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Scientist Tied to Global Warming Being Investigated for ‘Scientific Misconduct’

Alaska Scientist Charles Monnett Tied to Global Warming Investigated for Scientific MisconductJUNEAU, Alaska (The Blaze/AP) — 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. Newser has more:

Charles Monnett is being investigated for unspecified “integrity issues” apparently linked to his report that polar bears could face an increased threat of death if they’re forced to swim farther as Arctic ice recedes.

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.

(Related: New study of NASA data may debunk global warming predictions)

On Thursday, Ruch‘s watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett’s behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have “actively persecuted” him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference.

Monnett, who has coordinated much of the agency’s research on Arctic wildlife and ecology, has duties that include managing about $50 million worth of studies, according to the complaint, a copy of which was provided to The Associated Press.

The complaint seeks Monnett’s reinstatement along with a public apology from the agency and inspector general. It also seeks to have the investigation dropped or to have the charges specified and the matter carried out in accordance with policy. The complaint also says that investigators took Monnett’s computer hard drive, notebooks and other unspecified items from him, which have not been returned.

A BOEMRE spokeswoman declined to comment on an “ongoing internal investigation.” Ruch said BOEMRE has barred Monnett from talking to reporters.

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.

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. Polar bears are considered strong swimmers, they wrote, but long-distance swims may exact a greater metabolic toll than standing or walking on ice in better weather.

They said their observations suggested the bears drowned in rough seas and high winds and “suggest 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.

According to a transcript, investigator Eric May asked Gleason his thoughts on Gore referencing the dead polar bears. Gleason said none of the polar bear papers he has written or co-authored has said “anything really” about global warming.

“It’s something along the lines of the changing environment in the Arctic,” he said. Gleason said others put their own spin on research or observations.

The complaint alleges Gleason and Monnett were harassed by agency officials and received negative comments from them after the article was published. Gleason eventually took another Interior Department job; he didn‘t respond to an email and a BOEMRE spokeswoman said he wouldn’t be available for comment.

Ruch also claimed the investigation is being done by criminal investigators with no scientific background, even though the case is an administrative matter.

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  • AnAmerican111
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:55am

    Now there’s a surprise. Scientist that support Globel Warming lying about it!…….
    Can you say Al “The earth has a headache” Gore! How much more pathetic can it get!

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    • indy1
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:10am

      Was Al Bore unavailable for comment because he was getting a massage?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:11am

      http://www.truthwinds.com/siterun_data/spiritual/pictures/news.php?q=1254861706

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    • rodamaa
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:18am

      What I find fascinating about the Global warming idiots is hay they lay a fanciful story of how we’re responsible for changing the climate. Their solution to the problem:

      We will tax you very heavily to force you off your crazy energy consumption and we will give that money to the less fortunate –namely themselves– and that will fix things.

      I guess when you’re hammer, every problem is a nail. Not only their assertions are ludicrous but their solutions are right down delusional. I tell you what commies YOU CAN GO TO HELL!! But I want you to know that I mean that with nothing but love for you. That last statement is as true as you global warming scam.

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    • love the kids
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:21am

      Nobody shows the pictures of all the seals that will live because the nasty, bully, oppressive polar bears can’t get to them. Why does this guy hate seals so much? Is it because they are black?

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    • Seasoldier
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:33am

      Do you think the GROWING population of polar bears may have been a clue that these “scientists” had written a bogus “peer reviewed” article? Did it occur to anyone that, if the polar bears in question were found drowned after a storm, the storm may have had something to do with their deaths? Has the entire U. S. community of scientists been corrupted by this global warming/climate change scam which is being promoted by the Socialist Culture of Death Elitists and their big money backers? Let’s hope that more of these charlatans will be exposed so that the American public will demand that they all be removed from every local, state and federal position of political, judicial and bureaucratic authority.

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    • HKS
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:33am

      It’s a shame these libs have discredited what was otherwise a noble profession, now you can’t believe anything they say. You would think that the honest ones would eat their owe. They must have a union.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:44am

      I could have posted better thanks HKS

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    • NotFooled
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:53am

      @INDY1. That comment made my day! LMAO! I call those kind of Libs (Limousine Liberals)…

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:08am

      Feed Al Gore and his followers to the Polar bears.

