The Fakegate Gang

Here they are, a rogue’s gallery of organizations that are willing to invade people’s privacy in pursuit of an ideological campaign called “global warming.”

Please contact them – by commenting on the posts, emailing the bloggers or webmasters, even picking up the phone or writing a letter – to insist that they (1) remove those documents from their sites; (2) remove from their sites all posts that refer or relate in any manner to those documents; (3) remove from their Web sites any and all quotations from those documents; (4) publish retractions on their Web sites of prior postings; and (5) remove all such documents from their servers.

The following Web sites and blogs posted stolen and fake Heartland documents on their own servers:

February 14 – Heartland Insider Exposes Institute’s Budget and Strategy
DeSmogBlog
Mr. Brendan G DeMelle, editor
3000 Royal Centre
1055 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 3R3
email: editor@desmogblog.com

February 14 – Internal Documents: The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax
ThinkProgress.com
Mr. Brad Johnson
Center for American Progress Action Fund
1333 H Street NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
contact page
202/682-1611

February 15 – Climate Denial Bombshell (Update)
Huffington Post
Ms. Arianna Huffington, president & editor in chief
560 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
contact page
212/245-7844

February 15 – Climate Denial Bombshell (Update)
Huffington Post
Mr. Shawn Lawrence Otto, blogger
177th Street N
Marine On Saint Croix, MN 55047-9760
contact page
651-433-2982 or 651-433-3103

February 15 – Heartland burned by ‘DenialGate’ memos
Politico
Mr. John H. Harris, editor-in-chief
1100 Wilson Boulevard #610
Arlington, VA, 22209
contact page
703/647-7999

February 14 – HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute’s Insider Reveals Secrets
Greg Laden’s Blog
Mr. Greg T. Laden
44788 265th Lane
Aitkin, MN 56431-4807
contact: greg@gregladen.com
218/678-2743

The following organizations have condoned the theft, quoted the forged memo, or are attacking the scientists and others whose identities were revealed by Peter Gleick. Urge them to stop, retract their comments, and apologize for the damage they have caused:

Pacific Institute
654 13th Street,
Preservation Park
Oakland, CA 94612
510/251-1600
510/251-2203 (fax)
info@pacinst.org

Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20001
202/462-1177
202/462-4507 (fax)
info@wdc.greenpeace.org

National Center for Science Education
420 40th Street, Suite 2
Oakland, CA 94609-2688
510/601-7203
800/290-6006 (toll freee)
510/601-7204 (fax)
info@ncse.com

350.0rg
155 Water St 6FL
Brooklyn, NY 11201
510/250-7860
jamie@350.org

Forecast the Facts
Blair Fitzgibbon
202/503-6141
media@forecastthefacts.org

Citizen Engagement Laboratory
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
510/875-2135
info@engagementlab.org

League of Conservation Voters
1920 L Street, NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
phone: 202/785-8683
FAX: 202/835-0491
kate_geller@lcv.org