Warmist Gavin Schmidt tries to spin Gleick's crimes as "irrationality in the heat of the moment"

Fakegate affair: Let’s blame it on “the heat of the moment” « An Honest Climate Debate

[Schmidt] As scientists, we’re supposed to be ethical, and upstanding, and we’re supposed to have truth and light on our side, and generally we do, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not human, that we’re not sometimes prone to irrationality in the heat of the moment.

FakeGate | The Heartland Institute

Note that Gleick's (most recent?) fraud spree lasted for weeks.