http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-climate-20120225,0,3701177.story
AN HONEST APPRAISAL OF GLEICK’S TREACHERY BY A BELIEVER IN THE WARMERS…..RSK
Skulduggery undermines the case for global warming
Earlier this month, the Internet lit up with a tantalizing whodunit. Someone had leaked to bloggers confidential internal fundraising and strategic documents from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank that questions global warming orthodoxy.
The apparent goal: to discredit and embarrass those who raise doubts about the science behind climate change.
Heartland officials cried foul, asserting that at least one of the documents was forged. They vowed to track down the leaker and pursue charges.
This week, Peter Gleick saved them the trouble of a search. He confessed that he had assumed a false identity to obtain some of the documents and then leaked them. That sounded plausible: Heartland had said last week that someone got the documents by calling its Chicago headquarters and posing as a Heartland board member seeking information, the Tribune reported.
So who is Gleick? Some anonymous cyberhacker with a grudge against climate skeptics? Not quite. Gleick is a prominent environmental activist, head of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security in Oakland, Calif. He’s also a former MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, and … chair of the American Geophysical Union’s Task Force on Scientific Ethics.