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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He also resigned from NCSE pretty quick, to cauterize the wound maybe?
Have you got a ping list for that?
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.
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.
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.
The GUS List... good idea... although I can’t think of a single logo I could actually use in the ping message...
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
This clown is Nobel Prize material.
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.
Global Warming on Free Republic
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.
““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.
That says enough for me.
Nothing to darken here. The MAN-MADE global warming/cooling/climate change activist kooks ARE from the DARKSIDE anyway.
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.
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.
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