Quark Soup writes: Gleick Review Not Finalized, Pacific Institute Says
Last week Suzanne Goldenberg of The Guardian reported:
“A review has cleared the scientist Peter Gleick of forging any documents in his expose of the rightwing Heartland Institute’s strategy and finances, the Guardian has learned.”
But the Pacific Institute is telling me that no such clearing has occurred:
“The Pacific Institute Board of Directors has not finalized its review of the investigation or announced any decisions at this point.”
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I pointed out the “shonky” journalism employed by Gleick apologist Suzanne Goldenberg.
It seems she jumped the gun again, just like she did in the original Fakegate release without bothering to verify facts and documents first. When I first started in TV journalism in 1978, that sort of stuff would get me fired. Apparently the Guardian has no such standards for journalistic integrity.
The UK Press Complaints Commission is the place to start to make a complaint.
Even if Gleick didn’t create the fake document, nearly as big a crime was that he lied about the source for no good reason. He claimed that he was an insider and that he got the fake document from Heartland, apparently to increase its credibility. He has admitted that he was not a Heartland insider and that he didn’t get the fake document from Heartland. Now he claims that he got it from an anonymous source. He could have and should have just reported the true source of the documents from the beginning. The reason he didn’t is obvious, he knew it was fake. If somebody brings forth a fake document and lies about the source, it is fair to assume that he faked it himself.
As long as speculation is rampant, did it occur to anyone that Suzanne Goldenberg may be the actual author of the fake document sent by Gleick? She may have some pangs of conscience with the situation he is in and what better way to try to extract him from the mess. Birds of feather syndrome?
wws says:
May 25, 2012 at 7:32 pm
on the topic of Occam’s razor, and the thought that “There is way more to this then we are being told.”
Not necessarily. If Gleick is nothing but a pathetically overpromoted idiot who never understood actual science and instead played politics for his career while mooching off the work of those around him, then he would easily be stupid enough to never had a clue that all of this would blow up in his face.
the man is a moron. he has always been a moron, and in this affair he made the kind of mistakes you would expect an incompetent moron to make. That quite neatly explains everything.
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I can only add to that very insightful comment. Also, we shouldn’t forget that Goldenberg is a complete imbecile as well. More, she’s a moron who has been shown to be one who fabricates stories.
Lets not get carried away. There’s overwelming evidence pointing to Gleick. There’s, um, no evidence pointing to Goldenberg.
i love it when the MSM accuses someone (Heartland) of being “right-wing”, lol. When you’re as far to the left as they are, everyone looks “right-wing”.
BillyV: …did it occur to anyone that Suzanne Goldenberg may be the actual author of the fake document sent by Gleick?
I doubt it. The forged document was superficially plausible. Ms. Goldenburg’s writing isn’t.
BillyV says:
May 25, 2012 at 8:45 pm
As long as speculation is rampant, did it occur to anyone that Suzanne Goldenberg may be the actual author of the fake document sent by Gleick?
An interesting point, barring the fact that she’s (in my humble opinion) barely competent to tie her own shoelaces, let alone copy his writing style. She seems to subscribe to the “salad shooter” style of current journalism, where – if one flings enough enough stuff, factual or not – some of it is bound to stick.
Anyway, a formal complaint has been lodged, which may or may not have any effect. But it at least might irritate the powers that be at The Grauniad, and cause them to look twice at her belchings before allowing her to post her unsubstantiated and poorly-written diatribes.
