Climate scientist admits lying to obtain 'Denialgate' docs
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February 21 2012
A prominent climate scientist, well known for his outspoken condemnation of climate scepticism, has admitted that he was the individual who recently leaked internal documents from rightwing think tank the Heartland Institute. Peter Gleick said he obtained the documents by using "someone else's name" in "a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics".
Gleick, who in recent times has been seen as something of a spokesman for the warmist point of view, made the admission on his Huffington Post blog last night. Speculation had been rife on the internet for some days that he was behind the Heartland leak, dubbed "Denialgate" by some.
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Though one Reg hack did initially assess the leak as "at least as good as the 'Climategate' e-mails", this seemed a bit exaggerated. The Climategate leaks cast doubt on the integrity of peer review in climate science and on the way in which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change operates, not to mention the interaction between government and prominent climate scientists - and some climate scientists' own internal doubts as to the correctness of their theories.
The Heartland leaks by contrast revealed only that a warming-sceptic thinktank might in future release some educational materials, a thing which was already being done by warmists and which is, sadly, a routine tactic for advocacy organisations.
That being the case, the main impact of the affair would seem to be on Dr Gleick's reputation.
New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin, one of the most widely-read environment correspondents in the world, commented: "Gleick’s use of deception in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility."
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But as long as people read it they should at least try and get contributors who actually have some ethics. Gleick seems to have failed in that area.
This is what makes leftists so very dangerous. They do not recognize the rights of men, oversized and out of control authorities crush humans in their push for agenda. Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, Castro, Stalin... and the list goes on. Our founders knew the danger of governments ruling over men, and the value of men ruling their own destinies. Ignoring their wisdom is the surest path to serfdom.
these people are criminals
they should be prosecuted
when pothead sagan started this stuff
about 40 years ago
if nixon had jumped on
the alarmist bandwagon
he would have been removed from
office immediately and incarcerated
AND
none of this crap
would have gotten this far
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