The global warming religious zealots at the Daily Camera apparently aren’t aware of the journalistic fraud regarding the Heartland Institute memo’s or simply are choosing to ignore them. You can bring your self up to date on Peter Gleick’s fraud at the following links:
- Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax
- …Peter Glieck admist that he muddied the waters in the interest of clarifying muddied waters
- A variety of links from Instpundit
- Peter Gleick Confesses to Obtaining Heartland Documents Under False Pretenses
The last link, from the Atlantic’s Megan McCardle is a good place to start as it’s fairly obvious she’s not a shill for the Heartland Institute. A few excerpts…
Also of interest is the amount of funding of the Heartland Institute by the evil Kock brothers…
But not a full understanding of those documents, because the memo made curious errors. Most notably, it claimed that the Koch foundation had given $200,000 in 2011, when the actual number was $25,000 ($200,000 is what Heartland’s fundraising document indicates they hoped to get in 2012)–and since that money was donated for Health Care News, Heartland’s health care newsletter, it’s hard to see why it would show up in the climate strategy document, rather than, say, a document about their health care strategy. Given other anomalies surrounding the document, it seemed to me very likely that whoever had phished the authenticated board package had been disappointed by the lack of sizeable contributions from Big Oil and the Kochs, and so had written the memo to make sure that the documents told a nice, neat story about corruption and secrecy, rather than a boring, equivocal story about an issue advocacy organization with a spot of budget trouble.
