Posted by
Steve on Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:28:19 AM
The major talk today is about raising the debt ceiling. To be honest, talk of economics makes my eyes roll up into my head. I was still going to write about it until I heard on Sharp in the morning on KFYI that Charles Monnett of the US Minerals Management Service (MMS) was being put on administrative leave. Charles Monnett is the person who said he saw drowning polar bears in 2004. Since then we have been inundated with pictures of polar bears that are in danger of drowning. Global warming is more up my alley as I am a scientist.
It turns out that Charles Monnett is being put on administrative leave because of questionable scientific procedures he uses. To translate government language into common everyday language, he made stuff up and passed it off as scientific studies. He finally was found out and put on leave pending termination. His attorney is accusing the Obama administration of persecuting his client. That is something that would never happen. Charles Monnett preached exactly the kind of thing that the Obama administration wants to hear. For the Obama administration to put him on administrative leave the transgressions must have been truly breathtaking.
This is just a guess, but I bet that his data that polar bears were drowning in 2004 was found to be completely false. There are more polar bears alive today than there ever have been. The polar bear population in 1950 was half of what it is today. There was no talk of polar bear extinction in 1950 when there were far fewer polar bears. The polar bear population today is at least 50% higher than the historical high levels before humans came to the area.
The problem with scientists that work on global warming data is that they let their bias that global warming exists cloud their ability to see what is really happening before their eyes. They attribute normal fluctuations in population to global warming when it goes down. Then, when it goes up, they ignore the data until it goes down again. Ice levels fluctuate in a similar manner. When the ice levels are decreasing it is proof of global warming. Then, when the ice levels increase, they ignore the increase as if it never happened. They continue to talk of the decreases without ever acknowledging that the levels fluctuate. No population of living organisms ever remains static. They always are increasing or decreasing in number. That is the nature of things. At least that is what I was taught in Biology classes before global warming took hold.
Charles Monnett being put on leave is just another in a long line of people who were leading the charge in favor of global warming who now have been found out to be frauds. The emails from England that were published a couple of years ago are again proven to be true. The people who support global warming will falsify data to “prove” that global warming exists. If it is true the data would “prove” it true without having to falsify it. It is frustrating to me as a scientist to have people that say they are scientists falsify data. I can understand how it happens, but it still saddens me as well. When I took classes and got my degrees, I was taught to never falsify data. I was taught to record everything and let the chips fall where they may. That way you can discover the truth. When people falsify data to hide the truth, everyone loses.