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And then there were lawyers
IT STARTED with a whimper, and ended up with lawyers. In 2006, Arctic wildlife biologist Charles Monnett reported sighting dead polar bears in the Beaufort Sea, concluding that “drowning-related deaths… may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice… continues” (6 May 2006, p 10).
Someone complained, possibly miffed that photos of beleaguered polar bears then captured the public imagination.
Monnet was suspended from his job at the US Bureau of…