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    • Wayner
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:29am

      I’m not a scientist so I would like for some know- it- all to inform me. Do the emissions from all the erupting volcanoes in the world do anything to harm the environment? If so, I guess God should be brought to justice.

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:56am

      @smith…ok, why didn’t you? No one is stopping you from posting something “amazing.”

      @wayner…yes, volcanoes eschew more toxic gas, more sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide (not actually bad for the environment unless levels outpace O2 by 1.x:1 margin or higher, because oxygen breathers cannot break down CO2 effectively not because it “causes” global warming, which it doesn’t). Lots of Carbon Monoxide, silver nitrate, etc. etc. etc. is released into the air. Don’t forget about the ash cloud too, which suffocates thousands to millions of animal species while the force of the volcanic explosion wipes out hundreds to thousands of acres of plant life. Of course in the end the soil is enriched and the land is quickly repopulated.

      Anyway I find it sad no one here actually read the end of the article. It was rather important. The man never claimed polar bears were dieing due to global warming. So something else is going on here for the very system that used his research to push global warming, now climate change, to turn on the first star they wanted to label. Maybe some research of his went against his initial claim? Who knows, what we do know is he still believes the ice caps are receding, when in fact they have cycles of recession and growth due to fluxuations in climate…what causes that, oh ya, the sun.

      In a greenhouse, plants create heat much like humans (walk into a rainforest, it’s pretty warm under the canopy), oxygen burns, light also causes heat..

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    • droopyhooters
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:12am

      evidently the moron hasn’t heard of migration or evolution, or he would know drowning bears is a ridiculous statement

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:59am

      I meant to post I couldn’t have posted it any better…chronads …I’m quite sure HKS got the point and since the comment was directed to his retort STFU

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    • Dale
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:05pm

      I know how to get rid of the Earth’s headach.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Only thing I want to see is a REAL debate against Al Gore and afterwards ALL the lawsuits against him that make him have to borrow money to afford a bottle of ketchup while he does life in a Federal Pen!!!!

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    • Jediusetheforce
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 4:16pm

      Don’t forget to save the spotted beetles!! People are easily brainwashed to believe anything besides the TRUTH!!

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    • lemmings4obama
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:42pm

      @lovethekids Lmao! Obviously Al Gore is a racist, wanting to save all the White polar bears so they can kill and eat all of the Black seals.
      I laughed at this when it was first reported a couple of years ago…
      “…polar bears could face an increased threat of death if they’re forced to swim farther as Arctic ice recedes.”
      Has anyone watched the discover channel enough to see a polar bear try to walk? They walk like 70 year old Bull Riders! They are sea mammals essentially spending the majority of their lives in water. I doubt an extra half mile swim to land is going to make these amazing animals die from exhaustion.

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    • Confounding Father
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:02pm

      Seals? Why do they also hate the whales? Hasn’t anyone else seen the footage of whales (Beluga) being trapped under the ice in colder years? They are forced to congregate under one small opening that the bears exploit. Some days you eat da bear, some days da bears eat whales. Jus sayn.

      How many glaciations/interglacials have there been in the last 5-10 million years??? Yet polar bears still exist? Seems they may be more adaptable than our “finest” scientific minds can account for?

      All I know is that when I gave a bunch of 6th graders an overview of the biogeography of the last 5 million years, there was an audible gasp of relief in the room when it dawned on them that indeed they weren’t killing polar bears and penguins by their own mere existence. It is a shame – the guilt trip that biased scientists who profit from their own funding are laying on the next generation.

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    • ILUVJESUS
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:48am

      Their numbers are INCREASING! Got that America?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 9:57pm

      “Biological” scientists are caught lying all of the time. Of course being ted to GW is a little different.

      But In Idaho a F&G “Biologist” was caught PLACING Canadian Lynx hair into ‘evidence’ as being found on a fence in a northern Idaho forest and requesting that the region be made off limits to humans so the species could ‘recover’ without being disturbed.

      AND the same for grizzlies! Now, I don’t know about the same wildlife biologist or region but the local news played a story where grizzlies were in a previously unknown area. The feds wanted to make the area off limits to humans.

