Peter Gleick violated a principle rule of the global-warming debate: Climate scientists must be better than their opponents.
Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, admitted Monday night that he dishonestly obtained fundraising and strategy document from the Heartland Institute, an obnoxious anti-climate science think tank. In the process, he’s done more to discredit himself and his work than he has to expose cynicism and collusion among global-warming deniers.
It’s very tempting for scientists and their allies to employ to tactics of their aggressive critics....
Whatever the misdeeds of those who attack climate research, however braindead the opposition to climate scientists appears to be, advocates degrade themselves when they allow their frustrations to get the better of their ethical responsibilities. They lend credence to the (wrong) impression that both sides of the debate are equally worthy of criticism, that global warming is another ideological war that both sides fight deceitfully...
Taking the high road is not easy or fun. But Gleick and the rest of us who favor decarbonizing the world economy have to be, and should want to be, the adults in the debate. Gleick’s confession and apology Monday are more than climate scientists ever got from deniers for the overblown “Climategate” e-mail scandal. But it would have been far better if he hadn’t needed to provide either.
Chief UN climate [hoax] chief turns to CEOs for action | 9news.com
Christiana Figueres told AP on Tuesday that her efforts to reach out to high-profile executives from companies such as Coca-Cola, Unilever and Virgin Group represent "a deeper recognition of the fact that the private sector can contribute in a decisive way."
Since the start of 2012, the Costa Rican head of the U.N. climate agency has met with corporate leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos and on a cruise to Antarctica organized by climate campaigner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Scientist Peter Gleick apologises for 'serious lapse in judgment and ethics', but supporters say Heartland remains the villain
...For some campaigners, such as Naomi Klein, Gleick was an unalloyed hero, who should be sent some "Twitter love", she wrote on Tuesday....
"What Peter Gleick did was unethical. He acknowledges that from a point of view of professional ethics there is no defending those actions," said Dale Jamieson, an expert on ethics who heads the environmental studies programme at New York University. "But relative to what has been going on on the climate denial side this is a fairly small breach of ethics."
James' Empty Blog: Well this is fun
[Annan] My instinctive response is:
Peter Gleick, you are a complete and utter t*at of the highest order.
Like it or hate it, it’s unlikely this chapter of the climate change science/policy/politics dialogue is going away any time soon. You can expect to hear lots more about it in coming weeks and months.
Romm: ‘Revkin has zero credibility…’ | JunkScience.com
Deniergate is turning out to be more fun than Al Gore’s Massage-gate..
Angry über-alarmist blogger Joe Romm is enraged at fellow alarmist Andrew Revkin for condemning Peter Gleick...
Romm said it three times so it must be true.
Huge chunks of ice sink floating restaurant on Danube
Ice flows up to three-feet (one-meter) thick smashed into hundreds of boats, rafts, pontoons and barges on the River Danube near Belgrade, and sank a floating restaurant, officials and witnesses said Monday.
Gleick to stay at Pacific Institute | JunkScience.com
In the name of “social equity”…
Steve Zwick: ‘Why Gleick Was Right To Leak the Docs’ | JunkScience.com
Zwick says the skepticism is “like graffiti – something a slacker can ‘create’ in a matter of seconds, but which a gainfully employed man needs hours to erase.”
Peter Gleick, bus inspector « The Daily Bayonet
Gleick has a promising future as a bus inspector. Specifically, the underside of said transportation. Less than 24 hours after admitting his role in fakegate, Gleick has a number of vehicles already lined up
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