shameful stuff from The Economist:
26 May: Economist: Climate scepticism (unattributed)
Toxic shock
A climate-change sceptic is melting
THE Heartland Institute, the world’s most prominent think-tank promoting scepticism about man-made climate change, is getting a lot of heat…
The institute’s problems began in February when an American water scientist, Peter Gleick, published internal Heartland documents that he had obtained under a false name. They provided details of its accounts—including references to an anonymous donor who gave $8.6m between 2007 and 2011—and of a plan to send teaching materials denouncing global warming to American primary schools. (Mr Bast says that far from exposing his institute, the documents exonerated it from charges that it was a front for the fossil-fuel industry.)…
http://www.economist.com/node/21555894
Wikipedia: The Economist
The publication belongs to The Economist Group, half of which is owned by the Financial Times, a subsidiary of Pearson PLC. A group of independent shareholders, including many members of the staff and the Rothschild banking family of England,[9] owns the rest…
The news magazine favours a carbon tax to fight global warming…
The Economist has endorsed both the Labour Party (in 2005) and the Conservative Party (in 2010[33]) at general election time in Britain, and both Republican and Democratic candidates in the United States…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
BillyV says:
May 25, 2012 at 8:45 pm
As long as speculation is rampant, did it occur to anyone that Suzanne Goldenberg may be the actual author of the fake document sent by Gleck?
Implausible, unless she’s adept at Gleick’s style of writing — a forensic analyst pointed to Gleick as the probable author: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/14/professional-forensic-stylometric-analysis-of-the-fake-heartland-climate-strategy-memo-concludes-peter-gleick-is-the-likely-forger/
joe says:
May 25, 2012 at 9:14 pm
i love it when the MSM accuses someone (Heartland) of being “right-wing”, lol. When you’re as far to the left as they are, everyone looks “right-wing”.
Unless they’re describing Marxists — then the adjective is “moderate” or “middle-of-the-road”…
it’s all over, Ms Goldenberg:
25 May: Deutsche Welle: Nathan Witkop: Bonn climate talks end in squabbling
Bickering over procedural issues tied up much of the two weeks of UN climate talks that ended in Bonn on Friday, the first time negotiators met since last year’s summit in Durban.
“The window of opportunity is very slowly closing down on us,” said conference chairwoman Sandea de Wet towards the end of the session, as delegates struggled to agree on a chair for an important new working group known as the Adhoc Durban Platform…
***”The spirit of collective action was broken in Bonn,” said the European Union’s main negotiator Artur Runge Metzge…
Separately, the International Energy Agency reported on Thursday that the world is increasing its dependence on carbon-intensive energy. In a report, it said emissions from fossil fuels reached a new record of 31.6 billion tons last year, up 3.6%…
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15978278,00.html
26 May: Reuters: Nina Chestney: Deadlock on climate talks could sink global deal
Hopes are fading that climate talks in Qatar late this year will make even modest progress towards getting a new globally binding climate deal signed by 2015, as preliminary negotiations in Germany this week have left much work to be done…
“(We know) trade talks collapsed in Doha. Are we setting the stage for the collapse of climate negotiations?” said Mithika Mwenda, co-ordinator for campaign group the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance.
“This is like the Titanic, where both developing countries and industrialized countries will sink.”…
“I think it would be unrealistic to think there will be major breakthroughs very soon,” the IEA’s chief economist Fatih Birol said on Thursday, referring to the climate talks.
“Climate change is sliding down in the international policy agenda, which is definitely a worrying trend.”…
Expectations for international climate talks in general have faded since a summit in Copenhagen in 2009 failed to deliver a globally binding deal…
http://www.lfpress.com/comment/2012/05/25/19800076.html
Mwenda should give thanx, and the final excerpt should have said “faded since Climategate in 2009″.
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pat says:
May 25, 2012 at 9:44 pm
shameful stuff from The Economist:
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I quit reading the Economist a long time ago. Like many of the science journals, the quality and accuracy of the articles has become so abysmal that it isn’t even worth reading for the purpose of mocking them.
J.K.Rowling must have had Goldenberg in mind when writing Rita Skeeter into the Harry Potter stories. Rita Skeeter is a reporter for the Daily Prophet & specialises in yellow journalism, defined thusly: “Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Golden is a type of yellow!! Says it all, really.
