Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up: Feb. 23, 2012
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February 23 2012
Dolphins are non-human persons, a man who cut animals in half for fun and profit wants to build eco-homes and Britain saved Kenyan rainmakers from global warming.
Part One: Hippie of the Week
If you didn’t predict this week’s winner, you must live in a cave. If that happens to be the case, welcome, Taliban readers.
Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute, faked an identity to solicit and release the same Heartland Institute documents that won DeSmogBlog the HOTW award last week.
The rest, as they say, is comedy.
Peter Gleick, the man behind the curtain
In the days since Gleick’s confession, he’s been tossed under the bus by Time magazine, the AGU, the NCSE, Andy Revkin of DotEarth and even the Pacific Institute is looking sideways at him:
The Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute is deeply concerned and is actively reviewing information about the recent events involving its president, Dr. Peter Gleick, and documents pertaining to the Heartland Institute. Neither the board nor the staff of the Pacific Institute knew of, played any role in, or condones these events. As facts emerge and are confirmed, the Board will inform all stakeholders of our findings and of any actions based on these findings. In the meantime we maintain our commitment to the smooth operations, governance, and mission of the Pacific Institute.
Sounds like mission #1 is to let Gleick slip under the bus. Unless having him sleep with the fishes is more the style at the Pacific Institute. Either way, hippie down.
Gleick isn’t entirely alone. Joe Romm stands shoulder to shoulder with him in spittle-flecked apoplexy. If that makes pesky Pete feel any better, he may be further gone that even Megan McArdle thinks.
The faked memo that turned deniergate into fakegate into Gleickgate remains a mystery. Gleick copped to obtaining and distributing the documents, but not to faking the memo that beclowned the warmist blogosphere. Anthony Watts is crowdsourcing the effort to find the author, which should make whoever wrote it very nervous. If we learned one thing in the last week or so, it’s that skeptics are very, very good at figuring things out:
…sceptics have some obvious strengths. The first and most obvious is an eye to detail and meticulous picking apart of data among a sizeable camp of sceptics. They are used to poring over data, of looking behind the obvious and of teasing things out of the most unlikely sources. These skills are highly prized in sceptic circles – just as they used to be prized in scientific circles.
… Again and again the sceptic camp shows itself to be worthy of the name. Nothing is taken on trust, everything is challenged and the data checked.
The Watts crowd-sourcing effort faces an uphill battle, because the geniuses at DeSmogBlog have already verified the document as real. Brendan DeMille and Richard Littlemore of DeSmog hired a crack team of document specialists and were told the thing was for realsies. Any questions can be directed to the independent document specialists, Brendan DeMille and Richard Littlemore. Wait, what?
We congratulate Peter Gleick for his second HOTW award and wish him luck in his new career making up Amazon reviews.
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OK. Fess up. Who has been dropping acid in the ocean?
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