"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
"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."...
-----------------------------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
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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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