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Polar-bear protector pinkslipped

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Everybody knows that global warming is real because all the icebergs are melting and all the polar bears who live on them are drowning. Which is why the brave truth-teller who told us so is being silenced! Associated Press:

A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.

Charles Monnett, an Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into “integrity issues.” But he has not yet been informed by the inspector general’s office of specific charges or questions related to the scientific integrity of his work, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility…

Documents provided by Ruch’s group indicate questioning by investigators has centered on observations that Monnett and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004, while conducting an aerial survey of bowhead whales, of four dead polar bears floating in the water 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.

This just proves he was telling the truth! Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers (remember them?) have obviously paid off BOMER or whatever it’s called. I mean… four dead polar bears, dude. How can you argue with that? How can you argue with SCIENCE????

(Hat tip: JWF)