Posted: Feb 21, 2012 4:32 pm
The Heartland Institute say one of the documents is fake, but haven't said whether what is said on the document is true or not. They don't deny they are taking donations to promote science denial, they just seem proud of the fact they aren't accountable for 1 of the documents in question. Which lead to this clarification blog post by Peter Gleick.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-g ... 89669.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-g ... 89669.html
Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science, there has been extensive speculation about the origin of the documents and intense discussion about what they reveal. Given the need for reliance on facts in the public climate debate, I am issuing the following statement:
At 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. It contained information about their funders and the Institute's apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy. 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.
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