{"id":20187,"date":"2012-03-09T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=20187"},"modified":"2012-03-09T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:56:37","slug":"pacific-institutes-peter-gleick-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/03\/09\/pacific-institutes-peter-gleick-breaks-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick Breaks Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beleaguered climate scientist emerges but stays mum on Heartland<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pacific Institute founder Peter Gleick steered clear of his current controversy in his remarks at a water policy conference in L.A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly three weeks after admitting that he had faked his identity<\/a> to obtain documents from a conservative think-tank, noted California scientist and president of the Pacific Institute, Peter Gleick, returned to the public arena.<\/p>\n

Gleick spoke at the annual California Water Policy Conference<\/a> in Los Angeles and was warmly received by a crowd of roughly 300 California scientists, regulators and advocates.<\/p>\n

Notably missing from Gleick\u2019s talk — which focused on a wide range of global and regional water issues central to the Pacific Institute’s core mission — was any specific mention of last month\u2019s confession that he had impersonated of a board member of the Chicago-based, libertarian Heartland Institute to obtain internal documents outlining the group\u2019s anti-climate change campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should make it clear that today I am speaking as an individual, which I am always speaking as,\u201d Gleick told the audience. \u201cI will not be addressing the recent contretemps between me and the Heartland institute. At this point I am going to let my last Huffington Post piece and the Heartland documents speak for themselves,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if you don\u2019t have a clue what I\u2019m talking about you\u2019re better off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost immediately after Gleick\u2019s post appeared on the Huffington Post website, his admission was met a torrent of criticism<\/a> — particularly from conservative commentators and politicians. Criticism was not exclusive to those on the right, however. Andy Revkin of the New York Times Dot Earth blog noted that his \u201creputation was in ruins.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Others, however, praised his actions and some suggested that he should be afforded whistleblower protection.<\/p>\n

[module align=”left” width=”half” type=”pull-quote”]”It isn\u2019t always clear that the public, or even colleagues, appreciate it when scientists stray too far into the public arena.”[\/module]<\/p>\n

Since the incident, Gleick has taken temporary leave as president of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute<\/a> and the organization has appointed a third party to investigate the matter. Heartland has announced it is contemplating legal action.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a scientist by training and it isn\u2019t always clear that the public, or even colleagues, appreciate it when scientists stray too far into the public arena. But I am a concerned and interested and citizen as well, as are all of you,\u201d he told the audience.<\/p>\n

Gleick would not discuss the specifics of his leave with me but hinted in his talk that he would continue to oppose those who seek to discount mounting scientific evidence of human-induced climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who deny this science and this evidence are becoming increasingly desperate in their efforts to attack the science and scientists and fool the public and prevent any rational discussion of a climate or energy policy from being adopted,\u201d he said in his remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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