“[Peter] Gleick’s use of deception [against the Heartland Institute] in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others…. That is his personal tragedy and shame…. – Andrew Revkin, New York Times, February 20, 2012.
Climategate and Michael Mann, et al.? We all remember that. Fakegate and climate crusader Peter Gleick? Not so much 14 years later. But corrupted science and politics in the cause of global warming/climate change should be understood in its darkest moments. One of those is described below by Friends of Science:
Prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick admitted on February 20 [2012] that he stole private documents from the Heartland Institute by impersonating a board member using a fake email address. Gleick sent the Heartland documents and a forged fake document to journalists.…
“Wrong, Roger Hallam. Weather is not climate change. Your professors at Kings College–did any question climate models and explain the benefits of CO2 enrichment and, yes, of warmer temperatures (think winters and nights)?”
The Climate Industrial Complex, the companies and their nonprofit allies, are flexing toward the middle. It is all about money and power, less about real human welfare re “saving the planet.’
This inconvenient truth has the true believers upset. Consider the latest from Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, where he works full-time:
…Another disastrously pathetic response from “environmental campaigners” – who cares about the bloody “green new deal”. What needs to be communicated is that unless there is a drastic reduction in emissions – and that means including zero car emissions by 2030 – Europeans are going to starve to death.
Ed. Note: Joseph Bast, founder and head of the Heartland Institute from 1984 until 2017, wrote an open letter to NYT writer John Cushman (to no avail), titled “The best public policies will not be adopted if we allow the loudest and most alarmist voices in the debate to drown out the voices of reason.” It is reprinted below after Bast’s introduction at the time. A short conclusion describes Joe Bast’s multi-decade contributions to climate realism and sound energy policies.
In each of the past two years, John Cushman, an environment reporter for The New York Times, has written articles so atrociously one-sided and factually wrong that I felt compelled to write to him with friendly advice. Each time, I reprinted my letter in The Heartlander. And each time, John ignored me.…