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  • nysparkie
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:54am

    Ya know you scientific DIP WAD. Polar Bears swimming in the ocean are sometimes attack by likes of Orca’s. They will kill them but not eat them. They ain’t seals. If a storm roils up and is large enough. It can drown many creatures out there, especially a Polar Bear. These Bears have been known to swim for almost 50 or 60 miles. If they get turned around and head out to open sea, how often does that happen? I suppose when they are 70 miles from land and too tired to continue. But with their great fat layers Polar Bears are extremely buoyant and impervious to the cold. It would take something quite extraordinary to have multiple Bear drownings within the same period of time.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:18am

      And millions of the natural, this guy ignored the millions of likely reason, and picked the one fantasy one, and advertised the fantasy as fact.

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    • sbleve
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:41am

      “peer-reviewed article” outside of that private club. Government or grant funded pre-determined religion. Peer reviewed is nearly like asking the Congressman that represents the Boeing Corp/district what would be the best airplane for U.S. military.

      The slide-rule factor of error. Western spotted owl needing old growth conifer forest to survive. When this debate occurred, experts outside government/world preservationist-no access mentality, were dismissed as being with a tainted mind. The Western spotted owl, as it now is accepted, was being murdered by what appears to be a nature westward migration over the Rocky Mt’s by an aggressive Eastern Barred Owl. Solution in the work, by government, hirer shooters to eliminate the barred owl.

      Private biologists insisted, without recognition, that the spotted owl had several (geographic) sick communities that needed study, and that they could show that this owl did very well inside of second growth regeneration forests (both private and government).

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:51am

    Just glad that Al Gore has his propaganda panel to spin this story as a myth and keep the flow of global warming millions into his bank account.

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    • 1proudAmerican
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:00am

      The sad think is, teachers will continue to teach Global Warming and make the kids feel sorry for the “poor polar bears”. Liberals are gradually weaning out conservative thinking by focusing on young students. By the time current kindergarteners graduate from college, our country will be completely destroyed. We need conservative teachers who are not afraid to go against the majority, but I don’t see that happening.

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    • Hula Calhoun
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:23am

      1proudamerican: Speaking of the “poor polar bears,” do you suppose the Coca-Cola bears are part of the liberal global warming agenda?

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    • 1proudAmerican
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:29pm

      Hula Calhoun – no, I don’t believe they are. The popularity of Coca-Cola’s ad could have been a reason for choosing that species to be so-called endangered.

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  • ilovethiscountry
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:46am

    A polar bear is not going to drown. They are fantastic swimmers and their fur keeps them warm and helps them float. Anyone with any brains would not have believed him.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:40am

      True…but you have millions in the states that think potatoes grow on trees and that milk is made from a factory and doesnt come from a cow, however thats minor millions of America females dont think a fetus is life either, all I can say its the only non-life that continues to grow day after day.

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  • ares338
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:45am

    A liberal lie?????? Surely you jest!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:28pm

      But his heart was in the right place…….. and that’s what counts

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:45am

    Did anyone get their free SIERRA CLUB postcards in the mail yet? Another goof group not to be trusted of funded. It takes time but this global warming crap is coming apart. Keep up the exposures.

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    • HumbleCitizen
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:05am

      Sierra Club kicked me after I posted executive orders showing where the gov’t has the right to take over everything. They didn’t like my “I’m not sure global warming is true” stance (I included links stating the earth has COOLED). I was nice in my postings (after all, I love the environment too!) only asking that they do more research and follow the money. They kicked me. No talking with me, no nothing. One day I was a member and the next day, I wasn’t. Ms. Otto has yet to respond to my inquiry why I was kicked.

      I learned that the KY chapter of the Sierra Club is too thin skinned to allow any discussion to creep into their world that doesn’t march in lockstep with the opinions of the webpage moderator..

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:43am

    I just heard this on Fox .. its about time people are being called to task for thier LIES

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:38am

    Hope they strip Al Gore of his… no wait, don’t strip him in that sense! Fry that lard ass’s bacon along with these “scientists’ that helped spread their lies over the last 12 years.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:49am

      Oh, that was so poetically put! Can I hear an ‘amen’…..
      If we were to add up all the money spent on faux global warming propaganda it would be staggering, not to mention the brain washing of a generation of children. Al Gore needs to be in the cell next to Monnett and his assets sold to help get the truth out to the public. Get rid of mercury bulbs, green this and green that, and punch into reality. We need to get back to the business of running this country, drilling for oil and natural gas, and mining coal. Ignore the environmental hysteria, propagated by global warming, and get this country back on the right track. Get rid of the regulations and let business’ prosper and grow.

