[Climate scientist] Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining Heartland Climate Files

[JDPriestly]

48. I also disagree that the allegedly fake document reads like

a fake. It reads like a summary of the packet of documents. Who wrote the allegedly fake document may depend on when the whole packet was sent. The summary may have been written by someone at a lower level in the Heartland Institute, someone who prepared it as a courtesy to the person to whom the entire packet was intended to be sent.

Unfortunately, the sort of people who support the Heartland probably will not change their minds about the organization because of the release of the memos.

Whether the summary document is a fake or not is really not very important to anyone except the man who has admitted to obtaining the documents.

Wouldn't you expect the Heartland Institute to call the board member's office to verify that the copy had been requested? I would have, especially if I had been requested to send it to an address that was a bit different from the usual address for that board member. Heartland Institute was careless.