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It was pure-and-simple phishing, the Guardian reports after the Heartland Institute makes public an email chain in which Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick asks for — and gets — internal documents from the climate-denying thinktank. Turns out Gleick pretended to be a Heartland board member and asked to have board emails sent to an address that wasn't the board member's. Gleick asked for a leave of absence Friday.