Articles Tagged &quot;HeartlandGate&quot;

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DON SURBER HEARTLANDGATE FAKEGATE

Don Surber: AP calls out global warming scientist

Friday, February 24th 2012, 7:49 AM EST

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For too long, proponents of the unproven and untested theory that man is causing global warming have received a free ride from the press, particularly Andrew Revkin of the New York Times. But global warmist Peter Gleick has not only turned Andrew Revkin against him, but Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press — another reporter who suspends disbelief whenever the topic of climate change pops up.

Readers should note that this scandal differs from Climategate because the Heartland Institute was and is under no obligation to share anything with the public — while the PhDs involved in Climategate were involved, in part, in a conspiracy to dodge Freedom of Information requests, which were triggered by their acceptance of government grants.

The major problem with peter Gleick — and the Associated Press glossed over it — is that he committed fraud by forging documents. He made up documents and attributed them to the Heartland Institute — much as Dan Rather did against President Bush in 2004. Both cases were felonies to me, but don’t look for Peter Gleick to be tossed behind bars.

Source Link: blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber

OPPOSING VIEWS HEARTLANDGATE CHRISTOPHER BOOKER FAKEGATE

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Opposing Views: Anything to declare, Mr Booker? We need transparency about Heartland by George Monbiot

Friday, February 24th 2012, 7:33 AM EST

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I see Peter Gleick, the man who obtained and leaked the devastating documents from the Heartland Institute, as a democratic hero. I do not think he should have apologised, nor do I believe that his job should be threatened. He has done something of benefit to society.

I believe we have a right to know who is paying for public advocacy. The groups that call themselves thinktanks but look to me more like lobbying organisations working on behalf of corporations and multi-millionaires, exist to try to change public policy. Yet, with a few exceptions, they operate in a vacuum of accountability.

Anyone with democratic instincts should support the demand that the major funders of groups engaged in public advocacy should be made known to the public, whether those groups are leftwing NGOs, rightwing "thinktanks" or self-declared lobbying companies. Yet in most cases no mechanism exists to ensure this happens, so powerful interests – big business, bankers, corporate bosses – are able to steer public debate without having to reveal their identity.

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Source Link: guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot

LORD MONCKTON HEARTLANDGATE HEADLINE STORY RICHARD LINDZEN MEETINGS FAKEGATE

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Lord Monckton: Fakegate: why the perps should be prosecuted

Thursday, February 23rd 2012, 6:27 PM EST

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of chairing a packed meeting in the Palace of Westminster (don’t tell the Clerk of the Parliaments), at which Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT spoke even more brilliantly than usual on “global warming”, and engagingly answered many questions from Parliamentarians and the public.

Afterwards, Dick went to brief a Cabinet Minister (who shall be nameless, but he is a good egg, and privately regards catastrophic manmade “global warming” as nonsense). The Minister indicated – in effect, and with scarcely-concealed regret – that the party line set by David Cameron in response to various opinion polls, focus groups and other such artifices for identifying and following a consensus rather than setting a lead, and not the objective scientific and economic truth, was likely to remain the basis of UK climate policy.

In reality, orders issued to our elected nominal “government” by the hated, unelected Kommissars of the EU, our true government, who have exclusive competence to decide and dictate the UK’s environment and climate policies, are and will remain the basis of UK climate policy, regardless of what (or whether) Cameron and his vapid focus groups think (if “think” is the right word). Government of the people, by the people, for the people has perished from this once-free, formerly-democratic corner of the Earth. We have all the trappings of democracy and none of the reality.

Source Link: wattsupwiththat.com

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BBC OPPOSING VIEWS HEARTLANDGATE FAKEGATE

Opposing Views: Confessions of a climate gate-opener by Richard Black, BBC News

Thursday, February 23rd 2012, 6:02 PM EST

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I don't normally do requests, as they say - but I've a lot of messages via emails, blog comments and Twitter asking for a follow-up post on the Heartland Institute, and am happy to oblige.

Many thanks for all your messages - nice to know one's thoughts are in such demand!

So what's happened since last week's post, flagging up and analysing the contents of documents obtained through subterfuge from the leading US climate sceptic lobby group?

First, we saw a request from the institute that all media organisations who'd covered the story should take their articles down and issue retractions, with a vague threat of legal action.

As far as I can see, few complied - and why would they?

As the old saying goes, "news is something that someone somewhere doesn't want you to know" - and here was information about a significant player in climate politics that it certainly didn't want you to have.

Source Link: bbc.co.uk

HEARTLANDGATE ROBERT TRACINSKI FAKEGATE

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Robert Tracinski: Fakegate: Global Warmists Try to Hide Their Decline

Thursday, February 23rd 2012, 4:58 PM EST

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The promoters of the global warming hysteria never really recovered from Climategate, the release of e-mails and data which demonstrated that climate insiders were using questionable data, promoting misleading arguments, and conspiring to block dissenting views from the scientific literature. It was a fatal blow to the credibility of the warmists, and it has been followed by a steady stream of distinguished scientists standing up publicly to withdraw their backing from the global warming "consensus." The latest example is an op-ed by sixteen such scientists in the Wall Street Journal, followed up by a devastating response to their critics.

The global warming alarmists are losing the argument, and the latest scandal—James Delingpole calls it Fakegate—shows just how desperate they have become.

This was supposed to be a scandal that would undermine the global warming skeptics. In fact, it was supposed to be an exact parallel of Climategate, but this time discrediting the Heartland Institute, a pro-free-market think tank in Chicago that has been a leader in debunking the global warming hysteria.

