Posted on 08/11/2011 3:20:21 PM PDT by yoe
Polar bears drowning in an Alaskan sea because the ice packs are meltingits the iconic image of the global warming debate.
But the validity of the science behind the imagepresented as an ignoble testament to our environment in peril by Al Gore in his film An Inconvenient Truthis now part of a federal investigation that has the environmental community on edge.
Special agents from the Interior Departments inspector general's office are questioning the two government scientists about the paper they wrote on drowned polar bears, suggesting mistakes were made in the math and as to how the bears actually died, and the department is eyeing another study currently underway on bear populations.
Biologist Charles Monnett, the lead scientist on the paper, was placed on administrative leave July 18. Fellow biologist Jeffrey Gleason, who also contributed to the study, is being questioned, but has not been suspended.
[snip] It galvanized the environmental movement that led to the bears controversial listing in 2008 as threatened, and it is now protected under the Endangered Species Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Thanks neverdem.
Whole investigation is a waste of money, since Eric Holder has already said there will NOT be any prosecution, no matter what the IG's findings are. Any "admistrative action" will take place out of sight, out of mind...if at all.
That allows the MSM/Left/Greenies to bury it from the general public, and life goes on.
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