He had no chance of his claims surviving a debate, so he chose criminal activity instead. For this, he is a hero of the left.
Heartland is also seeking legal action, both criminal and civil. Still, they are stumped at why he tried espionage to attack Heartland when he had been invited to publicly challenge climate change doubters at an upcoming benefit dinner.
“Gleick looks set to be spending a good chunk of his MacArthur genius prize winnings on lawyers; he’s retained the same criminal attorney that Andrew Fastow of Enron used for his defense against fraud charges. And Gleick has hired Clinton/Gore crisis manager Chris Lehane. Heartland, for its part, has set up a legal defense fund to pursue a civil case against Gleick”
http://www.thegwpf.org/opinion-pros-a-cons/5058-steven-f-hayward-why-the-climate-skeptics-are-winning.html
Very funny how Gleick’s attorney re-iterates the delusion that there is some kind of skullduggery behind Heartland’s simple advocacy of a viewpoint. ….which btw, is the only valid viewpoint in the (climate) discussion!
What Gliek was after was name of Heartland’s sponsors. He didn’t want these names for so he could write them personnally. He wanted them so he could give them to a liberal attack machine that would make it clear that financial support for cause the liberals don’t like would come at a very high price. There are already calls for investigation into an Dept of Int. employee who earned a $1000 a month stipend. You can be sure if there were any large corporate sponsors, they would be savaged in the media and political cronies would be called out in congress to investigate. I wonder how many folks that fought for free speech on campus in the 1960′s are not behind the effort to stifle it now?
Yes, it is the most baffling thing about it all. Why on Earth did he have such a brain-fart? Was he drunk? With ego, alcohol or paranoia?
He’s really not very bright. Stupid people do stupid things.
The funniest part is…..any three year old would have known how to do it…and get away with it
lol, no doubt, Omn had a little post about the mental denseness of our climatologists.
Gleick doesn’t know about .pdf’s and Jones thinks Excel is to tricky to manage. …… lol
Suyts, you’re wrong. In evidence I provide a pic of Dr Gleick’s business card.
Actually, Gleick has shown a pattern of escalating behavior, not just this isolated incident.
He got the editor of the journal “Remote Sensing” to resign for daring to publish an AGW-skeptical scientific article.
http://judithcurry.com/2011/09/02/update-on-the-spencer-braswell-paper/
http://judithcurry.com/2011/09/05/update-on-spencer-braswell-part-ii/
He wrote a review trashing an AGW-skeptical book, without first reading the book. http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/19/laframboise-on-the-ipcc/
I bet there are more examples.
Who knows what other incriminating information law enforcement will find on his computer hard drive.
It wasn’t a brain fart at all. It was a 3 week effort with back and forth correspondence with Heartland. This is a bitter, conniving man here. And the fact that the leftists are defending his actions? How far will this crew go when the planet doesn’t show any more warming in the next 5-10 years? I wouldn’t put it past them to start massaging the raw data (which I also believe they have done already) to fit their needs.
How far they will go? They have already basically corrupted established Climate Science. The entire huge enterprise produces NOTHING SCIENTIFIC. It’s ALL MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN THERE.
They basically run the energy economy of Europe into the ground. It’s lunatics at the controls already, and for a long time now.
His actions suggest (to me) that, in some sense, he has lost his moral compass. That is, he no longer seems able to assess the seriousness of his actions or put them in the proper perspective. I’m not saying I have a real grasp of what’s going on here (nor do I think anyone else has) – these are just general intuitions.
It’s the sort of thing that Dostoevsky explored in The Possessed (now called Demons) and, of course, Crime and Punishment. I’m not sure we have any better understanding of such matters than he did then.
“Heartland no doubt will seek to exploit Dr. Gleick’s admitted lapse in judgement…”
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ROTFL…they make it sound like he forgot to buy milk……………
There’s no disclosure involved with wire fraud, identity theft, etc
He’s facing criminal charges…….the civil part will come after the criminal charges
…He got lousy lawyers
and phishing….
I keep seeing people posting about the civil part…..
Phishing is not a crime, unless you take it to the next step….and do something with it….
Gleick admitted doing something with it…he’s going to jail…and it has nothing to do with disclosure from HI
“I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name.”
Gleick admitted doing something with it…he’s going to jail…and it has nothing to do with disclosure from HI
I think you underestimate the cupidity of California’s democrat stuffed justice system
It’s all so 12th Century!
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/the-modern-parents/
What’s especially ironic is that Gleick will likely end up being one of the biggest individual donors to the Heartland Institute after all this is finished. What a way to donate to a cause you despise.
Ha! I just had one of my loudest laughs of the day!
Makes one wonder dosen’t it?
This does not speak will for the technical skills of the AGW crowd. It’s becoming clear why their climate change models cannot correctly predict that it will be growing darker towards evening.
Lord Monckton demands action against Fraudsters like Gleick.
See the story at ….
http://ukipscotland.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/heartland-fakegate-why-the-perps-should-be-prosecuted/
So basically, Gleik commited career killing fraud, when all he had to do was attend the Heartland dinner, where he could have personally met the donors he was trying to discover in the first place.
Right about now, I see those two animated guys from the old Guiness commercials yelling, “Brilliant!!”