{"id":4499,"date":"2012-02-28T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2012-02-22T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:56:29","slug":"year-3-month-2-day-28-you-know-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-2-day-28-you-know-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 2, Day 28: You Know You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More pearl-clutching over the fib heard round the world, this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/02\/21\/BA0R1NAEQI.DTL\">from the San Francisco Chronicle:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The latest national uproar over climate change science has damaged, if not ruined, the reputation of one of the Bay Area&#8217;s most prominent scholars and raised serious questions about ethics during what has become a roiling political and ideological debate.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Gleick, a MacArthur Foundation fellow and co-founder and president of Oakland&#8217;s Pacific Institute, admitted Monday that he had posed as someone else and obtained confidential internal papers from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian group that has questioned the reality of human-caused global warming.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used yesterday&#8217;s letter to the WaPo as a model.  Sent February 22:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let&#8217;s all shed a few tears in sympathy for Heartland Institute.  Massively subsidized by some of the world&#8217;s most powerful corporations, these industrial-scale liars have finally been exposed as, well, liars.  Who wouldn&#8217;t cry victimhood under such circumstances?  And who cares that Heartland&#8217;s massive misrepresentations of scientific fact have been a core component of conservative obduracy on addressing climate change? It&#8217;s more fun to pillory climatologist Peter Gleick, who used a single strategically-targeted misrepresentation to expose Heartland&#8217;s mendacity.<\/p>\n<p>Heartland&#8217;s plans to teach climate-change denial in our nation&#8217;s schools are profoundly unpatriotic.  Remember Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s vision of a &#8220;well-informed citizenry,&#8221; and ask yourself: would the Sage of Monticello (a man who loved scientific truth as much as he loved his country) be outraged by Peter Gleick&#8217;s fib, or by the institutionalized anti-science pseudo-education that prompted it?<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More pearl-clutching over the fib heard round the world, this time from the San Francisco Chronicle: The latest national uproar over climate change science has damaged, if not ruined, the reputation of one of the Bay Area&#8217;s most prominent scholars and raised serious questions about ethics during what has become a roiling political and ideological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,6],"tags":[467,680,253,1082,207,1085,121],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-environment","tag-assholes","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-denialists","tag-heartland-institute","tag-idiots","tag-peter-gleick","tag-scientific-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}