‘All Honest Scientists Should Be Outraged’
The Heartland Institute today called on Oxford University to cancel the April 24 “Oxford Amnesty Lectures” event featuring disgraced climate scientist Dr. Peter H. Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, who committed theft, fraud, and defamation in the “Fakegate” scandal – all potential crimes and an affront to scientists everywhere.
Gleick is slated to deliver a lecture on “The Human Right to Water” at the prestigious university just weeks after he admitted to stealing the identity of a board member of The Heartland Institute to obtain confidential documents – including personal information of Heartland employees and board members – which he subsequently sent to environmental activists and sympathetic journalists.
On February 20, 2012, Gleick admitted to using deception to obtain the documents and acknowledged that his intent was to expose Heartland’s funding sources and damage the institute’s reputation.
Gleick also distributed a “climate strategy memo” he and other environmental activists claim describes Heartland’s “secret strategy” to mislead the public about the true nature of climate change. The document is a fake created by Gleick or a co-conspirator, but Gleick has yet to confess to writing it and has not asked his allies in the environmental movement to take it down from their Web sites.
“All honest scientists should be outraged that Oxford University should honor Gleick with a guest lecture,” said Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast. “The actions Gleick has admitted to having taken – lying repeatedly and committing fraud, and then denying responsibility and refusing to take corrective action – all make him unqualified to speak to students or as a scientist.
“The oldest university in the English-speaking world should be ashamed to associate itself with a bungling thief and scientific fraud,” Bast said. “John Locke, Linus Pauling, and Edwin Hubble must be spinning in their graves.”
In Gleick’s February 20, 2012 public confession, he admitted his actions amounted to “a serious lapse of my own professional judgment and ethics.” Gleick took a “temporary short-term leave of absence” as president of the Pacific Institute, but he is still listed at the Pacific Institute Web site as “president.” The Pacific Institute relies heavily on government grants and support from the CISCO Foundation, Kaiser Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Oxford Press and dozens of others.
Oxford Amnesty Lectures is a charity organization independent of Oxford University. The lectures are organized by Oxford faculty and held at the university’s Faculty of Law building.
For more information about the Fakegate scandal surrounding Peter Gleick, visit Fakegate.org, or contact Jim Lakely, director of communications at The Heartland Institute, at jlakely@heartland.org or 312/377-4000.
The Heartland Institute is a 28-year-old national nonprofit organization with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, DC. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. For more information, visit our Web site or call 312/377-4000.
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Not a problem. Just rename the building “the Faculty of Lawlessness” for the day.
“All honest scientists should be outraged.”
No scientists are outraged.
You can complete the syllogism.
The trouble again with this is that nothing is being done (as far as we can see, take back if I am wrong). It seems he is getting off scott free and this handwaving by Heartland is pathetic. Why haven’t they initiated legal proceedings? It’s the ONLY thing that will actually stop these people. Would not be surprised at all if Oxford does not even bother to reply and Heartland will look like weak puppies.
The organiser of the lecture by Peter Gleick is Bronwen Morgan.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/aboutus/law-school-staff/person-details.html?personKey=LTvY0picxSPD8E9Vu9xj6IqERjOzj2
Bronwen may be blissfully unaware of the clod of controversy surrounding Peter Gleick. If you decide to write to her please be courteous and polite.
Email B.Morgan@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)117 954 5333
Oxford Amnesty, that is for the benefit of Amnesty International. I wonder what the human rights organization thinks of Bast’s right to see his good name cleared from Gleick’s faked document.
Also past Oxford Amnesty lectures, lecturers and topics might provide food for thought by comparison with this year’s self-destroyed buffoon.
Just dropped a note for the folks at Oxford, suggesting they rename the “Oxford Amnesty Lecture” the “Liar’s Club”, in honor of their April 24th guest speaker.
OT but the Huff Post has actually published the astronaut NASA story LOL
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/nasa-global-warming-letter-astronauts_n_1418017.html
Time to write to the University, all you Oxford graduates out there…
This actual not a smart move from Heartland as he and his followers will love the ‘victim’ status this could give hi. And its better he does it , as his highly likely to go shooting off at the mouth and show what a fool he is .
