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:
JEM says:
February 25, 2012 at 7:27 am
I believe the expression would be ‘smoke and mirrors’.
The Potemkin Institute is the public face of Peter Gleick’s laptop.
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That’s what I’m saying. All this theater about asking for a leave is hilarious. Who is he asking? Gleick IS the Pacific Institute, a fantasy “non-profit organization” sucking up millions of dollars from government and stooge contributors to do what? Apparently, Pacific Institute spends most of HIS time penning rants about skeptics and Republicans, or trying to find dirt on them, for which he pays himself $152,000 a year (not counting free trips, expenses, etc.) out of taxpayer and donor funds (and a good number of those taxpayers are skeptics and/or Republicans), in violation of federal and state laws. I wonder how much he paid himself for his fraudulent review of Donna Laframboise’s book on Amazon. I wonder how much he would have paid himself if he had bothered to actually read the book before setting out to defame it and its author, and to do her financial harm. I guess he missed the part about Laframboise being a liberal and former vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Union. And this man–a cruel, egotistical, vicious, lying, grant-writing, rent-seeking tax-parasite–is what some segments of our society (the segments he is involved with) call a scientific ethicist?
His fishing expedition to get dirt on Heartland, which he failed to find, inspiring the fabrication of “incriminating” documents, which his vile followers are still pretending are revealing about Heartland, should now be turned around on him, them, and PI, and any other fake non-profit he and his little band of friends are involved with. Of course they’ve falsified everything concerning climate change, because this is the ruse around which they’ve built their grant requests. Without other peoples’ money, they would all be broke. Who would hire them? The Mob?
Time for the skeptics to be demanding criminal investigations into the hundreds or thousands of fake grant-seeking, often political, “non-profits” behind the global warming scaremongering. And this includes all the universities bleeding tax payers dry for money the universities most certainly do not need.
Is it legal to start a fund that would ask for Whistleblowers to come forward with knowledge of fraudulent NOAA, NASA, or Pacific Institute grant wrongdoings? Personally, I could not do this, but I could & would contribute & donate my time to the effort. What say yee all!
I expect Gleick will be sneaking back to his ancestral home in Lake Wobegon, to seek solace in the welcoming arms of his relatives, who it seems make up most of this small towns population. It was here that he first developed his interest in water during the years spent ice fishing and swimming in, what turned out to be, the radioactive lake!
Here’s hoping he enjoys eating several nice big dishes of lutefisk while contemplating his misdeeds… 🙂
And this year’s 2012 Climate B.S.* ” award (even though its only February) goes to: PETER GLEICK. Here’s a quote about him from the 2011 Climate B.S. award:
“In this case, “B.S.” stands for bad science, according to hydroclimatologist Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.”
He gives out these awards every year….Ha ha ha ha!
“Heartland no doubt will seek to exploit Dr. Gleick’s admitted lapse in judgement…”
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ROTFL…they make it sound like he forgot to buy milk……………
There’s no disclosure involved with wire fraud, identity theft, etc
He’s facing criminal charges…….the civil part will come after the criminal charges
Yaas indeed, the PI is going to invite Mr. Boat Anchor back and firmly chain him around its neck. Then jump right back in the swim!
I hope its budget allows for a big enough life jacket. Not.
Someone suggested it was one of the myriad Tides Foundation cat’s paws/shell foundations. That would explain its funding and focus.
Tides isn’t listed on the Pacific Institute’s 2011 funding organizations list.The 2010 audit doesn’t show Tides – be sure to read the notes, the statements qua statements won’t tell you what you want to know. The Open Society Institute gave a $78,272 grant or contract in 2009, which had not completely paid out at the end of 2010 (see page 12 of the audit).
I’m not seeing much that surprises me on PI’s financials at all. It’s pretty standard fare for the kind of organization it is. I have no way of assessing the quality of the work they do under contracts, so I’ll leave that to people with the expertise.
The staff list is pretty much what you’d expect. There’s a few people with Ph.D.’s, and a bunch of support staff. Most of the payroll (page 5 of the audit) goes to program, not that much to General/Administrative, and none to fundraising – that’s contracted out.
Audits. I love them!
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I hope he gathers a support group around him that will also watch out for signs of exhaustion. That he may have done what he is being accused of does not negate the fact that he is human and may be at risk of having severe emotional and physical pain. I am sorry that he may be feeling those things while still being disapponted in his actions.
@Pamela Gray says:
February 25, 2012 at 3:48 pm
“I hope he gathers a support group around him that will also watch out for signs of exhaustion.”
Yeah, I hope he’s ok too. Don’t want him to get off criminal charges just because he’e tired, forlorn, sad, depressed, delusional… I mean any more delusional than his arguments seem to portray him. I mean, I hope he botches his defense, given that the probability is that he’ll have a raving mad liberal judge & lawyer working for him, I mean, on his side,
Yeah… so I’m thinkn… gee, I hope he’s more chipper today, like he would be if he were bashing a Denier, like he does when he feels good and all that. Hope he doesn’t take any of this out on his kids, wife, etc, etc Maybe he could pretend he’s in a happy moment, like with the USofA hating UN IPCC… you know, just sitting around hating on the CO2 wasting, burning American Conservatives, ExxonMobile types.
Gosh, I hope doKtor Gleick get’s through this OK. Poor guy.
Justice requires that thinking skeptics rise above, not sink to the level of anger and hatred that infests some of the extreme AGW scientists.
Yeah, right, I just want to rise above them too. Defeat there ideas, defeat the hatred they show for me, I just want to be left alone & not be taxed because I exhaled, because my run-off, ran-off… because any energy process gives off a by-product that they conniveingly say is destroying the earth. “Beware of those who want to save the world… they really only want to control us!” And, I don’t care if they are tired, or they think I’m angry. They want to bring us down. My path to victory over these forces doesn’t need to have it’s motivation questioned.
I’m with you, I just want to rise above them, defeat there crazy ideas that will enslave me, that will enslave the world to deprivation… and when they are defeated, I don’t care how tired, unhappy they are… they & their children will eventually see the Light. Or…
Arguing with Dr. G is about as fruitful as arguing with a rock. Maybe he can see that now. Though I doubt it. U can’t argue with a mind filled with emotion and such a person does not make a good addition to a debate that should be based on facts, observation, and unbiased hypothesis. Sometimes a great mirror is in the face of the opposition.
“a leave of absence”?
Why haven’t they terminated his a$$? Does Pacific Institute really expect him back in some capacity involving ethics? Perhap as a pemanent display labeled “Don’t do this”?
“The Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute is deeply concerned regarding recent events involving its president, Dr. Peter Gleick, and has hired an independent firm to review the allegations.”
If that’s not the QOTW then Sir Alastair Muir Russell isn’t an inquisitor of sparingly few questions.