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.
Dear Pacific Institute
I am a high ranking Pacific Institute Board Member away at a convention. I do not have my
normal computer access. Please forward to me all of our most sensitive files, in unencripted format, as I have a few things I need to review. Forward to RICO@FauxScienceAlliance.congame
Professor Phish
[who knows….if the PI organization is as dumb as the founder this might work]
Tools like Suzanne Goldenberg are looking more compromised by the day. Sad–such wasted tallent.
Anthony writes: “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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Certainty: the independent investigation has been concluded and the report is in the hands of the board.
Possibilities: the investigation has exonerated Gleick of serious wrong-doing but perhaps finding a brief lapse in judgment. A member of that investigation may have leaked the results to Goldenberg, which might tell you something of the composition of the panel hired to investigate Gleick.
A less likely possibility: one or more members of the Board may be in disagreement with the findings or the quality of the report and are either recommending rejection or a follow-up report. If there is disagreement, a member of the board supporting Gleick may have leaked the nature of the contents of the report to Goldenberg to pressure the dissenters.
Or, most likely, all board members are in agreement and are waiting for the most opportune time to announce Gleick’s exoneration (aka “whitewash.”) They may possibly be waiting to see what Heartland will do.
It’s likely that Gleick will be exonerated. He was the boss, afterall.
? PI was founded by, and is currently directed by, none other than Gleick himself. Why on earth would anyone even care what they say about the matter?
Mark
DirkH says: May 26, 2012 at 12:50 am
Perry says: May 25, 2012 at 11:18 pm
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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.)
Dirk, that sounds like the peer review process with papers from the Team!
gleick is their daniel ellsburg. a hero to the cause.
the screaming question is why heartland did nothing when they could have.
Um, are you telling us that the institute that Gleick founded will have staff that are more intelligent, better organized and careful than Gleick?
No offense intended, just a little sarcasm for humor purposes only as I tend to agree that the premise that institute wouldn’t have succeeded without people who know how to spin a valid sounding yarn. (Storytime fellow CAGW faithful! Wouldn’t you like to hear about… yak yak yak till even the walls stop listening and nod their heads)
I am also tempted to think that an announcement of temporary insanity might be imminent. Their approach would be to declare Gleick as incapable of deciding right/wrong due to severe stress and that he was not responsible for his actions. After a suitable period of rest, recuperation and counseling Gleick will be pronounced fit and ready to lead the institute again. Legal demands for internal PacInt investigations will be filled with psychiatry session mumbo jumbo about Gleick ramblings. Since the actual ‘investigation’ is probably some pacint Gleick staffer friends sitting around a table working on their Gleick’s recovery press announcement and tallying up all of the ‘dreadful sufferings’ Gleick endured in his fight against the mighty scepic army.
I sure would like to see some law enforcement action. I wrote emails to Representative Issa and my state reps about the Feds need to act promptly in enforcing such an egregious abuse of our laws. No response from Issa or my state’s rep on his council, my local rep sent a nice
Nothing about the issue I raised. Maybe it’s time to write again.
Pokerguy, sometimes ‘exonerated’ jest means ‘let off the hook.’
Imagine if a climate skeptic used wire fraud, identity theft and forgeries to steal documents from and libel climate scientists. They’d be washing dishes next to Rod Blagojevich and Jeffry Skilling at Englewood.
The warmist team at Wikipedia has made sure climategate is called a “hacking incident” while fakegate is called a “leak”.
The hypocrisy is unbelievable!
The Guardian – sounds like a product for incontinence.
When your activist lifestyle gets a little messy but you want to keep a professional appearance, the Guardian offers the perfect protection you require.
Hello, I’m Suzanne Goldenberg. My premature discharges used to cause endless problems at work. It seemed like every day some pesky editor would say; ‘Something doesn’t pass the smell test here Suzanne.”
Then a friend suggested I try the Guardian. It was just what I had been looking for. The Guardian offers mult-level protection providing the perfect cover I need. And the Guardian looks, fits and feels like a real newspaper. And best of all, the Guardian is 100% recyclable – your pets will love it too!
just some guy says:
May 26, 2012 at 12:29 pm
“The hypocrisy is unbelievable!”
They’re leftists. Veracity ain’t at the top of their list of virtues.
Grey Lensman says: @ur momisugly May 25, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Why is Gleick still free and why has not Goldenberg been served with defamation and rico papers ( Look up RICO).
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Reg Nelson says: @ur momisugly May 25, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Because the DOJ is a political joke. Both Holder and Obama spoke out against SB1070 before they even read it.
It is a sad time we live in.
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You are correct.
After years of wading through a case trying to press multiple criminal charges against a set of people with very good evidence. (A computer was tracking them and sending the info to a Federal Government department) I have come to the conclusion that CRIME PAYS! The local police do not give a hoot, the federal cops do not give a hoot and neither does the District Attorney.
If Heartland is running into the type of crud I ran into in trying to press charges I am not at all surprised we have not heard anything yet.
It is only when you violate a reg with large fines accruing to the department or when a large corporation with political pull is targeting you that the police are willing to act.
For anyone who would like a Gleick “Fakegate” T-shirt, I have some left. Send me an email to my throwaway account: themistocles2010-2020*AT*yahoo.com, with a mailing address. State your size. I also have some Heartland “Don’t Tread On Me” T-shirts.
No charge for WUWT readers [if you like, you can always donate a few dollars to support Anthony’s site]. For those who have already ordered, I’ll be sending them out on Tuesday because of the holiday weekend.
No charge! What are you waiting for??☺☺☺
Eventually, the warmers will have to choose a fall guy in order for the lot of them to continue to be taken seriously. If not Gleick, then someone else foolish enough to fall on his/her own sword. But here is the hilarious part: That many of them keep doing that defies logic!!!!!
I posted a comment on a Guardian story written by Goldenberg about wildfires in the US. I can’t remember exactly what I typed but, in response to some unsavoury comments about the US getting what it deserved due to climate change denial, I drew attention to the fact that the US has reduced its CO2 emissions due to shale gas exploitation. Something the euro-eco-fascists had failed to do using the full weight of the EU-dictatorship. However, I don’t think that was why my comment was removed. At the end I asked how the Guardian knew the result of the Peter Gleick investigation before it was published. My comment was there for a couple of hours and drew one response which has also been removed. I’ll keep trying, we do have a free press in our wonderful UK democracy after all, don’t we?
Popes butler arrested on charges of allegedly leaking Vatican documents. All you need to know.
Gleick admits he did it, breaching many Federal laws, but no action!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Strange, after my previous post was removed from the Guardian’s website I posted this:
‘My comment here:
FactHunter
26 May 2012 12:36PM
was removed because it breached community standards. Could the mods please clarify what I did wrong?
The first part of my post was in response to some people who said the US was getting what it deserved due to climate change denial. All I posted was a link to an FT article pointing out that the US has reduced its CO2 emissions due to shale gas exploitation, something Europe has failed to do.
I then asked, off topic I admit but it relates to a story by the author of this article that is closed for comment, about an item regarding Peter Gleick being cleared of any wrong doing in the Heartland Institute affair. The bit that confuses me is that the Pacific Institute, the organisation conducting the investigation, has stated that the results haven’t been published yet. How did the Guardian’s reporter know the results?
Any clarification would be appreciated as I would hate to have any more posts removed.’
This appeared on the site for a while but was also removed. Unlike the previously removed post there was no record of it having ever been there. I find this obvious pushing of an agenda slightly unsettling and disturbing.
I think their intention is clear.
Only whack jobs read the guardian BTW…