Admitted fraudster Peter Gleick rewrites history. Rewriting appears to be in his blood.
You mean when I worked with a whistle-blower to reveal the dark money funding being used by climate deniers to produce pseudoscience for young school children and policymakers? Yes.
— Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 (@PeterGleick) May 29, 2019
The link in the twitter conversation doesn’t work, I believe this is the correct one.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/09/carl-sagan-prize-conservative-think-tank-scientist/
And more background:
Gleick eventually confessed to being the ‘insider’ and explained that he had stolen the identity of another person – a member of Heartland’s board of directors, it soon became known – in order to steal the confidential documents. There was no ‘leak.’ Gleick also admitted to lying about the nature of one document he originally claimed had come from Heartland, a ‘strategy memo’ that purported to describe Heartland’s plans to address climate change in the coming year. That document was quickly shown to be a fake, written to misrepresent and defame The Heartland Institute. Gleick denied he was the author of the fake memo.
There are dozens of stories on “Fakegate” on WUWT, most tagged fakegate but here are some good overviews.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/28/the-fakegate-timeline-from-soup-to-nuts/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/20/breaking-gleick-confesses/
See also Andy Revkin’s DotEarth here. Revkin writes:
Now, Gleick has admitted to an act that leaves his reputation in ruins and threatens to undercut the cause he spent so much time pursuing. His summary, just published on his blog at Huffington Post,
(Added 7:25PM PST) One way or the other, Gleick’s use of deception in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others. (Some of the released documents contain information about Heartland employees that has no bearing on the climate fight.) That is his personal tragedy and shame (and I’m sure devastating for his colleagues, friends and family).
And many here may not know, it was our very own Steven Mosher who deduced the fraudster was Gleick, based on an analyses of the forged strategy document.
If you want to look for the author of the fake memo, then look for somebody who tweets the word “anti-climate”. you’ll find it. Look for somebody on the west coast ( the time zone the document was scanned in)
You’ll find somebody who doesn’t know how to use parenthesis or commas, both in this memo and in other things he has written.
you’ll find he mentions himself in the memo
that’s all the clues for now. of course its all just speculation. Note, he’s not tweeted for a couple days. very rare for him.
In closing, here is a picture of a sign posted in all Heartland offices. Feel free to ask Peter Gleick if there is any equivalent posted at the Pacific Institute.
To promote the Cause of Global Warming, the end justifies the means.
Lying and altering data are required so they can promote their “truth”.
Gleick’s tweets are among the most foolish and worse.
https://twitter.com/PeterGleick
Peter GleickVerified account @PeterGleick May 14
Climate deniers typically cherry-pick data to try to argue that #climatechange is not happening or not because of humans.
That’s like showing this picture and saying it proves the Moon is bigger than the Earth.
[photo from the Chinese DSLWP-B/Longjiang-2 satellite]
https://twitter.com/PeterGleick
Peter GleickVerified account @PeterGleick May 16
If it was aliens pouring CO2 into our atmosphere, we’d have invented starships and phasers and declared war by now.
“…https://twitter.com/PeterGleick
Peter GleickVerified account @PeterGleick May 16
If it was aliens pouring CO2 into our atmosphere, we’d have invented starships and phasers and declared war by now…”
If it were aliens supplying us with fossil fuels that happen to pour CO2 into our atmosphere, they’d be heroes for allowing humanity to thrive.
We can make up plenty of other dumb “if it was [sic] aliens…” scenarios. What if they were the ones putting urine, crap, and other things into our sewers? Wouldn’t that amount to war? Does that mean we can’t generate bodily waste or use toilet paper?
To plagiarize:
“[This] memo, by contrast, uses more negative language about the efforts it’s describing, while trying to sound like they think it’s positive. … Basically, it reads like it was written from the secret villain lair in a Batman comic. By an intern.”
” Gleick has done enormous damage to his cause and his own reputation, and it’s no good to say that people shouldn’t be focusing on it. If his judgement is this bad, how is his judgement on matters of science?”
“After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more important than telling the truth, you’ve lost the power to convince them of anything else.”
Megan McArdle wrote some good stuff about the Gleick Heartland document and identity thefts. From her Atlantic article on Feb 21, 2012, came this:
You’re getting so close, Megan, so close. Now consider what you’ve been told about climate models, water vapor feedback, solar insolation variability and clouds by some of this same crowd and you’ll be right about where I’ve landed.
Peter Gleick was only trying to make the spirit of Stephen Schneider proud. Sometimes you have to jazz up “the truth” to make it more impactful on your audience, don’tcha know?
Oh, and BTW, Gleick didn’t FLIRT with mail fraud and identity theft, he committed mail fraud and identity theft. He PROBABLY also committed forgery and fraud in creating the strategy memo, itself. Although he has not confessed to this, the PDF document scan of the forged strategy memo occurred in his Oakland time zone, and he was seriously forgetful about the envelope in which it allegedly arrived and which he says he discarded. I’m sure McArdle realizes this, but is bound by her journalistic caution not to write that Peter Gleick is the author of that forged document. That’s the only sensible and logical conclusion. That the memo’s two pages ever traveled in an envelope through the US mail to be delivered to Gleick’s home or office is highly doubtful.
McArdle’s full Atlantic article is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/peter-gleick-confesses-to-obtaining-heartland-documents-under-false-pretenses/253395/