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FakeGate turns Real! Warmist Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining Heartland Climate Files — ‘Leaves his reputation in ruins & threatens to undercut the cause’

NYT’s Revkin unloads on Peter Gleick! ‘Gleick’s use of deception in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others’[email protected] – Revkin: ‘One way or the other, …That is his personal tragedy and shame (and I’m sure devastating for his colleagues, friends and family)’…His admitted acts of deception in acquiring the cache of authentic Heartland documents surely will sustain suspicion that he created the summary, which Heartland’s leadership insists is fake’

Warmist Gleick: ‘In a serious lapse of my own & professional judgment & ethics, I solicited & received additional materials directly from Heartland under someone else’s name’ [email protected] – Gleick blames skeptics for making him to commit criminal acts!? ‘My judgment was blinded by my frustration with ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded, & coordinated — to attack climate science & scientists & prevent this debate, & by lack of transparency of orgs involved. Nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case. I offer my personal apologies to all those affected’

Flashback May 2011: Warmist Peter Gleick angry at Climate Depot’s Morano for exposing his unscientific tornado/climate claims – ‘Gleick lashes out at ‘the misrepresentations of deniers like Morano’ and then claims ‘there IS a connection: not of attribution, but of consequences’

Warmist turned almost skeptic Prof. Judith Curry: ‘My first interaction with Gleick was he invited me to speak in an AGU session that he was organizing on integrity of science’ — Curry: Gleick ‘made it known to me via email that he has been displeased with my ‘behavior.’ I seem to have gotten his goat to have been mentioned in the fake Heartland strategy doc (hard to believe that he didn’t write this)…The irony of it all, this coming from a scientist that has made a particular point about integrity and written many essays and even testified to congress on the subject’

Statement by The Heartland Institute on Gleick Confession: ‘Gleick’s crime was a serious one’ – ‘The documents he admits stealing contained personal information about Heartland staff members, donors, and alliesk…A mere apology is not enough to undo the damage…Many independent commentators already have concluded the memo was most likely