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The Spectacle Blog
WaPo reports on the back of its A section today that
An Interior Department scientist returned to work Friday, six weeks after he was suspended in connection with a probe of whether he improperly assisted another polar bear researcher in obtaining a federal contract….
Monnett was being investigated for improperly helping a researcher at Canada’s University of Alberta draft a response to a federal request for proposals on a polar bear study. Monnett chaired the committee that eventually awarded the contract to the university.
In the letter, the special agent in charge quotes the contract officer as saying that if Monnett had informed her about his collaboration with the University of Alberta researcher, “she would have warned you that such actions would have been highly inappropriate under procurement integrity policies and procedures.”
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz wrote in an e-mail that Monnett “was informed that he will have no role in developing or managing contracts of any kind, and will instead be in our environmental assessment division.”
Because, apparently, integrity is not so much a concern there.
Although I do think I recall other such problems arising when such foxes guard the hen house. Oh, yeah, then there was this, too. Er, and this. A whole pattern of isolated incidents.
Well. This may be a good time to quote the UK High Court opinion about — per the judge — the global warming movement’s “alarmist” claims as featured in the film “An Inconvenient Truth”:
[Claimant attorney] has established his case that the views in the film are political by submitting that Mr Gore promotes an apocalyptic vision, which would be used to influence a vast array of political policies, which he illustrates in paragraph 30 of his skeleton argument:
(i) Fiscal policy and the way that a whole variety of activities are taxed, including fuel consumption, travel and manufacturing … (ii) Investment policy and the way that governments encourage directly and indirectly various forms of activity. (iii) Energy policy and the fuels (in particular nuclear) employed for the future. (iv) Foreign policy and the relationship held with nations that consume and/or produce carbon-based fuels.
So, what could possibly go wrong?
Big Java| 8.27.11 @ 11:19AM
...go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.11 @ 4:40AM
Flashback to Yul Brynner.... (You know, Sammy Davis Jr. taught him how to do tricks with guns.)
Pelligrino| 8.27.11 @ 3:51PM
Mr. Horner, please change your article's title post haste.
You can eliminate a word or two.
Federal Hiring: Integrity not Required.
(matters not what agency we are talking about)
Federal job promotions? Same, same.
AShervs| 8.28.11 @ 12:02AM
Congratulations, you've done a great job at promoting a lot of B.S. I'm surprised there is no mention of the Climategate witch hunt that has been widely proven as bogus. But let me clear the misinformation you've mentioned:
The basis of this article is about Charles Monnett's suspension which you claim is due to 'integrity issues'. The US environmental bureau has clarified that his suspension has nothing to do with the supposed polar bear study. Since you like to post links, you can find out more about it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi.....suspension
-Take note of the mention of Fox News citing the incident to discredit climate change.
As for the lynx samples, that is another bogus charge by right wing media. The actual story, according to a U.S. Forest Service investigation, is that biologists for the U.S. Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the state of Washington--studying where (not whether) lynx live in the state's national forests--sent unauthorized "control samples" of hair obtained from captive lynx and a stuffed bobcat to a DNA lab in 1999 and 2000.
As for Carol Browner, she was implicated of any charges of destroying files by a federal court (and what about the millions of emails Bush's administration destroyed?)
Finally, and no surprise, you take a cheap shot at Gore. The scientific community has widely acknowledged that his movie is far from alarmist, but whatever quips you have can be further found by following the links that are provided along with the movies transcript here:
http://www.hokeg.dyndns.org/AITruth.htm
if there are any other points of scientific integrity relating to climate change that you'd like to further attack without any credible backing, please let me know, I'd be happy to provide accurate information to back their credibility.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.28.11 @ 6:21AM
You haven't supplied any credibility yet. Credibility is based on facts not consensus. Could you display just one fact that supports climate change? There aren't any.
JmsA| 8.28.11 @ 11:13AM
Thank you for your continued good work, Mr. Horner.
Don't pay any attention to Guardian UK-wielding dupes.
LiveFreeOrDie| 8.28.11 @ 5:59PM
Yes, please tell us more of what somebody else said, then sit back and marvel at your "facts." What a smug, ignorant little person you are.
DaveD| 8.29.11 @ 12:44PM
Never mind the fact that every third sentence contains lies, distortians and half-truths, your link was really neato peachy keen. Some of us, however, prefer facts to surmise.
Oh, and BTW, it isd simply not possible to "take a cheap shot at Gore." Algore is a walking nincompoop and provides his own self-inflected cheap shots whenever he opens his mouth. All you have to do is quote him to prove him to be a ninny.
Solo| 8.28.11 @ 8:51AM
Here's a fact:
The total of all components of the earth's atmosphere weigh in at approx. 14.4 Quadrillion Tons.
Of that, man's activities add approx 50 Billion Tons of CO2 into that atmosphere. Of that America contributes about 25% of the total.
What's this mean?
Take a one gallon bucket and fill it with sand. Now....add 10 individual grains of sand to it.
That is America's man produced CO2 into the atmosphere.
And for this, the little lefty asshats want you to live in a country where, when the wind stops blowing, your lights go out!
Infantryman| 8.28.11 @ 9:07AM
Who knows the details of Mr. Gore's one billion dollar fortune? From whence came his money? Legally, or illegally?
Pete| 8.29.11 @ 9:38AM
We know how he likes to get his data "massaged."
Tina B| 8.28.11 @ 3:55PM
The Carbon Footprint Fairy brought it to him.
Wayne | 8.29.11 @ 11:25AM
I would say the Real environmentalists are the skeptics.
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