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.”
I beg yur pardon Anthony/mods etAll;
But how in the fu****ng world can there be ANY trust, regardless, in anything coming from so called US ‘scientists’ and/or their publicational comrades? In the (here in Sweden) so called ‘public service’ we had a ‘lecture’ from a ‘dr. James Hansen’ about how devastating ‘everything’ is and going to be…
I totally despice our propaganda ‘public service’ (SVT + SR) as being even worse than the propaganda from the (ex) DDR – or 4 that matter, the bottom line in the LA Times on Mein Kampf…
And Sweden is not Switzerland! Mind you + Go Figure, please.
Brgds from Sweden
ThomasJ
Nick Shaw says:
February 21, 2012 at 11:27 am
[snip . . I have left the bit that matters and isn’t silly . . kbmod]
Like all lefties, the ends justify the means.
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But I wanna see the silly bits!
Anyway, what could possibly be sillier then this whole episode, especial as it relates to the reactions of the true believers. Wow just wow. My mom told me that truth was stranger then fiction, but wow!
THANK YOU ALL – I just posted the following at Lucia’s Blackboard, inspired nearly entirely by the posters here.
I have just waded through many comments on the WUWT thread http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/21/ncse-accepts-gleicks-resignation/
I was simply reading until a comment at 11:16 by Stephen Rasey went through a tremendous string of analysis and concluded with, “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.”
INDEED! That caught my attention.
A little later, Richdo @ur momisugly12:00 pm goes through another marvelous string of fact that includes, “Chris Mooney at DeSmogBlog was one of the first (if not the first) to publicise NCSE’s climate education initiative launch, … [but] notes “There Is No Clear “Opponent.” In the evolution fight, there was … Discovery Institute[and other]. In the climate education battle, there is no central clearinghouse organization … pushing global warming denial in schools. … So how can [NCSE] manage climate education conflicts profitably …” “- Now we have Gleick, the newly appointed member of NCSE’s board, (appointed specifically because of their new climate initiatives) at the center of a fraud to create a “clear opponent” and provide a wondefull springboard for NCSE’s climate launch.”
And finally, DirkH says to the original “Joe @ur momisugly 10:03”, “VERY GOOD! You found the motive. So we KNOW now that -this was not masterplanned to blow up in their faces like it did. -the left/warm media are just winging it as good as they can”
So back to read what Joe actually said at 10:03:
“So Gleick, in his hubris, attempted to prime the pump for a battle against Heartland that he intended to wage as a board member at NCSE by releasing a fake document that portrayed Heartland as an anti-science organization. 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.
It’s a Gleick Tragedy.”
My own opinion has been greatly affected by these posters and I believe if others who have been mulling over this event, it may greatly affect them, too. If I were Heartland, I would immediately subpoena for all NCSE documents and communications with Gleick and Dessmogblog, since it seems clear that NCSE and Gleick have clear motivation for producing that particular fraudulent document given his intended association with them before his incredibly rapid discovery.
You would think the NCSE would know what the scientific method is. The comment by the executive director appears to demonstrate they don’t. By taking on the political, not scientifically based, AGW argument they show they are not interested in science education. Perhaps scientific indoctrination. My understanding is that science is about questioning.
>>I would say he looks like his name would indicate and exactly what I would expect, a trust fund hippie?
I went to college with a lot of these clowns in the ’60’s and ’70’s – even counted myself as one of them, but without the trust fund. Eventually, I earned two graduate degrees through my own hard work and came to a different understanding of the world. Guys like Gleick are eco-facists who are unable to see beyond the veil of their own idealism and to understand how real, human beings are adversely affected by this nonsense.
Grow up Gleick.
Gleick uses the it-was-that-SOB-Johnson defense from Forrest Gump. Meanwhile, his scientific career may be over but he will command very large speaker’s fees henceforth and may actually become quite rich for all this. Such is the strange path of “justice.”
Give me a break “Source of Heartland leak steps forward” How about a more accurate “Source of fraudulent Heartland story is caught”?
Wondering;
Yes, “steps” seems a bit off. “Stumbles, after being pushed”, is maybe more like it.
When he offered to resign, “His offer was accepted.”
Is it possible to NOT accept such an offer?
“they show that NCSE was right to broaden its scope to include the teaching of climate science.”
If only they’d teach climate science, and not climate alarmism.
“often anonymous” Can he give us examples of these anonymous attacks? I doubt he could provide even one example of an anonymous “attack” much less show that it is done often.
Peter Gleick… a classic d[snip] head!
Joachim Seifert
I guess I was being too subtle and too polite.
What I was suggesting wasn’t helping were comments of yours such as
“I strongly assume that Gleick is some sort of immigrant from the Mediterranean….where
“Outsmarting” is regarded as normal attitude….”
