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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."
Obama has really made me disgusted with my countrymen. For the Democrats, it's made me disgusted with them for electing him in the first place (over all the other Democratic candidates in the primaries), when he had no experience, voted "present" for everything, and was just a bunch of empty rhetoric about "change" and "yes we can". But it's made me even more disgusted with everyone on the right because he shows just how utterly stupid they all are. 3 years later, they're still yelling about "socialism", "Marxism", and other such BS, when he's been doing everything almost exactly like Bush, and in some cases even worse (trampling on civil liberties, extra-judicial assassinations, TSA, etc.). He hasn't done a damn thing that resembles Marxism, instead he's been doing the same corrupt corporatist bullshit that Bush did. If the right-wingers had half a brain, they'd see that he's been their biggest ally in his moves to destroy the middle class and increase corporate power, since they love corporations and hate the middle class so much.
Its truly amazing that even when caught red-handed stealing documents in an effort to discredit his academic rival, and admitting as such, some people still think its a right wing conspiracy. Just as with Richard Dawkins and the evolution vs creationism debate, there is no debate allowed. Either you accept the truths from the Scientific gods (Gleick and Dawkins) or you are exiled. Half the English academics involved in global warming have been found to be fudging the facts, now we have this Gleick fraud trying to defame his rivals, and the majority of this blog think he's the one who's been wronged. Lets see this for what it is; an attempt to stifle dissent.
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.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
I guess you're one of those vapid morons with an IQ of 60 who thinks anyone who doesn't like Obama must automatically be a Bush fan. Go back to your idiotic sports games and leave this place for people with enough intelligence to know that the number system doesn't end at 2.
Maybe you should go live on Pluto, you idiot. I don't have any "deeply held prejudices", I just call things as I see them, which is that Obama is just as bad as Bush. I guess that's just too advanced for you idiotic Americans who automatically think everyone has to be on one "side" or another, like this is some stupid football game.