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  • nightbird
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:38am

    I don’t know if it was the greatest hoax,but perhaps close to. I think Obama’s presidency was the greatest one. Let’s see, who can we blame for this? There are so many Republicans to choose from.

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    • netjet
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 8:55am

      I think the Greatest Hoax will be his re-election; not his Presidency. His Presidency is the Greatest Joke; and that is the Greatest Understatement. All else is Lunacy.

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  • ohiovalleywizard
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:35am

    this man cannot adaquitly carry out a simple scientific study? i’m truly shocked.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:16am

      Their industry seems to have generated a lot of these manner of failures. Comes with the territory, I guess.

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  • Your Name Here
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:34am

    Everything to do with the supposed Global Warming, or Clinate Change, has nothing to do with actually fixing anything,
    Every single one of the proposals is about making money.
    Remember the Chicago Climate Exchange?
    This is just like the axiom “There is a lot of money in treatment but little money in a cure.“ or ”You can shear a sheep many times but you can only skin them once.”
    The whole climate change is a way to scare the masses.

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  • crichton
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:25am

    You’d think after a while the global warming peeps would feel ashamed of themselves but they just change the name of their cause to global weirding and keep making asses of themselves.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:25am

    Wait wouldn’t the a global warming threat cause the polar bears to evolve. I guaratee every one of these climate heads believe in evolution..Well if Global Warming is truely real and evolution is correct…..STFU evolution will correct the problem…..RIGHT?
    BTW this article forgot to mention that since going on the endangered spieces list Polar bears have bounce back and are at 5 times the numbers they were in 1980. That Al Gore little fairy tale has been removed by the courts of England from being used in any school as factual information due to all the unfactual material within it. And the biggest one when caculating the artic Ice during AL Gore’s little fantasy they missed a mass of Ice the size of California. But why let facts stop global population control and ponzi shceme movement.

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    • Locked
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:33am

      “Wait wouldn’t the a global warming threat cause the polar bears to evolve. I guaratee every one of these climate heads believe in evolution..Well if Global Warming is truely real and evolution is correct…..STFU evolution will correct the problem…..RIGHT?”

      Oh look, another person who doesn’t understand evolution. Go figure.

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    • uffdaubet
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:35am

      You’re right TPG. This guy is being sent to the wood shed for failing to place the global warming bow on top of his report. He’s either a real scientist or an idiot. He could have doubled that 50 mil by lying and saying that the the bears drowned because of global warming.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:26am

      Apperantl, it‘s you who doesn’t understand evolution there locked.
      According the science of evolution animals and plants evolve to better adapt to the evioroment. Thus if evolution is correct a slowly warming climate would force the bears to adapt first by the ways in which they hunt and secondly through the physcial characteristics like maybe thinner coats for warmer climates, growing smallers as to demand less food to survive,maybe change their hybernation habits to allows them more time for feeding up for their winter sleep.
      See according to evolution scientist man statrted out a a plain ape that needed to stand up right a high to see over the tall grass for preditors and food. See they later stated that the ape lost most of hair by moving to warmer climates and dwelling in cave for protection… see evolution is adaption on multiple levels. DUMBA55

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    • Locked
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:50am

      @Smith
      “Thus if evolution is correct a slowly warming climate would force the bears to adapt first by the ways in which they hunt and secondly through the physcial characteristics like maybe thinner coats for warmer climates, growing smallers as to demand less food to survive,maybe change their hybernation habits to allows them more time for feeding up for their winter sleep.”

      I repeat my previous statement. Oh look, another person who doesn’t understand evolution.

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  • tppagee
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:24am

    The greatest hoax man has ever portrayed on the world, everything from cars to homes has been modified to support this lie. They will pay in the life to come”

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    • Liberty 4x4
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:33am

      Unfortunately we, the public, are paying for it right now so corporatist like GE get rich.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:39am

      The greatest hoax is yet to come to be as atheist and secular progressive create the illusion that Satan doesn’t exist and God is being removed from society.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:47am

      “The greatest hoax man has ever portrayed on the world, everything from cars to homes has been modified to support this lie. They will pay in the life to come”
      ———————————————————————————————–
      I want that SOB Gore to pay NOW. I cannot figure why no one has EVER prosecuted him for perpetration of public fraud. He must have some darn good connections or maybe he is greasing the right palms. Gore has cost NATIONS Billions of money, caused US jobs and to lose the incandescent buld over NOTHING but lies. Gore and the current administration all suffer from “Pseudologia fantastica.”

