Juneau, Alaska - An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.Well, even though I’ll admit that it’s important to maintain custody of “internal government documents,” I would say that the message was lost a bit here. And we recently received the following reminder…
An Interior Department official said emails released by Charles Monnett were cited by a federal appeals court in decisions to vacate approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of an oil and gas company's Arctic exploration plan.
The official, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM, said in a memo that an inspector general's investigation contained findings that Monnett had improperly disclosed internal government documents, which he said were later used against the agency in court. He also said the investigation made other findings in regards to Monnett's conduct, but he wasn't taking action on those. He would not specify those findings.
Cruickshank called Monnett's "misconduct very serious," and said any future misconduct may lead to more severe discipline, including removal from federal service.
Want to refresh our memories as to how we got to this point? I give you the following from here (and kudos to those protesters noted here)…
…and I’m sure Americans for Prosperity and a whole bunch of other “astroturf” groups are going to be loud and obnoxious at town halls that I’m sure will be forthcoming over the congressional break, but here is the flip side (a dose of reality on this subject - more here)…
…and I posted about this over here also, but kudos to Martin Bashir for this commentary…
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…and as much as I wanted to ignore Former Senator Man-On-Dog for this, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t; here is something of a musical response.
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