Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » Dot Earth, more: A climate campaigner who, his judgment ‘blinded’ he says, tricked Heartland Institute.
Reality, as a source for many of us who have reported climate reveals, is not so glorious. Peter Gleick, a hydrologist and climate policy analyst, a MacArthur Foundation fellow, and longtime arguer for sturdy policies to soften the scale and impact of global warming, this week confessed. (…)
I’ll still regard him as a good guy, a good source, but this does give one deep pause. Still up in the air is who wrote one, damning document in the set that Heartland insists is an outright forgery.
