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Scientist who said polar bears were drowning

investigated
for 'scientific misconduct'

Probe hailed by climate change
skeptics

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a Science magazine article - click for
story

29
Jul 11 - The scientist who claimed polar bears were drowning because of
melting ice caps has been placed on administrative leave as officials
investigate scientific misconduct allegations.

Although
it is unclear what the allegations are, a US government watchdog group
representing  Monnett says investigators are focused on observations
of bears he and researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004.

Just
five years ago, Dr Charles Monnett, a federal wildlife biologist working
in Alaska, stunned the world after spotting four polar bear bodies
floating in the sea miles from shore.

Monnett
and Gleason detailed their observations in an article published two years
later in the journal Polar Biology, suggesting the increased incidence of
storms caused by global warming, and the loss of ice for polar bears to
walk on, could lead to more deaths in the future.

The
article helped galvanize the global warming movement..

Yesterday
it emerged Dr Monnett – who works for the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) in charge of a £30million
project researching the Arctic's wildlife – is being investigated for
'integrity issues' apparently linked to the polar bear report.

A
BOEMRE spokeswoman declined to comment on an “ongoing internal
investigation.”

Monnett's
suspension has  infuriated conservationists who say the Obama
administration is  'persecuting' the Anchorage-based scientist.

The
group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a complaint
on Dr Monnett's behalf yesterday with BOEMRE.

Jeff
Ruch, executive director of the watchdog group, said the investigator had
not yet told Dr Monnett of the specific charges or questions related to
the scientific integrity of his work, and that the bureau had barred Dr
Monnett from speaking to journalists.

Dr
Monnett's bear sighting in 2004 was cited by Al Gore in his documentary An
Inconvenient Truth.

Monnett's
paper helped make the polar bear a 'poster child' for the global warming
movement, and in 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened
species, with its survival at risk due to global warming.

Related: See New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming
Alarmism

Myron
Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the case reinforces
the group's position that people should be more skeptical about the work
of climate change scientists.

"What
we're being asked to do is turn our economy around and spend trillions and
trillions of dollars on the basis of" climate change claims, he
said.

Last
year scientists working for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change came under fire for exaggerating the threat of  global
warming.

The
body falsely claimed Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 after lifting
claims from an unsubstantiated report written by the green charity
WWF.

See
entire article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2019953/Scientist-claimed-polar-bears-
drowning-investigated-scientific-misconduct.html

Also see great article: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/28/al-gores-drowned-polar-bear-ait-source-under-investigation/

Also
see: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/report-on-dead-polar-bears-leads-to-ban/story-e6frg6so-1226104557431

Also
see: http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-arctic-scientist-under-investigation-082217993.html

Also
see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8669678/Polar-bear-climate-scientist-investigated-over-misconduct.html

Also
see: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/scientist-tied-to-global-warming-being-investigated-for-scientific-misconduct/

Thanks
to Emma Corry, Caroline Snyder, Charlie Carnes, Linda Binutti, Vern
Peterman and Jim Glore for these links

"Scientific
misconduct, never could have expected that (eyes rolling)," says
Jim.

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