UPDATE: 7:30PM PST I’ve been offline much of today in travel and then immediately attending the Heartland dinner, so I’m hours late with this update. Apparently, the story has now been restored, and there’s a a second critical story. – Anthony
Yesterday while traveling I got some urgent emails on my phone alerting me to a story by Suzanne Goldenberg (at left) of the Guardian, I read it from a Starbucks in Susanville, CA while on my way to photograph the eclipse. I sighed and went on, because there was nothing I could do about it at the time except shake my head at the lack of journalism on display.
Readers may recall Goldenberg is the same reporter who broke the Fakegate story there originally, without bothering to check the authenticity of the Heartland documents first, or even to await confirmation from me on questions before publishing a smear. It seems she wrote a story “clearing” Peter Gleick of the document forgery, but the story had no references, no quotes, no sources, nothing.
That story has now “disappeared” from the Guardian website. Here’s the original screencap from Google cache:
and now if you visit this URL:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/20/peter-gleick-cleared-heartland
You get a 404:
A search for the key words on the Guardian website also reveals nothing. There’s nothing at Gleicks Pacific Institute either:
http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/
It seems editors at the Guardian have taken the story down, perhaps because it was baseless and/or premature?
James Sexton finds some interesting things connected to Goldenberg’s “journalism”:
Thanks to reader Kim, I did a little research on the corespondent who reported this ……… story? It seems our friend, Suzanne Goldenberg, has a past with departing from the truth already.
Apparently she was the lead reporter in the bombed ambulance hoax.
In 2006 she reported:
On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel.
But there’s one problem: It never happened.
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/22533_Al-Guardian_Shills_for_Ambulance_Story
Or just Google Suzanne Goldenberg ambulance hoax.
Maybe this will be enough for the Guardian to boot her? Fool me once…fool me twice…
When your reporter becomes the news, maybe you should rethink having that reporter. Just my opinion.
I’m off to catch a plane…stories and moderation light today.
Nope, didn’t work. So here is the missing part.
I should have watched the tutorial LOL !
Peter
May 21, 2012 at 3:33 pm
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To take over the world, and that you can’t see it is because you have been so completely brain washed by the very same Marxist that have taken over most of these institutions, that you are blind.
Your latest post is asking for a password to access it ? That just does not smell right, what’s up with that?
“Your latest post is asking for a password to access it ? That just does not smell right, what’s up with that?”
Type your credit card number and expiration date in the provided place. You will receive the secret proof of the veracity of positive feedback theory. Think of it like buying a copy of “The Di
Vinci Code,”
Is Phil C Nick Stokes’ sock puppet?
Ditto on the password. Is it legit? I assume it would be my email address, but I would not want to divulge it if this is something questionable.
Re: Goldenberg – she is an absolute piece of work. Her article says Gleick is cleared, but by whom? His mother? His attorney? Hansen and Mann? From past articles that she has written, it is clear she is devoid of any and all scruples. She is deception incarnate – so I guess it is appropriate that she pen a piece about how Gleick is cleared of deception.
Glenn says:
May 21, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Wikipedia has updated its entry on Gleick:
“Gleick denied forging the document, and was later cleared…
Climate Audit:
Please keep digging Glenn.
Maybe someone is impersonating Prof J Jones at WP. Maybe it is Prof J Jones showing a different side of his work and perceptions though that seems less likely at first glance.
What concerns me is the parallel to the “Caspar and the Jesus paper” strategy here – and the timing of the Guardian article that seems designed to hit Heartland below the belt. Plus she’s there at the conference, for God’s sake. What is she up to?
Perhaps Anthony will enligten us.
Dan in California says:
May 21, 2012 at 4:22 pm
The following was originally intended to be a joke. Kinda rings true though. I’ll leave y’all to figure out where the Grauniad goes on this list.
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
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From “Yes Minister” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
“Hacker: Don’t tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits.”
Marian says:
May 21, 2012 at 4:45 pm
The question being why didn’t the other specialist follow procedure? Answer They all belonged to the same elite old boy club outside of their medical practice!
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There is definitely a pecking order in medicine which works strongly against the “second opinion”. Doctors are extremely reluctant to offer a contrary opinion to a more senior doctor.
This can however work to your advantage. I ran into this exact same problem, but after researching the problem found a study by the Mayo clinic that overruled when the senior doctor had said, as which point the junior doctor would act. But not before.
Jimbo says:
May 21, 2012 at 2:16 pm
The Guardian might soon fire her along with all the other staff. 😉 LOL.
And they wonder why even their own left wing readership is abandoning them in droves. People just want the facts and not fairy tales and made up crap.
Ya know… these guys are all about the models.
Using Eureqa’s Formulize, and the circulation data from your Wikipedia Link… the future doesn’t look bright for The Guardians circulation.
Warning to all, it’s just a model…
http://i49.tinypic.com/6fzacp.png
…Er… I don’t get it with the password needed for the next post. I never had one. Can anyone tell me what I need to do?
Or is it as OssQss suggests and something is not right?
moamoke says:
May 21, 2012 at 3:41 pm
A Scott,
TerryS over at Bishop Hill spotted the update is already on Gleick’s wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gleick
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Not surprising. Apparently William Connolly, having done his time on the naughty step, has been reinstated at Wikipedia:
http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/comment-by-alex-harvey-climate-change.html?spref=tw
Worth a read for those interested in dirty deeds at Wiki. IMO, Wiki is really useful for episode guides for your favourite TV programs, but for science, not so much.
