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The Heartland Institute Under Attack Global Warming Fever Drives Scientists to Desperation GREEN WATCH BANNER TO BE INSERTED HERE The Heartland Institute Under Attack Global Warming Fever Drives Scientists to Desperation By Matt Patterson Summary: It was Valentine’s Day, but it was no love letter. On February 14, 2012, renowned environmental scientist Peter Gleick transmitted to a group of liberal bloggers and journalists documents that he obtained from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank specializing in environmental policy. Gleick’s goal: destroy Heartland, a group that has mobilized scien- tists who are skeptical about global warm- ing. Gleick faked his identity and pretended to be a Heartland board member to obtain some of the documents. One of the docu- Dr. Peter Gleick - Thief ments that Gleick sent was a fake, created Yale and received his Ph.D. in Energy and social equity.” In 2010 the Pacifi c by Gleick or parties unknown to prove what and Resources from the University of Institute received more than $2.2 million wasn’t true. Gleick’s reckless, unethical and, California, Berkeley in 1986. He is in grants and contributions from a mix of most likely, criminal action shows just how currently president of the Pacifi c Institute foundations (e.g. Hewlett, Packard, Robert desperate green activists are to prop up their for Studies in Development, Environment, Wood Johnson, Rockefeller Brothers, overblown claims about global warming. and Security, which he co-founded in Rockefeller) and government agencies r. Peter Gleick was a trusted 1987. (e.g. Sacramento County and the Florida and respected scientist, with a Dcareer studded with honors and The Oakland, California-based research May 2012 awards. And then he threw it all away. group has a staff of twenty-fi ve scientists The Heartland Institute Under Attack and program offi cers who seek “to produce Page 1 Gleick, who was born in 1956, studied solutions that advance environmental Green Notes engineering and applied science at protection, economic development, Page 8 Department of Environmental Protection, In 2011 Dr. Gleick was named chairman of “Dear Friends (15 of you): EPA, USAID and the U.N. Environment a new task force on “scientifi c ethics and Programme). integrity” at the American Geophysical In the interest of transparency, I think you Union (AGU). Established in 1919, the should see these fi les from the Heartland Gleick’s research focuses on water as it AGU is an international association of Institute. Look especially at the 2012 relates to “human health, the hydrologic 61,000 academics and policymakers fundraising and budget documents, the impacts of climate change, sustainable “dedicated to furthering the sciences of information about donors, and compare water use, privatization and globalization, geophysics” by sponsoring meetings and to the 2010 990 tax form. But other things and international confl icts over water publishing scientifi c journals. might also interest or intrigue you. This is resources.” The Pacifi c Institute’s website all I have. And this email account will be lists his many scientifi c and popular works But on February 16, 2012 Gleick resigned removed after I send.” on water management and consumption, from the AGU task force citing “personal, including Bottled and Sold: The Story private reasons.” We now know that two Three things got in the way of Gleick’s Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water days earlier he had passed along to media attempt to discredit Heartland: (Island Press, 2010). outlets and online blogs documents that he claimed came from the Heartland 1) Most of the documents were thoroughly Peter Gleick has been widely honored Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofi t uninteresting, revealing nothing for his work on water resources. He was research and advocacy organization. controversial or even surprising about elected an Academician of the International Gleick considered Heartland’s views Heartland’s internal organization; Water Academy in Oslo, Norway and was on climate change unacceptable, and he named a “visionary on the environment” believed the document disclosure would 2) the single document that appeared by the BBC. He received a $500,000 discredit the organization. Then four days damaging—called “January 2012 MacArthur Foundation “genius” award after his resignation, Gleick astounded his Confi dential Memo: 2012 Heartland in 2003 and was elected to the National colleagues and supporters by confessing Climate Strategy”— didn’t come from Academy of Sciences in 2006. that he had stolen the documents. Heartland at all (as Gleick would later admit) and was an obvious and clumsy And that was just the start of “Fakegate.” forgery; Editor: Matt Patterson Publisher: Terrence Scanlon Address: 1513 16th Street, NW Fakegate 3) the other documents were obtained Washington, DC 20036-1480 under false pretenses: Gleick used a stolen Phone: (202) 483-6900 Gleick’s action was intended to discredit identity and fraud to gain access to the Email: [email protected] Website: www.capitalresearch.org Heartland, whose conferences and genuine Heartland documents. publications sharply challenge what was Green Watch is published by Capital once the conventional wisdom on so-called A mere 24 hours after Gleick’s document Research Center, a non-partisan education and research organization classifi ed by the global warming. Gleick attached the stolen dump, Heartland confi rmed that someone IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Reprints documents to an email that read: (not known to be Gleick at that point) had are available for $2.50 prepaid to Capital Research Center. impersonated a member of the Heartland Page 2 Green Watch May 2012 board of directors. Pretending to be the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel It falsely claimed that the Charles G. board member, Gleick convinced a member on Climate Change (IPCC). Heartland’s Koch Foundation, a favorite bogeyman of Heartland’s support staff to send the publication Climate Change Reconsidered of the Left, had funded Heartland’s documents to his “new email.” is the only comprehensive review of the climate change work in 2011 to the tune scientifi c literature on global warming of $200,000. (In fact, Koch contributed The Heartland Institute is a prominent besides the IPCC’s, which is all the more $25,000 to Heartland for work on free-market think tank founded in 1984 reason why environmental activists like healthcare reform.) The memo also cast by Joseph Bast, its current president, to Gleick want to destroy its reputation. doubt on the integrity of Heartland’s “discover, develop, and promote free- efforts at climate education. According market solutions to social and economic As Gleick intended, the stolen Heartland to the memo, Heartland had developed problems.” While it promotes tax documents caused a sensation when a K-12 global warming curriculum that and budgetary reform, school choice, they were posted online by the liberal was “effective at dissuading teachers from and market-based healthcare reforms, blogs and as the New York Times , the teaching science.” Heartland is perhaps best-known for its Guardian in Great Britain and other media involvement in the climate wars. outlets rushed to disclose their contents. Heartland denounced the memo as an However, it quickly became apparent obvious fake and created a website, Heartland’s initiatives have earned it the that the documents revealed no illegal or fakegate.org, which described the forgery: respect and admiration of many climate inappropriate behavior by Heartland’s scientists. They despair that the mainstream staff. But they did disclose confi dential * “The memo contains numerous errors media mindlessly promotes global warming information about Heartland’s operations of fact and interpretation that no one at scare stories and they shake their heads as and budget. Heartland would have made. Signifi cantly, government agencies and foundations steer every error in the fake memo has the effect grant money to those who make the most One memo revealed that Heartland is of casting Heartland’s fundraising and extreme claims about changes in the earth’s supported by about 1,800 donors and expects education efforts in a negative light. “ climate. to raise over $7 million in 2012. Other documents revealed the identities of some * “A thorough forensic analysis of Heartland challenges the theory that modern donors as well as the home addresses and Heartland’s computers (and those owned society’s industrial capacity is producing other contact information for Heartland’s by Heartland’s president and his spouse) by gas emissions that are warming the board of directors. Perhaps most troubling, Protek International concludes ‘the Memo earth’s climate to such an extent that all of Gleick disclosed to extremist blogs like was not created on Heartland’s computer humanity is threatened by natural disaster. DeSmogBlog the identity of the scientists systems and never existed there, or within Heartland dissents from the arguments for working with Heartland on its research and Heartland’s email systems, prior to its global warming and it publishes alternative publications, potentially exposing them to posting online on February 14, 2012.’” interpretations of climate change. career retribution and physical danger. Journalists like The Atlantic’s Megan Heartland’s tenacity has put it on Al Gore’s The phony “Heartland Climate Strategy” McArdle pointed out other glaring enemies list and made it the bete noire of the memo was a different beast altogether. inaccuracies in the memo and speculated May 2012 Green Watch Page 3 about why it was manufactured: know the source of that original document were stolen by Gleick. Except for Board but assumed it was sent to me because of members, no one except Gleick had access “Most notably, it claimed that the Koch my past exchanges with Heartland and to all of the documents cited in the memo.” foundation had given $200,000 in 2011, because I was named in it. when the actual number was $25,000 ..
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