Actually I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she had inside information from someone on the investigation team who told her “Gleick will be cleared of forgery when our investigation concludes. We start the investigation tomorrow by the way.”
The only review likely to be going on is by the Pacific Institute’s legal counsel and liability insurers into the potential liability the Pacific Institute may have resulting from the actions of Gleick.
As they could be subject to litigation the Pacific Institute will know they have a duty to preserve documents and electronic records. Their computers will need to be digitally forensically examined to determine whether Gleick used their computers in deceiving Heartland and whether there is an electronic record of the forged document.
All data, records and documents which may be subject to discovery and subpoena will have to be located, reviewed and prepared for litigation so that they can be produced quickly upon request.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26
It would be extremely foolish to give this kind of information would to Goldenberg.
Perry says:
May 25, 2012 at 11:18 pm
“Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.”
No. The NYT, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel are operating in a coordinated fashion, citing each other, giving each other accolades, creating a new warped and corrected interpretation of reality. The three serpents of leftist journalism winding around each other. (The Guardian looks a little blue around the nose, though, when one looks at its circulation. Hope it dies. What will the other two use as replacement? Well, they could declare the Pravda as a trusted source, then it would come full circle.)
Mafia clears wise-guys of robbing banks. After a full and thorough investigation into the bank robbery the Mafia found no evidence to support the claim. A local police spokesman confirmed his satisfaction with the speed and thoroughness of the inquiry.
Guardian Journalist Suzanne Goldenberg says this investigation proves that the Mafia has changed. Before they would have had no investigation or inquiry.
Aside from the broader tendencies of a crime syndicate, isn’t “Pacific Institute” pretty much another name for Peter Gleick? He’s not just an employee who happened to be hired; the “Institute” is his corporate structure.
Aside from the broader conspiracy, isn’t “Pacific Institute” pretty much Gleick’s own corporate structure? He’s not just an employee who happened to be hired.
The problem is that even if he’s cleared doesn’t mean mean he didn’t do it.
Now onto some literally brighter weather news (not climate):
[my bold]
Expect a pal reviewed paper out soon in your area explaining how it’s caused by
global warmingclimate change.H/t Marc Morano
News just in: Suzanne Goldenberg has been seen buying up truck loads of whitewash.
I still don’t know who carried out the investigation that Ms. Goldenberg refers to. If the Pacific Institute employed external investigators then who are they?
Now onto some terrible climate news:
This must be the first story that I have read from the Guardian in which global warming has been good for good things. 😉
Nail casserole*. Gleick was identified by the literary fingerprints in the forged document. Later he admitted to everything except the forgery. Now he’s been ‘cleared’ of the forgery.
How..er..ironic.
* Put nail in casserole dish, Add vegatables, lamb cuts, onions, carrots, diced suede, stock, sauce, sauted potatoes, etc. Cook in oven slowly for 90 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from oven. Throw nail away. Serve.
The headline
– “Peter Gliek cleared of forging documents in the Heartland expose” and text
– “A review has cleared the scientist Peter Gleick of forging any documents in his expose of the rightwing Heartland Institute’s strategy and finances, the Guardian has learned”
seem to fail the Code’s tests on Accuracy –
i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information…
ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence…
Gleick forged the memo!
Here is a quote from Gleick: “I forwarded, anonymously, the documents I had received to a set of journalists and experts working on climate issues. ”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/heartland-institute-documents_b_1289669.html
How many people use the word “set” to describe a group of individuals?
Here is a quote from the forged memo: “I propose that at this point it be kept confidential, and only distributed to a subset of Institute Board and senior staff.”
The Guardian, like the Independent, has its very own notion of what journalistic integrity is.
“As for his employers and editors, they don’t appear to have marched him out of the building holding his bits in a cardboard box; he’s got away with it. Give it a few months of wound licking and he’ll be back up on his podium holding forth as if nothing has happened.”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/another-body-floats-by/
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