He didn't cherry pick the evidence, and Heartland has not said what is false
in the strategy memo.
Heartland will file in federal court, and a federal judge will order discovery of all documents and records that are not just relevant to the fake claim Gleick published
in the strategy memo, but to anything that might even lead to discovery of relevant evidence.
The materials Heartland sent Gleick «confirm many of the facts»
in the strategy memo because the memo is mostly a pastiche of phrases taken from other documents.
He also implicitly acknowledges that not all the facts
in the strategy memo are confirmed by the other documents.
On Wednesday, Koch confirmed that it did not cut a check for the $ 200K mentioned
in the strategy memo after all.
Not exact matches
«
In this newly created role, Jeffrey will be responsible for Data Governance and Architecture firmwide, with a particular focus on our data and information
strategy, controls, policy, commercialization and business intelligence,» the
memo said.
«I spend the vast majority of my time drafting briefs,
memos in preparation for briefs, and participating
in pretty high - level
strategy decisions.
«Our processes are changing, along with our investments
in technology that may impact the number of people required to perform various tasks,» Goldberg said
in the
memo, which directed employees to a detailed letter about the company's
strategy.
This
strategy was succinctly described by a tobacco industry attorney
in an internal
memo to his colleagues:
A vastly different message arrived from Howard Dean and the Dems this afternoon: they're circulating a
strategy memo that (shocker) predicts major Democratic gains
in 2008, assuming that we all pull together as a team and do our best to win one for the Gipper (oh, wait).
• Cable criticised Steve Hilton, David Cameron's
strategy chief, over the
memo he wrote suggesting maternity leave could be cut
in the interests of promoting growth.
According to a polling
memo released by Katko's campaign, Public Opinion
Strategies believes Katko has the momentum
in the race.
The two - pronged
strategy, Ross wrote
in a 26 March
memo explaining his decision, will «maximize» the bureau's ability to carry out its constitutionally mandated requirement to conduct an accurate head count.
Since the September announcement, Blackburn has decided to «conduct an extensive study of our local assessment beliefs and
strategies,» he said
in a
memo sent to principals across the county Tuesday.
As reported by Mike Antonucci, on June 13, 2015, four days after Clinton announced her candidacy, her director of labor outreach, Nikki Budzinski, sent a
memo to other campaign officials discussing possible
strategies for the upcoming NEA Representative Assembly (RA), set for the following month
in Florida.
Less than a week later,
in an August 4, 2009
strategy memo for the board of directors of Penguin's ultimate parent company, Penguin Group CEO John Makinson conveyed the same message:
Screen - printed black text on bright green, the
memo requests a review of the «al Qida network» (eight months before 9/11) and inquires about funding groups
in opposition to «the Taliban / al Qida,» such as the Afghan Northern Alliance, the perceived «threat magnitude» from the terrorist network, and the Bush administration's intended
strategy.
The
strategy is explcitly put forward
in this
memo by political advisor Frank Luntz (as quoted
in Elizabeth Kolbert's «The Climate of Man (Part III)» — New Yorker, May 9, 2005.
Perhaps the most glaring evidence of this
strategy was a long
memo written by Joe Walker, who worked
in public relations at the American Petroleum Industry, that surfaced
in 1998.
A particularly prominent one is Dossier # 5, where the UCS clearly loves (as I pointed out
in my July 9 blog post) a document scan out of Greenpeace's old collection (click image below, to enlarge) of the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) documents — the ones with the so - called «leaked
strategy memo to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact».
In January 2009, a 2004 leaked
memo to then Peabody CEO Irl F. Engelhardt from Steve Miller, who was President of the Center for Energy and Economic Development (now called American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity), detailed the public relations and lobbying
strategies being used to counteract issues including climate change, mercury, plant development, and EPA rulings.
A point that you didn't mention is that both the purported independent writer of the
strategy memo and Gleik (
in his «verifying») made the same errors regarding the Koch $ 200K donation.
Saying Koch gave 200K when
in fact it was 25K and then not realizing that this was for health care issues, so why would someone able to secretly contact half the board put the wrong number about the wrong topic
in a
memo that was supposed to be on climate
strategy?
However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry
memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»
strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate
in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those
memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).
Dig deep enough
in the «crooked skeptics» accusation, and you ultimately discover that
in regard to the notion about skeptics being
in a pay - for - performance arrangement with anybody
in the fossil fuel industry, there's only one usable weapon
in the enviro - activists» arsenal to indict those skeptics as industry - paid shills: the supposedly leaked industry
memo set from a public relations campaign called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) supposedly containing the «reposition global warming»
strategy goal, which targeted «older, less - educated males» and «younger, lower - income women.»
A
memo leaked to the New York Times
in 1998 exposed its
strategy of investing millions to muddy the science on climate change among «congress, the media and other key audiences».
They invested millions of dollars
in a disinformation campaign that aimed to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» according to an internal
strategy memo.
Journalist Ross Gelbspan exposed the corporate campaign
in his 1997 book, The Heat Is On, which quoted a 1991
strategy memo: the goal was to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
Ross Gelbspan exposed the corporate campaign
in his 1997 book, The Heat Is On, which quoted a 1991
strategy memo: the goal was to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
(Aside: The same question could be posed about the 2008 Kivalina v Exxon global warming nuisance lawsuit, where the citation for the ICE campaign
strategy / targeting
memos was,
in part, the New York Times, which
in turn said the source was the Sierra Club, which to this day acts as though the event never happened.
