the information, he continued, “I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name.”
Gleick expressed regret for his actions, writing, “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.”
As part of NCSE’s expansion to defend the teaching of climate science, Gleick had agreed to join NCSE’s board of directors. 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.
“Gleick obtained and disseminated these documents without the knowledge of anyone here,” NCSE’s executive director Eugenie C. Scott commented, “and we do not condone his doing so.” But, she added, “they show that NCSE was right to broaden its scope to include the teaching of climate science. There really are coordinated attempts to undermine the teaching of climate science, and NCSE is needed to help to thwart them.”
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DeSmogBlog has so completely shut down discussion on their Gleick=Hero post that they have managed a whole 6 posts in shared support for Gleick… and it’s the same “Heartland has to PROVE that that document is faked!”
Likewise, you can no longer register with DeSmogBlog without manual approval from the site because of “trolls” according to their email to me on my registration request.
And, for the record, Scientific American still has their article up that was based on the false information in the fake document: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=leaked-conservative-group
I guess SA decided that they didn’t really need working capital anymore…
Wow! She quotes the FRAUDULENT DOCUMENT as reason to show they were right to begin defending CAGW in the schools. I bet she doesn’t even realize that is what she has done since she is eye-ball deep group-think that is CAGW.
Isn’t the use of the word “undermine” from the falsified document againsts Heartland’s notification which reads:
“In the meantime, we ask again that publishers, bloggers, and Web site hosts take the stolen and fraudulent documents off their sites, remove defamatory commentary based on them, and issue retractions.”
@Jay Curtis…
“Oh my. So the teaching of climate science automatically translates into the teaching the dogma of Anthropogenic Global Warming?”
Yes. When 100% of the people who say they’re practicing Discipline ABC agree on Doctrine XYZ, then you have to say that Discipline ABC automatically translates into Doctrine XYZ.
No point in saying that Climate Science ought to be based on truth; all Climate Scientists have been frauds and criminals from the start. The only solution is to eject the entire discipline from the realm of science, as medicine did with Homeopathy, and psychology did with Orgone Therapy.
[b]Joe said:[/b] [i] “…This plan had the ultimate effect of undoing Gleick just when he should have been reaching the zenith of his career and casting him in the nadir of his career instead…”[/i]
I think Dr. Gleick will become a well compensated Folk Hero of his community as a “Defender of Science!” To me he is as much a fraud as Rachel Carson, but she was also a well compensated Folk Hero…
Please make it a little more clear who is writing this article, it can be read like WUWT are saying the Heartland are undermining climate science, which is not true.
‘HI must be thwarted from subverting our subversion of science education! Thwart! Exterminate! Thwart! Exterminate!’
Riiiiggghht.
Joachim Seifert:
Do you really think that unpleasant stereotyping is helping?
Artwest:
….[stereo]typing is [typing] and this ALWAYS helps…. any bad guy, who was spotted and
caught in flagranti ADMITs: “My judgement was blinded….” I was in rage about …the
social unequality…..” ” logically, I could not help it, the URGE overwhelmed me,….
I was driven only by the most honest principles of redistributing the unjust wealth of
some mean rich …..into my pockets..only..”…..
……after all, I did not steal/theft of documents…. they were [official term now]: “leaked” into
my pockets…. sorry folks….I remain the good guy and love you all + down with the
Skeptics…..lets finish them…join the struggle…..
JS
“… the strategy of the Heartland Institute’s campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of climate science”
That would be the same way Galileo sought to undermine the Church’s understanding of the Universe, and Columbus, against the overwhelming understanding of the great and good, insisted the Earth was round.
If Gleick ends up being deposed under oath, I do hope the lawyer doing the questioning produces Gleick’s hatchet job “review” he wrote on Amazon of Donna’s book “Delinquent Teenager” and asks Gleick to testify whether he ever read the book before reviewing it. I think the question would be germane to both background knowledge and the character of the witness. Then he can be asked about his huffy and condescending protestations at Climate Etc claiming he had read the book prior to reviewing it.
I was shocked to read the word “undermined” taken from the falsified Heartland document in the press release as well as reasoning of the offender. What is going on at NCSE and in the classrooms ?
1. Heartland notified 3rd parties with the following:
“In the meantime, we ask again that publishers, bloggers, and Web site hosts take the stolen and fraudulent documents off their sites, remove defamatory commentary based on them, and issue retractions.”
2. Heartland has any right to engage in the process of developping K12 material, and, as they state in their real documents, they are well aware and willing to adhere to relevant standards.
3. The IPCC’s own investigation (The Inter Academy Report) reported significant errors in the IPCC reports and processes and beyond that criticized “confirmation bias” and was deeply critical of the way the IPCC, particularly Working Group II, handled and reported on uncertainty,
See pages 45-48 in
http://www.rossmckitrick.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/rmck_climategate.pdf
Joe at 2/12 10:03 is on to something very important.
Heartland’s case against Gleick is about defaming and damages to its reputation. It is too great a coincidence that Gleick distribute stolen and faked documents concerning Heartland and its “teaching of climate science” just when he is about to sit as a board member at NCSE.
