Is BOEMRE Harrassing Polar Bear Biologist Charles Monnett? - Marlo Lewis

Monnett’s team observed four drowned bears on one day in September 2004.

Lewis is mistaken here. Monnett's paper (Table 2) claims that single dead bears were seen on four different days.  No one knows if they drowned, and I'm not completely convinced that all four were different bears.

C3: MIT Scientists Say 'Smart Grid' Could Make Power Grid Unstable - Potential of Unprecedented, Robust Blackouts

'Smart grids' - those wizbang technology marvels proposed by the electric utilities to save power and money could actually be too-clever-by-half and end up causing power grids to fail, MIT scientists are reporting.

Multi-tentacled Mann o’ war raging over UVA emails | Watts Up With That?

Response to Union of Concerned Scientists, et al, from ATI executive director Paul Chesser:

“Once again these self-interested groups — who hope to protect their billions of dollars in government funding of dubious, unsupportable research — accuse ATI of ‘harassment and intimidation’ of scientists. It shows how blind they are to the fact that ATI has acted in the interest of sound, verifiable science and for the protection of the hard-earned money that taxpayers are forced to relinquish for such research.

“A Rasmussen Reports survey out earlier this week shows that that 69 percent of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists who study climate change have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40 percent who say this is ‘very likely.’ Only 22 percent believe it’s not likely that some scientists have falsified global warming data to fit their theories.

“Considering this is how the public sees them, UCS and their cohorts in academia need to look in the mirror and try to figure out where it all went wrong. Meanwhile, ATI will continue its pursuit to hold them accountable.”