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  • jkendal
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:24am

    “U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement”

    Another unconstitutional bureaucracy of the federal government.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:01am

      Another fine example of where we can save millions a year. The idiots in Washington are having a hard time coming up with budget cuts? We need to start sending them lists of these agencies which can be done away with because all they are doing is perpetrating fraud.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:24am

    you gotta love those polar bears. Global warming this time of year is natural. is it time to Panic? what about the so called Debt Crisis. drudge has some news on that subject. Hey Blaze, bring us some relevant news. is it time to Panic? i don’t think so. Aug 2 will come and go without Defalut.

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  • Kiwon
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:23am

    Fraud in Science? Say it ain’t so.

    Polar bears don’t know how to swim? We better fund a program to teach them. They’re just so cute.

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  • teapartyguardian
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:21am

    Please read the article carefully people….these scientists are being harassed by the Obama administration for saying in an interview that they NEVER SUGGESTED THAT THE POLAR BEAR DEATHS WERE DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING!!! That is the real story here. They were put on leave for NOT going along with the global warming fanatics.

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    • SREGN
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:51am

      I think you’re right. That should have been clearer in the article.

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    • johnconnersmom
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:02am

      I read it and that is what I got out of it. I didn‘t know if it was me reading too much into it or that the article wasn’t written very well…

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  • angelcat
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:20am

    Will another global warming promoting scientist bite the dust? Do we see a pattern here? Will the MSM even bother to mention this is it is proven the man lied? The house of cards known as global warming is tumbling, but it is those who said it was a house of cards all along that are called vile names and accused of being liars and stupid.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:19am

    Man Made Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption is the biggest hoax perpetrated on the human race. It’s another scheme by the governing class to take your money.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:29am

      This list should be made plural. The Penn State Univ, man-made global warming hoax perfessers should be let go asap and they could get jobs (if they can find any of Barry’s shovel ready jobs)
      asking the question of the ages “Fries With That??” East Anglia Univ. MMGW hoaxters should be next. All these MMGW academia should be sacked and put in the closet with Piltdown Mans creator.

      Anybody bug Barry 2012

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  • Locked
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:18am

    From the sound of it, the integrity could be anything, especially with a budget of $50 million under his control. Not to be cynical, but what are the odds that the Obama administration, with their “green” focus and global warming centered energy policy, would shoot themselves in the foot rather than brushing it under the rug?

    He wouldn’t be investigated by the Obama administration if this was to do with discrediting global warming. Odds are it’s a misuse of money.

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  • I_Hate_Libs
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:17am

    Ahh yes Global Warming the biggest lie to mankind.

    The horror of the Democrat mind.

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  • standing4truth
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:17am

    Are not these the same “great minds” who pass off that Darwin’s Theory is fact?!? Be careful who and what you put your confidence in…………..

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  • RED-DAWN
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:16am

    unspecified “integrity issues”? Dude, that that leave time to run for Congress. You sound qualified to me… After all, I’m sure you are suspended WITH PAY……

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:13am

    THE GREAT “GLOBAL WARMING HOAX”

    The proposals to combat “GLOBAL WARMING” have more potential to destroy our freedom and prosperity than any issue since WORLD WAR II. The cost of energy is increased by all these proposals. Energy is contained in all the products used to sustain our lives.

    These proposals will be devastating to the poor, where the cost of survival consumes all their income.

    Do you realize that these proposals are to combat an issue that has not even been proven to exist?
    AND YOU LAUGH AT DON QUIXOTE?

    THESE PROPOSALS WILL ONLY ENHANCE THE POWER OF THE “PEERS.” “CAP AND TRADE WILL DESTROY YOUR WEALTH AND FREEDOM!!

    BRACE YOURSELF, THOMAS PAINE, REJOICE YOU “PEERS” THE TYRANNY OF
    KING GEORGE III IS BEING RESTORED BUT UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!
    http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • Grayzel
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:34am

      Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears . . . .

      In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire. “The Anti-Industrial Revolution,” Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 277. Ayn Rand

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    • ktowers
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:10am

      Grayzel, well said.

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