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February 23, 2012

Global Warming and Earthly Lies

Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle


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Peter Gleick, president of Oakland's Pacific Institute and a prominent climate-change expert, admitted Monday that he lied. Gleick pretended to be someone else in order to obtain documents from the Heartland Institute, which has challenged mainstream scientific consensus on the role of man in global warming. . .

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