Honestly, this just cracked me up this morning.

The State of Alaska is looking to conduct a scientific study. Nothing crazy about that, right? And, it's on polar bear population, which makes sense, since a lot of them are in Alaska. All of this sounds right, except, according to the article, 'The Alaskan government wants to find scientists who will study polar bears to prove they are not threatened by global warming'.

Huh. I'm guessing, and I could be wrong here, but aren't these the type of people who always complain about 'junk science'?

The Alaskan state government as already set aside $2 million for this type of lets-refute-science-science, which equals about $3 for every person currently living in Alaska. Now, play that out - if this were the federal government, they'd be spending over $900 million - about half what the Fish and Wildlife Service is proposed to get next year.

But seriously, how can they be putting aside money for this study, and openly calling for scientists willing to refute current on-the-books science? Added to that, the state has no basis for promoting the study, other than they want to refute any claims the polar bear could be impacted by global warming since the state gets so much funny money from the oil industry.