The pregnant question is, “What did Gleick say to NCSE about Heartland classroom strategies prior to getting the board appointment?” NCSE seems to have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker the concept that
How does E.C. Scott at NCSE come to that conclusion without the faked document or private potentially defaming discussions (from Gleick)? I think Scott at NCSE just opened itself to Heartland discovery motions.
Eugenie Scott: “. . . they show that NCSE was right to broaden its scope to include the teaching of climate science. There really are coordinated attempts to undermine the teaching of climate science, and NCSE is needed to help to thwart them.”
Yep, that’s classical NCSE. All-propaganda-all-the-time. Pretty much every time Scott talks about those bad people out there “undermining” science, you can be sure it is propaganda she is selling, not objective analysis.
Gleick is dummy. LOL. Destroyig his own career for nothing. Besides this earth is cooling, so five years from now everybody knows that CO2 is innocent for warming as it is innocent for cooling. It’s the SUN stupid.
[snip . . I have left the bit that matters and isn’t silly . . kbmod]
Like all lefties, the ends justify the means.
NCSE accepts Gleick’s resignation, but they also accept a blatant forgery intended to smear Heartland as fact. They want to use the fabrication of a “campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of climate science” to justify themselves. That makes them as intellectually corrupt as Dr. Gleick.
The digital forensics needs to happen already. The preliminaries have already been crowdsourced. It will show that Gleick authored the “Strategy” memo, and planned its release with one or more DeSmogBlog staffers in advance. That is why only 38 minutes elapsed between Gleick’s Epson Scan metadata timestamp and DeSmogBlog’s posting of the files.
The whole story needs to be laid bare so that the accomplices are outed, and none of these apologists for Gleick’s crimes have any excuses. This is also for Dr. Gleick’s benefit, as his personal recovery can not proceed until a full accounting and amends have been made to the best of his ability. The healing begins only after all the pus is drained.
Al Gores ex operatives are involved!!!!
From Politco;
” 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.”
Now he has a professional spin-doctor on board and a powerful lawyer. I hope it’s enough; Gleick is in a world of trouble.
I remember when the Heartland story first broke and the zeal of the trolls, Anthony’s enemies came piling in here full of self-righteousness, indignation and insults. Then the truth began to emerge and they seem to have scored an own goal. In the end the truth always wins.
No onto court. ;O)
I am, probably, overly sentimental. When I look at Gleick’s photograph, I feel a bit of remorse. The poor sob must really believe in the quasi-religious stuff he is preaching, if he did such a stupid, self-damaging thing. I have to remind myself of billions of dollars that green swindlers are squeezing out of our pockets, to harden my judgement.
Hansen is a psycho, a religious fanatic. One of those who can be stopped only by force — no argument, fact, or consideration will ever change his mind. The fact that this mentally disturbed individual is a director of NASA’s Goddard Institute is a typical omen of our times: we live in the New Dark Ages.
I never feel any compassion looking at Mike Mann, though. I’ve dealt with his kind. I think he knows that he plays an important role in one of the largest scams in human history, and enjoys it. (Just look at the carefully prearranged avalanche of five-star reviews of his book on Amazon-com — they all appeared almost simultaneously, as soon as the book was announced, even before the book was in print; what a travesty!)
Though Michael Mann is afraid, too. They are all afraid now, green swindlers: somebody with an uncanny sense of irony seems to control the heart of the Sun.
So… let’s see. Poor, “heroic” Innocent, carrying out the duties of his office, mutely afflicted in his quotidian toil by the Great Evil malignantly and furtively denying Mankind his place in the Garden… til he could suffer it no more. Snapped. Struck out in his righteous indignation.
There are serious problems with the Billy Budd defense. Most obviously, Gleick had no impediment to his own speech, and no problems with his pedigree. He comes from an elite school, and is a highly articulate, lavishly-paid, well-groomed spokesman for Climate Change Catastrophism. He could try to make that defense, but I doubt that it’ll stick.
Well, one positive outcome of this sordid affair is Gleick’s resignation from the NCSE and any other educational organization. What he and his hypocritical pals are teaching to youngsters has a lot to do with the failure of secondary and the corruption of higher education today. Kids, your opinions, positions, and your words are for sale – and they can and will be bought, and if you are clever enough, you can surround yourself with an aura of golden beauty and still be home in time for a banquet fit for the Gods.
It’s not “outsmarting” when you get nailed to the wall so easily, is it?
@ur momisugly the photo… A song comes to mind: “Pencil-necked Gleick, grit-eating freak….”
The battle over public school science curricula appears to be the the focus of a concerted effort by both sides. There seems to be a pattern here. Have a listen to this piece I heard a few weeks ago on PRI/NPR. The piece of interest is Act Two, which starts at 24:40. The commentary at 26:40 was what got my attention. Click the little orange play button:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/424/kid-politics?act=2
From Delingpole quoting Gleick.
Sounds very much like Warmist climate scientists to me. The 15 years of flat temps is getting them seriously worried and they won’t publicly admit it. Even if global mean temps started trending down they will more or else do what is quoted above in the last sentence. Science moves forward one funeral at a time.
Ahhhhh!
Now onto court. ;O)
I agree. The most striking (bizarre really) statement in the whole fraudulent memo was the set-up line about how Heartland – and skeptics in general – are trying to destroy science for the kiddos.
Enter Gleick and his Curriculum of Climate Goodness and Pure Thought – and presto, the next generation is saved.