Fakegate Illustrates Global Warming Alarmists' Deceit and Desperation

forbes.com ^ | 2/22/2012 @ 4:02PM | James Taylor, Contributor - Op/Ed

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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.

While the legitimate Heartland Institute documents revealed personal, confidential and private information about Heartland Institute personnel, donors and programs, there was nothing scandalous in the documents. The documents merely showed the inner workings of an influential public policy organization operating on a budget that was quite small compared to environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Indeed, the internal documents refuted the false, yet often repeated assertions that the Heartland Institute’s powerful climate realism message is largely funded by Big Oil, Big Coal or Big Whatever.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[Marine_Uncle]

So. When does the trial commence? :)

[BfloGuy]

I just can’t wait till he has to admit that he forged that memo. I read that the Heartland Institute is accepting contributions for a legal fund to fight this guy. It’s a diversion of money from the good work they do, but I hope they pursue it to the end.

[expat2]

Almost makes me ashamed to be a scientist

[Yardstick]

*bump*

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.