By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:17 EST, 23 February 2012 Subterfuge: Peter Gleick tricked a powerful thinktank into sending him confidential details of how they deny climate change A respected U.S. scientist has admitted duping a powerful thinktank into sending him confidential details of how they deny climate change. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, revealed in a blog post that he used a false name to get The Heartland Institute to send him the classified information. It included, he claimed, plans to create an 'anti-global warming science campaign for grade schools that will dissuade teachers from teaching science'.
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Peter Gleick used false name to get sent classified information
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Hoodwinked The Heartland Institute as he was 'blinded by frustration'
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Sparks debate with some calling him a hero, others a villain
I do not know the source of that original document but assumed it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with @placeholder and because I was named in it.