{"id":19785,"date":"2012-02-21T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2018-02-01T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:36:27","slug":"bay-area-scientist-owns-up-to-lying-to-get-heartland-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/02\/21\/bay-area-scientist-owns-up-to-lying-to-get-heartland-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Scientist Owns up to Lying to Get Heartland Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Pacific Institute&#8217;s Peter Gleick says he was blinded by frustration when he used subterfuge to obtain and leak the internal documents <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"moneypuzzle_sm_TS122516124-300x200.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/02\/moneypuzzle_sm_TS122516124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/02\/15\/leaked-documents-expose-corporate-agenda-to-muzzle-climate-scientists\/\">documents were allegedly leaked<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/heartland.org\/\">Heartland Institute<\/a> &#8212; a think tank that questions human-caused climate change &#8212; which describe elements of the organization&#8217;s strategy to discredit climate science, and include background on funders. Now climate scientist Peter Gleick, the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacinst.org\/\">Pacific Institute, <\/a>has admitted to using deception to obtain the information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-h-gleick\/heartland-institute-documents_b_1289669.html\">blog on the Huffington Post<\/a>, Gleick said he first received a document about Heartland from an anonymous source. He goes on to describe how he received additional information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I attempted to confirm the accuracy of the information in this document. In an effort to do so, and in a serious lapse of my own professional judgment and ethics, I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else&#8217;s name. The materials the Heartland Institute sent to me confirmed many of the facts in the original document, including especially their 2012 fundraising strategy and budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gleick has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?s=gleick&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">source for <em>Climate Watch<\/em><\/a> and for KQED News. In the past, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2010\/05\/07\/california-scientists-join-climate-appeal\/\">spoken out against tactics<\/a> to discredit climate science that he said were politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>When the documents were first released, Heartland Institute threatened to pursue legal action against bloggers who published them. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/heartland.org\/press-releases\/2012\/02\/20\/statement-heartland-institute-peter-gleick-confession\">statement on its website responding to Gleick&#8217;s confession<\/a>, Heartland says it&#8217;s consulting with legal counsel to decide on next steps.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll continue following this story as it develops, here on the blog and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/\">KQED News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Institute&#8217;s Peter Gleick says he used a fake name to obtain details on funding and strategy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[271,412,422],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-19785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-business","category-thescience","tag-heartland-institute","tag-pacific-institute","tag-peter-gleick"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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