Battleground for ideas (Image: Thomas Barwick/Iconica/Getty)
Editorial: “Don’t cloud young minds“
Update: On 20 February, water expert Peter Gleick declared in a statement on The Huffington Post that he was the source of the leaked documents (see below).
Gleick, who is founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, said he had received an anonymous document describing the Heartland Institute’s climate strategy earlier this year. In an effort to confirm the document, “and in a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics”, he writes, “I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name”.…
