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Lie, Cheat, Steal: Save the Planet!

Kruelhunter Wrote: Apr 26, 2012 12:23 PM

Humans can and do affect weather. The most common cause is the heat islands that are cities and the most common effect is the diversion of all but the most powerful fronts and weather systems to other areas so that a storm that does affect a city is often a doozey. When I was a kid the self proclaimed 'smart' people blamed nuclear weapons testing for weather and climate change and now they blame SUVs. So it goes...

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Lie, Cheat, Steal: Save the Planet!

Speaking of lies and the liars that spread them: In light of yesterday's column on the cottage industry of global warming hysteria and the slant they give the day's news, I got a nice email from the people at the Heartland Institute reminding me of the theft and alteration of documents from Heartland by hysterical warming apologist Professor Peter Gleick, a supposed ethics expert with the Pacific Institute.

I first covered the story as it was occuring in February, when Heartland reported the theft. Sinced then Heartland has published a list of websites and periodicals that abetted Gleick. I have have appended that list at the...