Stereotyping an individual because of the geographic region in which they happened to be born is bad enough, making such assumptions about someone when you don’t even know where they are from is moronic.
Before slurring people from an entire geographic region you couldn’t even be bothered to find out if Gleick is a Mediterranean name.
It isn’t, it’s origins are Bohemian and it doesn’t sound remotely Mediterranean. Gleik himself was born in the US.
By “not helping” I meant that if you wanted to help warmists to paint sceptics as dim-witted racists and bigots who can’t be bothered with facts and instead rely on prejudice, well congratulations you’ve handed them some ammunition on a plate.
I hope that you are clearer about what I meant now.
Artwest: You confound people with the SPIRIT….In the US, honoured by the people are good
American values, which are: stay clean, don’t outsmart (the Heartl-inst for example) and
dont do sneaky, sleezy things (not even, if one [as Mr. Gleick admits] suffers of
” bad judgement”, “being blinded” and filled to the top with “frustrations”)….
I lived in very many countries and got to know the different spirits, prevalent in different
regions of the world…., I did not say to which place he belongs… but from which place
in the world he adopted the SPIRIT….As a good American and soliciting a Chair in
an Ethics and Children Teaching Institution, he should be CLEANER than the CLEANEST…..
dedicated to American values and ABHORRING SLEEZE and OUTSMARTING….
To racist nonsense, BTW:
To the Mediterranean SPIRIT: Here in Europe this Spirit is well known (Outsmarting/Sleeziness)
vs. honest American travellers spirit of “Naivite “…..
I could list a million incidences, personal and from public info on the subject, but
I believe this POST is not the place to overstretch the subject and I believe
Anthony is lifting his brows already by being off….then lets leave it with that, settled.
JS
What a disgusting group . I could not help but email them :
We’re not allowed to be silly now, kbmod? 😉
@ur momisugly AFPhys re: the three stooges::Gleick/NCSE/DeSmogblog
Thanks for the kind words. The thought doesn’t seem to have gained any tracktion here or on Lucia’s BB but I still find all the co-incidences somewhat interesting. DeSmog is still pounding away on the “education” theme; part of the plan???
Rich
Check out that guy’s photo…now I know where the expression “pencil neck” came from.
@Gary Young
Thanks Gary! You managed to get some of my silliness out! 😉
Step 1) Find control documents from the past, which are known to have been created by Peter Gleick on his scanner.
Step 2) Compare metadata.
Just for the record, I have never ever bieeevld in Man Made Globull Warming. So the above mentioned sums go a long way to explain why so many do.But how is it spent. On fundamental research such as Argo, PR, Marketing, Politics, Advocacy, with the balance gifted to solar/wind frauds or carbon trading scams.Yet, despite these vast sums nobody can really define Eco Friendly or Sustainable or Balance. For example what really is the difference between a Rock and a Plastic bag in a landfill? Everything man has ever used is still here. It has not disappeared. There is maybe even more forest now than there was in 1900. The real problem is we need to do things better, produce less toxins and repair the damages that we do and that is easy enough.Is it really so difficult to turn the basic thinking around from Dont do that , Ban this , Prohibit that to lets just fix it, do this, build that. Looking at all that Money, none of it is available for solutions, fixes, improvements. None.Just a tiny fraction of those vast sums mentioned above would launch Thorium reactors, be a game changer. O.K. thats really cutting edge but really is it any more far out than Argo/The group I work with have secured a Government contract, to employ three proven organic technologies that will reduce carbon emissions, stop water table pollution, repair damaged land, increase yields and improve animal health all with instant cost benefits. The absolute results will be demonstrated in four to six weeks. However, instead of full speed ahead, lets do this. its painfully slow, step by step as nobody can provide funding and by funding i talk of dollars and cents. Loads of grants available but not for doing things only for research. I went to one of the big guys, mentioned here. They just gave 100 million to climate works, looked at their criteria. Doing things not mentioned or even encouraged This is the problem, its a mind set, a lock step. The billions spent and wasted on non existent problems. Look at the passion, sentient people pushed, they made me do it , to fraud, deception, self immolation. Why? For what?Look at Heartland, compare it, just the chart above, David and Goliath is really understating it. Its a tidal wave, a Tsunami and one that needs to be stopped in its tracks. Now.Please, stop, think and get to see the wood for the trees. The truth certainly helps but is it enough. What more, ethically and Honestly can be done. I really am speechless but not bowed.The efforts of sites like this are a great step forward but the successes it achieves are very small compared with the clearly vast scale of the problem that it seeks to address. More thinking outside the box i needed, more positive ideas, more affirmative action of the caring human kind is required.