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So Busted

“They Were Pushed” Part 2:

Another Inconvenient Truth: Polar Bear Researcher Suspended Over Integrity Issues



A leading climate scientist whose report in 2006 of drowning polar bears in Arctic waters galvanized the global warming movement—and were highlighted in Al Gore’s Oscar-winning climate-change documentary—has been suspended, possibly over the accuracy of his observations.

Charles Monnett—who manages as much as $50 million worth of climate research on Arctic wildlife and ecology—was told on July 18 that he was being put on leave pending an investigation into “integrity issues”, according to a letter posted online by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is questioning Monnett’s suspension.

The complaints against the Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) remain unclear, and the connection to his seven-page 2006 peer-reviewed paper on the drownings are unknown, despite a months-long or longer investigation.

PEER charges Monnett’s suspension amounts to a witch hunt.

“The quality and continuity of the scientific work he’s overseeing is distinctly being jeopardized,” Jeff Ruch, PEER’s executive director, told FoxNews.com.

His group alleges the Interior Department is violating its own rules and regulations, and that the ongoing investigation seems intended merely to disrupt Monnett’s body of scientific work.

Yeah right, after his crappy data sent half the friggin’ planet into Global Warming hysteria and caused governments the world over to dump trillions of dollars on this bullshit, suddenly everyone’s out to get him. Gosh.

Myron Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, could not speak directly to Monnett’s case but said he believes the public has a right to be skeptical about scientific claims related to global warming.

Even if every scientist is objective, “what we’re being asked to do is turn our economy around and spend trillions and trillions of dollars on the basis of claims about what’s going to happen to the climate,” he said, adding later: “If global warming really takes hold here in the next few years and bad things start to happen, then we can act. But right now, I think we should just be sitting on our hands, observing.”

Documents provided by PEER indicate investigators are focusing on observations that Monnett and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004, while conducting an aerial survey of bowhead whales. The report said they observed four dead polar bears floating in Arctic waters after a storm. They detailed their observations in an article published two years later in the journal Polar Biology; presentations also were given at scientific gatherings.
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In the peer-reviewed article, the researchers said they were reporting, to the best of their knowledge, the first observations of polar bears floating dead offshore and presumed drowned while apparently swimming long distances in open water—suggesting “that drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues.”

The article and presentations drew national attention and helped make the polar bear something of a poster child for the global warming movement. Al Gore’s mention of the polar bear in his documentary on climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” came up during investigators’ questioning of Gleason in January.

In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

So there you have it: two researchers were flying around counting whales, and saw FOUR dead bears floating in the water. Not 4,000. Not 40,000. 4. Just four. And then assumed a cause of death for them without doing any kind of investigation. Because raging freezing storms never killed anybody, right? Or ate some bad food and died from food poisoning? Or went for a swim less than 30 minutes after eating? And from that one published assumption Al Gore made himself a propaganda movie, snagged himself a Nobel Prize, and threw the whole damn planet into a 6 year tizzy. All based on 4 dead bears found in the ocean after a major arctic storm. And a profligate species got onto the endangered list, even though local bear counts and reports by natives showed that their population was perfectly healthy and growing.

Somewhere a bunch of seals are rolling on the beach laughing their asses off, because they know the truth. Under the cover of the storm, the bears were pushed.


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ROBLMAO


update: Considerably more coverage on the story here, details that show Monnett is the world’s leading drowning bears = global warming scientist, and perhaps the AGW quote of the decade:

It seems increasingly likely that the research backing the global warming doctrine is corrupt at every conceivable level.

Interview transcripts with Monnett are here and they are laughable. Really: the guy can’t remember if it was 3 bears or 4 he saw without looking at his notes. The whole bear scare was based on one observation during one transept flight (a back and forth “mowing the lawn” kind of flight used to count whales in a certain area) and the 3 (or was it 4?) dead bears seen in that small area were extrapolated to thousands more in the larger overall area. That’s junk science. It isn’t even good statistics; you can’t identify a trend based on one observation. But that was the snowball that started the whole AGW avalanche.

CBullit has a bit more, plus snooch updates.

Don’t expect Monnett to be tarred and feathered; it’s the Obama administration after all who is doing the investigation. Which means that Monnett is guaranteed to be found innocent if he happens to be black. But I don’t think he is. But I’m not holding my breath either. I expect a whitewash, or some sub-minion to get thrown under the bus.


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