Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real

The Bad Astronomer writes "Last week, an anonymous source leaked several internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a non-profit think tank known for anti-global-warming rhetoric. The leaker has come forward: Peter Gleick, scientist and journalist. In his admission, he cites his own breach of ethics, but also maintains that all the documents are real. This includes the potentially embarrassing '2012 Climate Strategy' document stating that Heartland wants to 'dissuade teachers from teaching science.' Heartland still claims this document is a forgery, but there is no solid evidence either way."

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Leak == good

[Compaqt]

I can't really comment about whether all the docs are real, but, just on the issue of the propriety of leaking documents:

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

It was great to be able to read the documents in Climategate I and II. And it's great to be able to read these, too.

Although Climategate has shown climate "scientists" to be more concerned about propaganda than science, and has thrown the whole theory of global warming (oops, I mean the theory that climate changes over time) into question, no one should be under any illusion that the think tanks that propagandize against AGW aren't oil company shills.

They may be right (by coincidence), but they're still shills.

Expecting a mod-down since I've hit both sides in this post.