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."

Comments

Forgery - (And obviously so)

[BlackWind]

Here is one article written about it (by someone who believes in AGW)
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/leaked-docs-from-heartland-institute-cause-a-stir-but-is-one-a-fake/253165/

Re:Forgery - (And obviously so)

[steveha]

I agree that Megan McArdle's analysis of this document is interesting and worth reading.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/leaked-docs-from-heartland-institute-cause-a-stir-but-is-one-a-fake/253165/

For a document that supposedly is a glimpse to the inside machinations of a bunch of corporate suits, it sure has an odd tone.

See also the followup:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/heartland-memo-looking-faker-by-the-minute/253276/

The metadata and timestamp analysis is interesting as well.

steveha

Interesting analysis of the memo...

[theangrypeon]

Some pretty interesting and pretty detailed analysis of the memo here.

I'm inclined to say the memo is probably fake given all the weirdness surrounding it, and given who the "leaker" is.