OssQss says:
May 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Your latest post is asking for a password to access it ? That just does not smell right, what’s up with that?
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I don’t think the post is meant for us peons…
What OssQss said. (Refers to the WUWT post after this one.) If the material isn’t public, why is it here?
Peter says:
May 21, 2012 at 3:33 pm
So Ted, you think that … are all part of an international plot to… what, exactly?
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Every dolt know the answer to that one. To gain riches, power and prestige and thereby rise above the common rabble. While at the same time saving the planet from the ravages of the great unwashed masses – so they can enjoy their riches, power and prestige without having to make room for the rest of us.
In other words, to do unto others what they keenly hope and pray will never be done unto them. The want to be the ones that call for others to make the sacrifices, while they themselves reap the rewards.
They are the ones that expect a seat on the lifeboat, which they expect everyone else to pay to build. The lifeboat that is much too small for the rest of us to ever have a seat. They are the folks that tell us this is for our own good they are doing this.
To Dan in California:
And Playboy readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits. (I dont think you have page 3 girls in the USA?)
Ha! Wa-wa-waaa..
Grauniad put the story back up again. Can anyone compare the two to see if they were edited or changed in any way?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/21/peter-gleick-cleared-heartland
Curious how they talk about an investigation clearing him but give zero info about WHO the investigator(s) were. It will be great fun reading the “investigation.” I wonder what evidence they used to prove he did not write the memo.
Like OssQss, I’m curious about the password protected post. WUWT?
Peter says: May 21, 2012 at 3:33 pm
“So .. you think that …etc etc…. are all part of an international plot to… what, exactly?”
Peter, you know very well it does not require a plot or any sort of conspiracy.
It just requires self interests with a common end point:
Such self interests include: Taxes, financial instruments to trade, creation of huge trading funds, sources of research funds, political power, enlargement of international IGO’s, more power to certain bureaucracies, scientific and political fame…. etc, etc.
Phil C says:
May 21, 2012 at 5:40 am
“Four months after the fact, the Heartland Instutute remains silent on the subject of the authenticity of other 90 pages worth of documents that Glieck released.”
And Gleick has still not confessed that he faked the “Strategy Memo”. And he is still not in jail. And Holder’s DOJ has still not seized the assets of the Pacific Institute.
Peter says:
May 21, 2012 at 3:33 pm
“So Ted, you think that Penn State, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, the […]
National Science Foundation are all part of an international plot to… what, exactly?”
Rip off the taxpayers in the West to the tune of trillions of Dollars and destroy democracy, you moron. Haven’t you been paying attention the last 50 years (starting with 1972, Maurice Strong’s Earth conference). IT’S DOCUMENTED IN ALL THEIR CONFERENCE PAPERS.
Latest example: Warmist tool calls for “Efficient World Government” in SciAm:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/03/17/effective-world-government-will-still-be-needed-to-stave-off-climate-catastrophe/?print=true
This seems to be a recurrent tactic by the left. They get some fellow travellers to issue some report that purports to find some other lefty mostly guilt free as relates to some scandal. It’s fed to the leftist echo chamber in the media who parrot the line faithfully. Then all of the little progs on the internet and elsewhere can use the vindication as a talking point from now on until eternity without knowing any details about what the report actually states.
This scam first came to my attention when Dan Rather was investigated by his employer, CBS, for his part in the GWB Texas air national guard memo scandal. CBS ‘found ” Ol’ Dan to be free of political bias in the matter (LOL). How did they determine that Dan was pure? They asked him, and Dan said that he had no bias. The report was a fig leaf for Dan, CBS, and the leftist machine.
I tried typing ‘your password’ into the box like the instructions said, but it didn’t work. 🙂
(I see that Anthony has explained the strange post)
SIMPLE TEST, TO SEE; IF YOU ARE STILL IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN BRAINS
By answering if the following comment is correct, or wrong; will tell you: do you still own your own brains:
On Antarctica are 3 thermometers, monitoring on 2 places ‘’for the highest temp in 24h. next place is monitored in Chile, Tasmania and Hawaii. About 30% of the planet’s surface area, 3 thermometers… Comparing with 4000 thermometers in USA Europe combined – on 1% of the planet’s surface area. Thermometer is perfect for monitoring the room temp; but in your backyard are 3-7 variations in the temp – compare your backyard with Antarctic to Tasmania. Temperature in the atmosphere is NOT same as in human body; when under the armpit is 1C warmer than normal = the WHOLE body is warmer by that much. In nature is completely the opposite.
The hottest minute of the day has same value as any other minute in the 24h, no more, no less = if the hottest minute is hotter by 1C than yesterday – but few hours were COLDER than yesterday – therefore, the ‘’inaccuracy’’ by using one minute of 1440 minutes is by plus / minus 1439%. We are talking about the last year…
1] do you still believe that anybody knows the correct temp for the last year / to save his / her life? 2] Do you believe that: distribution of thermometers 1000y ago was more appropriate, than last year? 3] do you believe that: because Warmist & fake Skeptics had a wrong starting point that: overall GLOBAL temp goes up and down as a yo-yo; every time gets warmer / colder in Europe = the WHOLE planet’s temp reacts the same?! 4] or, do you believe that the whole conspiracy is a 24 carat crap?! If they can do so much ‘’brains degradation’’ to the grown ups… think about the damages in progress to the kid’s brains in school and university…