text: Then there is the sad case of Peter Gleick, a once-respected environmental scientist who heads the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in California. Gleick disgraced himself and his cause when he confessed to stealing confidential documents from the Heartland Institute back in February in an effort to discredit the conservative think tank. What had Heartland done to deserve such treatment? It had given a platform to ideas considered anathema to Gleick and the global warming community.