You are being as unscientific and inaccurate as Monnett was. What Monnet observed was four dead bears (which mysteriously turned into three dead bears elsewhere in his paper). Four dead bears is not the same thing as four drowned bears. As we all know, there was a fierce wind storm before the observation. Since polar bears are not immortal, you can surmise that there are dead ones here and there, and maybe those four bears (or three, we’ll never know for sure) simply got washed into the water from where they died, or where they were resting near-death from old age, or whatever. We will never know. Certainly it is a sorry sort of scientist who sees four carcasses floating in the water and jumps to the conclusion that earns him the most notice and infamy.

http://www.peer.org/docs/doi/7_28_11_Monnett-IG_interview_transcript.pdf

http://www.peer.org/docs/doi/7_28_11_Monnett-IG_interview_transcript.pdf

Some of the questions asked by the so-called IG special agents are jaw dropping.

I await with anticipation the transcript of the interview of August 9th.

1. Record the GPS coords of every found polar bear and extensively photograph their condition as found. Note that animals recovered in water in cold conditions may have been preserved and drifted some distance.

2. Collect and preserve every dead polar bear found.

3. Hire a specialist in Polar bears to conduct a necropsy to determine cause of death in each example.

4. Have a polar bear specialist assess how a semi aquatic animal such as a polar bear can drown in their normal habitat and how often this animal has been found to die this way and it what conditions.

5. Have a specialist in water currents in the habitat determine where the bear most likley drifted from.

6. Do not perform any statistical expression to expand findings beyond what the actual evidence reveals. That is, don’t assume the same number of dead bears will be found in other areas not examined.

I am sure I can think of more but if Monnett did not perform any of the above, than scientists like him should study basic forensic field craft.

P. Klaput

The man was out there to study wales, but instead he writes about polar bears, and gets them put on the endangered species list; and the response is “trust us” we know better than you. I’m sorry, but No! I am not going to trust people, who claim to have my best interest at heart; doubt is a healthy human response, and is in fact an important part of the scientific process; even though the global warming climate sceintist would perfer otherwise.