For you in the USA
Piers Corbyn predicts severe tornado activity 22nd – 24th April
HI has all the interest to look like weak puppies, as that destroys all arguments about Big Oil funding and allows them to be portrayed as as close to “grassroots” as possible.
I doubt it is anybody’s business to tell Oxford who they invite to speak, but that may just be me. I’m sure there are many out there that would delight in such censorship.
I read this article and then called my older daughter to tell her about it. She’s an alumnus of one of the Oxford University Colleges. She’s called a number of her University friends, some already graduated and some still undergraduates. She has just called me back and informed me
that a growing number of students, warmists and sceptics alike, are very upset about Gleick’s proposed appearance.
They are most disapproving of his appearing at any function related to Oxford University, not because of his views on anything to do with the climate but because of his self-admitted
dishonesty. The general consesus is that anyone with a reputation as tarnished as Gleick’s should not be permitted to address anyone within the precincts of the University.
Daughter No.1 has promised me an up-date later this evening (UK time) on student feelings and what, if anything, is proposed to make their feelings known..
O/T Steve Goddard has spotted some retroactive upward adjustments in the Envistat Sea Levels. (Well they would be upward, would not they).
Perhaps Bob Tisdale might have some views.
http://www.real-science.com/sea-level-data-corruption-worse-than-it-seems
Birds of a feather flock together.
““All honest scientists should be outraged that Oxford University should honor Gleick with a guest lecture,” …”
Sign outside Oxford University:
“Diogenes, don’t look here”
Roger, it’s always dicey to second-guess others, but taking the same risk you did: Assume that Heartland knows what they’re doing and if they haven’t yet filed a lawsuit it’s for a reason. Perhaps there is a strategic reason for the delay. Perhaps they’re waiting for the government to file criminal charges against Gleick, which would make things easier for Heartland. There are doubtlessly things we don’t know.
Jeremy says:
April 11, 2012 at 10:32 am
Bronwen may be blissfully unaware of the clod of controversy surrounding Peter Gleick. If you decide to write to her please be courteous and polite.
Jeremy is absolutely correct, and brings up an important point: being polite costs nothing, and one tends to get more with a kind word.
p.s. I love the idea of a “clod of controversy”… it describes his situation so well ;). Sorry Jeremy – couldn’t resist :).
@polistra
“So, there is no honest scientist.”
Certainly at least one premisse is false…
Well I’m an Oxford graduate, and I think Gleick should be invited to speak every hour on the hour. Let the merchants of dishonesty hoist themselves by their own petards.
Disinviting people from conferences is the kind of shabby behaviour that warmistas get up to. Rise above it, I say. The more that Gleick and his ilk open their mouths, the more scorn will come their way.
Trying to silence Gleick, on the grounds that he is a liar and a fraudster, is an utterly awful tactic. Let him speak. Encourage him to speak. Let the world know which causes this liar has been helping to prop up.
Trying to stop him from talking is a cretinously bad idea, if you ask me.
JohnWho says:
April 11, 2012 at 10:58 am
““All honest scientists should be outraged that Oxford University should honor Gleick with a guest lecture,” …”
Sign outside Oxford University:
“Diogenes, don’t look here”
______________________________________
Diogenes made a virtue of poverty. He begged for a living and slept in a tub in the marketplace. He became notorious for his philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man.
LOL
Hey Anthony, I think your site is invaluable – I visit many times per day – but isn’t there a way to ban these adverts that take over my audio system while I read an item? It seems to have started happening today. Very annoying.
What fascinates me is that Gleick must feel no humility about what he has done. He and his ilk are such useful idiots to the Cause.
No one is ever so worthless that he cannot at least serve as a bad example.
The Home Depot ad at the top of this thread keeps playing over and over. There is no way to stop it. I finally just turned off the audio on my computer to block it out. It was totally distracting for me while reading the comments here.