Oakland-based climate researcher Peter Gleick confirmed Monday that he?s the source of last week?s leak of documents purporting to reveal the budget and strategy of the Heartland Institute.
Writing on his Huffington Post blog, Gleick, the president and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, said he received one document anonymously at the start of the year but then, in an attempt to confirm its accuracy, made a ?serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics? by contacting the Chicago-based libertarian group using someone else?s name.
Continue ReadingThe Heartland Institute replied to him with more materials and "confirmed many of the facts in the original document, including especially their 2012 fundraising strategy and budget," Gleick wrote, referring to its purported plans to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors like the Charles G. Koch Foundation and the creation of new school curriculum questioning climate change science.
"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," Gleick wrote. "I made no changes or alterations of any kind to any of the Heartland Institute documents or to the original anonymous communication."
Gleick?s blog post appears to end one of the mysteries from last week's leak with his acknowledgment that he also forwarded the documents to journalists and other experts who work on climate issues. The left-leaning DeSmogBlog and Climate Progress, which is affiliated with the Center for American Progress, were among the sites to first publish the materials Feb. 14.
"I will not comment on the substance or implications of the materials; others have and are doing so," Gleick wrote. "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."
"My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts ? often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated ? to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved," he wrote. "Nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case. I offer my personal apologies to all those affected."
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