Someone calling himself "Heartland Insider" released a series of internal documents from Heartland. On the whole, the documents were unremarkable. They revealed that a think tank which advocates the free market and is skeptical of global warming was raising money to, um, advocate the free market and promote skepticism of global warming. As Delingpole put it, "Run it next to the story about the Pope being caught worshipping regularly in Rome and the photograph of a bear pooping behind a tree."

Source Link: realclearpolitics.com

JOHN O'SULLIVAN WIKIPEDIA HEARTLANDGATE FAKEGATE

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John O'Sullivan: Wikipedia Begins Media Whitewash of Climate Criminal Peter Gleick

Thursday, February 23rd 2012, 5:47 AM EST

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Wikipedia, the “free online encyclopedia,” has set about swiftly whitewashing the self-confessed criminal conduct of climatologist, Dr. Peter Gleick. Skeptics will regard such action as further evidence that the website is an organ of man-made global warming propaganda.

Despite his full public admission to be a co-conspirator in criminal activities against the Heartland Institute, a charity sympathetic to skeptics, Wikipedia is at pains to hide the fact Peter Gleick yesterday admitted to this felony published here at the Huffington Post.

In it’s latest entry (H/T: Paul Sheridan) added today (February 21, 2012) the Wikipedia entry for fraudster, Peter Gleick reads thus:

“On February 20, 2012, Gleick issued a statement in the Huffington Post explaining that he had received anonymous documents in the mail that seemed to contain details on the climate program strategy of The Heartland Institute, a pro-business think tank. He admitted to soliciting and receiving additional material from the Institute "under someone else's name," calling his actions "a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics."[17] Andrew Revkin wrote at the New York Times that "Gleick has admitted to an act that leaves his reputation in ruins ... " [18]”

Source Link: johnosullivan.livejournal.com

JAMES M. TAYLOR HEARTLANDGATE FAKEGATE

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James Taylor:Fakegate Illustrates Global Warming Alarmists' Deceit and Desperation

Wednesday, February 22nd 2012, 4:58 PM EST

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There never was a “leaker” in the shameful Fakegate scandal. In the end, there was only a forger, a fraudster and a thief. Alarmist scientist Peter Gleick has admitted that the latter two were one and the same person – himself. I suspect we will soon learn the identity of the forger, as well.

With the weight of damning evidence closing in on him, Gleick has admitted in his Huffington Post blog that he was the alleged “Heartland Insider” who committed fraud and identity theft, lying and stealing his way into possession of Heartland Institute internal personnel documents and then sending those private documents to global warming activist groups and left-leaning media. Gleick sent to the press an additional document, a fake “2012 Climate Strategy,” that he claims he did not write.

In short, Gleick set up an email account designed to mimic the email account of a Heartland Institute board member. Gleick then sent an email from that account to a Heartland Institute staffer, in which Gleick explicitly claimed to be the Heartland Institute board member. Gleick asked the staffer to email him internal documents relating to a recent board meeting. Soon thereafter, Gleick, while claiming to be a “Heartland Insider,” sent those Heartland Institute documents plus the forged “2012 Climate Strategy” document to sympathetic media and global warming activists.

Source Link: forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor

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WARREN MEYER HEARTLANDGATE FAKEGATE

Warren Meyer: Peter Gleick Admits to Stealing Heartland Documents

Tuesday, February 21st 2012, 1:55 PM EST

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In a written statement, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute, and vocal advocate of catastrophic man-made global warming theory, has admitted to obtaining certain Heartland Institute internal documents under false premises, and then forwarding these documents to bloggers who were eager to publish them.

Gleick (also a writer on these pages at Forbes) frequently styles himself a defender of scientific integrity (for example), generally equating any criticism of his work or scientific positions with lack of integrity (the logic being that since certain scientists like himself have declared the science to be settled beyond question, laymen or even other scientists who dispute them must be ethically-challenged).

In equating disagreement with lack of integrity, he offers a prime example of what is broken in the climate debate, with folks on both sides working from an assumption that their opponents have deeply flawed, even evil motives. Gleick frequently led the charge to shift the debate away from science, which he claimed was settled and unassailable, to the funding and motives of his critics. Note that with this action, Gleick has essentially said that the way to get a more rational debate on climate, which he often says is his number one goal, was not to simplify or better present the scientific arguments but to steal and publish details on a think tank’s donors.

Source Link: forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer

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ALAN CARUBA HEARTLANDGATE FAKEGATE

Alan Caruba: "Fakegate" Blows Up in Warmist Faces

Tuesday, February 21st 2012, 12:53 PM EST

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On February 16, I published “Anatomy of a Global Warming Hoax” concerning the theft of the private records of The Heartland Institute’s board meeting and the creation of an alleged forged document intended to harm its reputation as a long time advocate of the real, not fake, science that has been the basis of the global warming—now called “climate change”—hoax.

The Feb 21 issue of The Wall Street Journal published an editorial, “The Not-So-Vast Conspiracy” noting that “As for ‘the largest international science conference of skeptics’ Heartland will, according to the documents, spend all of $380,000 this year on the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. That’s against the $6.5 million that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) costs Western taxpayers annually, and the $2.6 billion the White House wants to spend next year on research into ‘global changes that have resulted primarily from global over-dependence on fossil fuels.’” (Emphasis added)

The global warming hoax has cost taxpayers billions since it was initiated and earned the purveyors of “carbon credits” millions as industry and others paid for the privilege of emitting “greenhouse gas”—primarily carbon dioxide—as part of doing business. Currently the European Union is trying to shake down the airline industry by charging them a surtax on their emissions as they fly tourists and businessmen to that benighted continent. Most of the exchanges that sold the credits have since closed.

Source Link: factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com