Saturday, April 7, 2012

Heartland to hold 7th International Conference on Climate Change May 21-23, 2012

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"Gleick has done enormous damage to his cause and his own reputation, and it's no good to say that people shouldn't be focusing on it. If his judgement is this bad, how is his judgement on matters of science? For that matter, what about the judgement of all the others in the movement who apparently see nothing worth dwelling on in his actions?" 2/21/12, Megan McArdle

4/7/12, "'Fakegate': Climate Change Fanatics Wage War on Dissenters," American Thinker, Nancy J. Thorner

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Why would Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and chairman of an American Geophysical Union task force on "scientific ethics and integrity," break the law to engage in a smear campaign against a small think-tank called The Heartland Institute that resulted in "Fakegate"?

As Alan Caruba related in the opening paragraph of his article published on Tuesday, April 3rd, titled "Fatetgate: The War on Science," "[g]enerations of Americans have been raised to venerate science and those who have enhanced and extended our lives through its application. The rise of environmentalism, however, has generated a war on science, first by distorting it, and then by propagandizing the 'findings', studies' and resulting claims based on them."...

Gleick or an ally forged a memo alleging to describe Heartland's "Global Warning Strategy."

On February 14, Gleick sent the stolen and forged documents to fifteen allies in the environmental movement and mainstream media, resulting in a wave of criticism of Heartland's supposed plans to "infiltrate schools" and "undermine" climate science. Gleick confessed to stealing the documents on February 20, but media coverage of the event focused overwhelmingly on the false claims in the fake memo rather than on Gleick's criminal actions.

Gleick's allies immediately used the forged memo and stolen documents to target Heartland's donors and the scientists who have helped write its publications.

A group calling itself "Forecast the Facts" challenged the chairman and CEO of General Motors to defend the company's foundation's support of an organization that opposes the teaching of science in public schools.

On Friday, March 30, General Motors spokesman David Barthmuss succumbed to what amounted to bullying, confirming that the company's foundation will no longer donate to The Heartland Institute.

Regarding the loss of General Motors as a source of funding, Heartland CEO Joseph Bast had this to say: "The General Motors Foundation has been a supporter of the Heartland Institute for some 20 years. We regret the loss of their support, particularly since it was prompted by false claims contained in a fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick."

Bast subsequently told me: "The Left has attacked our donors before, but never had a list, and never had a fake memo to use that made it sound like we were truly evil and deliberately misleading people about our program. That's what Fakegate provided...and the wacky Left let loose the hounds at "Forecast the Facts."

In the eyes of those who are global warming skeptics, Peter Gleick might be labeled as an uncouth and evil person, but not according to Paul Joseph Watson, an Oregon-based professor of sociology and environmental studies. In Professor Watson's mind, Peter Gleick is the hero, while those having doubts about anthropogenic climate change are sick and in need of treatment.

Even if evil is in the eyes of the beholder, destructive policies spawned by global alarmists and environmental extremists, and from state and federal government entities, etc., cannot be permitted to stand unchallenged. In Heartland's case, there was nothing remotely scandalous in its behavior.

In an effort to move forward in a positive way from Fakegate, Bast announced on Monday, April 2, that the seventh International Conference on Climate Change will be held in Chicago on May 21-23 to demonstrate, among other reasons, that the global warming skeptics movement has not lost any momentum due to the Fakegate scandal.

(See here for the author's account of The Heartland Institute's 2010 Fourth International Climate Change Conference held in Chicago, as published at the American Thinker on May 22, 2010.)"

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Ed. note: Regarding GM, I think Obama still owns a bunch of it. Even though he says GM paid the taxpayers back, they still owe taxpayers $25 billion (1/26/12). GM is going to side with their boss which is Obama. The Heartland people sound like lovely, decent people. Gleick had the world at his feet. The climate industry has trillions financing, they have Goldman Sachs and others on Wall Street, and billions from the US taxpayer.

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"General Motors Co. owes about $25 billion" from bailout.

1/26/12, "Report: Taxpayers still owed $133B from bailout," AP, via Fox News

"Companies that were bailed out during the financial crisis still owe U.S. taxpayers nearly $133 billion. Treasury's plans to recoup that money have been slowed by the volatile stock market and weakness among smaller banks.

Some of the money will never be recovered.

That's the conclusion of the acting inspector general for the government's financial bailout. Some bailout programs, like the effort to reduce home foreclosures, will last as late as 2017, the inspector general said. Those programs could cost an additional $50 billion or more.