Far and above all the other so - called evidence used
in attempts to show that a sinister industry plot exists is what I term the core evidence: the set of leaked
memos from way back
in 1991 — supposedly from the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) public relations campaign — containing the alleged
strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» where the targeted audience was «older, less educated males» and «younger, lower income women.»
■ A computer analysis conducted by Juola & Associates, the premier provider of expert analysis and testimony
in the field of text and authorship, concluded «it is more likely than not that Gleick is
in fact the author / compiler of the document entitled «Confidential
Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy,» and further that the document does not represent a genuine strategy memo from the Heartland Institute.&ra
Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate
Strategy,» and further that the document does not represent a genuine strategy memo from the Heartland Institute
Strategy,» and further that the document does not represent a genuine
strategy memo from the Heartland Institute
strategy memo from the Heartland Institute.&ra
memo from the Heartland Institute.»
In a leaked
memo titled the «Global Climate Science Communications Plan,» the task force laid out a
strategy to «build a case against precipitous action on climate change based on the scientific uncertainty.»
Dr. Gleick had also allegedly forged a two - page «
strategy memo» purporting that the Institute was engaged
in a variety of efforts to fraudulently undermine the claims of global warming scientists.
More details can be found
in our 2012 Proposed Budget document and 2012 Fundraising
Strategy memo.
But I still think Gleick's role was significantly different if his HuffPo confession was true (as to the
strategy memo having been supplied to him anonymously) versus if the confession was itself another layer of deception.If Gleick forged the
strategy memo himself, after he phished the legitimate documents, then he's willing to knowingly lie to the public
in pursuit of his ideological agenda.
A month ago, Juola & Associates, the premier provider of expert analysis and testimony
in the field of text and authorship, said «it is more likely than not that Gleick is
in fact the author / compiler of the document entitled «Confidential
Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy,» and further that the document does not represent a genuine strategy memo from the Heartland Institute.&ra
Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate
Strategy,» and further that the document does not represent a genuine strategy memo from the Heartland Institute
Strategy,» and further that the document does not represent a genuine
strategy memo from the Heartland Institute
strategy memo from the Heartland Institute.&ra
memo from the Heartland Institute.»
January 2012 Confidential
Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate
Strategy Given the increasingly important role the Heartland Institute is playing
in leading the fight to prevent the implementation of dangerous policy actions to address the supposed risks of global warming, it is useful to set priorities for our efforts
in 2012.
The Heartland Institute today released more evidence that Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick was the likely author of a fake «climate
strategy memo» that Gleick originally claimed came from a «Heartland insider,» and later said he received «
in the mail» from an anonymous source.
While confessing to using fraud to obtain the stolen documents, he claimed to have received the «climate
strategy»
memo anonymously
in the mail.
In any case, contrary to DeSmog Blog's editorializing in the guise of reporting, Gleick does not claim to have authenticated the strategy mem
In any case, contrary to DeSmog Blog's editorializing
in the guise of reporting, Gleick does not claim to have authenticated the strategy mem
in the guise of reporting, Gleick does not claim to have authenticated the
strategy memo:
In short, the alleged
strategy memo gets basic information — how much Koch contributed and for which program activities — stunningly wrong.
What I found
in late 2009 almost always led me to myriad praise of Gelbspan as the discoverer of leaked industry
memos containing the awkward «
strategy» phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which proved skeptic climate scientists were on the payroll of «Big Coal & Oil.»
In 2013, I asked a member of the advertising agency promoting ICE campaign and ICE's media spokesperson whether the «sinister» strategy / targeting memos were ever used in the campaig
In 2013, I asked a member of the advertising agency promoting ICE campaign and ICE's media spokesperson whether the «sinister»
strategy / targeting
memos were ever used
in the campaig
in the campaign.
The tobacco industry was caught red - handed with a secret
memo strategy saying «doubt was their product ``; catch skeptic climate scientists
in a similar conspiracy with Big Coal & Oil where the
strategy is to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» and you'll have the public so outraged that they will never trust a word those skeptics have to say.
CEI was following a
strategy such as the one outlined
in a
memo from the American Petroleum Institute, which The New York Times obtained
in 1998: «Victory will be achieved when... recognition of uncertainty becomes part of the conventional wisdom.»
In February 2012, Peter Gleick alleged that he received, anonymously in the mail, a document titled «Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy» from someone he claimed was a «Heartland Insider.&raqu
In February 2012, Peter Gleick alleged that he received, anonymously
in the mail, a document titled «Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy» from someone he claimed was a «Heartland Insider.&raqu
in the mail, a document titled «Confidential
Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate
Strategy» from someone he claimed was a «Heartland Insider.»
Extensive media reports
in subsequent days — including an extensive examination by Megan McArdle published at The Atlantic — as well as an independent investigation concluded that the «confidential»
memo about Heartland's «climate
strategy» that Gleick said was from a «Heartland Insider» was forged.
In all the circumstances — taking into account Peter Gleick's explanation of the origin of the Heartland documents, and in direct contradiction of Heartland's stated position — DeSmogBlog has concluded that the Climate Strategy memo is authenti
In all the circumstances — taking into account Peter Gleick's explanation of the origin of the Heartland documents, and
in direct contradiction of Heartland's stated position — DeSmogBlog has concluded that the Climate Strategy memo is authenti
in direct contradiction of Heartland's stated position — DeSmogBlog has concluded that the Climate
Strategy memo is authentic.
Gleick also admitted to lying about the nature of one document he originally claimed had come from Heartland, a «
strategy memo» that purported to describe Heartland's plans to address climate change
in the coming year.