From the San Jose Mercury News, Dana Hull reports: Peter Gleick, a nationally known expert on water and climate issues, on Friday asked for a short-term leave of absence from…
Category: Fakegate
Quote of the week
I’ve seen lots of quotes this week, many surrounding the Gleick Fakegate affair. This one stands out. From John Horgan at Scientific American who asks: Should Global-Warming Activists Lie to…
Rep Edward Markey sticks his nose into private business
Bishop Hill writes (and I’ve reposted in entirety with apologies in advance): Politicians notice Fakegate Rep Edward Markey of Massachusetts has written to Heartland asking for them to document the inaccuracies…
Heartland Institute Releases Peter Gleick Emails Detailing Fraud, Identity Theft
Correspondence Began Same Day He Rejected Invitation to Debate FEBRUARY 24, 2012 – The Heartland Institute today released all the emails Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick sent to The Heartland…
Gleick on camera before he exploded his world
From YouTube’s description: A wide-ranging interview with Pacific Institute president and hydroclimatologist Peter Gleick. Gleick talks about global warming, the challenges climate change poses, the nature of climate change denial,…
Dr. Peter Gleick may have run afoul of a new cyber-impersonation law in California
WUWT commenter “The Duke” writes: I just sent the following letter to Senator Joe Simitian (D- Palo Alto) regarding Dr. Gleick’s apparent violation of SB 1411 which went into effect…
Peter Gleick Debate Invitation email thread
This email from Heartland communications director Jim Lakely is published unedited except for some email address and some telephone number redactions to prevent unwanted spam and calls –Anthony UPDATE: I’ve…
An example of a different ethos when you have access to private documents
While many websites are deriding me for my mentions in the Fakegate emails distributed by Dr. Peter Gleick, and many now (including Dr. Gavin Schmidt) are coming down on Dr.…
An online and open exercise in stylometry/textometry: Crowdsourcing the Gleick "Climate Strategy Memo" authorship
Tonight, a prescient prediction made on WUWT shortly after Gleick posted his confession has come true in the form of DeSmog blog making yet another outrageous and unsupported claim in…
Megan McArdle gives Mosher and the blogosphere props for pointing to Gleick
Some excerpts from her most recent article in The Atlantic, which you can read in full here. It is important to note that Ms. McArdle is not a climate skeptic,…
FakeGate: It's What They Do
Guest Post by Chris Horner I don’t know if you recall this, but, following FakeGate’s trajectory and the pretense in certain quarters that Gleick was operating somehow in a zone…
Climate Churnalism's New Clothes
Josh is finding the FakeGate to be a target rich environment. The UK press is quite culpable in lapsed journalistic standards it seems, especially The Guardian.
NCSE accepts Gleick's resignation
This essay is from the National Center for Science Education at: http://ncse.com/news/2012/02/source-heartland-leak-steps-forward-007220 ========================================================== Source of Heartland leak steps forward Peter Gleick The source of the documents revealing the strategy of…
Gleick removed from AGU Task Force on Scientific Ethics page
Commenter FP writes: Hmm, they’ve removed Peter Gleick’s name from this page: http://www.agu.org/about/governance/committees_boards/scientific_ethics.shtml It was there four days ago, according to google’s cache. Has he resigned/been fired already? It had…
Josh on GleickGate
Climate cartoonist Josh of cartoonsbyjosh.com weighs in with this satirical cartoon which represents the ideal model climate scientist image.
Statement by The Heartland Institute on Gleick Confession
(Received via email direct from Heartland president Bast in advance of their website posting, see Gleick’s statement/confession here – Anthony) FEBRUARY 20, 2012: Earlier this evening, Peter Gleick, a prominent…
BREAKING: Gleick Confesses
Since I have started updates here, I’ll keep this post as a “sticky” – new content will follow below it and linked within updates. – Anthony UPDATE 71: 3:27PM In…
LA Times invokes Godwins Law, cites ‘Mein Kampf’ to attack Heartland Institute
From JunkScience.com LATimes cites ‘Mein Kampf’ to attack Heartland The Los Angeles Times invokes der Führer to attack Heartland. The Los Angeles Times editorializes: Leaked documents from the Heartland Institute in…
The Heartland Institute Sends Legal Notices to Publishers of Faked and Stolen Documents
From a Heartland media release: FEBRUARY 19 — The Heartland Institute has sent legal notices http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/02/19/heartland-institute-sends-legal-notices-publishers-faked-and-stolen-docume to numerous Web sites, blogs, and publications asking them to take down the stolen…
Josh's Open letter to Heartland -vs- the original, now with extra karma
UPDATE2 10:45PM 2/18/12: This started as a humorous reply to the “Open Letter to Heartland” purportedly signed by several prominent climate scientists. That may be true, but it is now…
Top Ten Things Heartland Institute Will Do With $6.4 Million in Funding
I couldn’t think of a way to easily excerpt this excellent piece of satire, so I’ll just repost it with apologies in advance and ask WUWT readers to go to…
The DeSmoggers are crashing and burning
Well, the DeSmog Blog “coup” is going down, oh the humanity. There’s a scathing second writeup at The Atlantic by Megan McArdle (as if the first wasn’t enough) that takes…
Not quite Friday Funny– “Fakegate”
Josh from CartoonsbyJosh.com writes: Another ‘Gate’ – but this one turned round and bit the owner. Leo Hickman and co at the Guardian thought they had a bona fide leak…
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