Among the largest bailed-out companies, American International Group Inc. still owes taxpayers around $50 billion, General Motors Co. owes about $25 billion and Ally Financial Inc. about $12 billion."...

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Glecik may be depressed:

Peter Gleick's apparent projection (attributing one's own thoughts and actions to others) may be a form of depression.

3/9/12, "Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick Breaks Silence," KQED, Jeremy Miller

""Those who deny this science and this evidence are becoming increasingly desperate in their efforts to attack the science and scientists and fool the public and prevent any rational discussion of a climate or energy policy from being adopted,” he said in his remarks." (item at end of article) via Tom Nelson

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"Definition of Projection" (which About.com lists under the category of "Depression")

"Projection is a type of defense mechanism. In projection, a person experiences an emotion or thought that they aren't able to cope with. So, instead, they perceive the thought or feeling as if it had come from someone else. One example of this mechanism is the person who is angry at a friend, but does not feel comfortable with feelings of anger in himself. He may instead deny these feelings and imagine that his friend is the angry one."

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3/9/12, "17 Days Later, Peter Gleick is Back in the Saddle," No Frakking Consensus, Donna Laframboise

Calif. Water Policy Conference "is a project" of a larger group also subsidized by taxpayers.

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2/20/12, How can Peter Gleick complain about funding? In 2004 alone the US government diverted $5.1 billion taxpayer dollars to global warming related projects per GAO
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2/20/12, Donor's to Gleick's Pacific Institute appear to be multiple US taxpayer funded organizations

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June, 2010, NASA's James Hansen, a climate celebrity, is awarded a $550,000 prize for steering climate information into the realm of "public policy."

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7/2/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression" Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi

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10/14/10, "Climate Science Corruption: Practiced and Perpetuated by Scientific Societies," Dr. Tim Ball

"Consider the view of US National Academy of Sciences member Peter Gleick. His article, “Climate-change deniers versus the scientific societies of the world: Who should we listen to?” is a classic. It’s problematic
  • consensus is not a scientific fact or the basis for a scientific argument.

Fortunately some scientists within the various societies and academies are beginning to protest, demanding retractions and revisions."

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2/26/12, "Peter Gleick’s Actions Exposes “End Justifies Means” Mentality: Poses Problem for UN Agenda 21," Dr. Tim Ball

"Gleick is fully compromised, but will likely continue because of his claims about water. It’s the environmental vehicle replacing climate for achieving government control, nationally and internationally.

Stanford University was the academic centre for issues that framed the Club of Rome (COR). Pivotal publications included Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb, but predictions were set out primarily in Limits to Growth using simplistic computer models. They extended the Malthusian idea that population would outgrow food supply and applied it to all resources with amplification by capitalism and fossil fuel driven economies. Almost all the predictions were disastrously wrong."...

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2/21/12, "Peter Gleick Confesses to Obtaining Heartland Documents Under False Pretenses," The Atlantic, Megan McArdle

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12/4/09, Bloomberg News, "Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Market using Derivatives," by A. Kassenar

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Ed. note #2: The only reason this is happening is weak politicians allowed the global warming movement to attach itself like cancer to every facet of our government without the knowledge of most Americans who were paying for it coming and going. We found out about it at the 11 th hour. 3 top UN climate bosses freely admit the 'climate' issue has nothing to do with climate, rather is a 'societal transformation' in which billions are transferred to the UN--no strings, no oversight, complete immunity even for murder--as with all UN dealings. They of course will distribute the money accordingly.

Peter Gleick was welcomed as a professional speaker by a taxpayer funded group shortly after admitting his crime. Gleick had sold himself specifically as an expert on "ethics," was chair of "AGU's Task Force on Scientific Ethics" (since resigned). The man is living 2 vastly different lives. So far it doesn't seem like this bothers him or any of the people in his circle.
Perhaps one day he will seek help. The left has gotten a very wrong idea, which is that those who differ with them on any subject must be silenced. They have got to get over this. They blanket the media 24/7 with buzzwords that the country is "divided" and "polarized," meaning you're hateful if you don't shut your mouth, let Occupy smash your windows and defecate on your doorstep, and hand over your food and rent money to pay for clean up and damages they caused.



Hillary in 2003

Ed. note #3: Please excuse the bright white background behind part of this post. It was put there by a hacker.

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