From the San Jose Mercury News, Dana Hull reports:
Peter Gleick, a nationally known expert on water and climate issues, on Friday asked for a short-term leave of absence from the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, where he is co-founder and president.
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The Heartland Institute released a string of emails Friday that Gleick sent to Heartland earlier this year that show how Gleick pretended to be a Heartland board member to get copies of documents sent to a gmail email address. Heartland has set up a website detailing the e-mails at Fakegate.org.
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“Given the events of the past week, I would like, with the permission of the Board, to take a temporary, short-term leave of absence from the Institute,” said Gleick in a letter released Friday. “I believe such a leave would allow the Institute staff to continue to refocus on its work, while permitting the Board to conduct a full and fair review and determine an appropriate course of action.”
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Meanwhile, the story I referenced earlier this week, about the press release on the Pacific Institute website that said:
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.
That statement is now gone. This remains in Google cache, but only as a thumbnail:
Now it says this:
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And the odds of Dr Gleick returning from his leave of absence are how low?
The beginning of the end or the start of another whitewash? I suppose that will be determined by any successful prosecution that may or may not arise.
I find it odd that he needs to request a leave of absence as when I took a cursory glance of the tax forms for the pacific institute it appeared that despite the lengthy list of board members it appeared that Gleick was the only one taking a wage ( some $130+ K for a couple of hours a week work if I recall correctly? if that position comes up I think i can do it ;)) and it always seemed to me to be just a pet project all of his own that obviously kept him in in dolphin-friendly cous-cous and in my opinion, based upon his behaviour of late, not a few bottles of chardonnay.
( there is satire there, just to be on the safe side as the lawyers are circling )
What if the president of the institute turns down his request?
So the birds of a feather that flock together will regroup while their founder is put through one of their wind shreaders. Change in management but business as usual, carry on. It’s like lord of the flies until an adult interviens and then they scurray.
Peter Gleick… asked for a short-term leave of absence…
With pay, i’ll bet, so he does’t come up short.
Why don’t we close this Institute….?.
The guys in it are Gleick hand picked and have the same
“HIGH MORAL STANDARDS as Gleick, unless they tell us otherwise that they would not
have followed their Chief….
…..Now he tries to submarine under and nobody would know his whereabouts……
…..Now we will have the missing heat since 2000 and the missing Gleick since 2012…
The CAGW end is nearing…. when lying and sneaking into children’s education is standard
public behaviour…..
JS
Climate Cluedo:
I accuse Dr Gleick, in the Study, with the Epson.
There are a lot of things that are disappearing. I posted a comment at Junkscience and that disappeared too! Anyway, there was a small issue I found with the grants by the government to Pacific institute is that using the DUNS number of Pac Inst. 860029271 and using the advanced search at http://www.USAspending.gov. The site lists all 13 contracts and 7 grants since about the year 2000 is still completely searchable. What was interesting is how the web site totals the amount of grants. It appears there are some double listings for the same grants. Presumably statement of work changes or something similar? Anyway, totals don’t match up.
My guess is that it is just cover for his next operation. He is penetrating the Iranian nuclear weapons program to sabotage it and save the world.
On his way back he will stop by North Korea and bamboozle the communists in their program for world domination and thereby save the world.
After lunch he will bring down the Syrian regime and save the world.
Before nightfall my guess is that he will have infiltrated alqaeda, spilled all its secrets and saved the world.
But will we ever thank him for his efforts?…
I AM curious regarding changes to Gleick’s current cash flow, which is the bottom line in episodes like this (or any, really). That will be key to his future decisions. As I’m sure people like Georage Soros etc are keenly aware of.
Heartland has an annual budget of less than $7M?
Conservatives, you’re already dead — appears nobody has informed you.
Aw @ur momisugly#@ur momisugly!
How am I going to turn him in for tax fraud now?
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/where-do-we-draw-the-line/
That is the one, perhaps the only, aspect of progressive liberalism that works for them — in a big way. The collective — within it, the rich actively support the collective ideology.
Conservatives? Not so much.
Which is actively conservative, but less than helpful in the current situation.
I heard that officially Peter Gleick has requested time off from his busy schedule as a high-profile climate scientist in order to relax and catch up on some reading.
Apparently, months ago, he reviewed several books on Amazon, and being the renown elite ethical scientists that he is; he now intends to actually read them.
Ric Werme says:
February 24, 2012 at 7:25 pm
And the odds of Dr Gleick returning from his leave of absence are how low?
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I’ve seen several leaves of absence where short term included infinity.
Kaboom says:
February 24, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Climate Cluedo:
I accuse Dr Gleick, in the Study, with the Epson.
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Is this post-normal Cluedo, where they do suicides as well as murder ??
(…. metaphorically speaking mods)
Presumably the Pacific Institute will now want to cooperate with the investigation of the faked document. And turn over relevant email archives and server logs as well as Dr Gleick’s hard drive to the FBI?
It looks like there is a new position open at Pacific Institute.
Did you notice that the EPA grants to PI that were dropped from the EPA directory pertained to diesel emissions etc. mostly in Oakland. Not much connection to CAGW. Could the federal response to the FBI inquiry be a reason to clean the decks? Just a question.
or rather, why aren’t you dead yet? MONEY certainly isn’t propping you up……..nor distantly-proportional representation in the media, academia, governmental bureaucracy………………………….
so why, HOW do you continue to exist??
I know that you’re dead already– you just don’t smell quite that way….y’know…..
???
“Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Sir Walter Scott
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Fall from grace.
I tried to find the actual letter online but no such luck. Poking around the Pac. Inst. web site I found the following. Before I give the link, let me be the first to congratulate myself and a whole slew of WUWT writers and commentators on their 2010 Climate Award from the Pacific Institute:
http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/press_releases/climate_bs_award.html
Scroll to the bottom of the screed and see first place description complete with Gleick commas for additional clarity.
This is soooo going on my resume!!
Like Heartland, the Pacific Institute also has tax-exempt status and their political leanings are also very clear.
According to their website, one of their programs is a science integrity initiative: “The Science Integrity Initiative responds to and counters the assault on science and scientific integrity in the public policy arena”. And their president is Peter Gleick. Says it all.
What are the odds Muir Russell will be hired by the Pacific Institute to conduct the investigation of the Gleick “events?”
Oh no. The missing Gleick. Its a travesty.
Actually, I’m much more worried about the state of ethics at the AGU now that he’s gone from there. Who will maintain their impeccable standards?
I’m assuming the next press release from the PI will be informing us that Dr Gleick will be resigning from his current position in order to “spend more time with his family”. That’s the usual euthanism isn’t it??
Enough with the personal attacks, the man already has a plate full.
Conservatives are like Poland.
Poland has had the historical misfortune of existing between two of the Eurasian powerhouses: Germany and Russia. This centrifugal force has plenty strained, and broken, Poland over ages. But the key to Polish impotence has been its historical inability to unify political strength into an entity that could withstand its two overbearing neighbors.
American conservatism likewise is defined by its decentralism. Will it die by it?