Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining Heartland Climate Files ›

Mixed feelings abound as famed scientist admits to being the source of leaking the Heartland Institute’s internal climate denial strategy plus other documents. 

Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science, there has been extensive speculation about the origin of the documents and intense discussion about what they reveal. Given the need for reliance on facts in the public climate debate, I am issuing the following statement.

At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute’s climate program strategy. It contained information about their funders and the Institute’s apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy. I do not know the source of that original document but assumed it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it.

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∞  02/21/12 at 01:17pm
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