1. "In 2008, The Heartland Institute, headquartered in Chicago, began organizing international conferences of scientists from across the globe who want to raise and discuss intellectually troubling questions and doubts regarding the theory that human activity is causing ultimately catastrophic global warming.
a. Six conferences have taken place to date, attracting more than 3,000 scientists, journalists, and interested citizens from all over the world.
2. In 2009, Heartland published Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).
a. Two years later, Heartland published the 418 page Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2011 Interim Report of the NIPCC, which updated the research regarding global warming and climate change since the 2009 volume.
3. Heartland has become the international headquarters of the scientific alternative to the UNs IPCC, now providing full scale rebuttals to the UNs own massive reports.
4. Fakegate, the strange and still being written story of the decline and fall of political activist Peter Gleick, who had successfully engineered a long career posing as an objective climate scientist.
Gleick, who has announced he is taking a temporary, short-term leave of absence as president of the Pacific Institute, also served until recently as chairman of the science integrity task force of the American Geophysical Union...
a. Gleick has publicly confessed that he contacted The Heartland Institute fraudulently pretending to be a member of the Board of Directors. he created an email address similar to that of a board member and used it to convince a staff member to send him confidential board materials.
b. Gleick then forwarded the documents to 15 global warming alarmist advocacy organizations and sympathetic journalists,
5. Their expectation apparently was that the documents would be as embarrassing and damaging to the global warming skeptics as were the emails revealed in the Climategate scandal to the alarmist side.
a. The Climategate revelations showed scientific leaders of the UNs IPCC and global warming alarmist movement plotting to falsify climate data and exclude those raising doubts
6. But the stolen Heartland documents exonerated, rather than embarrassed, the skeptic movement. They demonstrate only an interest at Heartland in getting the truth out on the actual objective science.
a. They revealed little funding from oil companies and other self interested commercial enterprises, who actually contribute heavily to global warming alarmists as protection money instead. The documents also show how poorly funded the global warming skeptics at Heartland are,
7. As the Wall Street Journal observed on Feb. 21, while Heartlands budget for the NIPCC this year totals $388,000, that compares to $6.5 million for the UNs IPCC, and $2.5 billion that President Obamas budget commits for research into the global changes that have resulted primarily from global over-dependence on fossil fuels. That demonstrates how an ounce of truth can overcome a tidal wave of falsehood.
8. Gleick or one of his coconspirators felt compelled to go farther and composed a fake memo titled Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy.
a. MAY 1, 2012 The Heartland Institute today released more evidence that Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick was the likely author of a fake climate strategy memo that Gleick originally claimed came from a Heartland insider, and later said he received in the mail from an anonymous source.
New Evidence Released in Fakegate Global Warming Scandal | Heartland Institute
9. The scanned document itself, however, contained evidence that allowed even amateur sleuths to trace it back to the Pacific Institutes offices, as explained in an article by Megan McCardle, a senior editor for The Atlantic.
a. On February 21, 2012 one day after Gleick admitted his guilt the AGU announced it accepted Gleicks resignation from er the organizations Task Force on Scientific Ethics. Gleick acted in a way that is inconsistent with our organizations values, the AGU stated,
American Geophysical Union Welcomes Back Disgraced Peter Gleick, Gives Him Speaking Slot | FakeGate
10. The forged cover memo, contains language mirroring Climategate. It discussed fabricated projects and references a $200,000 Koch Foundation contribution for climate change activities that doesnt exist. the budget last year for the Natural Resources Defense Council was $95.4 million, and for the World Wildlife Fund $238.5 million. Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming - Forbes
To review, for my friends who only read the 'punchline,'....
The warmists will do anything they can to slander those who know and reveal the fraud of the warmist movement....
...up to an including fabricate 'documents' comparable to those leaked from East Anglia.
The warmists will do anything to keep the 'cash cow' operable.
a. Six conferences have taken place to date, attracting more than 3,000 scientists, journalists, and interested citizens from all over the world.
2. In 2009, Heartland published Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).
a. Two years later, Heartland published the 418 page Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2011 Interim Report of the NIPCC, which updated the research regarding global warming and climate change since the 2009 volume.
3. Heartland has become the international headquarters of the scientific alternative to the UNs IPCC, now providing full scale rebuttals to the UNs own massive reports.
4. Fakegate, the strange and still being written story of the decline and fall of political activist Peter Gleick, who had successfully engineered a long career posing as an objective climate scientist.
Gleick, who has announced he is taking a temporary, short-term leave of absence as president of the Pacific Institute, also served until recently as chairman of the science integrity task force of the American Geophysical Union...
a. Gleick has publicly confessed that he contacted The Heartland Institute fraudulently pretending to be a member of the Board of Directors. he created an email address similar to that of a board member and used it to convince a staff member to send him confidential board materials.
b. Gleick then forwarded the documents to 15 global warming alarmist advocacy organizations and sympathetic journalists,
5. Their expectation apparently was that the documents would be as embarrassing and damaging to the global warming skeptics as were the emails revealed in the Climategate scandal to the alarmist side.
a. The Climategate revelations showed scientific leaders of the UNs IPCC and global warming alarmist movement plotting to falsify climate data and exclude those raising doubts
6. But the stolen Heartland documents exonerated, rather than embarrassed, the skeptic movement. They demonstrate only an interest at Heartland in getting the truth out on the actual objective science.
a. They revealed little funding from oil companies and other self interested commercial enterprises, who actually contribute heavily to global warming alarmists as protection money instead. The documents also show how poorly funded the global warming skeptics at Heartland are,
7. As the Wall Street Journal observed on Feb. 21, while Heartlands budget for the NIPCC this year totals $388,000, that compares to $6.5 million for the UNs IPCC, and $2.5 billion that President Obamas budget commits for research into the global changes that have resulted primarily from global over-dependence on fossil fuels. That demonstrates how an ounce of truth can overcome a tidal wave of falsehood.
8. Gleick or one of his coconspirators felt compelled to go farther and composed a fake memo titled Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy.
a. MAY 1, 2012 The Heartland Institute today released more evidence that Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick was the likely author of a fake climate strategy memo that Gleick originally claimed came from a Heartland insider, and later said he received in the mail from an anonymous source.
New Evidence Released in Fakegate Global Warming Scandal | Heartland Institute
9. The scanned document itself, however, contained evidence that allowed even amateur sleuths to trace it back to the Pacific Institutes offices, as explained in an article by Megan McCardle, a senior editor for The Atlantic.
a. On February 21, 2012 one day after Gleick admitted his guilt the AGU announced it accepted Gleicks resignation from er the organizations Task Force on Scientific Ethics. Gleick acted in a way that is inconsistent with our organizations values, the AGU stated,
American Geophysical Union Welcomes Back Disgraced Peter Gleick, Gives Him Speaking Slot | FakeGate
10. The forged cover memo, contains language mirroring Climategate. It discussed fabricated projects and references a $200,000 Koch Foundation contribution for climate change activities that doesnt exist. the budget last year for the Natural Resources Defense Council was $95.4 million, and for the World Wildlife Fund $238.5 million. Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming - Forbes
To review, for my friends who only read the 'punchline,'....
The warmists will do anything they can to slander those who know and reveal the fraud of the warmist movement....
...up to an including fabricate 'documents' comparable to those leaked from East Anglia.
The warmists will do anything to keep the 'cash cow' operable.
