![]() I only note that the scientific understanding of the reality and risks of climate change is strong, compelling, and increasingly disturbing, and a rational public debate is desperately needed. I will not comment on the substance or implications of the materials others have and are doing so. I made no changes or alterations of any kind to any of the Heartland Institute documents or to the original anonymous communication. ![]() I can explicitly confirm, as can the Heartland Institute, that the documents they emailed to me are identical to the documents that have been made public. I forwarded, anonymously, the documents I had received to a set of journalists and experts working on climate issues. The materials the Heartland Institute sent to me confirmed many of the facts in the original document, including especially their 2012 fundraising strategy and budget. In an effort to do so, and in a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics, I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else's name. Given the potential impact however, I attempted to confirm the accuracy of the information in this document. I do not know the source of that original document but assumed it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it. It contained information about their funders and the Institute's apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy. Plus there were some similarities in the writing styles.Īt the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute's climate program strategy. And Gleick has done some writing for the Forbes site, which would explain the frankly lunatic paragraph which portrayed Forbes as something close to the site of a primordial battle between good and evil for the soul and conscience of America. Gleick's name had always seemed somewhat anomalous in the climate memo-I've never heard the climate skeptics mention him, though they do have a lot of very nasty stuff to say about folks like Michael Mann. Note, he's not tweeted for a couple days. you'll find he mentions himself in the memo that's all the clues for now. Look for somebody on the west coast ( the time zone the document was scanned in) You'll find somebody who doesnt know how to use parenthesis or commas, both in this memo and in other things he has written. If you want to look for the author of the fake memo, then look for somebody who tweets the word "anti-climate".
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