08.28.08 Palin Caught Out: Lying about state scientific review.

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Alaska's Palin misrepresented state's polar bear findingsTom Kizzia | Anchorage Daily News • Published August 29, 2008

A newly released e-mail from last fall shows that Alaska's own biologists were at odds with the administration of Gov. Sarah Palin, which has consistently opposed any new federal protections for polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.

The state's in-house dispute seems to refute later statements by Gov. Sarah Palin that a "comprehensive review" of the federal science by state wildlife officials found no reason to support an endangered-species listing for the northern bears. The governor invoked the state's own scientific work both in a cover letter to the state's official polar bear comments, and in an opinion piece published in the New York Times.

But the Oct. 9 e-mail, which was released this month to a University of Alaska scientist who had filed a public records request seeking information on the state's polar bear decision-making, shows that the head of the marine mammals program for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and two other staff biologists agreed with the conclusions of nine polar bear studies that the federal government was citing to justify a threatened-species listing for the bears.

"Overall, we believe that the methods and analytical approaches used to examine the currently available information supports the primary conclusions and inferences stated in these 9 reports," Robert Small wrote.

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[woodsprite]

1. This should definitely be broadcast far and wide,

but the truth is that the Freepers could care less about polar bears.

[denem]

2. It's about LIES - suppressing/misrepresenting an offical report

the same fucking Bush/Cheney modus operandi of the last 8 years.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I tuned in on Glen Beck's show for about 5 minutes today

I almost never watch his show as I find him to be one of the most foul and mentally deranged people in the media. He opened his show with a love-fest dedicated to Sarah Palin. Beck rejoiced over the fact that Palin while governor filed a lawsuit against the federal government to remove endangered species protection of polar bears. He looked like he was orgasming when he played a short clip of Palin being interviewed on his show earlier this year when she referred to "environmental extremists" who were impeding the exploration for oil in Alaska. Beck said he didn't like John McCain and didn't intend to vote for him until Sarah Palin was picked. Now, Beck says the ticket is conservative enough for his taste. That should tell us all we need to know about Palin.

[denem]

4. Sexed up the title: Who cares about polar bears with $4 gas

[grantcart]

5. k and r

[Alexander]

6. K&R. Sarah Palin is a joke.

I can't believe McCain seriously picked her.

[denem]

7. Supressing science for all it's worth

it's the same fucking stuff, with creationism the icing on the cake.

[MadrasT]

8. I'm a big animal lover and a big liar-hater

The woman is dead to me. Sarah who?

:kick: & R

[Raine]

9. Same here...

she's a disgusting piece of work.

[lonestarnot]

11. Same here!

A pile of crap gets getting taller.

[krkaufman]

10. Somebody needs to do a YouTube video of polar bears drowning ...

... due to the loss of Artic ice, overlay related comments irt Palin and polar bears, and end with the message...

"I'm Sarah Palin, and I support this extinction."

[Stern21]

12. Meh. What do scientists know?

You are talking about someone who wants to teach kids that the Flintstones is a documentary.

Bears for bears sake, money for god's sake.