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Climate scientist admits stealing docs from conservative think tank
FOX News ^ | February 21, 2012

Posted on 02/21/2012 4:30:53 PM PST by presidio9

Theft, deceit and outright lies: How ugly can climate science get?

Prominent climate scientist Peter H. Gleick relied on deceit and subterfuge to solicit a cache of sensitive internal documents from conservative think tank The Heartland Institute before leaking them to the press -- a fresh scandal that further darkens the highly charged debate on planetary climate change.

Gleick -- an internationally recognized hydroclimatologist and author of the respected annual report “The World’s Water” -- said he received an anonymous document in the mail that tipped him off to what he described as Heartland’s efforts to muddy public understanding of climate science and policy. He released the documents to expose their work “to cast doubt on climate science.”

In his blog on the Huffington Post, Gleick publicly confessed to deceitful tactics that he described as a serious ethical slip.

“In a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics, I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name,” Gleick wrote. “My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated — to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate … nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case.”

Following his admission, Gleick's resignation was accepted by the National Center for Science Education. His name appears to have been removed from a Task Force on Scientific Ethics at the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a prominent science organization.

Gleick declined to provide any additional information when contacted by FoxNews.com.

Heartland Institute president Joseph L. Bast blasted Gleick’s confession and actions, which he said put lives at risk and violated individual privacies.

"Gleick's crime was

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: california; climatechange; climategate; climategate2; fakegate; gleick; globalhoaxing; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingtheory; heartlandinstitute; heartlandmemo; petergleick; sb1411
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To: AFPhys

He also resigned from NCSE pretty quick, to cauterize the wound maybe?


21 posted on 02/21/2012 6:42:06 PM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: SunkenCiv
Hopefully, he’ll provide me with another site for a graveside urination service.

Have you got a ping list for that?

22 posted on 02/21/2012 6:45:08 PM PST by kitchen (Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
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To: Mr. Peabody

Funding for NCSE here:

http://ncseonline.org/about/support-funding

Lots of gov’t and foundation sources. Includes Rockefeller Brothers Fund which helped stop Keystone.


23 posted on 02/21/2012 6:48:53 PM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: AFPhys
Just prior to seeing your response to me, I was contacting Mr. Santorum encouraging him to avail himself to the overly matched abilities of Anthony Watts http://wattsupwiththat.com/, Steve McIntyre http://climateaudit.org/ and others, of whom, if the AGW acolytes were to choose to debate, would provide a “game over” Armageddon for this dishonest sham that is AGW.

Whether many can discern it, AGW is the 3 legged stool that the march of socialism has chosen to rely upon. It is a vehicle of hysteria by which socialism is trying to herd untold eventual trillions into for the sake of wealth redistribution with the eventual goal of aggrandizing the importance of government control down to children's school lunch boxes.

Standby the sidelines and it will happen.

This AGW is the most paramount killer of this economy under the guise of “save the planet, ergo, save the children”.

It is an unprecedented attempt at the wielding of power that this planet has never seen.

Yes folks, this subject is that serious.

24 posted on 02/21/2012 7:02:21 PM PST by Puckster
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To: AFPhys

If watermelons plotted the “sin” of Heartland rejecting school children being taught that global warming doctrines are “settled science”, that is pretty weak. Global warming is not like evolution. It is a new piece of fake science and propaganda that has been slaughtered in the public square in Europe and the US.

Most Americans do not accept man-made global warming claims and solutions. The watermelons are on weak territory and they are desparate trying to reinvent the evolution game they played.

Is there a crime in NCSE forging documents, lying and faking science? Could have fooled me. Liberals do it all the time. As far as I know, liberals running guns to Mexican drug lords and cheating in elections, is fine and dandy, too.


25 posted on 02/21/2012 7:53:24 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: kitchen

The GUS List... good idea... although I can’t think of a single logo I could actually use in the ping message...


26 posted on 02/21/2012 8:14:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: presidio9

And he’s being hailed as a courageous whistleblower/hero by the warmists. But they still want the email whistleblowers lynched for being dishonest. Meanwhile, Gleick keeps his position at the Pacific Institute.

http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/press_releases/heartland.html


27 posted on 02/21/2012 8:32:45 PM PST by chessplayer
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28 posted on 02/21/2012 8:33:56 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: presidio9

This clown is Nobel Prize material.


29 posted on 02/21/2012 9:01:22 PM PST by seton89 (Are the Ten Commandments a living document?)
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To: SaraJohnson
As far as I know, liberals running guns to Mexican drug lords and cheating in elections, is fine and dandy, too.

The REPUBS have decided that to prosecute our FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT for crimes that led to murder, they would have to expose Americans to havoc and possibly revolution.

Just how does a Radical Clown playing President participate in crimes that led to murder, spend $Trillions which is nothing more than throwing massive amounts of money away, prevent energy production in the name of global warming, is openly avoiding US Law such as attacking Libya illegally etc....?

The answer is easy, we either vote Obama out or revolution is next.

30 posted on 02/21/2012 9:05:14 PM PST by politicianslie (Obama: America's first Muslim POTUS, doing all he can to destroy America. HELLO, can anyone th)
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31 posted on 02/21/2012 9:49:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: presidio9

Just because someone is a scientist, does NOT make then ethical. No more than any other person. There are a LOT of unethical scientists working for Anthropogenic Global Warming.


32 posted on 02/21/2012 10:25:01 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: presidio9

““My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated — to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate … nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case.”

Attacking climate science is “preventing” debate? I thought it WAS debating. It’s called responding and rebutting. I know it’s difficult for dogmatic priests of a secular doctrine to get their brain around this, but people are allowed to disagree with you, and to say why they disagree with you. That’s what’s called debating. If they are not, you are not “debating,” but monologuing, sort of like a super villain in a comic book.


33 posted on 02/22/2012 1:50:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: presidio9
"In his blog on the Huffington Post,..."

That says enough for me.

34 posted on 02/22/2012 5:47:18 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: presidio9
a fresh scandal that further darkens the highly charged debate on planetary climate change

Nothing to darken here. The MAN-MADE global warming/cooling/climate change activist kooks ARE from the DARKSIDE anyway.


35 posted on 02/22/2012 5:55:54 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: politicianslie

The REPUBS have decided that to prosecute our FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT for crimes that led to murder, they would have to expose Americans to havoc and possibly revolution.


This is what the Rinos used to say to excuse themselves from acting as the opposition to liberals when the GOP was a permanent minority wing of the Democrat Party in the past.

They used to warn that the blacks would riot if conservative “extremists” got power and turned back “progress” (socialism). They warned the country would fall apart if Reagan got elected... What fell apart was limo-liberal control over the GOP - not America! Let the constitution and rule of law prevail, come what may.


36 posted on 02/22/2012 1:04:37 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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